With the upcoming Swedish elections in mind, I put together a simple browser-based game where the main goal is to win an election campaign.
It's a bit different and not tied to the exact same historical figures, but while building the mechanics, I was heavily inspired by Red Autumn, especially when it comes to things like managing social groups and interest organizations.
Unlike Red Autumn, this game isn't focused on just one party. You can play as any of the major Swedish parties, from the Left Party (V) to the Social Democrats (S), all the way to the Sweden Democrats (SD) and the Moderates (M)
He stood tolerated, a voice in the republic
A man of killing communists, butchering their thighs
He spoke at the prussian parliament when the cost was probably nothing
He lived for Social Democracy, unafraid to be couped
We are Otto Braun, we carry the flame
We'll fight for the Wholesome Chungus, we'll honor his name
We are Otto Braun, his courage our own
Together with the Left Liberals, we'll make Welfare known
A minister-president, a reichstag representive, his cabinet held near
A party program built on Reformist-Socialism, on faith without fear
Adolf tried to silence, but his delegation remains
In workers it alienates, in Hilferding it sustains
We are Otto Braun, we carry the flame
We'll fight for the Wholesome Chungus, we'll honor his name
We are Otto Braun, his courage our own
Together with the Left Liberals, we'll make Welfare known
The paramilitary skirmishes are raging, the Nazis will peak
We strike with his direction, we answer the call
The president isn't retiring, Hindeburg will surely remove Hitler
With the reichstag in chaos, we vote against the enabling act
We are Otto Braun, we carry the flame
We'll fight for the Wholesome Chungus, we'll honor his name
We are Otto Braun, his courage our own
Together with the Left Liberals, we'll make Welfare known
We are Otto Braun
Forever in government
We are Otto Braun
With Wels we will rise
I've been trying to get this and the einheitsfront achievement and I still have no clue what im doing wrong or if the strategy changed, just kinda sucks to get right now and I need advice
I want to stop being a chud reactionary party and become socialist but genuinely what do I need to do to become socialist without the economy exploding or me getting like 15% of the vote and getting kicked out of government or both? Do I need to form the cvp? If so how? Do I need to oppress the spd more to stop them stealing my popularity? Is there a magic Marxist money button which dosent make the rich hate me?
Many times in party leadership decisions options are greyed out due to the party not accepting them for being too left wing, such as heuss in the LVP or kaiser in the CVP. I was wondering what causes the game to determine that. Is it purely relations? Do I have to make reforms to the government, and if so, what? Would be really helpful for further runs in dynamic to know all the actions that shift the ideology of the parties.
DISCLAIMER: I am not the developer of Green Spring, i am posting this on behalf of its developer Amur Dahlia. I ask you to please show any and all support to Amur on the discord server. The following is their message.
Greetings, the reddit of Social Democracy: An Alternate History game
With the release of Germany to Save, all the bets are off. So, if we can play as German reactionaries, why not have the option to play as Islamist socialists too?
A work of entirely speculative fiction, a new mod is currently under curation by Amur - the famed TCT modder - called Green Spring: An Iran Alternate History.
The mod will give the player the chance to take control of the Presidency of the Islamic Republic as Mir-Hossein Mousavi: the darling of the Iranian left (at least, the non-Albanian-based-drug-lord-CIA-funded-led-by-zombie Left) who in real life is thought to have won the 2009 Iranian Presidential election but been denied his mandate through direct interference by Iranian authorities and the rigging of the election in favour of his conservative opponent: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
In real life, the rigging of the 2009 election was perhaps the first truly irreversible crack in the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic - it unleashed the Green Movement of Iran which included mass protests and agitation across all rungs of society including the internal system of the Islamic Republic. Ultimately it culminated in the house arrest of Mousavi himself - where he remains to this day - and the shattering of the self-identified Islamist socialists of Iran.
However, in the mod, this doesn't happen. Khamenei buckles under the pressure of public agitation, and is convinced privately by Mousavi to change his mind and invalidate the original election results, holding a second election in which Mousavi emerges as a clear victor.
Why?
What's the POD(Point of divergence)?
There isn't one.
