This section will be regularly updated with a variety of content on and around Rise of the White Sun. You can expect here:
- Gameplay presentations and updates: obviously the key elements around when it comes to a video game!
- Historical focuses: the 1920s China is not a very well-known period of History so this is definitely an opportunity to share with you some of what our researches for ROWS teached us!
- Miscellaneous things you may or may not know about China: the Chinese society has traditions, uses, social codes and customs which are quite unfamiliar to a large number of people. Fetch your notebook, there are things here to learn!
- Interesting readings: if one of our sources was particularly useful in our research work, we may introduce it to you!
- More: who knows what we could post here?
List of Developer Diaries (DDs)
Announcements
- Announcement 1: Dates: Demo and Steam early access plans
Game
- DD2: Historical Faces of RoWS (1)
- DD3: Maps – your interface in RoWS
- DD4: Your first year in RoWS – overview
- DD5: Organisations and your tools to control them
- DD6: Factions of the early 1920s Guomindang (Part 1)
- DD7: Factions of the early 1920s Guomindang (Part 2)
- DD8: The Shanghai Insurrection, March-April 1927 (Part 1)
- DD9: The Shanghai Insurrection, March-April 1927 (Part 2)
- DD10: Demo and scenarii available at game release!
History
- History 1: China: a very brief historical summary (part 1)
- History 2: China: a very brief historical summary (part 2)
- History 3: China: a very brief historical summary (part 3)
- History 4: China: a very brief historical summary (part 4)
- History 5: China: a very brief historical summary (part 5)
Focus
- Focus 1: The « Mandate of Heavens »
- Focus 2: « Guanxi » or your personal social network
- Focus 3: Opium, a Chinese curse (part 1)
- Focus 4: Opium, a Chinese curse (part 2)
- Focus 5: Western armaments trade in 1920s China
- Focus 6: The Chinese soldier in the 1920s (part 1)
- Focus 7: The Chinese soldier in the 1920s (part 2)
- Focus 8: The Chinese soldier in the 1920s (part 3)
- Focus 9: The Chinese soldier in the 1920s (part 4)
- Focus 10: The Shanghai Green Gang (part 1)