Dear, friends!


We've got over a mark of 50% of the campaign goal thanks to your support and help! Each contribution is essential for us! We've made a new art in honor of crossin' the line of our campaign. Free 4k download over here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ps_T7SiZe0a5yejL4yp0h4zQ11Q9cu1b/view

What do you feel about that? Let's talk about it. What do you think the poster reflects the main ideas and motives of the game? Leave your comments and thoughts on the campaign page through our community on Steam/social networks. We're always glad to talk over your some ideas/concepts of the game.

There are even more ordeals ahead, but if we work together, we'll get a success. Let's more actively take the remaining days of the campaign and tell everyone who might be interested in our project. Share the campaign page in social networks, tell your friends about the project and get to the bottom of the mystery of the world of political intrigues and hidden manipulations of the powerful financial elites of the world!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/plutocracy-a-pc-game-about-wealth-power-computers-software/reft/18671801/steam

There’s still a long way to go, so please stay with us and follow our events.

P.S. You can make a payment via PayPal by e-mail 3339393@gmail.com leaving a comment what kind of perk you want.

Best regards,
Redwood games team

Hello, friends!

Let's take our mind off political intrigues and economic indicators of the market and talk about the attractive, seductive and sometimes mystical world of the wealth and luxury.

Luxury is a brilliant companion of all the rich. We're interested that a player felt a billionaire's life so we've made a collection of rare and expensive items in the game: rare coins, paintings by famous artists, yachts, aircrafts, cars, mansions and estates, thoroughbred horses, antiques.





Common interests can play into the hands by expanding useful relationships. There are a lot of historical examples, for e.g. the Rothschild clan is largely obliged to collect coins of their founder.

Mayer Rothschild was able to make a relationship with William I, Elector of Hesse through the trade of antiques and the Rothschild clan started flourishing. William I, Elector of Hesse was one of the richest monarchs of Europe of that time.



But it's not that simple! You'll need to win luxury stuff competin' with your opponents at the auction.

Show everyone that you are able to easily spend a few million on a rare coin or buy out thoroughbred champions from the royal stables so that they win at the horse races and bear the fruits. These actions will attract characters interested in prestige and luxury.



Every type of the property gives unique bonuses to the player. For instance, you can arrange a rout (banquet hall) or get some cash by renting out your mansion. Buy ships, yachts to arrange secret meetings there to become more prestigious and influential.





Collect original paintings, rare coins and antiques 'cause that stuff may go up in price! Invest in art 'cause that may also give a huge income if you manage to get a collection of paintings by one artist.




There will be developing progress in the different industries: cars, aircraft and other. Over time, you'll be able to buy different types of transport: from balloons and dirigibles to airplanes, from the first models of cars to modern cars. All this you can buy through the auction.



Participate in horse racing and get extra income from wins and bets. Improve your loyalty by giving expensive things to officials and politicians like a bribe. 

Leave your comment if you come up with an idea what collectible items we need to add into the game. Don't forget to support our project 'cause that's important for us! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/plutocracy-a-pc-game-about-wealth-power-computers-software/reft/18671801/steam

Stay with us! See you in the next update. 

Redwood Games team.

Hello, there!

Thank you for the support and help that you are investing in the development of our project. Today we gonna talk about ethnic diversity in the game and how to generate characters. Let's get started!

We've made a system for generating unique characters with distinctive features of appearance to simulate the economy, politics and human relationships in full. It means that you won't come across two absolutely identical characters as in appearance and on the other features. Despite the fact that there are thousands of them in the game...

At the very start of the game, you can choose the gender, age, attributes of appearance and race of your character as well as the features of his character and starting skills that he'll get.



In the game, you can choose a historical focus where women will only partially be able to inherit some property and dispose of one. Besides, Negroid and Mongoloid races will occur in limited numbers until the middle of the 20th century 'cause the US at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries was still very far from the country where everyone had equal rights!

