Particracy is all about simulating modern national and global politics, turning all things political into an interesting and challenging game. To that end, it will feature considerable diversity of systems of government, so that players will more easily identify with their (ultimately fictitious) nations and its neighbors. The real world is obviously the main source of inspiration for political structures and systems that can find their way into game features, but the balance with gameplay and technical constraints has to be maintained. In this article, you’ll get some insight into the political systems that will make it into the game.
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Building your Party’s Team
In Particracy, your party’s identity won’t just be a number in your country’s parliament. You’ll be able to actively construct your party’s campaign profile, and build your team of politicians. Your party’s politicians will have a name, personal traits to specify their strengths and weaknesses, and will grow old and retire at some point. You’ll be able to track their progress through the legislative and executive careers as you appoint them to high office or run them in elections. …
What this game is about
I’ve written a small article on this blog summarizing the most important features of the game.
You can find it here: http://blog.particracy.com/about-the-game
It will be updated as time goes by, or as I write new blog posts about specific subjects. For instance, the article links to the post about world geometry in the appropriate section.
Worlds and their geography
An important way to make an imaginary world believable, is to present its geography with maps. The context of the game — national and international politics — demands believable geometry and necessitates good looking maps. In this article, I will explain a little more on how the underlying geometry of a Particracy world map is created. This article gets a little technical in the second half, so don’t say you weren’t warned.
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Welcome to the Particracy Dev Blog!
Welcome to the Particracy Blog!
Particracy is the title of an online strategy game I’m building. It’s a (geo)political simulation game, where players act out the role of political parties in a fictional game world. Parties gain seats in elections and vote on bills, thus defining their ideological stance. Coalitions can be formed to run governments, and policy can be enacted to change the course of nations.
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