LDJAM 47 COMPO: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/newster-a-fantasy-social-media-sim

Newster is the new exciting social media platform, taking the world of Eias by storm. Elves, dwarves, goblins, trolls or even humans: you are all welcome here. Newts to your heart’s content!

Our most prominent users have navigated the platform expertly, sharing only credible, relevant content. To encourage this behaviour, we have included in the interface a simple score system that informs you of how credible you are. Now, you too can become a top newtser!

Lastest newts from our top users:

“I need to stop newtsing, I’ve been scrolling all day. My wife is pissed!“

• TomTheHappyTroll

“Dwarves, elves, goblins, trolls… It doesn’t matter. Be kind to each other. #WeAreAllHumans“

• WeAreAllHumans

“Day: mine. Night: drink. Repeat. #ItsAWayOfLife“

• UrR3gularDw4rf

So what are you waiting for? Go out and share the best Newts to become one of the greats!

Hi! This is my first Ludum Dare and 3rd game jam. What a rush!!! I'm really happy with the result all considering since I've never done art for a project before. This is a short demo for a social media simulator game. The sim aspect of it is limited in the current version (48h innit), and it's more of a text-based experience for now. I had to rush the SFX which I'm not fully happy with, but it was a lot of fun writing the 165 posts to populate the fake timeline!

Already have a lot of ideas on how this could be pushed further into a proper influencer-sim: managing different audiences, actual functionality for the Like and Dislike buttons, user profile, analytics dashboard... If I continue working on this, I'd say it'd work better as a mobile game like Reigns. We'll see!

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy my absurd attempt at humour! Let me know what you think, all feedback appreciated.