The game began as a pilot to test if game mechanics related with news edition could be interesting. I have this idea about show how the media manipulates and changes the information to make us believe in the things they want to.
Finally, after thinking it a lot, I came with this idea to create a newspaper in the United States during the 30s. At that time they suffered one of the worst economic crisis in their history, It brought a lot of problems: unemployment, depression, crime and hungry. That was the time of gangsters and famous bandits. As I see it is something like the things happened in my country in the 80s.
The intention of this game is clear. Sometimes we judge the journalist because we think they are hiding things but we don’t know that there are forces that pressure them. The question here is, What would we do if we were in his place?
That’s the role the player must play in the skin of Benjamin Brown The Democracy Times’s editor.
By now the game is a prototype of something more complex, but as I perceive a good reception from players (in gamejolt’s comments) I decided to put more effort and time on this game.
Right now I’m getting as many feedback as possible. If you have any comment or issue with the game please let me know commenting it here.
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