Political Arena
Wayside Press Developer
Wayside Press Publisher
2021-10-13 Release
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
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New Years Update!Happy 2024, everyone! We just released our second beta update and are heartened by our testers excited and constructive feedback.
Our current development focus continues to be on implementing legislative mechanics and interfaces. Specifically, were fine-tuning the budget process, which will inform the rest of our legislative architecture the federal budget process is the one bit of legislating that Congress must undertake in any given year (in theory). The federal budget may not spring to mind when you think of politics more exciting bits, but at the ground level -- where Political Arena lives -- its rife with drama. It incorporates many of Political Arenas most exciting and immersive features and mechanics: issues and policy, special interests, the media, negotiations, personalities and their impact on AI behavior, and more.

On that note, were altering our feature roadmap. We had originally planned for our first Early Access release to be a mile long and an inch deep by featuring a little bit of everything that is, lightly simulated campaigning and legislating. Instead, weve decided to have early versions focus solely on legislating. Our reasoning is twofold:
1. The legislative process hasnt been thoroughly developed in video games, and we think its important to let that part cook for longer so we can get more player feedback.
2. Ultimately, politics boils down to legislating and policy. Special interests typically dont choose their agenda based on politicians, they choose their politicians based on agendas. This is also how Political Arenas underlying architecture is structured, so by building out legislative mechanics first, well be able to more seamlessly and quickly produce and scale everything else.
More soon!
[ 2024-01-23 23:04:38 CET ] [ Original post ] POLITICAL ARENA is a one-of-a-kind strategy/sim about American power. Seek fame or infamy in a fully simulated political world, complete with high stakes campaign strategizing, backroom deals, scandals, special interests, and the press. Be the politician of your dreams (or nightmares).
Run a top-notch campaign by leveraging Political Arena’s real world data. Learn what issues drive your constituents to the ballot box, scrutinize the latest polls, and analyze the unique demographics of every congressional district.
Master the art of negotiation and become a Washington power broker. Navigate D.C.’s maze of special interests by analyzing the strengths, weaknesses and ambitions of your friends and enemies … even hold unfavorable information as leverage to gain concessions. Single out powerful allies -- the legislative leaders, the rising stars, the kingmakers -- and do everything you can to get on their good side.
Play the news cycle and try not to let it play you. Strategically time your actions to generate the most (or least) attention from the press.Announce your campaign, introduce legislation, and time campaign events when the media is least distracted -- or publicize compromising information when the public has its eyes elsewhere. Friday is a great time to announce that pesky IRS investigation into your spouse's finances.
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