Refusal to Submit, redux blog - silverpower

Well, it seems I was overly ambitious. My attempts to port the Stalker Makarov to UDK ended in abject failure.

At the moment, UDK is a bad choice for my project, since it requires far more computing horsepower than I have. I'm on an ancient laptop, which can comfortably run HL2 on medium-low or Stalker on low. I get a whopping ten frames a second average in the UDK game. This isn't conducive to development.

Meanwhile, I dusted off a Bay 12 game that I really liked but could never finish (because I sucked at it) - Liberal Crime Squad. You lead a bunch of liberals (ultra-vanguardist Trots or something? I dunno) in an effort to take back Eagleland from the oppressive Arch-Conservatives. It's better than it sounds, and it's really more about political violence in general than anything else. :)

The underlying principles behind the game are fairly simple. You recruit people, and gain leadership points (or juice), and this lets you recruit more people, until you have an army of fanatical expendable extras you can use to smash up factories, free cute bunnies or horrifying genetic abominations, raid apartments for laptops and dirty socks, free prisoners from the cop-shop or the courthouse, and kill conservatives. Lots and lots of conservatives. Of course, you can play the pacifist, by recruiting hippies and cranking out the Liberal Guardian (haha). But that's no fun!

Anyway, it hit me - you could do an anarchist version of this!

Basically, you're a lone guy or gal in an arcology in post-apocalyptic , with maybe an AK, or a sec-uniform or a thousand eurocreds, and it's your task to find and recruit militants. The more militants you recruit, the more actions you can take. Eventually, you'll be able to touch off an insurrection, and fight your way to the top of the tower, where you can kill off the Corporate Council, the Corporate Court Judges and the Board of Directors. Once you have control of the arcology systems, the working classes will be free to seize both the means of production and proper housing for all, without interference from ruling-class forces.

You can do things like:

- expropriate banks (in other words, rob them blind)
- hack for money, pay-data or propaganda
- rebroadcast pirate feeds (to supplant corporate-owned content)
- steal gear from corporate offices and upper-class housing blocks
- hold executives for ransom
- run guns into the Underground City
- protect factory occupations
- block strikebreakers
- incite rent strikes
- free prisoners
- kill cops, judges, corporate lawyers and soldiers
- raid the armories (to deprive the cops/soldiers of hardware and line out your own armory)
- and beat back the gangs, the fascists and the Trots.

I'm dusting off the old Source-based Refusal to Submit prototype and will start hacking on it tonight.