Combover Monster Campaign Manager

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.87
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.72
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.09
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.49
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★75%
"Rated 10/10 Combovers" - The Donald's Combover.

THE DONALD doesn't like losers.
But you're not a loser, are you?
Obviously not.
That's why The Donald hired you as his new campaign/combover manager!
He's rich. Really rich.

SYNOPSIS: In this political-satire campaign-strategy discovery-sandbox game, you are the manager of The Donald's Combover's Presidential Campaign. Use his monster combover powers to help improve his ratings to secure a party nomination in this confusing media madhouse that is the US Presidential Election Process.

YOUR GOAL: Help The Donald reach 40%+ polling for the Republican Party Primaries and hold it for 30 seconds. (Look for the orange TRUMP bar on the left side.)

How you do it is up to you to discover and figure out. The complex process of campaign management doesn't come with instructions, except for the instructions/spoiler section further below.)

DISCOVERY/SANDBOX: Part of the fun of being a new campaign manager is discovering how your actions affect voters, and how that affects your poll numbers. If you don't know what you're doing at first - it's ok, just be observant to the colors/logos on the voters' signs, and figure out their correlation to the polling results numbers on the left side of the screen.

CONTROLS TO TRY:
- WASD/Arrows
- Spacebar
- holding down shift
- E or Enter

Escape to Quit, R to Restart

SORRY NON-AMERICAN GAMERS: Sorry to those of you who are non-US gamers, unfamiliar with the circus that is the US Presidential Election Process! (Lucky you!) You might have a hard time understanding this game/simulation/mockery, or the media monster significance of "The Donald". You may want to just skip this game and move onto the next.

Enjoy a hilarious original soundtrack of Donald slow-rapping. See a feed of real live tweets, fetched from all the presidential candidates' timelines being thrown around as ammo. Made in 48 hours for the compo. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time to add the SuperPAC and media outlets features, and barely had enough time to put together a super quick and dirty title screen.

Tools Used: Unity 5, Blender, Gimp, Substance Painter, US Map Generator (http://usmapgenerator.com), Audacity, GarageBand

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(It's more fun to discover it yourself)

SPOILERS/INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

SPOILERS/INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

SPOILERS/INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

SPOILERS/INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

CONTROLS:

- Move: WASD or Arrow Keys. Voters, walls, and other candidates can block you when you are in your normal talking head mode. You can stomp over them while in monster combover mode.

- Fire off a Tweet: Spacebar. Voters that make contact with the tweets will be converted into your supporters. The more supporters you have, relative to other Republican candidates, the higher you poll. You cannot convert blue voters (Democrats) unless they are dazed first, with...

- Monster Combover: Hold Shift to transform into the giant combover monster. Any voters you come into contact with will be temporarily dazed by your awesamnity, and will forget who they were supporting after they wake up. You only have a limited amount of combover power though, which recharges over time. This also smashes down walls that you build...

- Build Walls: E or Enter. These walls can be damaged by yourself and other candidates, but are useful for strategically corralling voters. The Donald loves building walls along our country's borders.

- Quit: Escape

- Restart: R

TIPS:

- A poll is taken of all the voters (the little sign posts) every half second. You're only concerned with the Republican (red) voters and how you're doing against the other Republican candidates (the large signposts with red boxes on the bottom). You can see the poll results on the left side of the screen.

- Use The Donald's rapid fire tweet ability to win over voters and boost your polling results. Though unwieldy to fire, when a tweet make contact with a voter, it will change the allegiance of any red or undecided voter to you. You'll see their signpost become orange. You can lay the tweets down as traps for voters to stumble onto. Keep converting voters into your own until your rating is high enough. Beware - other candidates will try to convert your own voters to theirs by firing their own tweets.

- Use the MONSTER COMBOVER power (hold down Shift) to transform into your true form, a giant combover, and temporarily squash/daze other candidates' supporters and make them "undecided" when they wake up. This is useful for converting blue (Democrat) voters into undecided voters that you can capture with your tweets. Or you can use it to allow Hillary to convert them to blue, so that your opponents can't convert them. You're only concerned with the polling among Republicans, after all.

- Build walls (E key) to keep out the other candidates. This is an advanced tool for deeper strategy. Don't box yourself in though. These walls can be damaged by other candidates and yourself, but not by voters.

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END SPOILERS/INSTRUCTIONS SECTION

Genres: strategy

Comments48

TheRuseman24 Aug 2015, 03:10
Seemed like it would be interesting if I knew what to do, but I had no idea how to play, even after reading the instructions multiple times
Laddo D24 Aug 2015, 03:13
masterwork

the height of the craft
monetai
monetai24 Aug 2015, 03:37
Very funny
Empyrealhell24 Aug 2015, 04:07
I'm sure you'll upset some people with this one, but man am I glad you went for it. That was quite simply amazing.
FerraWare24 Aug 2015, 04:12
What. The. Shrek.

