The Mayor of Monsterville

The Mayor of Monsterville: Covid Season

Created by Erik Battle (codexier.itch.io) for the "Jamming The Curve" game jam on itch.io

Congratulations!  You have been elected the Mayor of Monsterville by popular vote, but you've only got 31 days to prove yourself and lead the town to a successful Halloween.  A strange disease, Covid-19 has started infecting the citizens of Monsterville.  As you lead your town, you will see how the infection spreads and impacts your population and economy.  

How To Play (because...who has time to make tutorials?)

1. Turn on some of your favorite Halloween music, cause there is not a single note of sound in this entry.
2. Camera controls are WASD to move towards where your mouse is looking.  Yes, you can move into, under and way past where you are supposed to focus because there are no bounds defined yet.  Escape exits the game.
3. Each day follows a loop.  
   1. As the mayor you will get a daily newspaper...most of which are not populated at all!  Not very creative, these monster journalists!  Once you close the paper, the day starts. 
   2. Monsters wake up, go to work (adults) or school (children), then they mill about town during the evening and finally go back home.
   3. Your work from your desk in the lower left corner.
      1. Calendar.  It shows the current day.
      2. Clipboard.  It shows your monster population and number of sick.
      3. Mayoral Decrees.  Currently there's only 2 decrees available. Some monsters don't like to be told what to do, so some might be resistant.
      4. Business Analytics.  You have access to see the 3 businesses which are working towards the Halloween preparations.  You can buy upgrades to each business to increase efficiency, but watch the balance of your spend vs the outcome.

Design Notes:  Expect innumerable bugs and missing components.  I completely bit off way more than I could chew in the game jam, but I'm happy to submit my third game ever.  If you'd like to see a journal of how I progressed through the jam, you can follow the daily updates I made in the forum at https://itch.io/jam/jamming-the-curve/topic/974554/plan-the-mayor-of-monstervill... (at the very least you can shake your head in wonder at my chaotic process and way too ambitious plan).  I learned so much about scoping, programming and designing that no matter what, I'm super proud to enter this mess into the jam.

Credits:

Scot Manning - Math help with the model and general encouragement.
Brian J. Bonislawsky - Nightmare AOE Font (dafont.com)
Windexglow & Ryan Breaker - Camera Controller (want to move off this, but need something quick)
Richard Whitelock - Night Moonburst Skybox (AllSky Free)
Miguel Albornoz - Alien Gantz Font (dafont.com)
Manfred Klein - Old Newspaper Types font (dafont.com)
Kenny's 3d Assets (https://kenney.nl/assets) - Tree models