You get the opportunity to play by using an alternative focus where you can use the full diversity of characters without any limits and historical focus.

Each mode has advantages. For instance, you can influence the emancipation of women, black people, etc. so you can increase the welfare of the population, and as a result, it'll lead to an increase in your income. In addition, you can expand your share of voter loyalty.





In the game, there will be conflicts based on ethnic divergence. Some of the characters will be less tolerant of a different religion, race, as a result, you can make an enemy who will be making conspiracies and intrigues against you if he gets that you're with him not cut from the same cloth.

What do you think which mode is more interesting to play? In one that shows historical realities and ethnic conflicts or an alternative one where all representatives of different ethnic groups have the same rights? Leave your comments.

We carefully think over different combinations of features characters, so that the player feels the full depth of human relationships. Representatives of ethnic groups, different religious denominations, political trends in the game are constantly butting heads with each other getting better conditions for life. You gotta find a balance between them 'cause that makes relationships between the game characters. Now there are more than 15 thousand characters!

If you are in such a world, how will you behave? Will you seek for personal profit or will you try to use all the wealth you have received to transform society, the country, and even the whole world?

About avatars



Your avatar will be over here.

You can get a game avatar that our artist will draw from your photo in the game style while our IngieGoGo campaign is running. The avatar can be chosen from the list of characters when you start a game.

You'll become the main hero of the story where by using big business and political influence the financial elite governs entire states as well as you'll get a unique digital portrait for envy to friends. You can share the portrait in social networks or just leave to remember.

There is very little time left until the end of the campaign and a limited number of perks with an avatar that our artist can have time to draw. Hurry up and back up our project and find out how secretly to run the world in the game Plutocracy! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/plutocracy-a-pc-game-about-wealth-power-computers-software/reft/18671801/steam

Thank you for your attention and stay with us. And we will be talking about other interesting aspects of the game.


team.

Hi, friends!

One of the key roles in our game is the political system. Plutocracy appears at the intersection of big business and politics. Our game simulates the interaction of big business and politics as well as their influence each other. And how ultimately it affects the welfare and economic prosperity of countries.

What do you feel about that? Share your thoughts in the comments.

We can tell a lot about how the political system is arranged in the game: subjects of the political system, how to lobby politicians of different levels and specific laws, how to influence the decision of officials at the local and federal level. If it's interesting, then let me know in the comments and we’ll definitely write about that in the next updates.

Stay with us and support us if you haven’t had time to make it on Indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/plutocracy-a-pc-game-about-wealth-power-computers-software/x/18671801

Thank you in advance!


Redwood Games team

Hello, friends!

We've got our first thousand and we thank you for that! But now it's not the time to stop, we have a lot of work ahead to succeed in our campaign. So, we keep moving forward to persevere and succeed!

In the game of big capital, there are temptations get even more capital by using dishonest and dirty ways. That is why punishments are being used as the system of checks and balance. A police chief, district attorney, judge are responsible for the investigation of crimes and imposing punishments.

Where are we getting the thoughts for this gameplay?

Likely, someone was reading Theodore Dreiser's "Trilogy of Desire" especially the first part of one is "The Financier". We won't hide that we've read this book series more than once, and many moments are represented in the game from there. Some situations are borrowed from real billionaires and officials of different ranks.





At the same time, we'd been studying the American justice system for a long time as well as consulting with experienced lawyers about how everything is arranged. Therefore, you can be sure we tried to bring as close to reality all the ordeals for a player.

How is everything arranged?

As you may have already guessed, we gave emphasis to the causal link between corruption and the lobby with big capital. Undoubtedly, this "springboard" can lead the player to additional ordeals in the form of the US justice system that he can also try to corrupt...:)

Let's imagine a typical situation in the game: You came up with an idea that it'd be nice to get a loan with minimum interest through the state treasurer. Because banks set high-interest rates on the loan but you extremely need money to discover a new field...Thus, you took a decision to make useful relationships with the state treasurer by using a rout where you offer him a great reward for an upcoming scam. All in a prize. You got "cheap" money, and now you can get around competitors by right putting the money into the business.





