Vote Now!

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Vote Now! is the  SGDA Junior Swiss Game Award 2022 winner
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Vote Now! is a minimalist strategy game. The premise of the game is that you play as a political party aiming to pass a bill in Switzerland by propagandizing to influence voters' opinions. The game plays kind of like Reigns, as in you have a choice of 2 actions that you can pick from at a time. The game works using 3 main variables:

• Money. This determines if you can buy campaign materials. It can be earned by asking for donations from voters or sponsors.
• Votes. This determines how much in your favor the vote is going. From 0 (no voting intentions in your favor) to 100 (all voting intentions to your favor), it will be influenced by purchasing add-space, distributing flyers and organizing events.
• Optics. This determines if your party's image is in good shape or not. It is a modifier to the votes you get. This means that if you have 1.1 optics, it will add 1.1x the amount of votes you would normally get.

I own all of the visual and audio assets. All visuals were made using Aseprite. All audio was made using BeepBox.

SOURCES :

Voting Data:

• Chronological Repertoire of Votations on the Swiss Confederation's website
• SwissVotes

Historical Context & Commentary

• Le Temps' archives
• Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
• History of Switzerland's Social Security

Posters:

• Against the Swiss Railways' Buyout
• For the Sickness and Accident Insurance Bill
• For the Elderly, Invalids and Veterans Insurance Bill
• For the Crisis Initiative
• For Romansch as a National Language
• For the Unfair Competition Bill
• For the Civil Protection Militia
• For Women's Suffrage
• For the Removal of Mandatory Military Service
• For the Prohibition of New Nuclear Power Plants' Construction
• For the Adhesion to the UN
• For the Restriction in Constructing New Secondary Residences
• For the Law Against Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
• For Marriage and Adoption For All
• Against the Reform of the Elderly's Insurance

Fonts (free to use with attribution):

• Old Newspaper Types
• Kitchen Sink

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Vote Now! is a game prototyped in the context of a university programming class called "2D Video Games", supervised by Isaac Pante at the University of Lausanne. In this course, we learned to use KaboomJS, which I am using for this project. It was then further developped outside of this class.