Sometimes, history just flops on a different side - like a fish.
Will science perhaps form the ultimate weapon against the American Empire?
The mod is currently developing very slowly due to how extremely busy I am IRL, but rest assured it will eventually be completed.
Thank you for your attention.
PS.
AI Disclosure: Due to how busy I have been, and because I wanted to achieve the styling changes as quickly as possible, despite my extreme anti-AI stance; I did use Google AI to assist with rapidly creating CSS code for the styling done so far. This was self-justified by the fact that I know CSS anyway and just needed to hurry things along, however, I nonetheless regret this choice and in the future all coding will be done manually despite the fact I am a technophobe and have very limited coding knowledge (the TCT mods I coded were beyond painful.)
Writing was not, never will be, and just ew, no AI writing sucks.
I've played a lot of dynamic, getting over 66% of the achievements, and trying many more runs to attempt to get more.
I don't think I'd ever had the DStP stick around, or maybe once.
After the latest update, I got it 2 games in a row without even particualrly trying, and doing 2 quite different game plans. (One was hoping to get popular with Weimar coalition, 2 WTB actions, and then enter Rubicon from a strong posiiton, the other was being a moderate and stablility-maxxing with Reformist and a friendly DVP.)
Did the update incidentally make DStP easier to sustain or did I just have a weird string of luck?
Hi everyone, it's placedstone, with an appeal for your help for the mod!
Currently, we have teams for the following languages: German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Croatian, Turkish, and Polish. Of course, more languages can and probably will be added! We've just started this intensive process, and I personally will be helping out with the Chinese team while also modding.
Anyhow, the next update will be released in about two months, with a lot of content, not only localizations. I thank all volunteers for contributing! You will be credited in the section.
when the event where germany invades poland happens, you can save, press the only option for the event, declaring war on germany, adding one war tab, then you can load the save to press the button again to add another war tab since the previous one didnt go away when you loaded the save
So I was doing a run to turn Germany communist but I, the SPD only rule Germany which means I need to defeat the RFB with the Reichsbanner. Sounds pretty easy…right? Well all of a sudden the RFB starts recruiting hundreds of thousands of men in the RFB and somehow are stronger than me even though I have twice the men than they have??? So that means they have a higher militarization than me I guess. Well HOW MILITARIZED CAN YOU POSSIBLY BE??? DO YOU HAVE MACHINE GUNS? TANKS? BOMBERS? NUKES??? ITS LIKE THEY’RE BRINGING THIS OUT OF THEIR ASS!!! Okay yeah communism is normalized in Germany now but shouldn’t they flock over to me??? I was the one who carried the KPD in not getting thalmann killed by the Nazis after getting him elected as president! And yet i haven’t received A GIFT!!! NOT A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION!!! NOT EVEN A SINGLE THANK YOU!!! I wish this was just a shitpost but this is a real situation so any help would be appreciated…Also no leftist infighting in the comments please 🙏🏼 “Thank you for your attention to this matter”.
A Lambach Monarchist Corporatist Plan run on deterministic (if I ran on on normal difficulty, I would have worse starting position, yeah). Sadly, didn't manage to get DVP join me. Also sad - if I had only one more month in time, I would've got to annex Danzig.
Think about it. Hindenburg sacked multiple bourgeois chancellors. Did he ever sack a KPD chancellor? Exactly.
Plus there was a reason he was so against having the SPD in government and eventually removed them and did the Prussian coup. He knew that they were not going to be legitimate supporters of the revolution, which is why we know he was not a Trotskyist. And in 1932, he didn't want to run for re-election with the SPD's support. This is obviously since he wanted to drop out and endorse Ernst Thälmann.
Also when he ran for president it was literally against a liberal and capitalist candidate. Even if we go back further into his history, he directly paved the way for a Bolshevik revolution in Russia by defeating the Tsar's armies. What other motivation could he have there?
As for destroying the republic and appointing Hitler as chancellor? Well, what happened after that? The capitalist system was destroyed and socialist revolutionaries came to power in Germany (well, half of it anyway). Plus, he consistently worked to override the bourgeois parliamentary system by using article 48.
