billyfeatherbottom

@PlayGovernance Hello i'd love to offer feedback! for whatever reason my load save game button wont work

Prepare for Government. Governance launches now: store.steampowered.com/app/4489310/Go…

@bobbyGDlumb @PlayGovernance @JTruedeau steam community post said under 24 hours. 5 hours ago.

@PlayGovernance @JTruedeau how soon? tonight?

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…

@CdnMnrchyRspctr its normal for it to have human to human transmission if people are close enough

So I need everyone to understand that this is not a good thing.

@PlayGovernance @E_Bri55 @JTruedeau @YouChampoReds @bobbyGDlumb Yeah i fully understand! i hope steam Q&A can approve it quickly

@E_Bri55 @JTruedeau @billyfeather33 @YouChampoReds @bobbyGDlumb It's significantly easier and safer for us all to release on a proper distribution platform rather than setting our own CDN, licence activation, etc.

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.)

@PlayGovernance @E_Bri55 @JTruedeau @YouChampoReds @bobbyGDlumb Glad to hear!!

@E_Bri55 @billyfeather33 @JTruedeau @YouChampoReds @bobbyGDlumb We are having constant back and forth with QA. Some games take less time than others but everyone involved is working hard to fix this asap.

@E_Bri55 @JTruedeau @YouChampoReds @bobbyGDlumb @PlayGovernance im curious as to how long epic takes to approve stuff.

@JTruedeau @billyfeather33 @YouChampoReds @bobbyGDlumb @PlayGovernance yeah I get where your coming from - i think thats why he's holding onto a steam release in the coming days for as long as possible - so that it looks 'official' and 'professional'

@JTruedeau @E_Bri55 @YouChampoReds @bobbyGDlumb @PlayGovernance i'd bet on tommorow most likely for release. it doesnt always take 5-7 days for approval.

@E_Bri55 @billyfeather33 @YouChampoReds @bobbyGDlumb @PlayGovernance I’d suggest he use his website but I can see how some people would find it sketchy

@YouChampoReds @E_Bri55 @JTruedeau @bobbyGDlumb @PlayGovernance its gonna either be late today tommorow or sometime this week. it really depends on when the dev submitted the approval last week

@E_Bri55 @JTruedeau @billyfeather33 @bobbyGDlumb @PlayGovernance i think ive placed my bets on every day since friday, hope so!

@JTruedeau @bobbyGDlumb @E_Bri55 @PlayGovernance Dev but it depends on when steam approves the game. might be by the time he's asleep if he lives in the UK.

@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.

@bobbyGDlumb @E_Bri55 @JTruedeau @PlayGovernance Depends. still alot of the day left where Steam HQ is (aka where they actually approve games. 9-5 PST) its only 12:36 there rn

@E_Bri55 @JTruedeau @PlayGovernance feel like it’s gonna be tomorrow

@JTruedeau @PlayGovernance Yeah i think it really depends but whenever from 9-5 PST

@billyfeather33 @PlayGovernance This is based off of like 30 mins of googling too so I could be wrong, but we’ll see

@JTruedeau @PlayGovernance We'll find out soon since Steam HQ just opened 30ish minutes ago

@PlayGovernance Hopefully you get the green light today.

@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

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.

@cadwaveanalysis i wanna know whats going on in atlantic canada for it to become so close recently.

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

@PlayGovernance @JakeM_Carver @Levi61767241 What alternative platform are you thinking of? something like GOG?

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.

We're very happy to say that there will be Steam Workshop integration from day one in Governance. We want people to build their own beliefs, event trees and more... more to come shortly! Wishlist today: store.steampowered.com/app/4489310/Go… #ukpolitics #simgames #politics

@PlayGovernance @YouChampoReds is it still scheduled for the 28th-30th?

@YouChampoReds We're aiming for next week, hopefully as soon as possible!

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…

@PlayGovernance Thank you! whenever you can are able to show the polling stuff i asked about earlier in the week?

@billyfeather33 You will indeed! Let us know what you want to see and we will put it up.

@PlayGovernance Alright thats good then! thanks

@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.

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?