Show HN: Merica Match – we made a game about the American presidential election

Hi, I'm Mark Cooke, CEO of Shiny Shoe and project lead on Merica Match. Our goal with Merica Match was to do a Colbert-esuqe lampooning of the election within the context of what we believe is a high quality casual match-3. In the game players can choose from Trump, Clinton, Sanders, and Cruz as they try to help their favorite candidate match their way to the White House. Merica Match is a re-imagining of one of our previous games with a new theme so we had some existing retention/monetization data to give us at least a little confidence that players would like the game and that it could be a viable addition to our portfolio.

While I wish we had released the game six months ago when many more candidates were in the pool, no Pokemon Go hoovering up mindshare, and even more political shenanigans to make fun of I'm glad we got this out in time for the conventions. Like most small studios launching a mobile game we're struggling for visibility and don't have a huge UA budget. If anyone has any feedback on the game I'd love to hear it. I can also answer any questions about development or design decisions.