Yeah a victory is more survival but still it would be an offshoot of a small PC market
Frivolous WI: Video games in a victorious Nazi Germany
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Minor criticism: Playing female characters would produce huge buffs in certain circumstances (such as in interactions) and would be a mixed bag overall. Broadly though, this is quite well-worldbuilt.
Thank you! To be frank, I didn't really think of adding that much depth where there'd be buffs alongside debuffs, and figured that the devs wouldn't really see any redeeming qualities and traits to even fathom giving them some advantage. Unintentionally ended up superimposing that onto how they'd view female player characters, although I figure that Nazis in this setting would still be misogynistic enough where they'd be adamant they're just plain physically inferior--the most I can see the developers lending them is something akin to, like you suggested, interactions and charisma? 🤔
I guess that any buffs (and debuffs) would exist in a highly gendered way. Perhaps males get a slight debuff in healing actions and in actions related to children, while females get higher pain endurance alongside physical debuffs and big buffs in the aforementioned categories. Males would get big buffs in certain things such as usage of some weapons, though female characters would have means to realistically neuter these advantages (given enough time and effort). All this would make gender of characters quite relevant in gameplay, perhaps making players speak of generalized "male playthroughs" and "female playthroughs".
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Have a new batch!
Dharmameister: Dalai Lama
A city-builder game, set in the Himalayas, between the rise of the Yarlung Dynasty in Tibet and the fall of the Karnata Dynasty in Nepal. The player is tasked with building a functional and prosperous city that also has high levels of spiritual purity. The game tasks the player with building most of the city vertially, rather than horizontally, with monasteries and shrines being encouraged to be built higher up, but not so high up to be too impractical to be reached.
The tone is not entirely realistic: it is possible to build to build wonders suchs as the Potala Palace while being harassed by yetis, and having poor karma might lead to lose citizens to "karmic justice" consisting in being turned into vermin. To avoid the latter, the player is encouraged to build a food and goods distribution system that segregates between monks and common citizenry... and part of this segregation involves feeding mostly vegetables to monks. This has attracted some criticism, as vegetarianism, though documented as a practice, is considered unbecoming of "the birthplace of Aryanism", with others gawkfaking at such claims.
Theodorunenlied
Set in a fantasy world where a people is being threatened by a magical plauge turning the affected in depraved monsters, the game is a turn-based RPG where you play a protagonist called Theodorunen, a man who looks like a Visigoth Warrior and armed with a distinctive double-pronged spear and a round shield trying to find Arminius, the Sage of the Trees very far up north... only to discover that he as well has been infected and is now spending most of his time drinking distilled grains and building nonsensical wooden constructions. Theodoro and his party end up killing Arminius, eating his only uncorrupted part, the right hand, and with this discovering their power to heal all sickness and straighten up even the most dispersed degenerate.
Criticised by the poor story and in general by the rarely-seen genre, the game is relatively obscure within Germany, but more popular elsewhere.
Neu-Mailan 2060- Culpa Innata
Text-based point-and-click game set in a world where the German economic power and cultural relevance has been eclipsed by Italian craftiness/shiftiness, and where most of Germany is controlled by the Italian corporations, using some still but intricate pictures to set the scene. There are two endings, one bad if using Italian cybertech more than the strictly required five times, and one good for avoiding to do so: in the former, the protagonist succumbs to opportunism and is seen willingly becoming an informant against the nascent German resistance, in the latter he becomes their greatest fighter instead. Its being more of a choose your advneture novel than a full-on videogame, and the extreme lenghts used to present the setting as dystopia, has lead this game to avoid much of the ire it otherwise owuld have garnered.
Dharmameister: Dalai Lama
A city-builder game, set in the Himalayas, between the rise of the Yarlung Dynasty in Tibet and the fall of the Karnata Dynasty in Nepal. The player is tasked with building a functional and prosperous city that also has high levels of spiritual purity. The game tasks the player with building most of the city vertially, rather than horizontally, with monasteries and shrines being encouraged to be built higher up, but not so high up to be too impractical to be reached.
The tone is not entirely realistic: it is possible to build to build wonders suchs as the Potala Palace while being harassed by yetis, and having poor karma might lead to lose citizens to "karmic justice" consisting in being turned into vermin. To avoid the latter, the player is encouraged to build a food and goods distribution system that segregates between monks and common citizenry... and part of this segregation involves feeding mostly vegetables to monks. This has attracted some criticism, as vegetarianism, though documented as a practice, is considered unbecoming of "the birthplace of Aryanism", with others gawkfaking at such claims.
Theodorunenlied
Set in a fantasy world where a people is being threatened by a magical plauge turning the affected in depraved monsters, the game is a turn-based RPG where you play a protagonist called Theodorunen, a man who looks like a Visigoth Warrior and armed with a distinctive double-pronged spear and a round shield trying to find Arminius, the Sage of the Trees very far up north... only to discover that he as well has been infected and is now spending most of his time drinking distilled grains and building nonsensical wooden constructions. Theodoro and his party end up killing Arminius, eating his only uncorrupted part, the right hand, and with this discovering their power to heal all sickness and straighten up even the most dispersed degenerate.
Criticised by the poor story and in general by the rarely-seen genre, the game is relatively obscure within Germany, but more popular elsewhere.
Neu-Mailan 2060- Culpa Innata
Text-based point-and-click game set in a world where the German economic power and cultural relevance has been eclipsed by Italian craftiness/shiftiness, and where most of Germany is controlled by the Italian corporations, using some still but intricate pictures to set the scene. There are two endings, one bad if using Italian cybertech more than the strictly required five times, and one good for avoiding to do so: in the former, the protagonist succumbs to opportunism and is seen willingly becoming an informant against the nascent German resistance, in the latter he becomes their greatest fighter instead. Its being more of a choose your advneture novel than a full-on videogame, and the extreme lenghts used to present the setting as dystopia, has lead this game to avoid much of the ire it otherwise owuld have garnered.