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[Servant Corps]

That's that one game where you have to run for Senator by killing the current Senator, and you get campaign donations based on what you do within the game...right?

[Jonathan S. Fox]

That's that one game where you have to run for Senator by killing the current Senator, and you get campaign donations based on what you do within the game...right?

Yeah, Politician Paul was a traditional top-scrolling space shooter where you have to maintain poll numbers with your impressive combat skills in order to keep donations rolling in with which to buy special weapons and repairs. Also, you had to keep special interests happy, since they dictated how good the powerups were -- so you'd need to avoid polluting space with your smoking ship to please the environmentalists if you want sweet armor upgrades, you'd get better weapon powerups if the ammo conservation league didn't see you wasting a lot of bullets, and the rich tech companies would give you big cash infusions if you used every opportunity to show off their powerful but very expensive range of secondary weapons. Ultimately you can win the election by the polls, or just survive long enough to blow up Senator Radcliffe when he shows up as the final boss, assuming you can.

[Aqizzar]

Okay, that's a hilarious and very inventive game idea.  Where can I see this game, and hopefully play it?

[Strife26]

If memory serves, he can't release it because it was a school project done on with a development programmed licensed for edumacational-type purposes only.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

Pretty close, I actually signed over copyright on the game to the school. But hey, if I finish the remake, then I can release it. (The IP for the game's design elements, code aside, isn't copyrightable. I can clone my own games without trouble as long as it it's really a new game rather than a direct recreation.)

If you're returning because the "new" led you see that this post was edited, I made the text in the parentheses more accurate.

[Strife26]

I totally returned for the new marker, thereby allowing people to follow the new marker to this post regarding the former new marker.

[Duuvian]

The UI is looking good. I look forward to it.

[BeforeLifer]

 or gassing up a plane and flying to Madagascar.

LOL. Pandemic 2 Reffernce FTW.
There have been SOOO many times were i infect every place but madagascar before the big shut down of everything...
SOOO annoying i have never gotten madagsgar before...

[Elodie Hiras]

I wonder why all the fuss about Madagascar... I mean, Madagascar was infected in ALL my Pandemic 2 games... New Zealand was a bitch though.

[stabbymcstabstab]

islands are hard to infect except green land it never shuts any thing down in my games

[Strife26]

I always had trouble with Madagascar shutting down. Greenland was always really struggling to the end though, I'm fairly sure that their hospital won't shut down if there's even one guy to stock it.



Soooo, progress?

[Supercharazad]

I wonder why all the fuss about Madagascar... I mean, Madagascar was infected in ALL my Pandemic 2 games... New Zealand was a bitch though.

Madagascar have ONE way in and out. The airport. Once it closed, you had to start over because you'd lost. If you started anywhere outside the East coast of the USA, you'd probably end up with it locking and never opening.

[chaoticag]

It was the seaport, and the one time I managed to start off as madagascar in that they shut down their port before the virus left :\

[stabbymcstabstab]

thats why you go with something likle coughing or sneezing no one shuts down a nation for the cold or a bad cough

[USEC_OFFICER]

thats why you go with something likle coughing or sneezing no one shuts down a nation for the cold or a bad cough

Apparently, in the game, you are the only bacteria/virus/parasite to exist. I once had a game where I had no symptoms at all. No coughing, no sneezing, no nothing. All I had were the traits that allowed me to spread through water/air etc. Guess what? The countries in the game still closed down airports and handed out gas masks for a disease that had no visible symptoms what-so-ever. Just to spite them I eventually added all of the symptoms possible.