Hidden Agenda 2025

Leaders of The Resistance

Rebirth of a Classic

 Hidden Agenda 2025 has been created by the original producer and co-developer of the classic 1988 political situation, Hidden Agenda, in which you play the role of Presidente in a fictional, post-revolutionary Central America country after the fall of an unpopular dictator.

A forerunner to the Games for Change movement, enjoyed by players around the world, used to teach FBI, DEA, and CIA personnel about Latin American politics at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, taught in universities, and used by the African National Congress to model post-apartheid South Africa. Hidden Agenda is a unique and breakthrough mix of game play, narrative, and simulation like nothing that had come before it.

A 2025 Edition Set in Contemporary America

Nearly forty years later, one of Hidden Agenda’s original creators, producer and co-designer/developer Ron Martinez, brings you Hidden Agenda 2025. Now, you play the role of leader of The Resistance, working with allies to rescue American democracy from a fictional corrupt president-turned-dictator.

As you begin playing, the world simulation is in motion. You are a key player. Your decisions and actions will change the world of Hidden Agenda 2025. And maybe the real world, too.

As Hidden Agenda 2025 Opens…

A Corrupt President Turned Dictator

A corrupt president has subverted the nation’s democratic institutions and seized the powers of a dictator, a tyrannical one at that. No one is safe, as he orders troops into the nation’s cities to intimidate populations, or sends masked, unidentifiable thugs to round up both legal and undocumented immigrants. He’s muzzling critics, using his vast economic and regulatory powers to have critics silenced, late night shows canceled, editorial policies corrupted.

Global Damage to The World Order

He also uses his vast powers as the American president to damage generational alliances in Europe and elsewhere, threaten immediate neighbors, while turning a blind eye to the aggression of bloodthirsty dictators he admires and does corrupt business deals with, lining his family’s pockets as people lose basic rights, health care, and economic security at home.

A World of Personalities To Interact With

Hidden Agenda 2025 is narrative simulation populated by a world of personalities, each with a perspective and world view, each talking to you in realtime voice conversation–casts of characters all acting and generating events, stories, proposals, original imagery, and audio unique to your simulation experience.

Your Role: Resistance Leader

You are a leader of The Resistance, one of a network of resisters from all walks of life: activists, politicians, good cops, military personnel, commentators, comedians, farmworkers, influencers.

Make World-Changing Decisions

These Resistance allies work with you, making Proposals you can take and then carrying out what you agree to do. And you’re not alone when making these decisions: you can appoint Advisors who will give their view on the best course of action, or on how to modify a proposal to reduce risk or be more effective.

Confront A Powerful Opposition

But there are Opponents, able to take counter-actions or to independently carry out their plan to destroy the mechanisms of democracy and secure permanent control of the country.

Your Opponents

Your opponents are the President-Turned-Dictator, his incompetent toady cabinet and agency heads, his business cronies, a feckless congress and Supreme Court both bent to the dictator’s will, an army of worshipful followers seemingly immune to reason or principle, corrupted high-tech oligarchs, and network of media outlets pumping out his lies and propaganda 24/7 on tv, radio, podcast, and social media. Their actions appear as Events and each one changes your world.

Make News, Elicit Commentary

As you act upon the world, News and Commentary will appear, reflecting the world view of each commentator and the slant or standards of the each outlet. These will help you understand regime actions and what you might do in response.

Take Independent Actions

Finally, you can take completely independent actions, musing on what you might do outside of any proposal by an ally, in 1:1 conversation with the soul of this simulated world.

Create The World

In all of these ways, the world is changed and new proposals, events, news, commentary and media to deliver it is conjured as a result of your actions.

A Breakthrough Narrative Simulation

Hidden Agenda 2025 is like nothing that has come before it: a fully generative experience, dynamically conjuring up stories in the form of events, proposals to act, commentary, powerful illustrations, and spoken audio.

The Content You Generate is Yours with CC+ Licensing

And what’s more, all this media created as a result of your actions is CC+ licensed and free to use in original or derivative form any way you want: use images in your art work, characters and events in your stories and books, create and sell merchandise, write or generate songs, and more. Make anything you use or create available commercially or for free. The choice is yours.

A Powerful Simulation Engine, Two+ Years in Development

The underlying Headcanon Engine has been in development for over two years, orchestrating powerful generative systems and media creation capabilities to create believable synthetic personalities alive in dynamic worlds with events and situations conjured by your actions.

Join The Resistance Today

Hidden Agenda 2025 is the first of many Headcanon sims to come, to entertain, inform, and delight. Join the Resistance and start generating a better world today!

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• Multiple Levels of Particpation
• Rewards Aplenty
• Make History