Dackers Studios is one person. Everything you see in POTUS Election Sim — the campaign, the presidency, the powers of the office, the world stage — is built and maintained solo, using a visual editor built specifically for this project.
P.A.G.E — Politics.Advanced.Game.Engine — is the proprietary tool the whole game is built in. Under the hood it's still HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but P.A.G.E wraps that in a visual editor: screens, systems, and logic are built and wired up by hand on a canvas, instead of hunting through dozens of separate files and a six-figure line count to change one number.
That matters for a one-person studio. A screen like the Cabinet Draft or the Supreme Court nomination battle touches layout, state, and a dozen small rules at once — P.A.G.E keeps all of that visible and editable in one place, so a solo developer can actually hold the whole system in their head while building it.
Dackers Studios is a solo project. Every system on The Game page — every named justice, every stakeholder group, every scenario — was designed, built, and balanced by one developer using P.A.G.E as the workbench.
No cloud, no subscription, no API keys. A lightweight AI model comes bundled directly inside the desktop app — every advisor comment, headline, and event you see is generated locally, on your own hardware, in response to what you actually typed, not picked from a pre-written list.
An embedded C++ engine feeds prompts straight to your GPU or CPU, with local memory caching and an automatic execution queue generating real-time text and structured game events instantly on your own machine — without a single byte going to an external server. The model itself has been optimized specifically for politics-focused simulation, not adapted from a general-purpose one.
> reading player input: situation room, order #4
> scoring decisiveness + political realism
> generating consequence, advisor reaction, headline
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Questions about the engine, the AI, or anything else under the hood? Reach out to the developer directly.