Dear readers, fellow gamers, The time has come for us to resume this series of posts on the history of China! We are now reaching a time of unity for the country: the Yuan Dynasty. They rode down from the North In the previous DD, we left you with the death of the Sòng cháo […]
Dear readers, fellow gamers, We are back with the second part on the DD focussed on Factions of the early 1920s Guomindang, sorry for having kept you waiting! What sets us apart We introduced the 1920 factions to you in the previous DD. These GMD factions are notably gameplay-wise differentiated by their views on a […]
Dear readers, fellow gamers, We hope you are all well and ready for a new DD! This time, we would like to address a key feature of Rise of the White Sun: party factions! Strength in unity In RoWS, you play as member of the Zhongguo Guomindang party with your own goals and ambitions. You […]
Dear readers, fellow gamers, We are delighted to come back to you with some fresh news about the game. We first would like to apologise for having been silent for so long: IRL constraints as well as some deep re-design thinking led kept us away from the website (but our Discord server remained active – […]
Dear readers, fellow gamers, We return today with another of our foci, centered this time on the weapons and armament business between Western countries and China during the Warlord era. War was raging during the period depicted in RoWS and China soon became one if not the largest world market for guns! Ready? Go! Did […]
Dear gamers, fellow readers, There has been quite some time since the last post… The Covid-19 crisis is partly responsible for us being silent (IRL issues management and adaptation) but, rest assured that work has continued on the game – as much as possible. It is time for us to resume our stream of posts […]
Dear readers, fellow gamers, We hope you are well in these difficult times. Let us try to keep morale up by giving you – finally – a glimpse of your first steps as your character in Rise of the White Sun! Please excuse us for the lack of in-game screenshots. We are in the process […]
Dear readers, fellow gamers, We hope you are all well in theses difficult times of Covid-19, stay home and stay safe! Today’s post is a focus (as the title implied) on opium. We have all have in mind stereotypical images of Chinese people, lying down in cloudy opium dens, opium pipe in hand, looking dazed […]
Dear readers, fellow gamers, We are coming back to the second part of our focus on opium, finally talking about the timeframe we are all interested in (thanks to RoWS): the 1920-1930s! We apologise for the small number of pictures. They are incredibly hard to find! Cultivating opium Where and how? Chinese peasants traditionally grow […]
Dear gamers, fellow readers, If memory serves, the last DD was concluding just before the Sui dynasty (隋) ride to unite China. So let us not waste time and go straight to the point! Riding down from the North When Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou eventually beat the Northern Qi Kingdom in 577 A.D., […]
