Political Games Forever

Campaigns Forever Help is now available here.

This new Help system allows for Scenario Designers to give feedback on parts of the Help file, right then and there as they are reading it.

Our goal is to make Campaigns Forever Help a comprehensive source for President Forever 2008 + Primaries scenario designers.

The Help file (with ability to give feedback on any page) is online, as well as a Blog which will contain posts on Campaigns Forever and notices about changes to the Help file.

Crumby and Co. returns! This fun game about office politics has been re-released.

We’ll be adding details to this page in a bit … but if you want to get a look at it, you can download the demo here:

Crumby & Co. Demo

You can get the game here:

Just a quick update. We are finishing President Forever 2008 + Primaries: Multiplayer. We’re also upgrading the primaries AI in P4E8 so that they act a little more realistically, and should be releasing an update for that soon. Once those are done, we’ll be turning our focus again to Congress Forever.

The Alberta election is today, and we have it covered with Premier Forever - Alberta. Enjoy!

Looking for an Alberta election game? Then look no further. We are about to release Premier Forever - Alberta, extending our provincial game series to another Western province. We intend to have the game released before the election on March 3rd.

The game will use the Premier Forever engine, and will feature 12, count ‘em, 12 Alberta scenarios. We’re excited about this game and the upcoming Alberta election.

The years included in this game are:

Alberta 1967, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2004, and 2008. Phew! An incredible opportunity to figure out Alberta politics, and enough to occupy the political wonk for many, many hours.

President Forever 2008 + Primaries was reviewed by Scott Colbourne of the Globe and Mail in January. Some quotes:

“Barack Obama wins the Iowa caucuses, with John Edwards in second and Hillary Clinton a distant third. He takes the New Hampshire primary in a landslide and seems destined to win the Democratic nomination and with it the presidency of the United States of America.

Yes, it’s all going according to plan in President Forever 2008 + Primaries, an election simulator for PCs, and now I unleash the big guns: click the “crusaders” button, select Oprah Winfrey, say goodbye to some valuable influence and command points and hello to a boost in the polls. […]

A great way to learn how an electoral system works.”

For the record, it is difficult to beat Clinton starting in the standard October 1st scenario (which is what Colbourne goes on to note) - which is a testament to how well Obama’s real campaign has been run. The Democratic side is really monolithic at that point, with Clinton having a large lead nationally and leading in practically every state.

GameTunnel released their top 5 computer simulation games for 2007, and our US political simulation game President Forever 2008 + Primaries made it!

“The game is brilliantly, and often dauntingly, deep, giving players full control over every aspect of the political aspirations of the current presidential hopefuls (or your own custom characters). There are few more fascinating things to watch than the US President-picking process, and President Forever does it all in a riveting manner that kept us on the campaign trail for weeks.”

A review of President Forever 2008 + Primaries (US political game) from Race42008.com. The reviewer knows what he’s talking about, and there is some nice depth to the review. Some quotes:

“Let me warn you before we begin, however: once you get this game and learn all of its intricacies, you will become the biggest nerd you know. This game will have you thinking of politics more than you already do and dreaming up strategeries to win not only the general election, but your party’s nomination to get the chance to run in the general.”

“I give this game made by TheorySpark and 80soft.com a solid 9.5 out of 10. Simply put, it is amazing in its depth and scope.”

“You will probably lose the first couple times you play it, but once you get it’s intricacies figured out you will absolutely love this game. Your friends and family will never stop calling you a nerd, and you won’t care.”

“Oh, and the game is expanding, even as I type this. Once you buy the game (for 20 bucks, for crying out loud! It would be a bargain at three times that price!), you have a button called “AutoUpdate” you can turn on or off. Turn it on and leave it on. It checks for updates of the game every time you run the program. And by updates, some of what I mean is updated scenarios… tired of playing the 2008 scenario? Try taking on Kerry as Bush in 2004. Or try winning with McCain in 2000. Or play as Perot in 1992 and become the first independent President. Oh yeah - did I mention this game was deep?”

“The name of the game for President Forever 2008 +Primaries is replay value, and there is plenty of it to go around. You will never get tired of wasting entire afternoons, weekends, and yes, maybe even workdays pursuing your quest for the Presidency with this game. Buy it now. It will be the best $20 you’ve spent in a long time.”

Check out the review!

La Repubblica, Italy’s largest daily newspaper, recently featured our political game President Forever 2008 + Primaries. It’s summary:

“without any doubt the best game on the American presidential elections, President Forever” (translated)

If you speak Italian, you can read the article here.

Think your political game theory is tops? Then test it out. Try Politico.com’s Kingmaker game, here.

Essentially, this is an election market, but you bet nothing and get a big prize if you win. It’s your chance to apply all that political game theory you learned to the 2008 primaries elections.

You need to predict the actual percentages for the candidates in the primaries. Right now, you can make political predictions for the primaries up to Michigan’s on January 15, 2008. The person with the most points by March 4 wins.

You place your predictions by moving the candidate around. Here John Edwards’ chances are being set for the Iowa caucuses. A bar on a graph represents your prediction for each candidate. If you move the candidate up higher on the graph, the bar will become narrower, indicating a riskier prediction, because it covers fewer possible percentages for that candidate’s vote results. If you move a candidate to near the very bottom of the graph, you can cover a large range but with a much diminished payout. All in all, another neat political ‘game’.

(Or you can try this game.)

Have fun!