University Admin Simulator 2025

Developed over a week in Unity3D 2021.3.16f1, using the Advanced People Pack by Alex Lenk, the Dialogue System for Unity by Pixel Crushers, and a special appearance of a character by Akishaqs'. Sounds generated with jsfxr, and some dialogue made out of samples generated with Claude, using the following prompt from some of my planning sketches:

I'm creating a short game inspired by the style of the mobile game Reigns, but the premise is that you are a corrupt university administrator. My intention is to critique how universities have responded to students protesting genocide over the past two years. Like the Reigns series of games, the player is responsible for balancing a set of parameters -- in this case, Prestige, Funding, Research, and possibly Education. Based on their choices as they interact with a series of prompts, players will change values of these parameters, and lose if any one of them is too high, or too low. So far, I have created the following characters that the player, as a university administrator, will interact with:

• An Executive Assistant, who is your "yes man".
• A Trustee, who can provide Funding and is mainly concerned with the reputation (i.e., Prestige) of the university.
• A CEO, who is an alum and can give Funding, while mainly interested in Research and is willing to sacrifice Education for it.
• A Politician, who can provide Funding and influence Prestige at the cost of Education.
• A Student, who represents the protestors, and a moral conscience.
• A Professor, who will provide Education and Research in exchange for Funding.
• A Journalist, who can influence Prestige based on player decisions.
• Campus Security, who are your muscle.

Some examples of interactions are as follows:

CEO: "I'd love to come give a talk about how my career in surveillance technologies began in a dorm room right here on campus!" 
- Option 1: "We'd love to support your research through a tax deductible donation to our research labs!" Increases Research and Funding.
- Option 2: "Let's host a panel with you and all your friends, and stream it on our website!" Increases Prestige.

Professor: "The Department of History stands in solidarity with students who have spoken up about the University's complicity in the prison industrial complex."
- Option 1: "No more funding for you, then!" Increases Funding, decreases Education.
- Option 2: "Oh, but wouldn't you like a new office?" Decreases Funding.

I need help coming up with more of such scenarios using the other characters. Ideally, I would have a pool of 30-50 conversations that I can draw from during each playthrough.

The eventual script has diverged in some aspects through my edits, and I plan on including more interactions based on the wealth of references we unfortunately have access to by the day. I'd like to add more music and sound, continue inserting a bit of irony, and smooth out some of the storytelling as I receive feedback.

At the end of the day, I would really like this to be a giant f- you to the administrators, and a celebration of the students, whose bravery and conviction I find so inspiring.