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A jam submission

Department of Historical AccuracyView game page

Welcome to your first day at the department! Your work ensures the integrity and accuracy of this nation's history.
Submitted by cwlsmith — 1 day, 13 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#2993.5253.525
Visuals#5823.5003.500
Theme#7233.0753.075
Overall#9512.8752.875
Enjoyment#12352.5002.500
Audio#12382.3502.350
Gameplay#12902.3002.300

Ranked from 40 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does the game fit the theme?
This game is about changing history as it fits the narrative of a fascist, authoritarian regime. Surely...nothing can go wrong, right?

What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
I used some Windows GUI elements from itch.io that I adjusted colors of, some royalty-free icons, and found open-source sounds to use for the small amount of SFX.

How many people worked on the game?
1

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Submitted

A nice start, looking forward for the future updates!

Submitted

Disturbing. Brilliant.

Submitted

Hey, I pressed ctrl+alt+del and rebooted my system, and I indeed lost all my unsaved data!
Jokes aside, that's a very serious and important topic for a game. I hope you would continue developing it further, maybe bringing in other things authoritarian governments do: misrepresenting things from foreign news resources or pulling it out of context, building lists of unwanted people and marking them as foreign agents, poisoning and imprisoning politically active protest-inclined citizens, revising constitution and extending presidential terms and other such things.

Submitted

Cool idea. Sadly, the text was so small on my MacBook that I could barely read it.

Submitted

Pretty nice take on the theme, having to change the falsified events our enemies to the actual events that our great goverment has done for everyone. For freedom, democracy! Main nitpitck is that I can't seem to be able to move the task I have to do somewhere else because it overlaps with the text I have to edit, and there doesn't seem to be a way to tell how good or bad I performed, but besides that, the game is pretty neat.

Submitted

Very interesting idea and grafics, however I wasnt able to submit the changes I made to the documents :/

Submitted

Really great idea, and I love the subtle world-building. Though it wasn't clear to be if I could fail at the tasks or not, and I'd love to have to ability to explore elsewhere on the PC for more story pieces.

I also found that the Task Details box overlapped the other bits of text:

Submitted

Nice concept! Interesting how you implemented checking the editted stories.

Submitted

Cool concept!

Submitted

I like it! Reminds me of 1984!

Submitted (1 edit)

Seems like an interesting start to a game, but there doesnt seem to be any consequences for not completing the task at all. There doesn't  seem to be a reason/metric for the success/failure of the gameplay which would help it out a lot. Great idea that is particularly relevant and can be taken much furtherer with a little more work!

Submitted

While I wasnt able to progress much the concept is pretty cool and quite appropriate for our times

Submitted

I couldn't really get anywhere... never was able to submit a revised report.  Very fun concept that the government would most certainly indeed approve of!

Submitted (5 edits)

I started doing things like "unemployment has increased from 9% to 15% over the last 5 years" against what it said I  should do and it didn't get angry at me...

What I would do if I were given the game: the game is already pretty well polished and the aesthetic works well, all it could use in that department is a screenwide CRT shader which can be yoinked from the internet.  For gameplay and enjoyment (where it suffered the most), adding something to make the game feel like a game rather than Text Editor Simulator Premium Edition: a task. Currently there is no incentive to play the game. Some kind of timer/quota with some rewards in story for going through it would be enough.

What I liked: the game was very unique and scored highly in the innovation department as the concept of being the "bad guy" is  surprisingly rare and I felt even a tad guilty playing it.

(The feedback is a little harsh, but it's meant as tough love)

This has 5 edits becuase Itch.io's textboxes are buggy

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Judging by other people's comments it seems like there might've been something I missed about your game, but I still really enjoyed making the documents historically accurate. And I really mean it, like, I spent about 10 minutes just rewritting the documents and had a blast doing it.

Submitted(+1)

I could never press on "submit report", or get the help pop-up to load.
Also, clicking "cancel" on the log-in page froze the game for me, was that intended? ^^'

Submitted

It is an interesting concept ! The global windows 92 look and audio works well, however, I didn't see any feedback on what was happening when modifying an article, I'm not sure what I wrote was taken into account. Developing a game solo is hard, so congrats on managing to put that together in a week !  

Submitted

This game was fun! I enjoyed re-writing historical events, but I must say I'm a bit dissapointed that my writing never ended up showing up anywhere. It would have been interesting to see news articles or something like that where the text you wrote shows up. Still, a very enjoyable experience. Good job!

Submitted

I wasn't able to make the game work but I think me not understanding what to do was a big part. Maybe this could use a tutorial of some kind? Or pointers to it if it exists already? Anyway congrats on finishing the game!

Developer(+1)

Hey sorry about that. I didn't have as much time as I hoped. I did quickly throw somewhat of a tutorial in at the last minute. If you select the 'Help' option from the Start Menu, it'll give you a little bit of a rundown. Thanks for checking it out!

Submitted

I did tried the button but it didn't do anything :(
Would love to give the game a try again if that's fixed :)

Developer(+1)

Yeah I tested and something is broken. :( I added a text write up to the game page for the tutorial since the Help button isn't working. 

Submitted

Intriguing but it was pretty confusing.

Developer(+1)

Hey sorry about that. I didn't have as much time as I hoped.  If you select the 'Help' option from the Start Menu, it'll give you a little bit of a rundown of how to play. Thanks for checking it out!

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