Politicalpong

This is another social experiment. In this simple game of Ponk, you can play against other people and you pick your side within the game. Each side represents a political party, an ideology, or anything you wish. One of the difficulty in a multiplayer indie game is to get people to play. Oviously, if you're playing by yourself in a multiplayer game, it's NO FUN! (I wrote an article about the problem with indie multiplayer games: http://fireside.gamejolt.com/post/break-the-curse-of-making-multiplayer-games-rj6rfe85).

I figured, perhaps even if gamers have no interest in playing pong, at least they'll be infuriated by seeing their political party being beaten down by the opposition, and will at least try to even the score, or they can even leave the window open and let the game play itself. (by leaving your paddle on one side, you slightly improve the chance of that side winning even if you don't play!)

Code available on Github. Just click the github icon on the top left:
http://jacklehamster.github.io/firebase/mmoponk/

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