Absolute Democracy

A game based on episode 7 of the first season of The Orville and on a TikTok scary story with a similar format.

A short game where we have to live our life while exercising our right to vote — deciding whether a person lives or dies. Without the right to defense or presumption of innocence, the population will decide someone’s fate based only on a short description of what they did, and two buttons: let live or kill.

The game uses free images from Pixabay and Freepik, and the audio is CC0.

AI was used to help translate the texts and make them a little more formal. Honestly, I’m not very good at writing, and without this tool I wouldn’t have been able to finish the game on my own.

In the end, I’m not fully satisfied with the game. I don’t feel very proud of it. I wanted it to provoke the feeling that the world in the game is insane, crazy, or something like that — similar to what I felt when watching that The Orville episode — but I wasn’t able to achieve it. In my opinion, it turned out to be a bland video game with not-so-great mechanics. Still, I joined the Game Jam to finally finish a game, since I’ve been stuck in a very long project for some time, and on that part I feel accomplished.

I hope the game entertains you, and thank you very much for playing it.