Election Day

by prachi
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.58
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.14
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.45
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.97
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.56
Election Day is a game about the importance of delivery when you're giving a speech. Help Marcus by typing his speech as he delivers it. The better your delivery score in each of the 5 rounds, the more votes he will get.

INSTRUCTIONS
Type the words before they enter the Thought Bubble (top). Press the space bar when each word turn green in order to speak them (and have them show up in the Speech Bubble (bottom)). The word turns green if it has been completely typed and is in the thought bubble. If the words reach the bottom of the thought bubble without being completed and submitted with the space bar, you will miss those points.

For example, in the example below, you have already typed in DETENTION, and you must now hit space to submit it to the speech bubble.

But in the example below, it looks like you didn't type in STUDENTS in time, and you won't have the chance to finish and hit space in order to speak it.

Marcus can still win the election even though Riley is out to get him, but he needs your help!
Tools: Unity

Comments18

Dongle
Dongle2 May 2023, 04:03
The link is broken.
prachi
prachiauthor2 May 2023, 15:18
Sorry guys! The link is working now :)
XeduR
XeduR2 May 2023, 16:58
I don't know if it's me or if something's not working as it should, but I kept getting the words to turn green only to have "..." appear in the speech below.

For replayability, I'd recommend including an option to skip the lengthy opening cutscene so that players can get to playing your game faster (especially if and when they've already seen the opening cutscene once).
Koos2 May 2023, 17:01
Cryly was really personal but in the end I won the most votes. A fun game with good humor, made me question my typing skills. Well done
Uppitydonkey572 May 2023, 17:01
I'm not sure I was playing correctly but the idea and dialogue was really funny!
Tom Cumpsty2 May 2023, 17:05
I really liked this game, really innovative take on the theme. I had a lot of fun with it but I felt like the speech bubble might have been a little too high. I couldn't type some of the longer words in time and I am a fairly fast typer. Would be good to be able to skip the opening scene too.
Aymco2 May 2023, 17:06
Very original game ! Typing fast is definitely needed in this game but fun to play. The art is also pretty cool !
Nion
Nion2 May 2023, 17:08
Great interpretation of the theme, really creative. I found it tough keeping up, kept wanting to press enter instead of space through habit. Nice work :)
Cole Hutson2 May 2023, 17:10
The space bar to speak mechanic does not seem to be working or may be I was misunderstanding which bubble to press space in. I would have like to be able to win :(
mitur
mitur2 May 2023, 17:29
I suck at typing D:

Although I really liked the idea and the humor :)
LDJam user 3373362 May 2023, 17:49
An original approach to the theme. I like the pixel art! Simple but effective.

The only thing, though, for replayability, I'd add some control to skip instructions.
Zerovirus2 May 2023, 17:53
My first speech to the student body, verbatim:

"..............................Detention......Teachers..."

(I didn't understand I was supposed to press spacebar when the words entered the cloud rather than when they hit the speech bubble underneath, and so I lost the majority of my words.)

Incredible game, 100000/10 for making me bust a gut laughing at myself.
Wadlo3 May 2023, 00:35
404 on the embedded link, but the itch one works.

"Riley, though everyone calls her Cryly" made me chuckle. I really like how you set up the story at the start. Having the words fall is hilarious. I couldn't figure out the controls at first and got claps for a bunch of "umm umm ....."s xD
Dongle
Dongle3 May 2023, 03:18
I gave it a play and love the concept! A very fun game with lots of humor.
Paul Avallone3 May 2023, 03:27
Fun concept. I'm not a very good typer but I swear sometimes the space bar wasn't being responsive. Still fun though. The dialog was funny and the art style was well done. Great job!
meepy4 May 2023, 04:47
ohhh i really like the way you executed this concept! the art and writing is very charming, i could really feel the high school-level shade being thrown hahaha. the scoring is interesting... i like that there's a hidden parameter besides the delivery/typing speed that influences if you'll win. cryly absolutely wrecked me even though i typed very fast, but it's ok cus it was fun trying to figure out the right thing to say :'3

the typing mechanism seems to be a bit glitchy, for example i often found myself having to press space twice to get it to submit and sometimes i wouldn't be able to type at all. wanted to let you know that updating your game with bugfixes are permitted in this game jam, so i really think you should take the opportunity to fix that part up since it's a core component! if that were fixed, i think the game would be a lot more fun!
dungeoneer644 May 2023, 15:10
This is a really fun take on the theme! It's a really interesting.
I had some trouble with the game registering my inputs at times, having to e.g. double-press space before words would be chosen. Sometimes it also wasn't clear that you had to press space to continue, so I'd make that into a subtle prompt!
Aside from that though, kudos, this is very nice.
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