Imperio

You are the founding leader of a village. Your goal: to ensure the best choices to expand your village from a demographic, economic, medico-social and influence point of view.

Take your destiny in hand: you will make the choices that will lead your village to its glory, ruin or expansion. It will be necessary to be pragmatic, calculating and fine strategist. Indeed, the decisions you make will have a consequence on your future: doors will open or close according to your choices. These decisions will have positive and negative consequences on the four different gauges. At the end of a defined number of events, the four gauges will be summed up. The higher the result, the higher the final score. Attention: if during your governance, one of the gauges falls to 0, you will be removed and overthrown (game over).

The choices in this game represent shocks represented in the ISLM model. The player, in making the choices, embodies a government represented by the ruler. Being absolute in nature, the decision directly affects the city and its subjects. This allows to magnify the line and to make understand very current themes (inflation, unemployment, happiness, wealth...) and decisions taken by governments or financial institutions. Concerning the incorporation, it is the choices that influence the gauges according to this logic: Wealth is represented by savings, Population according to Solow, Happiness is represented by consumption/unemployment, Power is the GDP. Once the choice is made, a consequence mixing narrative and theory explains what happens and what mechanism has been used to explain this consequence.

Credits : 

Backgrounds : https://maxmeents.itch.io/228-free-medieval-town-backgrounds & https://lornn.itch.io/fantasy-ice-and-snow-backgrounds 

Tips/credit button :https://zeillearnings.itch.io/stats-ui 

Characters: https://craftpix.net/freebies/assassin-mage-viking-free-pixel-art-game-heroes/?a... 

Stat bar : https://gamedeveloperstudio.itch.io/meters-and-levels 

Game made by : Tristan Broccard, Anthony Dawoud, Antoine Hinary & Camille Challier