Ludum Dare #40compo

Public Opinion Monitor

by ayame9joe

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.35

Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.88

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.63

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.87

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.92

The theme leads me to a thought about what happened recently.

So that is a result for this afternoon.

Won't say too much, 'cause if you can get it, you will.

For unpleasant news, you can either block or delete them.

But what is the result then?

How to Play

Since you control the public opinion monitor, you need to make sure that no bad comments on your government.

i.e. good influence overcomes bad one shown on the right side of the game.

You can either do it with deleting news directly or block sensitive words.

Yet more rumors would survive if so. And it makes things even worse.

Comments13

lawzy934 Dec 2017, 07:47

I'm pretty sure there is something I don't get, but I had no idea what I was doing :(

Jamesy0124 Dec 2017, 08:35

Yeah I had no idea what was going on, felt like those button in the bottom right did something but couldn't tell what, definitely looks interesting, if only I knew how to play

ayame9joeauthor4 Dec 2017, 08:39

@jamesy012 @lawzy93 Thanks for playing and sorry about the puzzle. Add some how to play. And I wonder if that would help.

ginger94 Dec 2017, 09:03

不明觉历

junjunlowpoly5 Dec 2017, 01:27

I tried the Mac version and I got the message "Unable to find game!!"

Wizcas5 Dec 2017, 04:34

For anyone who can't run this game on mac, you'll have to put the app in applications folder or on desktop.

立意很棒，但是确实没太玩懂。。不知道应该怎么控制舆论。我果然不适合当公务员233

看描述，灵感是红黄蓝？

Gao Ming5 Dec 2017, 14:42

音乐配得真好，很有氛围。不太能玩懂。

Zitao YE9 Dec 2017, 06:36

交互或者UI应该有所缺失，删除new上面数字增加；删除rumor和bad下方指数增加，整体运作的mechanism并不是很明白；

题目觉得有些倒置；觉得似乎从两个方式解读，对于政府的民怨的表达来说，应该是less and worse 404的消除挤压了更多的愤怒；从出现的数量压不住应该是worse and more；从观者的角度，沉醉在天朝美梦中的应该是less and worse；似乎有些偏离题意，捕捉不到。

但美术做得很干净，配上这样带点嘲讽的音乐，细微的数字变化，氛围上颇有反乌托邦的感觉，营造得很巧妙。

jk500025 Dec 2017, 14:04

The game is looking interesting, but I have absolutely no idea how to play this game.

Tuomo25 Dec 2017, 15:23

I have to agree with others: I had no idea what was going on and what to do. I liked the visuals and music though.

Vasco Rodrigues25 Dec 2017, 16:54

Sorry, tried my best to understand the game but couldn't do it. It has a nice look and I like the audio, maybe some instructions will help. Really hope to see this improved, it got me intrigued.

profan25 Dec 2017, 23:19

I haven't the slightest whats going on, but I like the way it looks and sounds..

I do feel this is topical, even if utterly confusing in its current form, what does it do to "confirm delete" of a news post, or a rumor, or something that is already marked as "Blocked | Deleted"? Or even the buttons the right-hand side, Block/Post, what do they do?

Agreed with the previous poster though, would be interesting to see it improved!

Sugiuro26 Dec 2017, 10:22

Meh, I didn't really understand what I needed to do...The audio is cool, I think the game would be interesting with some tutorial !