billyfeatherbottom

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billyfeatherbottom

billyfeatherbottom

@billyfeather33

Katılım Ağustos 2023
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Governance Game
Governance Game@PlayGovernance·
How strong is your majority? Governance's built-in data visualisation tools offer you the ability of seeing just who's voting for you and where, and who you need to appeal to flip wards and keep your seat come the next election. Wishlist on Steam today: store.steampowered.com/app/4489310/Go…
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Governance Game
Governance Game@PlayGovernance·
We've had a few questions about why we're using fictional political parties in the game version of Governance despite the realist focus. The answer is more complicated than you think. Parties don't really sue people for defamation. However, people can - and they do! There is always the chance with a random common name generator that it lands - unintentionally of course - on a name taken up by someone in politics. By putting that person in a real life party, we easily risk identifying them and creating actionable libel. It is *not* a copyright infringement as some have claimed - it is a safeguard against creating fake information. It is simply avoiding a situation where defamation could occur - one of the fundamentals of media law. (Following some feedback, we have removed 'Democrat' as a random option for the party of the centre-left.)
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Captain Truedeau
Captain Truedeau@JTruedeau·
@billyfeather33 @bobbyGDlumb @E_Bri55 @PlayGovernance Yeah, and I have no clue about this, but does the dev need to give final say about if the game goes on sale or does steam do it automatically? If it’s the dev that says so then it might be tomorrow. If not then today we should probably see something.
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billyfeatherbottom@billyfeather33·
@PlayGovernance @JTruedeau question but does that mean mac will be playable on steam sometime later once you get it approved with apple? and do you think this game will end up working with crossover
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Governance Game
Governance Game@PlayGovernance·
This is something we really want to sort as we're developing it entirely on Macs. The Mac app approval process is another thing entirely as Apple takes security understandably very seriously. It's something we want to offer sooner rather than later but right now we're focusing on getting the Windows app out first. If we're support macOS, we'd also look at doing an iPad release too.
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BoredCanadianPolling
BoredCanadianPolling@cadwaveanalysis·
New Léger poll shows a LPC +11 lead 🔴 LPC - 48% (-) 🔵 CPC - 37% (+3) 🟠 NDP - 6% (-) 🔷 BQC - 6% (-1) 🟢 GPC - 2% (-1) Conservatives get a bump and the Ontario lead goes from 🔴 LPC +20 to 🔴 LPC +11
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Governance Game
Governance Game@PlayGovernance·
It’s not up to us, it’s up to the platform. Which so far has taken way longer than we planned for. We had the April 24th in diary from January, so not being able to meet that has been deeply disappointing. Once again we are weighing up another platform to get Governance into people’s hands sooner.
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Governance Game
Governance Game@PlayGovernance·
When you start a new game of Governance, you can get an immediate insight into what Britain's constituencies are like... the whole game is powered by data like this, giving the ability to craft policies that will change the lives of your voters for the better... or not. Wishlist now: store.steampowered.com/app/4489310/Go…
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billyfeatherbottom
billyfeatherbottom@billyfeather33·
@PlayGovernance Thank you! whenever you can are able to show the polling stuff i asked about earlier in the week?
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Governance Game@PlayGovernance·
@billyfeather33 So, the game simulation could be infinite in theory, but in Early Access it can reliably run for about 25-30 years before starting to eat up too much resources. The CLI version I built in testing safely ran for almost 300 years without incident.
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Governance Game
Governance Game@PlayGovernance·
The Governance simulation for UK politics by default starts at 2024 for gamers, but we’re looking at adding support for a 2026 start too. What periods of British history would you want to play through?
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