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Stalling The Dictator

By 0x01f0, Alexaur and Mickxe

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall5773.6041
Fun6873.3841
Innovation6213.3841
Theme2554.0241
Graphics4493.9441
Humor1603.9341
Mood5563.6040

Comments

martink 2022-04-06 19:37

Nicely done, definitely a unique idea. The animations on the dictator were great, really sold the tone.

mistagiggles 2022-04-06 19:44

I enjoyed playing this, I love that the fate of your home country can come down to having ice cream. Very on theme, great face animations too!

I was able to survive the nuking (at least for another month)

aerloth 2022-04-06 19:54

Story and overall mood fits well given the current events happening in the world! I loved the artistic, detailed qualities of the intel and the deep psychological analysis that I had to perform in order to get the neccessary information :smirk: Impressive technically with polished graphics and working TV! While short, I enjoyed this short exchange that enabled me to delay the inevitable.

Respect for the detailed manual and ambidexterous controls.

I like the concept - I would totally play a longer game with this concept, something with the mechanics of"Papers, Please!" but more lighthearted and with tounge-in-cheek tone - sounds interesting!

I would love to see the "writing" part explored more in this concept - the setting, audio and graphics set the mood wonderfully but it left me hungry for more!

antonsem 2022-04-06 20:13

Unfortunately relevant game in more than one way... But at least it's funny! Really loved the visual style and VO :D I wish there were some kind of randomization. Or even better, an active research phase. Great game overall!

PS: I'm tweeting about the games I play from this jam. Here is this one: https://twitter.com/TheAntonSem/status/1511798379394867205

ugly-robot 2022-04-06 20:16

Hilarious game - and quite polished too! The scrawled writing and coffee stains, the reinforced concrete 'office', the period-accurate devices - all very well rendered.

All that for just 30 more days in the sun... Great entry!

paulhocker 2022-04-07 02:08

funny dialog and the animation on the dictator was superb! thanks for making the game.

gildar76 2022-04-07 20:11

Great job. Loved the idea and facial animations.

conroy 2022-04-08 16:11

Pretty unique, I liked it man, good job!

ldp 2022-04-08 16:15

You clearly have an excellent concept to make a full, great, narrative game. The tone is amazing and I'm really glad to see those kind of satiric yet hilarious game in a jam. Excellent work!

kamuniaft 2022-04-08 21:25

Awesome wordplay in the title :) And cool jam game, i really had fun playing it! Great dictator's face animations. They create tension, cause you can't be sure if he liked the answer until the final moment (at least till you know your dictator well). P.S. Liking turtles turnes out to be a mistake -_-

logicon211 2022-04-09 01:24

The facial animations were pretty funny. We enjoyed that part the most :)

mickxe 2022-04-09 05:27

Thanks everyone for trying our game! Please report any bugs you may find as well. The game is so short, though. Maybe we managed to create the first bug free game. :)

caudatecoder 2022-04-09 06:17

Hey, I also made game about a dictator!

Love your take on it. It's pretty small but I enjoyed every bit of it. Graphics are great, the core mechanic of trying to understand the drawings on the board in 15s is really fun (the drawings are top-notch btw), the dictator's animation and voiceover are also very-very well done! Very polished and fun experience!

I was recording my playthrough of your game, but it kinda took a lot of resources so the recording's like 1FPS :sweat_smile: Well, you could still hear the commentary so here's a link just in case https://youtu.be/xAmitsB_F9k

catams 2022-04-09 07:44

A great execution of a fun and quite original idea. Gave me "Papers please"-vibes in the best way!

mickxe 2022-04-09 12:09

Thanks @caudatecoder ! I enjoyed your whole video, fun to see the other games too. :)

ribout-horace 2022-04-09 19:26

Weird but fun! A little disapointed that each day was the same, but I love the concept and how to gather information to survive ! (I'm happy to have been to the end of it)

cover-club-media 2022-04-09 20:31

Very unique submission. Could totally build on it. Keep it up!!

benmcnelly 2022-04-09 21:17

Nice work, love this take!

mvasko2 2022-04-09 22:03

Very nice graphics (including the drawings), facial animation and sounds.

The humor is definitely this game's biggest strength, along with the audio and visuals. It's a pity there isn't any more content.

Just a nitpick - it would be nice to be able to skip the dialog.

Great job!

yamaisiukdranko 2022-04-10 11:22

Cool Game

melon-spirit 2022-04-10 16:27

Nice twist on the theme. At first I didn't realize the significance of the board in the back, but I eventually figured it out. I wish there were more decisions or rooms with hints, once I knew all the answers were on the board, it wasn't as challenging. Good game!

wild-fat 2022-04-10 21:32

Old Joseph is amazing) Always imagined he's looking exactly like in your game :) Good job!

edward-dassmesser 2022-04-10 21:38

Clever part #1: The name got me to click. Pretty simple otherwise.

epeachyband 2022-04-11 04:24

Great, man. Awesome idea with good realism point. Loving turtles is inevitable

gamebucha 2022-04-13 09:27

Graphics is nice

orionhart 2022-04-14 08:58

Really funny take on this! I actually kinda liked how the observations were sketched out poorly. It immersed me more in my role. I did want a little bit more detail to the bunker. Honestly, great humor, funny take on the theme, and a pretty simple and easy to understand game. Good job!

sawtan 2022-04-15 15:02

Quite a nice little game, the dictator got quite a funny personality, and the gameplay felt original and in the right scope for a jam! Great job this time around! Cheerz!

satacat 2022-04-18 16:16

good entry indeed, especially the graphics!

sarah 2022-04-18 21:40

The graphics look really nice and I thought the hand drawn intel was great xD I was pretty confused about what to do and then everything exploded. So I think I upset the man on the tv haha.

But overall, well done!