White House Crisis

by Death To Moochie


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An illustrated multi-stage game about controlling information to Trump, May 8, 2018
Related reviews: 15-30 minutes

This is a Twine game that features a number of people surrounding Trump, especially John Kelly, Stephen Miller, and Jared Kushner.

The game makes use of multimedia, with links to real-life articles, various illustrations, scrolling text aimations, and sounds.

The plot is fairly simple: you play as an intern thrust into the role of providing positive information for trump. Different factions try to tell you what to pass on, but you must choose between them.

The game has a few bugs listed below that should be easily fixed. Also, I felt like something was off with the links. I found myself frequently scrolling up and down to read the text after clicking a link, and had some trouble when coming back from aside-text (as everything became reset on the original page when I returned).

I was glad I played, as it was amusing. On a personal note not factored into my rating, I don't agree with its demonization of Stephen Miller as the evil behind the throne. Many people have been posited as the true evil behind the throne for some time in the Trump administration, and I think that shifts responsibility away from the President.

One bug report for the author:

(Spoiler - click to show)On the page near the end referencing constitutional crisis and WWIII:

The (link-reveal:) command should be assigned to a variable or attached to a hook

Also, the very last page seemed to have an error, as it showed a 'fire mueller' tweet as a graphic, while having a written text that said:

(Tweet text: "After hearing the words of my celestial grandchild, I have decided to rescind my order to fire Robert Mueller and will be resigning from the Presidency. I hope that once I am gone, we can begin to heal.)

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Death 2 Moochie, May 8, 2018 - Reply
Thank you for the feedback / report! I'm looking into the bugs now.

Re: Miller - we didn't actually intend him to be depicted as a 'puppetmaster' of any sort, at least no more than Kelly or Kushner - we simply wanted to depict him as having the pretense of being one. The player is ultimately the one with the influence in this story, but if we ever get a chance to edit it further maybe we can try to make this clearer.
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