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A jam submission

Balance the BudgetView game page

Become chancellor of the exchequer
Submitted by SilentRebelGames — 1 hour, 22 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#26862.8422.842
Presentation#31232.5662.566
Overall#32532.4742.474
Fun#36642.2242.224

Ranked from 76 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Player decisions are accepted and rejected at random and outcome of decisions is unknown.

Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

No

We used pre-existing art

Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Submitted

It was very topical, things are definitely out of control. I did notice though that I could kill more people that I even had in the country.  It looked pretty crisp, but I could use some more feedback on how well or poor I did. Great work, can't wait to see what you make next!

Submitted

The game is deeper than I first expected the questions are not as straight forward. If there are more visual supporting the text it would be amazing. Anyway, good job.

Submitted

Cool take on this genre with the PM being able to overrule the decisions

Submitted

Fun little sim game, very topical. Nice work!

Submitted

This was fun and got me to stop and think for many of the decisions! The over-rulings kept me on my toes. I do think the amount the budget decreased for spending decisions seemed arbitrary, and I didn't really know how much I would be losing in order for me to fully weigh a decision, but that very well could have been the point

Submitted

I saw this and I thought "oh there's the one about coronavirus!" haha, I like the text based style, I think maybe a little more polish and effects would have been nice but I see the multiple path endings thing you were going for, good game!

Something is wrong... most of the time, the selection I make is applied, however, in some questions, my selection doesn't apply (for example, sometimes when I click yes, it says "proposal rejected" and sometimes when I click no, it says "granted")

Submitted

Maybe this just isn't my type of game, but I felt there wasn't a lot going on.

Submitted

Obviously really topical, but it seems like it covers a lot of real, practical policy decisions that have been pitched, reminds me of games like Reigns and Democratic Socialism Simulator

Submitted

nice idea, looks very nice. Good job!

I think the user interface could have been better laid out. There is a lot of "dead space" that is not used during the game.

Submitted

I love it! The idea of accepting or not accepting emails about the virus to help society was very clever. 

Submitted

very good game

Submitted

this is a fun game and you really have to think before you choose

Submitted

Really interesting to think about which choices you need to make. Its always a compromise after all :)

Submitted

this game has no win condition, i feel like it would've done better win 3 endings, just some simple text bubbles that tells you how you did