thank you so much for your kind words! the "accidentally dismissing deaths" was an accident and i loved it so much xD
The "narrative engine" like the rest of the game is open source so you can see how it works: https://github.com/yo252yo/normalidle/blob/main/src/narrative.js my bet was that introducing a relatively high number of small lists could yield exponential number of combinations that feel fresh even if theyre not that complex (i.e. going "horizontal" instead of vertical). I did write a lot of causes of death that can be related to climate change with the help of an LLM but I feel like we missed a lot, to be honest. But whatever I originally didnt think i'd finish the narrative engine before the end of the jam. In fact, would you believe it, I planned to release it separately as part of a game called "divided attention" that I pitched to BRIEFS https://www.goldextra.com/en/briefs-2024-death-call-open-now if they select the pitch I'll work on the engine some more and add more diversity and procedurally generated portraits cause people care about pictures much more than words xD