Rules

Welcome to Powerball Politics.

It’s a simplified game where you manage the campaign for a political party in elections.

Pick a party of your choice: [🍇, 🌸, 🌵, 🧀, 🦋, 🎒, 🥁, 📺].
You will spawn with competing parties on screen as circles.
The red dots are voters.
They spawn randomly and dart across the screen.
If they run into your party, they have a choice to make.
Based on their interests and your campaign allocations they choose to support your party or not.
- If they choose yes - they start orbiting around you.
- If they choose no - they shoot off in a random direction and may bump into rival parties.
Each voter carries some funds with them. If they decide to support you, your party gets access to their funds.
There are 3 issues in popular discussion in each campaign. You as the campaign manager choose how the fund gets allocated between all issues.

Winning

Each round lasts 2 minutes.
At the end of each round all parties are ranked and, the better half of all the parties progress to next round, till there is 1 winning party.
Parties that advance grow larger in subsequent rounds based on the growth of their funds.
The ranking is 2-layered - funds and supporters.
- Parties which collect more funds rank above parties which lose funds.
- Within each group of parties (positive/negative funds), parties are ranked based on the supporters they win that round.
- So a party which won more supporters but lost funds will be ranked lower than a party with less supporters but gained funds.

You can intervene and change your budget allocations in the middle of the campaign. However this will cause some of your voters to drop their support for you.
Use boosts to enhance your outreach. The party gains extra speed on activating a boost.

Check the news to read about the poll issues in play this round.
The news articles give a hint about which issues are being prioritzed by the voters.