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ABOUT
Brainrot Politics is a one-person games studio in London. It makes short, free, satirical browser games about politics that has stopped behaving like politics and started behaving like light entertainment.
THE IDEA
Political comedy in Britain has a particular flavour. It is not really about power, or at least not directly. It is about the gap between how serious everyone is pretending to be and how obviously daft the whole thing has become. A man in a rosette explaining that the tide has been warned. A leisure centre hustings with a broken neon sign. A manifesto pledge about a hand dryer that is, on reflection, the most achievable promise anyone has made all year.
These games try to catch that feeling and make it playable. Not a quiz that tests whether you read the news, and definitely not a lecture. A proper little game, with a scoreboard, a crowd and a reason to press start again, that happens to be about something absurd that genuinely happened.
HOW THE GAMES GET MADE
In the evenings, mostly. Everything is built in-house: the code, the artwork, the sound effects and the music. Clacton Decides! has a soundtrack of detuned fairground organ waltzes and a crowd of synthesised voices who cheer, groan, jeer and occasionally laugh at you, all generated from scratch rather than pulled off a library shelf. That is why the games sound like they were made by one person with strong opinions about seaside melancholy, which is exactly what happened.
Games ship when they are fun, not when they are finished, and then they keep getting better. Games about live news events also get updated while the story is still running, so a game about an election in progress is worth coming back to before polling day.
THE OTHER SITE
There is a sister arcade for the American news cycle, Make America Game Again, which handles cage fights on the White House lawn and similar. British and international material lives here instead, because the two comedy traditions really do not mix. One of them ends with an eagle. This one ends with a man being handed a certificate in a leisure centre at three in the morning.
GET IN TOUCH
Bug reports, ideas for games, and news stories too ridiculous to ignore are all welcome. Write to psgintegrations@gmail.com and it will be read, eventually, by the one person who runs this.