Prime Minister's Questions: The Game

[Victor6]

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

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

[markbilly]

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. - Victor6 beat me to it!

The game has now been featured on Rock Paper Shotgun and Indiegames.com WOOP!

[Dualnames]

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. - Victor6 beat me to it!

The game has now been featured on Rock Paper Shotgun and Indiegames.com WOOP!

Way to go! 

[sthomannch]

Hillarious

[markbilly]

Wired.co.uk and PC Gamer!

[markbilly]

New Statesman and The Guardian 

[Stfan]

Is this game also amusing for the non-British ?

[sthomannch]

Sure thing

[Takyon]

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.

[Rocco]

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?

[markbilly]

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.

[Rocco]

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

[seekwn]

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

[markbilly]

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