Divine Affaire

Do you dare meddle in human business?

"If it is true that humans depend on their gods, the dependence is reciprocal"
(Emile Durkheim 1912)

In Divine Affaire, you play the deity of a developing bronze-age community. Receive their prayers (in the form of polite emails), draw power from their sacrifices, and enact miracles to make things better (hopefully).

• Procedurally generated geography and ecosystem
• Fully simulated society with emergent history
• In-game encyclopedia of everything, updated in real-time
• Cute pixel art with over a septillion possible deity faces!
• Way too much information
• Experimental, janky, but unique!

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Divine Affaire is still heavily in development but some things are actually working:

-> Simulating the messy lives of mortals

Every single human in the world is entirely simulated, meaning that from their birth to their death, everything they do has a cause and effects. These actions add up to generate a complex, dynamic social world.

In Divine Affaire, stories aren't generated, they naturally *occur* just like in the real world. And just like the real world, most events are not particularly remarkable, but sometimes they are... and this is the stuff of emergent narratives.

-> An encyclopedia that writes itself!

Good deity work requires good information. Divine Affaire's Chronicles interface documents exhaustively everyone that has ever existed. Find out about Robert, that guy your believer is in love with. Where is he? What is he doing? Find out about his parents, why not? And his parents' parents! What did his grandmother do on the year 153? Find out!

-> One more miracle should fix it... oh no.

Deity work is not easy. Humans are needy and their ambitions contradictory. So Steven wants to become chief... but so does Sandra. Who will you help? And how? You act upon the world through miracles, but you the actual consequences are out of your hands. So you make Louis irresistible to fulfill his prayer to seduce Tom, and that works out but Tom's partner is angry now and ends up killing Louis. Did you do a good job? Ethical decisions are everywhere, disastrous repercussions abound.

Info & Contact

•  Watch tutorials on our YouTube channel.
• Follow @glandeurlessard  for updates.
• Join our public Discord to ask questions or give feedback.