For Republia Times in particular, the rigid nature of a communist bureaucracy lends itself well to the game mechanics. The subject matter is something that interests me and I find it easier to construct a narrative using those building blocks. Honestly, I don’t really set out to make a social impact with my games. What motivates you to make games for social impact? We were fortunate to get in touch with independent game developer Lucas Pope, who created the game in under 48 hours at the Ludum Dare game-making competition, to find out more about what went into the creation of The Republia Times. Players start as oppressed journalists forced to publish propaganda, progress through the game’s exciting twist, and are finally forced into accepting an inevitable fate. The government holds your family hostage “as a precaution against influence,” and uses your family’s well-being as incentive to do as they say.Īs editor you decide what articles are published by dragging and dropping headlines from the News Feed onto the paper itself, fitting articles on the page like pieces of a puzzle, and playing through each new day with the goal of increasing Readership and Loyalty (to please The Great and Honorable Leader, of course, and to keep your family safe). At the start of the game you are named editor-in-chief of Republia’s most important newspaper, and are under orders from “The Great and Honorable Leader” to only publish articles representing the government and Republia in a positive light. The Republia Times is a simply designed Flash game that showcases the warped nature of media in a dictator-led society. What if there was no such thing as freedom of the press? What would you do if your family was held hostage by a man called “The Great and Honorable Leader” (a dictator who is anything but), and to keep them alive, you had to spread propaganda as widely as possible? The Republia Times emulates these scenarios - all you need to do is play to find out what happens next.
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