The competitors set about blowing the whistle on you the chief police. He's been suspecting you of dirty deeds for a long time...The cops started surveilling you! Then the judge issued an arrest warrant by suspicion of financial fraud with the treasury. There are two ways to solve that issue: to bail out or stay behind bars while waiting for the day of judgment. Having made a false step, you'll lose your money and time.





You may get behind bars for cartel collusion or for the violence of competitors. If the player gets behind bars, he'll lose plenty of opportunities: he won’t able to meet with someone, make deals, etc. It brings back real life:). Therefore, the player should use his influence to get rid of some punishment. Put it another way, his empire can be pulled apart by other hungry “predators” while he’s serving time for.

What are your actions?

Make more useful relationships among judges, district attorneys and politicians who you count on at the right time. If you pay too much attention to the economy forgetting about your connections, you’ll get some damage to your reputation, influence, relationships and so on. Finally, there are “fake things” against the player where competitors and enemies will be trying to fabricate evidence against you.





In the game, the player has a choice: either act honestly and carefully or use some manipulative tactics. Each strategy has its pros and cons. You don't have to worry about punishment if you play within the law and don't make enemies. On the hand, you can risk and get game resources faster, corrupt officials to use them when you need or do all the dirty deeds by someone else's hands. It's up to you how to achieve financial power!

That's all, guys! We talked about the system of investigation, justice and punishments. What do you feel about that? Leave your comments on the campaign page Back Plutocracy up on Indiegogo


Thanks for your attention:) Stay with us.
Best regards, Redwood Games team

Hi, friends!

It's time to talk about the game way more.
First and foremost we'd like to thank the first backers one more time who supported us and gave confidence that the game "Plutocracy", we're working on, is interesting and unusual.

Today, we'd like to talk about an essential part of our game that stands it out from games a similar genre, that's mass media.


So, the mass media have always had a hidden power that can the broad masses of a population make to think "in the right direction". We do wanted to show it in our game in full. That's why we're making plenty of an interesting gameplay for the media in "Plutocracy".

First of all, you'll able to buy the necessary newspaper or magazine yourself to fill out your influence to local politicians and exert the necessary pressure through the masses of a population or put forward interests of your companies.

Do you have dirt on an unwanted governor with whom you cannot get an agreement? Use the media under your control to blow the whistle on him by creating a public resonance and just see how it'll destroy his reputation and lead to resignation ...



Is the chief of police sluggishly looking into a case against your direct competitors? Send "the news" to your editor and he'll make his life a hell by raising the question you need for general discussion.

Bring down the stock market to decrease the opponent's shares and then immediately buy them up.

Your opportunities will be limited only by your subtle imagination ...

When your level of influence grows to the scale of the country and the political system, you'll able to get the necessary laws by manipulating the consciousness of the masses of a population to put the people pros and cons the laws.

Of course, you can choose the other way by lobbying politicans via the media under your control. Believe me, they'll get much more compliant!

Who owns the information, owns the world...
Let everyone get who's your "big boss" by encouraging or punishing the actions of the people you need even if that's a famous congressman or president.

Having got a monopoly on YOUR opinion, you'll able to secretly manipulate international relations pumping passion with those countries where you need to arrange a conflict and take advantage of it.

The media is a mouthpiece of your desires in "Plutocracy". Learn to use them competently and you'll able to get much more than without them.

Therefore, we give a wide range of using media in the game: from putting forward one's influence, destroying competitors and politicians to the manipulating the opinion of the people.



We're trying to make that a player always has a choice, you'll able to develop in different paths and achieve the goals not by a pattern. Our main goal is to provide the player with a wide range of opportunities so that he can play tens and hundreds of hours and find new ideas and combinations.

