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It took around nine months of experimenting with different themes before we finally landed on the idea of the cult. We needed a player fantasy we could explain easily and that people would immediately understand.

We knew we had to figure out a way to market the game in one sentence. At this point we still hadn’t come up with the cult theme. When I took it to Jimp and Julian, they loved it, but we immediately found that it was a really hard game to pitch when talking to publishers. I was excited about the idea of combining those two genres to create something that would become more than the sum of its parts, so I created a prototype that I planned to show to the other guys at an upcoming PAX. I noticed that games like RimWorld and Enter the Gungeon created so many interesting emergent narratives – stories that spring out of the game’s mechanics – that made it so everyone’s experience with the game was unique.

The game actually started with the idea of combining the genres of a roguelike with a colony sim/base builder. What was your source of inspiration for Cult of the Lamb? How did you develop the idea?įunny enough, the cult stuff didn’t come until much later.

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