You are at the nexus of the events of 2020; you will hire agents, run political ads, research topics, use hacking, and more in this turn-based political strategy game. In Electioneering, your goal is to ensure your candidate becomes the next President of the United States.

## About This Game
Overview
Electioneering is, at its core, a strategy game. The map is shrouded under a
Fog of War, and as you pierce that Fog, you’ll start to develop more specific
strategies. We don’t tell you how to run your strategy; there’s no winning
argument. Voters change; if you keep pounding things into them, there’s a
chance they’ll respond. Well, if you can overcome their starting biases,
challenging but possible!

As the Electioneer, your focus is on changing voter opinion to win votes for
the candidate you support. 2020 has been a busy year. Events such as Trump’s
Impeachment or the COVID-19 outbreak create new issues for the voters to
consider. As things unfold, you research topics within each new issue, such as
Trump’s acquittal and the first Covid-19 case in America, and make strategic
ad buys to sway voters. While you’re off spinning the issues, the candidates
don’t even know you exist. Their goal is to crush each other, just like the
actual election. They apply strategies designed to win over voters using any
method they can to win.

Your job is to learn what voters think by taking out polls, hacking the
candidates, and stealing information from their campaign! Making sure your
candidate comes out on top is not going to be easy. The landscape is changing;
electioneering mimics this new environment, asking users to choose between
hundreds of different Events, Issues, Topics, and Arguments (spin) to reshape
the conversation and even the country.

Features
* Choose your Candidate and get them elected
* Influence 51,000 virtual unique voters
* Fog of War, neither you nor the Candidates ever see the true electoral map
* Adapt your campaign to a dozen events such as Covid-19, Impeachment of Trump…
* Engage Dark Web Agents such as the Social Engineer, the Researcher, and the Hacker
* Hack the Candidates and steal their plans
* Research and choose the topics to spin in the media
* Lie to the voters with ads
* Hand-drawn Characters

Story
It’s been 4 years since you last got this phone call. It’s time. America is
choosing a new leader, and the world is watching. Some of us are doing more
than watching; we’re falsifying information, we’re spreading lies. We’re
Electioneering. This time it’s Trump and Biden; it’s your job to use all the
resources at your disposal to make sure that your candidate wins. Can you
convince the voters to ignore what they see, ignore what they feel, and vote
your way? Can you lie, cheat, and steal this election? We’ll give you a weekly
stipend and some contacts; the rest is up to you. If you get caught, we don’t
know you. If you lose, well. These aren’t the kind of people you want to
disappoint.

Electioneering