P.s. The game journalists are just starting to pay attention to our game 'cause we're just an indie studio, not capitalists, and we cannot affect them the way we can make it in the game:)

But if you like the idea of our game and you wanna help us make one, then together we'll able to get they start writing about our game. You can support us on IndieGoGo , share the page or an interesting article.

Don't forget to leave comments, we're happy to read everything and reply to everyone.

Wait for new updates, friends!
We humbly thank everyone of you who believes and supports our project.
That's important for us.


Team Redwood Games.

Hi, everybody!

We want to tell you stories about the agents of influence from the game.
So, the first type of agent, we’ll tell you about, is a detective.





Grant Hills is an ex-policeman. He has always been honest, fair and incorruptible that being a cause for his resign. One day he was looking into the case of industrial espionage and illegal benefiting through speculation in the stock market by shares of Douglas, Inc. company. The head of the company was a local tycoon Huey Douglas. The businessman offered to close the case and for a generous reward. Grant refused to take a bribe which caused a wave of rage from the billionaire.

Having used your influence, the moneybags instantly from the future attorney made ex-captain of the police leaving him to makes ends meet. Having used his levers of influence, Huey Douglas faked everything in this way like Grant Hills took the bribe. Then Douglas walked to the district attorney taking the compromising materials on the detective. Unfortunately, Grant Hills weren’t able to get out of the corrupt network that was made by cunning financial “spider” where all state officials were mired. Grant Hills was found guilty, and he was laid off.

The losing a job doesn’t mean a loss of qualification. In the world of lawlessness and corruption, it is difficult to remain sinless and incorruptible. Business tycoons who lead an unfair and dirty game forever become enemies number 1 for the ex-captain of the police. Now he’ll do everything to get even with them.

Now Grant Hills is a first-class private detective who can make all the secret things clear. So he’ll become a formidable weapon and a tool for digging of dirt on all who plays dirty. For a fee, of course.



In the game, the detective helps the player to find out all the information about the characters: ambitions, interests, social circle, secret desires, all the dirty deeds. Having used that stuff, you’ll able to help you put pressure on the characters and manipulate them to achieve goals.

Thank you for staying with us! See ya later.

Hello!

On May 8, we started an IndieGoGo campaign. It’ll will run until the 22th of June 2018. That’s our first experience of launching such a project, so it’s exhilarating for us:)

We'd been working on this game, financing and immersing yourself in one 100% for the past one and half years! That’s our passion so we wanna make such the game which would blow our mind off and wouldn’t let us stop playing it all-day. We want the game to like the same players as we.

In general, the funds are needed for translations into several languages, voice acting and music - that’s something that we cannot to make on our own. That's why we need your support!

The game will be completed regardless of the outcome of the campaign. The support of the crowdfunding campaign will help to make a lot of plans in the game and add more interesting content. In addition, it’ll give us more strength and confidence that we’re making the game that will be interesting to many players. The similar games are pretty rare and we don’t set a goal to make money on it. First of all, we want to make the game that will be something new and unlike the fact that everyone had been playing before that.

Now everything is in your hands. We’ll be grateful for any support even if it is a moral one. Thank you in advance and wish us luck!

Click to see the campaign:

PLUTOCRACY ON INDIEGOGO

Hey, guys! We have a great news. Plutocracy is growing day by day. The more and more buildings and cities are making, the more monopolists are creating new enterprises, the more oil fields have been found.

As long as America of 19th century is being built, we want to ask your opinion. Would you like to construct buildings and micromanage companies in-game? Will it be to correspond with plutocratic way?

As always, leave your thoughts in the comment section. Thank you for feedback :)

There are three kind of maps for the game. But only one of them can be used. Guys, how do you think which one is the best looking? Post a number in comment section.

1. 4 season type - "the winter" map.



2. Sand type - "the paper" map.



3. Realistic type - "the picture from space" map.