Difclone is a procedural world generator that wishes to one day grow up into a playable game. Taking inspiration from Dwarf Fortress and its many beautiful children, Difclone uses systems approximating real-world phenomena seeded with random values to create believable, immersive, and unique worlds. The development process is documented in the blog.

Difclone has two lofty goals. 

First is to be a simulation that maximizes the complexity and believability of its emergent behavior while minimizing the complexity of its systems.

Second, Difclone wants to be an infinitely replayable, open-ended, narrative-driven, and character-focused game.

Those goals will conflict. Those goals are higher than my roommates were over the summer. Maybe my grand plans will fail and I’ll collapse and die of despair. But maybe I’ll make something pretty cool.

At the very least, I’ll have something for job applications.