Democracy 2 Released
→ GameTrove | Dec 10th 2007 | 6:54am PST

Positech games have just released Democracy 2 - the sequel to their award winning downloadable strategy game. Democracy 2 is a turn-based game which puts you in the role of President (or Prime-minister) of a configurable 'virtual country'. Your task is to hang on to power as long as possible, by ensuring enough of the electorate are happy and motivated to vote for you at the end of each term.
Democracy 2 is the most sophisticated political simulation game ever made, built upon a custom neural-network developed by game designer, and ex-lionhead AI expert Cliff Harris. The game features a huge array of different policies, laws, events and situations and gives the player complete freedom to run the country the way they want. Every voter in the game is a sophisticated AI entity that weighs the opinions of different influencing groups, their own cynicism, and their party loyalties before deciding how to cast their vote.
This new version of the game introduces individual cabinet ministers too, each with their own opinions, experience and loyalty. Democracy 2 is available to buy direct from the developer at www.positech.co.uk. There is a free downloadable demo available here:
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2
And screenshots of the game are here:
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/images/screenshot1.jpg
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/images/screenshot2.jpg
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/images/screenshot3.jpg
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/images/screenshot4.jpg
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/images/screenshot6.jpg
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/images/screenshot8.jpg
Positech Games is basically one guy (Cliff Harris), a long-standing UK indie game developer, responsible for Democracy, Kudos, Rock Legend, and many more
games. Cliff really is the last of the bedroom coders, as he is programming right now in his bedroom.
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