Campaign Story is a casual, election game from new studio 519 Games. In this campaign sim for Facebook, players decide to run as a Liberal, Conservative, or Moderate, and start hiring a staff and running a political campaign. Starting out by running for mayor, players win elections and earn money to be spent on staff, upgrades, strategy, and finally winning the whole country. As the game progresses, player-candidates are presented with choices along the campaign trail, deciding whether to run a clean campaign or pursue victory at all costs. With election night rushing towards us, and endless news and editorials predicting the outcome, there are interesting real-world applications to Campaign Story’s player analytics. Seeing how casual gamers interact with this Facebook game revealings interesting stats about how players are running their campaigns.
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