I actually had to look up the "Trolley Problem" as I'd never heard of it. The game makes a whole lot more sense now! I'm not real sure how to take the core concept of the problem and make it fun though as it's rather grim either way! Off the top of my head (and this is from wayyyy out in left field), what if it were more of a game show/Total Carnage thing where you have a crowd either cheering or booing you on depending on your choice and the info that was revealed after your choice? You have to keep the crowd on your side or they revolt (you lose)?
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Use Of Theme | #1 | 4.227 | 4.227 |
| Visuals | #3 | 3.818 | 3.818 |
| Audio | #4 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Fun | #5 | 3.364 | 3.364 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Nice entry! Great visual and audio. I had to think a little while for some of the choices, lol. If you have a chance, will you play my game entry and give it a rating? It would be greatly appreciated.
https://itch.io/jam/shacknews-jam-do-it-iv-shacknews/rate/504116
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Be Evil (Street Edition)I like it, well polished, good music. I guess I'm unsure why part of the description was hidden away, for kind of shock factor when you kill them? Might be more interesting to have it already revealed when making your decision to kill. This could be a fun anonymous(or not) mp game, feed wacky scenarios or traits into a random combobulator and see how others choose to kill or spare vs your own choices. Also maybe a results screen showing who you decided to kill/spare.
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(Personal) Space InvaderIn a classic "trolley problem" situation you are often incentivized to go the utilitarian route and choose what appears to benefit the most people overall. My argument is that there's just way too much unknown context to make a sound choice, and I'm showing that here by having half the info reveal only afterwards. Whether that's an argument for or against utilitarianism though I couldn't tell you ;)
Thanks so much for playing and rating it! I totally agree about the mp potential, could be very interesting to see more objective statistics.
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