President Dementia Simulator

November 2025. Unreal Engine 5. Creator, Creative Director, and Front-end Developer. 

 

Ever wondered what it feels like to be the most powerful man on Earth as your mind slowly vegetates and dies? Wonder no more with this incredible five-minute experience! Created by four university students for their class final, we hope you will get the most out of this senile experience! 

PRESIDENT DEMENTIA SIMULATOR (PDS) is a two week vertical slice created by a team of four and released on Itch.io. The game is a first person immersive simulator that allows you as the player to play as a politician slowly dying of dementia, and the game dramatic ends with you “nuking” your own country. I worked as the creative director and project lead on this game, as well as the front end developer. PDS uses a variety of multimedia assets to create a surreal and humorous environment that doesn’t shy away from its morbid source material. PDS also utilizes a low poly aesthetic and cartoonish ui design. 

To create PDS, I had to lead a team from conception to completion, generate 2d and 3d assets, build animated UI widgets, and manage publication on Itch.io. PDS was also shared online and garnered millions of views across platforms such as Instagram, Youtube, and TikTok. 

PDS was created as a manifestation of rage and fatigue with the current government, a reaction to the concept that everything is unprecedented, transformed into a surreal, absurdist hellscape. The project is intended to be humorous, and over the top while not straying from our current political environment.