Mfarhanonline Social Media News: Ron Paul may not be the most avid gamer — but the leading libertarian certainly wouldn’t want to stop you playing his character in an upcoming videogame from Texas-based programmer Daniel Williams. “ Ron Paul: The Road to REVOLution ” is a side-scrolling adventure game that echoes console classics of days gone by. Players take control of Dr. Paul as he sprints across the U.S., collecting coins (made of gold, of course) and delegates in a race for the White House . The browser-based game has one level for each of the 50 states, and 13 boss fights — one for each branch of the Federal Reserve. Once released, it’ll be free to play. Williams, the game’s designer, has been selling Paul-themed merchandise for about a year. He’s a freelance programmer and entrepreneur who makes video games in his spare time. One day he got the idea to combine his coding skills, love of video games and Paul appreciation — and the game was born. Williams turned to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to raise the funds for the project. 163 people have pledged more than $8,400, easily topping the original $5,000 goal. “I did the Kickstarter campaign as an experiment,” says Williams. “I was nervous about it. I wasn’t sure how Ron Paul fans would take it. I was hoping it was something people would get excited about it and help me make it as good as it can be.” Williams says the Ron Paul community has given him overwhelming support, even though he didn’t have any kind of traditional advertising campaign. Pure word-of-mouth, social media attention and media coverage has been contributing to the game’s funding success. Paul’s campaign hasn’t yet commented on the game, but Williams says it would be “awesome” if that happened. The Kickstarter cam! paign en ds on May 1, and the game will be released soon afterwards. Until then, Williams is adding some spit and polish to ready the game for launch day. Eventually, he might port it to mobile platforms. Williams’ next move? “I do plan to continue making games,” he says. “I’ve got some ideas for other liberty-oriented games. I’d love to do this full-time.” Check out the above footage with new features, exclusive to Mfarhanonline . Then tell us in the comments what you think of Williams’ game. Would you play it? Do politics and platform games mix? Thumbnail image courtesy of Flickr , Gage Skidmore More About: 2012 presidential campaign , Gaming , Politics , ron paul , US Social Media reviews series maintain by Mayya
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