Unlike most roguelikes, it has no goal: the player is free to explore the procedurally generated map, clear areas of monsters, work with NPCs, and build shelters and vehicles. In December 2015, an unofficial launcher was created for CDDA under an open-source MIT license to allow players to stay up to date with the latest releases and third-party mods. However, the stable versions are considered "snapshots" of development rather than the primary version, with the daily updated experimental branch being the "master" version of the game.
The game is under heavy development with experimental releases available multiple times each day. The game is made with ncurses to provide text based graphics later a Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) version with graphical tiles became available. In June 2013 a successful crowdfunding on Kickstarter raised $9,492 (beyond the $7,000 goal) for the payment of a full-time developer for 3.5 months. After the Cataclysm author ended the development around 2012, the game's community forked the game into a new repository called Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead in early 2013. Prior to the cataclysm, bionics were available to the wealthy population, robots were widespread in workplaces such as hospitals, police stations, and mines.Ĭataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is based on the earlier game Cataclysm whose source code was made open-source under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license on GitHub by the original author Whales in October 2010. Though the cataclysm is predominantly a zombie apocalypse, many other disastrous events are going on, including invasions from fungi, Triffids, Lovecraftian monsters and caves containing sewer rats and a rat king. The game is set in near-future New England after a catastrophic event killed most of the human population and spawned various monsters and hazards. This includes both things required for day-to-day survival such as scavenging, hunting, and finding shelter, as well as larger goals such as farming, installing bionics, making and repairing vehicles, and constructing homes. The player is then free to do whatever they please. The player then creates a character and is placed into one of many possible starting scenarios. Prior to playing, the player generates a world which can be shared between different characters. The game is text-based, though alternative graphical tilesets are available. Rock, Paper, Shotgun named CDDA one of "The 50 Best Free Games on PC" in 2016. The game is currently largely developed by its community. The game is freely downloadable on the game's website and the source code is also freely available on the project's GitHub repository under the CC BY-SA Creative Commons license. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a fork of the original game Cataclysm. In-game screenshot showing a player being chased by zombies 'Z'Ĭataclysm: Dark Days Ahead ( CDDA) is an open-source survival horror roguelike video game.
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