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Man alive, this sounds amazing. Downloading now. :D

It looks cool, I think I am going to download it. I like the title, it has my 3 favorite later's.

PRIME MINISTER’S QUESTIONS: THE GAME

Brilliant!  I can't wait to try this tonight!

My hat goes off to you, Markbilly. I've been trying to think of a way to make a PMQ/Prime Minister's Questions joke for weeks now...

Lookin' good! Must try it later.

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Also that looks amazing!! :D

Quote from: Dualnames on Mon 25/07/2011 19:19:30
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Is that a good kind of WTF or a bad kind of WTF, Mr. Names?

That's my kind of game! Graphx are gorgeous too. Downloading, but I won't play it before next WE.

Good job Mark

Excellent.

I can see an extended spinoff where you work your way up the political chain BS-ing and swearing your way up the party ladder (in a Thick Of It like manner), before hilariously trying to spin your way out of a major f-up using very little information whatsoever. And a very careful selection of words...

I enjoyed this very much.  Short and sweet.

(Salivates over a Canadian version, pre-majority-government)

Quote from: KodiakBehr on Mon 25/07/2011 23:28:40
(Salivates over a Canadian version, pre-majority-government)

That would take an incalculable amount of research! :P

Thanks for all the great comments, everyone!

Quirky, but brilliant.

If the BBC don't give you (and AGS) some column inches for this, I demand my license fee back.

This is awesome.
Some of the speech samples cut off a bit abruptly, and the question and answer feel odd in total silence, but that's hard to fix without either Banjo-Kazooie style samples or full voice support (!).
I look forward to playing this further later tonight!

Haha, lovely. I played this twice.  First time I failed miserable.  Second time I kicked ass.... Although you should be able to choose your party... I may have won, but I won as David Cameron, which didn't really feel like a win, haha at all.  :-\

This is the best game I've played in a long time.

Very original, I enjoyed it!

I agree it would be great if this was incorporated into a larger game, some kind of PM simulation perhaps where going to PMQ's was a part of maintaining your reputation in office. Cameroon Tycoon..

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Quote from: Dualnames on Mon 25/07/2011 19:19:30
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Is that a good kind of WTF or a bad kind of WTF, Mr. Names?

It's a very good kind of wtf!:-)

YAY, thanks for all the nice feedback! :)

@Stupot: I posted this somewhere else to address the "playing as the enemy problem" and the choosing sides issue:

QuoteFirstly, having Dave as the protagonist was the most sensible and obvious choice from a gameplay perspective and that has to come first.

Secondly, having the player choose questions would be pretty difficult, because then there's no game. You have to be faced with a choice and then try to make the right one for this type of game to work. Having the player's "turn" first makes no sense, unfortunately.

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@Dualnames: PHEW!

 Very interesting and fun, an awesome little gem. It's nice to see a bit of satire, though I was expecting more cutting stuff, I think. THe sound clips and the graphics and all the little detais are amazing.  I agree with previous posters that it'd make a great sub-game in a longer game - have you ever played Floor 13? It's a nastily fun, incredibly dark and cynical management type game set in a nightmare underbelly of British politics.

http://www.abandonia.com/games/140/Floor13.htm

PMQ could fit nicely as a short sub section of a game like that, and it's a concept that'd be nice to see updated.

One question, could you explain the Flashman attack? Is it a reference I'm missing or are we talking Harry Paget Flashman here? :)

Yep, it's Flashman from Tom Brown's schooldays.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13363120

Thanks for the kind words, Creed Malay!

The "Flashman" reference probably gives away my political leaning, as it's one of the unflattering labels that have been given to David Cameron. Go here for explanation of sorts (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13363120). - Victor6 beat me to it!

The game has now been featured on Rock Paper Shotgun (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/26/right-honourable-prime-ministers-questions/) and Indiegames.com (http://indiegames.com/2011/07/freeware_game_pick_prime_minis.html) WOOP! :D

Quote from: markbilly on Tue 26/07/2011 21:00:51
Thanks for the kind words, Creed Malay!

The "Flashman" reference probably gives away my political leaning, as it's one of the unflattering labels that have been given to David Cameron. Go here for explanation of sorts (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13363120). - Victor6 beat me to it!

The game has now been featured on Rock Paper Shotgun (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/26/right-honourable-prime-ministers-questions/) and Indiegames.com (http://indiegames.com/2011/07/freeware_game_pick_prime_minis.html) WOOP! :D

Way to go!  :D :D

Hillarious

Wired.co.uk (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-07/27/pmqs-game) and PC Gamer! (http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/07/29/this-weeks-best-free-pc-games-10/)

New Statesman (http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/helen-lewis-hasteley/2011/08/prime-minister-game-pmqs-based) and The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/01/prime-ministers-questions-computer-game)  ;D

Is this game also amusing for the non-British ?

Sure thing

I wrote an article about PMQ's for the Independent. I focused on AGS and the gameplay more than others have too.

You can read it here. (http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/08/08/prime-minister%E2%80%99s-questions-%E2%80%93-the-game/)

i like the game very much, but i'm wondering
:o so much press, how does it come?

Did you have contacted them, or was it running by itself?

I contacted Rock Paper Shotgun but the rest happened on its own. Having a presence on Twitter helped an awful lot.

The game is about politics as well, which puts it in a unique position with a MUCH larger potential audience.

thx, yes the potential is enormous,
it would fit very good in a larger game as sequence for instance.

Hi Mark.

I hope you can help me. Firstly I live in New Zealand but I am British Born and so have an interest in events in the UK.

I downloaded your game “Prime Minister’s Questions”. However I have a problem installing it.

Firstly I have a HP netbook running Windows 7 Starter with Service Pack 1.

I downloaded the file “pmqs.zip” from one of the download sites.

Then I unzipped the file to reveal the “Compiled” folder.
Clicking on the folder showed the following 3 Files.

Acsetup.cfg
Pmqs.exe
Winsetup.exe

The very first time I clicked on the pmqs.exe file and the game started.

It is very different game to what I thought but I found no way of exiting out of the program from within the program.  I could not see any help file anywhere.

I was just “testing” the game to see how it works and was only exiting to do other things. Once things are sorted out I intend to give it a real go.

So in the end I used the CNTL ALT Delete sequence to exit out and found that my screen went strange and locked up. I had to turn my computer off to fix it.

Then I talked to a friend who suggested I probably should have installed the winsetup.exe first and that it might have shown other features of the game that were not visible. However when I tried this I got this error message” Error: Unable to launch pmqs.exe. Make sure that the file is in the same directory as this setup program”
But the pmqs and winsetup files  are both in the same folder, so why am I getting this error message.

Mark, can you please help me to install and run this game?

Thank you.

Btw it appears to be a very impressive game. Well done Mark.

Alistair

Hi Alistair,

I can think of no immediate issue for the gake on your set up.

What's best to di us to delete all the files, and doebload the game again. You should then unzipped the game and run PMQs.exe

There is no need to do anything else. Also, there is no "quit" built into the gake, it is deliberately set up in a window so you can just use the "x" at the top of the window.

Hope this helps,

Mark