Beneath a Dead City, the colony sim / story generator has been released! Huzzah and all.

I've always been a big fan of Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld, and I was always really impressed with how those games worked as story-generators. They're concerned with simulating everything (combat, relationships, building, management) well enough that interesting stories - the kind you'd tell a friend - emerge from the playspace. I'm trying to apply that to this game, perhaps on an abbreviated or focused sort of perspective. Can the elements of the story be generated directly, instead of emerging from the simulation and getting connected in the player's mind? I'm drawing heavy inspiration from games like Sunless Seas (storylets), DotAGE (antagonist domains), and Dungeon World (fail forward) for ways to piece together story fragments into a coherent whole. This alpha version doesn't have much of that yet, but it did lay the foundation of it. I think the gameplay loops at 1-minute, 10-minute, and 1-hour scales are working well, and it's a great base to build off of in the future! Check it out and let me know what you think :)