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Gerry Wins!

By bubuiic

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness275
Innovation1173.74
Humor3772.75
Overall5073.27
Mood5793.06
Graphics6923.08
Fun7842.81
Theme9102.75

Comments

orangepop 2016-04-19 02:14

It looks really interesting, but the game board keeps scrolling up for me, making it unplayable.

11schotter 2016-04-19 02:23

clever gameplay and sweet graphics, i like!

bubuiic 2016-04-19 02:47

@OrangePop: I never had this problem, which version are you using?

le_sarus 2016-04-19 13:17

Cool idea, shame you ran out of time to add a win state or any music but it's a good effort

sndr 2016-04-19 13:22

Nice little game! I took me several attempts to actually figure out what was going on, though. It could be nice to have some more examples on the instructions.

matzigon 2016-04-19 23:22

Not just good, but educational as well! :)
Could use some finishing touches. Good job!

agausmann 2016-04-20 04:55

I love to see games like this that show political and cultural flaws. This one excellently illustrates the problems of gerrymandering - nice pun by the way - and I enjoy playing simulations like these. This was a very innovative interpretation of the theme as well.

sir-magic 2016-04-21 17:28

It's a cool game, I liked it when I knew how to play but I feel it needs a win state and sound to improve it.

pusty 2016-04-21 21:30

Fun to play! I was kinda confused as a win scren is missing but I had fun playing it anyways!

lochmann-apps 2016-04-22 12:31

Very interesting from an educational perspective. Could obviously need some more polish, but still it's a solid simulation/game! Nice work!

Would be great if you could check out our game as well!

osaft 2016-04-22 12:34

Having Problems opening the Site my Anti-Virus blocks me off :\

bubuiic 2016-04-22 16:28

@Osaft: I think it's just unknown to the AV because it's hosted on my personal site. So they block it by default. :-/

reheated 2016-04-23 00:40

Oh yeah! This is a very clever board game. It is potentially quite deep (but it's hard to tell how deep a game is, really). I don't know any opening strategy, but as the game develops, it becomes possible to look ahead and plan some moves. I feel that certain go-like aspects emerge. E.g. I had a couple of "miai" moments where I was happy because two moves were equivalent, so if the computer took one, I could take the other.

Also nice commentary on the state of politics :D. And I like the art style.

scnoobi 2016-04-24 13:02

intstructions are pretty bad and verbose. Theres no clear indication of what things do or what your objective is if you don't read instructions. lackluster end(theres no sheep is victorious!)

paskal007r 2016-04-24 13:34

GREAT concept! As a non-us living person gerrymandering has never been explained so clearly to me. Kudos for that!

llucile 2016-04-25 00:22

The idea is a pretty original interpretation of the theme and the graphics are nice but the game sadly lacks ingame feedbacks to understand fully how it works and to display scores. Hope it will be added soon

iossif 2016-04-25 09:48

i _think_ i won. but i am not sure :D

themadknights 2016-04-25 10:44

One of the more intelligent game I saw in this LD. Good work.

odyssey 2016-04-25 11:50

I liked the art style and the political undertones

jin47 2016-04-25 13:54

Great game and interesting concept ! So sad that their is no winning trigger but great job nonetheless!

apantaloni 2016-04-25 15:53

Really cool idea. I'd love to see this developed further.

adsilcott 2016-04-25 19:00

This could be a great tool for education.

stanov 2016-04-26 12:53

Nice graphics! Some effects and win/lose-screen would be appreciated though. And highlighted the last move of oponent!

No link to the theme whatsoever.

Thanks for making this :)

bubuiic 2016-04-26 16:25

@StaNov: Thanks for trying it out. Well, the game is about shifting the shape of electoral districts, so it fairly fits the theme.

rock-eaters 2016-05-02 21:15

i didnt understand the rules, maybe add more example

drentsoft 2016-05-03 16:34

Looks interesting but I wasn't sure if I was doing it right :/