How One Programmer Created The Most Complex Zombie Game

An entertaining video about the open source game Cataclysm, and how it was forked into Dark Days Ahead, which was then forked again into Bright Nights. Both are still played today, and they compete for the same players.

The original

Cataclysm by Whales, first committed in 2010 and now archived.

• Source: github.com/Whales/Cataclysm

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

The main continuation, maintained by CleverRaven. It is free from the project site, and the Steam build is a paid convenience release.

• Site: cataclysmdda.org
• Source: github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
• Discord: discord.gg/jFEc7Yp
• Steam: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead on Steam

Cataclysm: Bright Nights

A later fork of Dark Days Ahead that keeps a more sci-fi and less strictly realistic direction. There is no current Steam release.

• Docs: docs.cataclysmbn.org
• Source: github.com/cataclysmbn/Cataclysm-BN
• Discord: discord.gg/XW7XhXuZ89