Cassandra Classic aims to create a rising curve of tension over the course of the game.

So if you want a different kind of story for your colony, you can just choose a different storyteller. There are several storytellers to choose from, and each one applies a different algorithm for generating random events. Every thunderstorm, pirate raid, and traveling salesman is a card dealt into your story by the AI Storyteller (modeled after the AI Director from Left 4 Dead) who analyzes your situation and decides which event she thinks will make the best story. It works by controlling the “random” events that the world throws at you.

It’s designed to co-author tragic, twisted, and triumphant stories about imprisoned pirates, desperate colonists, starvation and survival. We also take ideas from indie hits like FTL (our semi-random event format) and Prison Architect (its way of presenting a complex world in a comprehensible, interactable way).

In terms of game design, the game draws most from the 800-pound gorrilla of the simulation genre, Dwarf Fortress.

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