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Woodman for President

By lcarpentier

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Humor553.70
Innovation1783.56
Graphics2683.39
Fun3193.23
Overall3403.28
Mood3682.98
Audio7572.15
Theme11092.26

Comments

g_o 2013-08-26 01:19

very nice indeed : )

hypnohustla 2013-08-26 08:56

I had no idea what I was doing, so it probably was a realistic simulation of a campaign :) Good job thinking out the box!

yakka 2013-08-26 09:19

I had lot of fun by hunting tigers and make nazi parties. Good job!!

rzfmzn 2013-08-26 11:43

Took me a moment to figure it out, but I liked it, nice game :D

lt-emi 2013-08-26 11:44

<3

red_squirrel 2013-08-26 11:48

Niice :)

dekart 2013-08-26 11:54

Always dreamed about hunting tigers in nazi uniform :)

nangie 2013-08-26 12:03

The option are pretty cool (but poor tiger =() I had to random a little for the debate answer cause 10seconde isn"t enough for me to read all the text, but a very nice overall =D

croze 2013-08-26 12:05

I guess it was pretty cool, probably the most you could make out of a political campaign

vrld 2013-08-26 13:20

A great idea and very well executed.

Woodman for president!

svenardo 2013-08-27 07:27

Great fun, enjoyed it a lot. I would like more options for things to do between debates. I think I consecutively partied in a nazi uniform for a week. :D Woodman did not get elected...

farfromsleep 2013-08-27 09:42

I enjoyed this one quite a lot. A little more variety in your choices would've been nice, but there's already quite a bit there for a 48 hour project. I particularly liked the use of pixel-art mannequins for the character graphics, gives the whole thing a nice touch of charm. Nice work!

darien 2013-08-27 11:35

Excellent presentation, but not very much connection to the theme. Also interesting the way the difficulty picks up in March, since all of a sudden all the poll points you haven't earned are now stacked on *one* opponent instead of spread around.

finnegan2100 2013-08-27 11:38

Cool and original idea. I won the nobel prize about 11 times :D

gsmproductions 2013-08-27 11:38

Loved how you worked the theme into the game. Feels like a very 'complete' experience, which is always great. It was really a good idea served by a very good execution. Well done!

yoni 2013-08-27 11:50

The theme felt tacked on but a pretty fun game - I played it through to the end (pretty rare when rating games) and enjoyed it. The mannequins were a great idea too.

frogcheese 2013-08-27 12:06

Feels complete and really polished, even if the theme feels a bit tacked on. Still, I for one celebrate the newly elected President Woodward. A guy with that many nobel prizes must have done something right, no matter how many tiger corpses he leaves in his wake.

lcarpentier 2013-08-27 12:39

You got me there. I really didn't like the theme, didn't feel like a theme at all (what happened to "This is a game about..." ?), so even if it started around the idea of a lot of 10 seconds gameplay phase, I made the choice of keeping only one of them, for the game sake. Also, I wanted to introduce a "10-seconds-party", some kind of satyrical tea-party issued movement which wouldn't even have time for tea anymore. Didn't get time...

I'm glad you enjoyed the game anyway, thank for all your comments :)

emilien-gorisse 2013-08-27 18:24

fun theme, very accurate about randmoness of these things :) and nice pixelart!

ratking 2013-08-27 18:32

I didn't liked the theme either. Let's replace politicians with stick figures! :D

zillix 2013-08-29 03:35

really offbeat and funny. great job!

xrm0 2013-08-29 11:38

Fun.
Like Nangle said, 10 seconds in the debate is not enough for me to read everything.

eggdestroyer 2013-08-29 11:55

Oh hey, forgot to comment your game here. Fun entry, good execution rather smart mechanic, I liked the art a lot, and I KILLED TIGERS.

But the 10-secs part feels a bit pointless to me, I don't have time to read everything, and it feels like a way to use a theme you obviously didn't like :p

lcarpentier 2013-08-29 12:11

With the time and effort I put into making jokes about clandestine surveillance program "LOG" and detention camp Guantanawood, it's a shame people don't have time to read them :(. I promise I'll stop mistreating themes from now on.

onzephyr 2013-08-29 14:01

brilliant concept loved the game. great humor and style. Didn't notice much with the compo theme outside of the debate questions. but I was too busy hunting tigers to care.

karsyf 2013-08-29 15:46

Well put together, but I felt it dragged on a little after the first month. The debates were the standouts, so would like more of them.

klianc09 2013-08-29 15:56

"politics in a nutshell". love it.

obscuremoon 2013-08-29 16:03

I was rallying like a Nazi and still and became the 97th (or 93rd) president :D the system works!

This was a fun/humorous little game I'm glad I played it! keep up the good work.

ratalaika 2013-08-29 16:24

good job

zuige 2013-08-29 18:53

Fascinating idea! I would've liked to have music for this but I understand it was lacking probably just because of the time limit. I would have also liked it if there was a counter telling me how many days i have left. Also, the game felt kinda easy.

lcarpentier 2013-08-29 19:37

Thank you all for your comments. About music, I discovered Ableton the day before the compo and painfully managed to handle the 7 seconds of the intro music... I'm really proud I did that but it was the most I could do yeah.

vladimirdlc 2013-08-29 21:25

Yuhuu! I got to be the president, this game had so much unexpected tension! :)

ddionisio 2013-08-30 03:02

Ha, this really is a satire in regards to politicians! The fact that they are all woodmen too. Good balance of each chosen action as well. I had fun playing!

zlowrance 2013-08-30 04:37

Good job on this one

_alts 2013-09-03 04:29

Great game. Ignoring the theme integration, everything about this game was really well done. I would have appreciated more variety in the campaign cards (and maybe more wood puns), but considering the time constraints, I'm really impressed.