CleverRaven (Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead community)

CleverRaven is the collective name used by the group of volunteer developers and maintainers behind Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (CDDA), an open-source post-apocalyptic roguelike. The project is community-driven rather than a traditional commercial company: contributors range from long-term maintainers to occasional volunteers who submit code, art, tilesets, translations, and documentation. Development and distribution are handled publicly via GitHub and community channels, and the project publishes regular builds, experimental snapshots, and tagged releases.

The team supports multiple builds (ASCII and tilesets) and platforms, and focuses on deep emergent gameplay, moddability, and active iterative development. Many utilities and builds distributed by the community (for example, windows executables such as a tiles build like "cataclysm-tlg-tiles.exe") are produced by community members packaging the official repository. Because it is an open-source community project, there is no single...