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Judge Absurdia by Kujoen

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made by Kujoen for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

Welcome, new citizen, to Absurdia, the greatest country to ever be founded.

Absurdia is regarded as one of the safest countries in the world! All this is thanks to our glorious leader, who decided every 10 seconds, someone must appear before court. Are they guilty? Who knows! Do our leaders laws make sense? Absolutely! It is up to our glorious judges to seperate fact from fiction.

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Move your Gavel to the guilty or acquitted positions to decide upon other Absurdians fates!

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Keep an eye on the court tv. If your waiting room overflows, you will be fired!

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Our glorious leader can be... special! Laws change quickly, keep an eye on the court TV for new law announcements!

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Justice is important for our glorious nation. Therefore, every judge has a jury watching over them! Sign too many incorrect verdicts and you will be brought to court yourself.

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Have fun with your new job!

Kind regards,

The Justice Department of Absurdia

Some hints, though the clipboard shows an accusation, it may be false. Check the law book to see if there is actually a law concerning the accusation. "Insults our leaders looks" is a hint that something about the look of the accused may be illegal. Check the lawbook for laws like "green pants are illegal".

If you perform very well, and have a lot of correct verdicts, you may be up for promotion... so try your best!

Law generation is random, so you may have a very hard experience. Keep trying, you may get a game where the glorious leader goes easy on you!

Itch.IO Page:

Itch IO https://kujoen.itch.io/judge-absurdia
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/judge-absurdia

Ratings

Overall 714th 3.391⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 738th 3.217⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 536th 3.37⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 509th 3.739⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 981th 2.891⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 81th 4⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Mood 733th 3.286⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 24🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 245646
03. Oct 2022 · 23:49 UTC
Really sick game! Reminds me of Papers Please. The absurdity of the crimes was also really funny oml. Pretty fun when you get the hang of it
Thomas Yanuziello
03. Oct 2022 · 23:56 UTC
Seems impossible to keep up with the laws constantly changing, but that's the point right?
LDJam user 301295
04. Oct 2022 · 00:00 UTC
Keep trying! If you perform well and have alot of correct verdicts, you may be up for promotion...
Law generation is random, so you may have a hard experience if you are unlucky. Keep trying, the glorious leader may go easy on you and enact less laws :)
LDJam user 301295
04. Oct 2022 · 00:39 UTC
There was a bug with the desktop version, but we have an itch.io page now with the correct version!
Igor Morgun
04. Oct 2022 · 14:47 UTC
Gud pixel arts,and humour
Game_Coder28
04. Oct 2022 · 16:26 UTC
This is a cool game! I really like the idea and its executed really well :) I did find it quite difficult though, and maybe the timer and whether you got it correct or not could be indicated a bit more clearly, but overall fun game!
Nobuna-no
04. Oct 2022 · 22:56 UTC
Loved the art and sounds, there is a lot to keep up with, maybe you could have started with less rules to begin, but overall it was a fun time :)
Cal
04. Oct 2022 · 23:23 UTC
Really cool game! Reminds me a lot of papers please
WilloXs
05. Oct 2022 · 10:53 UTC
The ever increasing "crimepool" is a fun idea. I just wish it would have been a bit more to it than just outfits and jobs. Dont get me wrong it works and for a jam one cant really expect much more but it would have been fun if you really had to question them about stuff.

Funny side note - many of the people of the jury would need to be executed for smiling xD
ZungryWare
06. Oct 2022 · 03:27 UTC
Fun premise! I do think that the rng should be tempered a little bit. On my second run, there were no extra laws for the first couple minutes, then they just started piling up rapid-fire. Once there are more than five extra laws, (especially the numerical ones like height and age), it starts to take a ridiculous amount of time to judge each defendant. And I guess it never occurred to the lawmaker of Absurdia to have a grandfather clause. Being a chef became illegal mere milliseconds before I decided to acquit some evil chef bastard.
Nikolaj
06. Oct 2022 · 03:50 UTC
very absurdia
brunozisman
06. Oct 2022 · 05:04 UTC
Really good idea, i would've liked to know more how i was performing, but i had a lot of fun and laugh every time the laws were updated, even if i would be found guilty because of the size of my ears, i still really liked it. Good job!
BigSenpaiDaddy
08. Oct 2022 · 10:13 UTC
strongggggg
Zliebowitz
08. Oct 2022 · 23:15 UTC
Difficulty seems to ramp up quickly and everything seems well designed to push towards the absurdity of everything. Nice job with the reasons for the new laws, they were amusing (although I feel like a few of those a supreme leader might not admit to, but what is what suspension of disbelief there for if not allowing a punch line).
LDJam user 301644
09. Oct 2022 · 08:12 UTC
cool idea. i like new laws. glory to absurdia :D
chingle
09. Oct 2022 · 08:20 UTC
This was a pretty fun game, I like the humor on it and the mechanics too.
ruruie
09. Oct 2022 · 21:17 UTC
I'm not saying that Death for the crime of frowning is necessarily a *just* law. All I'm saying is that the enforcement mechanisms are simple and the overall burden to our legal system is low.
Inno
10. Oct 2022 · 12:04 UTC
People came in accused of illegal outfit. There didn't seem to be a law against it. So I sent em all to labor camp but soon joined em :(
Falk Hoeppner
13. Oct 2022 · 17:38 UTC
What an absurdia game! Had a lot of fun with this one, it was funny and mechanically sound.
axelrinaldo
20. Oct 2022 · 16:53 UTC
I am glad someone else had a similar idea to me and managed a better implementation of it. This was *exactly* what I was going for with my game. :D Silly laws, funny people and good honest absurdity. Great game! :D