No Pineapple Left Behind

If you've ever been a student and/or had a teacher, you should play this game -- especially if you've had an inspirational teacher. This game will make you THINK about the academic system in a different way, since you get to BE the academic system, and appreciate all the hard work teachers put in in spite of the system. Also, it's got a nice, catchy theme song.

Supported in the failed Kickstarter. Nice premise: have to play dystopian to try to achieve any goals (as in I think you need to turn the kids to pineapples to make money). Buggy at this time, but hopefully will improve. Keep an eye on this.

I'm a good friend of the developer, and I have to say, overall this is a great game. It's not terribly heavy handed with the politics like the other reviews have said, not any more than other simulators of it's kind. There are one or two small bugs, but nothing terrible that gets in the way of gameplay. The Mac version could use a bit of attention, but the PC and Linux versions work perfectly. Overall, 8/10, would reccomend.

Although the game has an intriguing and comical concept, I found the gameplay unenjoyable and tedious. Not worth the buy, in my opinion.

The concept of the game is way better than the gameplay

Terrible tutorial, poorly executed engine, and generally just dull.

This game is really brilliant in its approach to commenting on high stakes testing in schools. Sadly, the fun and even some of the message are lost in an overly-complex game design that requires constant micro-managing of teachers and even individual students; for this reason, I didn't even play beyond the first couple of schools because each one became bigger, and the prospect of constantly pausing to zoom in and use an action on a specific student was too daunting to keep playing. Of course, even that's part of the message; it's hard to design curriculum around individual students, why not just turn them into pineapples?!

BAAAAD! Game runs once before it refuses to load Tutorials are ok (ish) and no way to build your own schools

really interesting idea, but theres so many buttons yet such little direction on how to use them :(

Good idea, not that great of an implementation.