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Controls:
Hold LMB to aim, RMB activates the Unconventional Weapon.
Gamepads should also work! (depending on your browser). Aim with the analog sticks, try what the buttons do.
The +/- keys on your keyboard increase/decrease speed and the number of enemies spawned, feel free to cheat.
Best played in Chrome-based and WebGL-enabled browsers. Seriously, don't even attempt to play this in Safari, it will look like ass and the audio probably won't work properly. Don't be a Safari.
Description:
"Dear Chancellor is like, a totally highbrow critique of late capitalism. You wouldn't understand."
Made with Construct 2 in a couple of hours. This was somewhat of a last-minute project as I had other obligations and I lost like half a day of work to a system freeze. Because I didn't do an initial save of the project then, C2's autosave function didn't do its job. So yeah, fun times. I feel like I could have done a lot more with this idea, but there you go. Might do a post-jam version, I dunno. We'll see.
Credits:
Music CC-BY-SA by Jake Cataford
https://soundcloud.com/jakecataford/sets/game-jam-tracks
Laser Sound and Mega Horn from freesound.org
http://freesound.org/people/ksthultz15/sounds/232599/
http://freesound.org/people/Sarithule/sounds/245883/
Explosion Sprites from Adam Atomic's Abandonauts Set
http://adamatomic.com/abandonauts/
Amazing Coin Sprites by Clint Bellanger under CC-BY-SA
http://opengameart.org/content/animated-coins
Picture of Merkel wearing 3D glasses CC-BY-SA by Armin Kübelbeck
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angela_Merkel_10.jpg
Picture of Merkel's Hands CC-BY-SA by Armin Linnartz
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angela_Merkel,_Juli_2010.jpg
Menu screen gif from some movie via google image search, sue me.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 69% |
| #7 | Humor(Jam) | 4.35 |
| #172 | Mood(Jam) | 3.56 |
| #176 | Fun(Jam) | 3.58 |
| #546 | Overall(Jam) | 3.18 |
| #577 | Theme(Jam) | 3.28 |
Comments
Mhahahahahaha this was my first real, deep belly laugh of day. Thank you!
Damnit now I really wish you hadn't lost half a day of work on this. Superbly done, channeling Sos in a big way :)
Is this about Quantitative Easing policies in Europe or something?
It's more a toy, but the juice is OFF THE CHARTS. Really good :)
REALLY want to rate the music :)
I have *no* idea what just happened, but I think I liked it :O
Be sure to right-click, everyone!
For those that don't get the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkel-Raute
I liked it, the feeling was good, but I don't understand what happened
5/5, because why not
Oh wow, that's some deep political commentary, and indeed, I don't get it :) I shoot money, but then more money appears and I am increasing an existing debt. Awesome, the special move is also quite cool. Nice animations and overall feel to the whole thing.
This is obviously more of a toy than anything else, but the visuals and effects are top notch ! Good job, keep working on this :D
i had a big laugh at the first picture and the game gave me a new one xD very cool ^^
I find your critique of the capitalistic system a bit abstract. A few pictures of Greek politicians with a background music generated by high-frequency trading automata would have made it more powerful, I think ;)
Very fun/interesting game for something only made in a few hours! I'm assuming you can't actually die/lose right? Keep adding to this and hope your saves don't eat themselves in the meantime.
Hahahahahahahaha, that just happened. Sorry you lost your work, this was magnificent given your time frame!
I love the punk style graphics design. I don't really get the political reference, but I love that there is one!
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Love it!!!
But the rating widget doesn't appear?