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Hi Seno,

Thanks for your comment, interesting thoughts. When making Turning Point I wasn't consciously trying to critique anything, though I suppose art has a way of drawing ideas out of the author without them noticing.

Turning Point isn't meant to push any political message, but instead portray the time as best as I could within the medium and my understanding, as well as to prompt New Zealanders to reflect upon the national myths which our nation is built upon.

The game is meant to take place from the perspective of the current government, which I why the Muldoon government viewed Think Big as purely good. I wouldn't want anyone to take this game as an authoritative explanation of who was right and who was wrong, just the perspectives and events of the 1980's.

Cheers again for the comment.

Thanks for asking:

Following the 1987 market crash, there will be a struggle for power within the Labour party.
You need to choose to play as the reformist faction and then win the struggle for power.
As the reformists, you win the struggle for power by bringing the traditionalist's influence to be less than 50% and then triggering a vote of no confidence by bringing party support below 20%.

If you do this, you will get a special event where Lange is forced to resign and Roger Dogulas and his faction assume control of the party.

Hi there, Turns out I had left the "Lange Wins the Snap Election" flag on for debugging when building out the game. I've just released a quick update which should have fixed this issue. Thank you and Seno900 for pointing this out.