Instead of writing my ideas on different sheets of paper, which I tend to mess up anyway, I’m going to use this blog to dump my ideas. Maybe this will cause some feedback in the early sketching phase. Don’t expect the most eloberated blog post here. Just lists.
Basic concept:
- Political topic
- Manage governmental decisions of a modern country at the start of uprising/revolution
- Black/Red/White colour palette
- Turn based
- Interact with the main cities of your country
- Some transparent and some important hidden statistics
- No randomization
- One round equals one week
- Different endings
- Population can flee to other cities or countries
- Python with pygame as the tools to make the prototype
- Self recorded music (Punk Rock or similar)
Stuff to do in game and consequences:
- Reinforce police in city; threshold to cause denial and uprising
- Withdraw police; threshold depending on different statistics if approval will rise or uprising spreads
- Declare state of emergency in city; may increase violence in uprising in other cities – prevents population from fleeing the city – massive impact on denial/approval
- Close the borders; prevents population from fleeing your country
- Talk to protesters; may calm population down / raise approval – politicians could be attacked or even taken hostage
These are the basic ideas so far. Feel free to add some suggestions in the comments.