Pros:
-Freaking Donald Trump!
-Funniest game I've ever played
-Love your take on the theme :P

Cons:
-Hard to understand
TerraCottaFrog
TerraCottaFrog24 Aug 2015, 04:46
This feels too much like novelty shovelware at first glance for me to feel the motivation to put the time in to understand and play it. Sorry.
Jamie Guillemette24 Aug 2015, 05:26
Trump comb over super power.. didnt see that coming
synchingfeeling
synchingfeeling24 Aug 2015, 05:29
That just happened. Feels surprisingly deep for what I though would just be a comedy effort.
Aelius24 Aug 2015, 05:38
100% accurate. The gameplay is a little one sided once you get the gist of it.
filiph
filiph24 Aug 2015, 06:28
This was way too much fun. Can't believe you made this inside 48 hours. Kudos.

The music + DT rapping = awesome.
Halleflux24 Aug 2015, 06:54
Does it seem to anyone else that this game is a bit trumped up?

Also, the wall wouldn't work. Mexico would start sending their olympic pole vaulting drug dealing rapists at us.
jstclair1324 Aug 2015, 07:43
Masterpiece!! So funny!
martijn
martijn24 Aug 2015, 08:27
Funniest game so far.
peterthehe
peterthehe24 Aug 2015, 10:46
THIS IS DEMOCRACY AT ITS HEIGHT. I had no idea what I was doing, but still did it for 5 minutes
TwixtorTitan
TwixtorTitan24 Aug 2015, 10:47
Bit hard to wrap my had around.
highlyinteractive24 Aug 2015, 15:27
I have no idea what's going on, but I was very happy listening to the music and pressing spacebar!
AdenMansonGames24 Aug 2015, 15:51
Very good art style which adds a realistic effect.
andyman404
andyman404author24 Aug 2015, 20:33
FROM THE DEV:

If you don't understand what to do - this is a political sandbox for you to experiment with different strategies. Just make sure that orange bar on the left in the poll results section keeps increasing.

Try different things and see how they affect your ratings. I've added extra descriptions of what to do in the game description, but I'd recommend just trying things and have fun discovering what kind of effect they have on voters to come up with your campaign strategy.

SIMPLE BRUTE FORCE STRATEGY: move around and shoot your tweets (Spacebar) at Republican voters (those little red signs) and Undecided voters (signs with black "?") to convert them Trump (orange voters). You should see your poll results (on the left) go up if you convert the voters fast enough. Get the TRUMP line to 40%+ and stay there for 30 seconds to win.
flokitall24 Aug 2015, 21:44
Read the spoilers after playing the game, must say I didn't expect that depth for the mechanics. However, I did just brute force my way through the game, holding down space and moving around the map.

This is the kind of game I could see going on Last Week Tonight or something :)
Captain Awesome25 Aug 2015, 02:55
LOL, I love it so much. You should put the web version on Newgrounds and Kongregate, and make some ad money from it. Last time I checked every 1,000,000 plays was worth around $1000. So you too could become officially rich! But more importantly you need to share this with the world.
uvwar
uvwar25 Aug 2015, 03:09
Hello Fellow Trump-Dev. I like how we both went for the 'hair destroying things' angle, very nice.

Much Trump
~ Tyler
Karai17
Karai1725 Aug 2015, 04:57
PLEASE tweet this to @realdonaldtrump! God damn hilarious. 9000 peppers out of a pepper.
MagnesiumNinja
MagnesiumNinja25 Aug 2015, 09:01
I feel like I have a deeper understanding of American politics.
GAFBlizzard25 Aug 2015, 09:29
Very creative entry, though rather confusing to keep track of everything. :D
Wevel
Wevel25 Aug 2015, 15:13
Nice work, quite difficult to work out how to win
WizzardMaker
WizzardMaker25 Aug 2015, 16:15
Well that was interesting... great game, really funny and I must admit I like building walls too
dcolgan25 Aug 2015, 20:22
This is amazing. Excellent use of the theme.
RovingSquid
RovingSquid25 Aug 2015, 20:35
Funny, but seems impossible to win!
dydx26 Aug 2015, 04:49
Echoing a previous comment: "Feels surprisingly deep for what I thought would just be a comedy effort."
tripleVisionGames30 Aug 2015, 08:20
I am not American, but I know who this Donald fellow is. I think the sound bites work really well, but was a little too complicated so I was trying to hard to concentrate on what I was doing rather than taking in what was going on (if that makes sense?)

Great effort though, glad to know that this dude is not representative of all Americans too ;)
garygreen
garygreen31 Aug 2015, 14:18
Wow! That was the scariest combover I have ever seen. :-O Clever idea and well put together.
Creative Sectors13 Sep 2015, 09:38
Masterwork, truly a piece of gaming art in a way. xD

Creative Sectors: Kardfogú
superfreak
superfreak13 Sep 2015, 13:27
There are no words for how hilarious this is... 10/10
handkor13 Sep 2015, 20:09
The tweets and quotes were a great idea.
Krunoslav
Krunoslav13 Sep 2015, 22:49
Hahahaha, very fun game! Voting games should be developed, thank you!
Literal Games14 Sep 2015, 15:33
Funny, and a bit more depth than I was expecting!
Tanton-H2X14 Sep 2015, 15:35
This Game is really so Innovation!
Very unique!

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