Interest Thread - Gerrymandering Game

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Interest Thread - Gerrymandering Game

#1 Post by RagingIke297 » Thu Feb 08, 2018 3:02 am

Hey there everyone, I've been working on creating a game over the past couple weeks and was wondering if I could get several of you to play test it. The game is based on politics, gerrymandering in particular.

I think it would work best with between 4 and 8 players, but I can always make it bigger or smaller based on the interest level.

It would work like Mafia where phases would be a certain time period and right now each election cycle is one week long, again open to suggestions. :D

Here is the rules I have written out so far:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t9t ... sp=sharing

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Re: Interest Thread - Gerrymandering Game

#2 Post by PRINCE WILLIAM » Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:01 am

So it is like diplomacy in USA political system. I like it, and as a non-American, I find it interesting (also inspirational). I would like to playtest it.

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Re: Interest Thread - Gerrymandering Game

#3 Post by RagingIke297 » Thu Feb 08, 2018 3:33 pm

I see it as a sort of mash up between US politics and European politics, I'm not sure how much Gerrymandering happens in Europe but I assume its less than what happens in the US. However with 4-8 players is will hardly be a 2 party system. It'll be fun to see what happens

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#4 Post by ghug » Thu Feb 08, 2018 5:23 pm

What are the parties/traits?

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#5 Post by RagingIke297 » Thu Feb 08, 2018 5:57 pm

For simplicity the traits that each voter has are just Ideology and Faith. A voter will have a number between 1 and 10 for each of those which is randomly generated when the game starts. 1 in ideology is extremely capitalist, 10 is extremely communist. 1 in faith is extremely atheist while a 10 is extremely religious.

All parties, which are what a player controls, will have scores for these traits too which is basically the platform that the party is running on. At the beginning of the game the player decides the party's traits and voters will vote for the party that best matches their own traits.

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#6 Post by RagingIke297 » Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:09 am


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#7 Post by PRINCE WILLIAM » Sat Feb 10, 2018 7:53 pm

You have put much work to it as it is obvious.

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Re: Interest Thread - Gerrymandering Game

#8 Post by RagingIke297 » Sun Feb 11, 2018 8:27 pm

Thanks PW, it took a bunch of trial and error, but once I got it I could copy the formulas for the most part

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