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A game about worker liberation in the face of overpowering capitalism.
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By Heinrich ObenausWIEN (Ostmark) - “Die Ostmarkische Revolution” (The Ostmarkian Revolution) is an unapologetically political, National-Syndicalist and Grasserist game about worker liberation in the face of overpowering capitalism. It’s also quite a bit of fun to play. “The idea for the game came from a multitude of places,” Hans Braun, the developer, told Die Volksrepublik “For one my own politics. I’m a Grasserist and I’ve never seen an unapologetically National-Syndicalist game ever and I played games my entire life. So I started thinking, what would be an interesting way to tackle that as a topic. So we bring it up in the game and we try and present it in what I feel are honest, earnest but still fun ways."
In “Die Ostmarkische Revolution” players control an ever-growing crowd of people. As the players move through the game from left to right, they liberate buildings — growing their crowd — and take on enemies from the routine to the surreal. The basic weapon of the crowd is their fists, but players can pick up other items like bricks to toss at the enemies. Because it is a National-Syndicalist game, there is no singular hero, instead, players control one member of the crowd. Once they die, another member steps up until the crowd is gone and the game ends. The bigger the crowd the more powerful the attack as well, for certain weapons. For instance, when the player-controlled character throws a brick, all of the members of the crowd throw bricks.
“There’s no singular face of the revolution,” Braun said. “The National-Syndicalist revolution for us is everybody working together in common cause and the liberation of each other. So that’s why there no one singular person who is in charge. The politics of the game are all about worker liberation and workers of all class and creed working together to create a new system where everyone is taken care of and basically shrugging off the control of the capitalist system.” he added.
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