You are a woman of humble origins, trained to become a spy for the USSR. The mission: infiltrate McCarthy-era America. You’re what the red scare fears the most, and you are able to use espionage, persuasion and seduction to twist American fears of communism towards your nation’s goals. Meet famous military and government officials, assassinate important people (no actual historical figures, as that would probably be in bad taste), hand out Soviet and socialist propaganda, infiltrate government offices, spread rumors of Soviet power, and accuse others of communist sentiment in order to keep suspicion off of you. All of this while you avoid being executed for the spy you are. The feds are hot on your trail, but you’re always a step ahead.
Not strictly historically accurate where fiction is more interesting. The main character is female, but the player can define her personality, actions and attitude. You’ll also get to choose your code name, real name, and American name.
No. I am NOT abandoning/quitting Blood for Poppies. This is just a game I’m going to work on once BFP is complete. I’m not sure if people would actually be interested in it. Since it’s recent history I feel like I could almost be treading a fine line, but it’s an era that doesn’t get enough literature, and it’s a really interesting time to me.
This sounds like it will be really cool. I agree that this time of history doesn’t get a lot of attention (maybe it is still too sore a subject, or perhaps people tend to forget such things…)
McCarthy-ism was terrible, ruined the lives of many Americans because their name was smeared as being Communists and sympathizers…it will be very different and thrilling coming at the era/scenario from the other side of the coin.
A lot of McCarthyism was hype, and McCarthy epitomized the foolishness of the time. Still, it’s an interesting era. You have a lot of political unrest and fear, and there really were spies on both sides (the USSR and the US). Of course, the number of spies there actually were was ridiculously overhyped, and the public awareness of them was manipulated by those who sought to benefit from making the public scared.
I’m not going to go deeply into the politics, as that’s still very sore, and there’ll probably be only glancing looks at actual historical figures.
I’ll think about it. It could probably work with both sexes. I kinda wanted to dig into something with a female focus, but I’ll definitely consider making both sexes an option.
Awesome a great plot! A question could be diferent comunism backgrounds? For instance from a fall noble family, a farmer, from a soviet family but your father killed by Stalin Trosky style.
Ah, the hysteria nations may descend into when they lack aristocratic reserve.
I would urge you to keep this game female-only, since you may then realistically express the seduction and persuasion aspects. Giving a male option here would simply involve changing “She” to “He” throughout the work, and creating a character that nobody feels attached too because their gender doesn’t quite match their actions or surroundings.
@Drazen a male can be very persuasive… Rusia use a lot of charming cubanos and rusian male to seduce cia secretaries woman but first men to blackmail them.Thinking that a man cant seduce is machism.
