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.

The No ICE in Minnesota charity bundle submission period is now open: itch.io/jam/no-ice-i... All games, free and paid, TTRPG and browser based-alike are welcome Submissions are open until January 26 & the charity bundle supporting a Minnesota based Immigrants' rights org will go live in February

2024-2025: A Red Autumn Games Postmortem itch.io/blog/1282061...

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.

Shufflecomp 2025 is starting soon! This is a musical interactive fiction competition where you first submit songs, and then make games based on songs submitted by other entrants. Song entries and signups close on December 15. https://itch.io/jam/shufflecomp-2025 #interactivefiction #gamedev […]

it's happening

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🎉 The 31st Annual #IFComp is live! 85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!) Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot

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)

altering your weimar germany to be "maximally woke"

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

always be deporting hitler

i wish @red-autumn.itch.io's Star Wars mockup version of her Social Democracy game was real

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

The KPD sucked but I don't think this is an accurate allocation of blame for the fall of the Weimar Republic. KPD + SPD never got nearly 50% of the vote (closer to 40%). Imo much more of the blame goes to the Protestant conservative-liberal bourgeois bloc (DVP mostly but also DStP, WP, etc)

I made a new game where you guess how people voted in the British general election of 2024. red-autumn.itch.io/british-vote... Based on @britishvoter.bsky.social

I made a new game where you guess how people voted in the British general election of 2024. red-autumn.itch.io/british-vote... Based on @britishvoter.bsky.social

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A bit late, but, here's my new game for Spring Thing 2025! Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917 is an alternate history political simulator/card game about the Russian Revolution. red-autumn.itch.io/petrograd-1917 #InteractiveFiction #GameDev

First post, hi! I'm an interactive fiction writer/game developer. I made Social Democracy: An Alternate History red-autumn.itch.io/social-democ..., among other games. #InteractiveFiction #gamedev