Minimum Wage: Influence the Election

Minimum Wage: Influence the Election is a point-and-click stealth adventure set at the White House during the week before a presidential election. You work the night shift as a janitor, cleaning up before the President’s celebrity guests arrive, while deciding whether to use the trash and items you find to influence the election. Your choices affect the story, and every night leading up to election day offers a different experience.

The night shift

Use your mop and bucket to find and collect trash as you navigate the White House from a 2-D top-down perspective. You can search the dumpster and steal items from inside the building. Your contract forbids tampering with the trash, and security can fire you if it catches you on the premises when you are not doing your job.

Influence the election

To plant items around the White House, you must time your movements past cameras and other security. Some areas are harder to reach than others, and you may need to use collected trash to solve security puzzles. The opportunities you face can pull you in different directions as you try to shape the election’s outcome.

Election coverage

The MWBC radio channel broadcasts election news and current voter surveys about whether the President is expected to win re-election. It also reports on upcoming celebrity visitors and how previous guests reacted to their meetings with the President. If security catches you, you are fired, but you can re-apply for the job and pick up where you left off.