Propaganda by She Wrote


How to Play
Use WASD or arrow keys to move and put up posters, and E to interact with everything
Keep your propaganda bar high by giving people food and water and putting up posters
You can carry two posters and food & water at the same time
The more propaganda you have, the bigger the head of the people around you, when their head turns blue, bring they in by pressing “E”. You need 30 heads.
Giving people food and water makes their head bigger
The bigger the head, the easier the dialogue mini-game is
Itch.io Game Page!
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/propaganda |
Ratings
| Overall | 104th | 3.675⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 81th | 3.69⭐ | 60🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 152th | 3.36⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 184th | 3.605⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 191th | 3.422⭐ | 60🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 99th | 3.509⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 25th | 3.934⭐ | 55🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 76th | 3.745⭐ | 57🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 59🗳️ | 104🗨️ |
I liked it a lot, I noticed some problems, but later I will evaluate ok!
See my game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/space-harvest
Audio was top notch, and I love the art/mood of it all. Great job!
I was a bit confused about the connections and interactions in the game.
A bit repetitive, but OK for a small game!
interesting concept (and social commentary). unusual, hand-drawn consistent art style (reminds me of older flash games somehow) comes nicely together with sound effects and a nice gameplay loop. I would love some more variety during the tasks, something more like warioware!
respect for the compo

I am concerned about the balance: I have reached 15 heads, but the meter is decreasing at higher speeds than I could increment it with available tools. I think, there should be another propaganda tool like TV that will work passively and raise the bar, so the difficulty spike will not be that high.
I also don't understand the theme and what the game is trying to state. Does the propaganda harvest people? Are politicians the devils?
Overall, 3.5/5 for me. Don't give up, try new thins and improve yourself.
As a very enxious person I quite enjoyed it. Great job <3
I think the first stage of propaganda is really hard to get, it's really too fast for me (and i played dbd before...lol)
The game is really funny !
I feel like there is too little variety overall though, you go through the same two actions over and over. It's technically enough for a small game, especially for a Ludum Dare game but I don't think it's fun for as long as you need to do it to finish the game. I think reducing the amount of heads you need to win to about 15 would help the gameplay feel less stale.
The sounds were really cute, and the artwork just shows that style triumphs over all! Very well done :)
Also:

It was so simple, but it was also so stressful keeping the propaganda meter up! (especially because I didn't notice you could take multiple items at once!)
Congrats on delivering it by yourself!