The Great Debate Post-Compo Post-Mortem Post-post

I’m very excited to have successfully completed my second Ludum Dare! I’ve been working all week on implementing a lot of the feedback that I’ve been getting on my game and am releasing a post-compo version. Thanks to everyone who game me feedback and already played it.

My game is a puzzle game disguised as a Debate Simulator titled The Great Debate. Here’s a link to the entry page with the game on the top. This is the version you should play for scoring. If you want to play the cleaned up, streamlined post-compo version you can play it here.

It is categorized a puzzle game because the each round you pick a word that is given a score based on a secret scoring criteria. At first you will just be picking words randomly, all the while you can try to recognize patterns and figure out what is going to maximize your score. Then pick the highest scoring words you can for the remainder of the game to argue your opponent into submission.

The debate simulator is because you yell random sentences at each other with random words thrown in. These sentences are actually totally meaningless, so it isn’t really a debate. Actually, now that I think about it, it is very much like most debates on the Internet.

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