Megalomania

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.79
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.79
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.02
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.34
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.07
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.67
Being rich is fun and all, but do you know what's really fun?

Power.

So, with your massive media empire, you've decided to destabilise and overthrow the world's governments!

Take a look at Megalomania, and see what you can discover. Tutorialisation is limited, as part of the fun is figuring out what everything means.

Version 1.0.1: Fixed a bug with the "Political Faux Pas" event that caused one of the choices to wipe out progress in a region instead of advancing it. The fix was literally a single character in the code!

Comments21

Ludokultur
Ludokultur4 Oct 2021, 08:44
Very interesting! Could easily see this expanding into a full Plague-Inc.-like experience. :)
Spotted_Leaf4 Oct 2021, 08:53
Achieved world domination in 13:49! I'm impressed with the polish of the game and I think the mechanics are cool. It just seems a little arbitrary what gives you points and what gives you influence. Cool music too!
LDJam user 257438
LDJam user 2574384 Oct 2021, 09:04
Best game I ever played in my life!!!
I felt dictator who is controlling the media!!!!

My score
Arthur Mairs
Arthur Mairs5 Oct 2021, 10:04
Hell yeah! this was great! i have fun trashing the whole world, it is all mine now! reminds me of Rebel Inc, which was a lot of fun! nice work!
3mpty
3mpty5 Oct 2021, 10:47
Really interesting title, I found it a little easy but otherwise the concept is cool and the execution is polished and feels very complete. Awesome work!
Dannyk19945 Oct 2021, 14:54
Great game, had funny events and UI and music design was great! Well done solid entry!
wormius
wormius5 Oct 2021, 16:08
Good game. Wish I had more time to read the events.
Vectrex28
Vectrex286 Oct 2021, 04:09
Great game, had a lot of fun playing it. I really dig the take on the theme and would work great as some sort of Plage Inc. clone, hah!
Only nitpick I have is that it becomes a bit of a waiting game near the end, I think you should make your influence rise faster once you get 100% in certain countries. Either way, a great submission!!!
adam-gould
adam-gouldauthor6 Oct 2021, 09:18
@vectrex28 Interestingly enough, your influence does rise faster as you conquer more - each region that hits 100% increases it by 0.5 per second. As with the rate of events popping up, perhaps I should have made the increase exponential instead of linear.
giuyyt
giuyyt6 Oct 2021, 15:22
the concept of this game is very great and the audio of this game is great too.It reminds me of Plague Inc.

I have some suggestion on it:

1.When i am in the middle stage of the game,the local event is generated too fast for me to think and select the option.You may slow it a bit.
2."caribbean islands" region is so small that it is hard for me to find it when local event happens in there.You may make the region where local event happens flash instead of just turn blue so that i can find it.
Mathiouza
Mathiouza7 Oct 2021, 02:48
Really, I played 14 minutes? x)

Great game. The mood is so well done! The end game is a bit slow, but that's ok. It may lack a loose condition though.

But that's minor issues. The game is really cool, the music is perfect and the graphics work well.

Really solid entry! :clap: :clap:
Frogman
Frogman7 Oct 2021, 09:50
Great game! I loved the concept and all the absurd events. It was surpsrisingly fun. I felt like the event spawn rate should increase as the game goes on, to remain consistant during the whole game - right now, I had more events than I could follow at the start, then basically nothing near the end. Other than that, it was really good! I managed to finish it in 11:23 minutes.
Myles Doupe
Myles Doupe7 Oct 2021, 13:49
"Truly Evil" - the story I printed about @adam-gould to tarnish his reputation.

This is a well done game. Trying to balance your influence vs. paying people off. Keeping an eye on certain countries that are close to destabilization. The only real suggestion I have is to add more events, although trying to balance all of those events can be difficult in a 48 hour jam. I had a lot of fun with this one. Thanks for making it!
WitekWitek
WitekWitek7 Oct 2021, 14:17
I like your interpritation of the theme.
The art is fine.
I like the BG music aswell.
I find the game to be somewhat moody and humorous.
It was fun trying to take over the world.

I wish i had more time to read the events though.
Overall, nice game. -WitekWitek
DaleP8 Oct 2021, 05:42
I enjoyed reading the crazy events and testing different options, and thought the music did a good job setting the stage. I do wish there was more time to read and appreciate them, and I also would have liked to see more of the unique events with fewer repetitive “political faux pas” and “truth exposed” events (side note: I was able to go into negative influence if I bribed too often – not sure if that’s intentional or not). At first I was a little confused because I thought the goal was to gain world domination *without* letting the countries get all the way to 100% destabilization, since it took them “off the board” so to speak. Maybe it’s just because I played using a laptop trackpad, but it would have been nice if the click areas for some of the countries were more generous.

Just a heads up – your mac zip archive seems to have incorrect file permissions. I had to run `sudo chmod -R 755 /Users/daleprice/Downloads/Megalomania_Mac.app` after unzipping, before I could open the game.
zimny11
zimny119 Oct 2021, 20:22
I was stuck on the first message for a while, not because game was broken, but because I was jamming to the music!
Really uqniue take on the theme. The time flays bay playing this game. It was fun!

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