Approch1_JacobH

Purpose

In this game, you are leading a campaign to support a person running for office. There are 3 difficulties. On easy mode, you are working within your county, on medium, it is a statewide event, and on hard, it is a national election. The game is meant to make people think about voting, and give an example of what one person can do. My end goal is, quite simply, to encourage people to be more politically involved.

Mechanical details

Fund raising will increase funds, obviously. Rioting will quickly increase your supporters, but decrease your reputation, making it harder to get followers and funds in the future. Posting will take funds to increase awareness, helping you gain supporters and funds. Meeting people takes a lot of time, but it will increase your reputation and followers. Charity takes funds and/or time to increase your reputation, making it easier to gain funds and followers in the future. The heads up display at the top of the screen shows your overall stats, you can hover over each village to read the stats of that area.

I got inspiration from the group conversations in the lab. We discussed using something fun like a game o promote voting and political involvement.

The software I would use to make this is free, so there shouldn’t be any cost except time.