What do RimWorld's designer and developer say about how its storytellers choose events, and what part of the mechanism is only documented by the community?
Ludeon's own pages say RimWorld is a story generator that works by controlling random events, each one 'a card dealt into your story' by the AI storyteller; the designer's 2013 devlog names three storytellers whose policies are a pre-defined tension curve, pure randomness, and 'nothing bad happens'. The numeric mechanism (what inputs, what curve, what thresholds) is not given in any first-person text obtained; only the community wiki describes inputs such as colony wealth and time since the last major event, and a push/breathe cycle for Cassandra. No evaluation of the storytellers by the developer was found.
Ludeon's own pages say RimWorld is a story generator that works by controlling random events, each one 'a card dealt into your story' by the AI storyteller; the designer's 2013 devlog names three storytellers whose policies are a pre-defined tension curve, pure randomness, and 'nothing bad happens'. The numeric mechanism (what inputs, what curve, what thresholds) is not given in any first-person text obtained; only the community wiki describes inputs such as colony wealth and time since the last major event, and a push/breathe cycle for Cassandra. No evaluation of the storytellers by the developer was found.
Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; storyteller preset names changed (2013 vs 2026) with no statement of algorithm change - kept.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] Ludeon's own pages say RimWorld is a story generator that works by controlling random events, each one 'a card dealt into your story' by the AI storyteller; the designer's 2013 devlog names three storytellers whose policies are a pre-defined tension curve, pure randomness, and 'nothing bad happens'. The numeric mechanism (what inputs, what curve, what thresholds) is not given in any first-person text obtained; only the community wiki describes inputs such as colony wealth and time since the last major event, and a push/breathe cycle for Cassandra. No evaluation of the storytellers by the developer was found. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source
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