New interactive fiction game: red-autumn.itch.io/lilac-song
It's pretty short, and it's kind of a companion piece to Social Democracy: An Alternate History.
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New interactive fiction game: red-autumn.itch.io/lilac-song
It's pretty short, and it's kind of a companion piece to Social Democracy: An Alternate History.
Is anyone interested in an article by me about @red-autumn.itch.io's Social Democracy and what assumptions on politics emerge from its gameplay, in the same way @bretdevereaux.bsky.social's Teaching Paradox series talk about what each game's theory of geopolitics is?
Edu-tainment for our times.
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Thank you! Unfortunately I know very little about Lithuanian history so someone else should make that game...
People should genuinely be more willing to say that the German Republic of the interwar years was a great thing and that it is a shame it fell, imo, instead of handwringing about how it probably was inevitable.
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I'm doing research for a game about the French Popular Front in 1936 (playing as the SFIO/Léon Blum). Also for a game about the early Weimar Republic from the German Revolution to 1920 (if I make it, there will be MSPD and USPS options).
it's happening
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Thanks! I am planning to write more "personal" games, including maybe something set in the Archivist setting...
Go full internationalist, persuade the Kadets to allow a Soviet government, sign a separate peace, and demobilize as quickly as possible while shifting industries and transport to civilian use :p
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i actually do love that "class traitor" spd is a completely viable strategy. you can just cut taxes to the rich, raise tariffs, and offer only the most tepid response to the great depression and excel electorally*
* (ignore the rising tide of fascism and the 20% unemployment)
It kind of is the novelization of the game lol, since it was my main source while making the game.
altering your weimar germany to be "maximally woke"
There's a list of books in the game's credits; my favorite is German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism by Donna Harsch. It's about the SPD between 1928 and 1933. A more general overview is The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy by Hans Mommsen.
Finished my first play-through of this fantastic game by @red-autumn.itch.io on Easy, and got my rear ignominiously handed to me with a Prussian civil war.
So well done, gripping and educational. Thanks for making this
It's Social Democracy: An Alternate History (or one of its mods) red-autumn.itch.io/social-democ...
always be deporting hitler
There is a nonzero chance I make the game for real next year...
Star Wars: Galactic Republic - An Alternate History 1/3
Star Wars: Galactic Republic - An Alternate History 2/3
Star Wars: Galactic Republic - An Alternate History 3/3
i wish @red-autumn.itch.io's Star Wars mockup version of her Social Democracy game was real
btw don't take any of this too seriously... it's basically "Person who only knows about the Weimar Republic: Getting real Weimar Republic vibes from this"
The Democrats are basically the Weimar Coalition while the Republicans are the Harzburg Front (or the 1925 pro-Hindenburg coalition). There's no real equivalent of Zentrum but the closest might be the Democratic ethnic caucuses (ideologically diverse, represent historically oppressed groups).
Weimar parties as US political factions:
SPD - Congressional Progressive Caucus
DDP - New Democrats
DVP - Blue Dogs/Problem Solvers
DNVP - Republican Study Committee
NSDAP - Freedom Caucus
There is no KPD or BVP equivalent.
It's interesting how the centrist faction of US politics resembles the DVP (claims to be a people's party but actually represents big business interests, collapses the coalition due to tax/welfare policy, aggressively nationalistic rhetoric, ...). Claims to be Stresemann but are actually Dingeldey
On the other hand, I think that even in a world where the KPD cooperated with the SPD, Hindenburg and the bourgeois parties would never include the KPD in government (even if the KPD just tolerated), and would also be less inclined to cooperate with the SPD, leading to the same problems as irl.
Tbh I don't really blame the SPD for distrusting the KPD. The KPD was effectively an agent of Moscow and there was bad blood from stuff like the Prussian Reichstag referendum of 1931 where the KPD joined with the NSDAP to try to depose the SPD-les Prussian government.
