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Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilisations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

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Devlog #5 - Walking procedural planets, procedural plants and trees, and more

5 Sep

Planetary Life

More Species Balancing

This is only a request, I'm trying to nag the dev. This game's only true problem is the same as all god simulators that involve creating life. Even when trying make peaceful creatures, one always ends up dominating, I try to control the alpha with birthing restrictions and give the prey benefits to survive, but this just results in the herbivores killing everything then killing each other. It would be cool to be able to separate them by biome, temperature, and even distance. I understand the game is just ...

Quality House

5 Oct @ 11:51am

General Discussions

Demo Update 0.4.1

1 Aug

Changes

Now fur skin slows down speed in water.
Moved the light direction a bit in close zoom.

Bugs fixed

Fixed bug causing water not to render some polygons.
Fixed flash showing of plants inside the star.
Fixed wrong pricing when creating lifeforms.
Fixed showing game menu in walking mode.
Fixed minimap camera position calculations in poles.

Planetary Life

Demo Update 0.4.0

31 Jul

I know it's been a while, I'm sorry!

But it's for a good reason... a new rendering system!

What that means? Well... I added a new camera to the game that allow players to walk and explore planet's surface!
Because of this, I needed to rebuild the whole rendering system of the game, and also redo many of the assets, because initially were designed for a top-down view but now you can watch them from any angle.

Also, I fully implement the vegetation system including allowing the players to evolve them and generate procedural plants and trees.

Along with this demo, there are many other changes and improvements, but I will summary them in the following release note.

I hope you enjoy this new version of the demo!

I promise that the next version will be released sooner!

New features

New zoom adding walking level camera.
New global minimap.
New procedural plants.
Added soil moisture.
Added skeletons to creatures.
Added multiple sizes to creatures.
Added tile history menu. This will keep a log of what happened in the tile in the past.

Changes

Fully changed planet mesh rendering.
Removed evolution energy resource. Now everything works with cosmic energy.
New diet system for creatures based on preferences.
Added microorganism diet.
Now, in evolution menu, when evolving a component the reverts are shown in the same menu.
Improved objects positioning in terrain surface.
Improved air humidity system.
Improved creature’s leg movement.
Improved messages and hit points visualization.
New fighting animation for creatures.
Reduced ring rotation and added shadow projection.
Improved notifications menu.
The creature evolve notification will show only once when the first evolution happens.
An alert has been added to notify the time is paused.
Now natural volcanoes will appear in fixed positions along continental plates boundaries.
New skill tree based on gameplay progression.
Simplified planet colors avoiding non-natural colors.

Bugs fixed

Fixed showing white square instead of proper sprite on creatures.
Fixed bug allowing to change camerazoom when evolution menus were open.
Fixed fertile terrain requirements.
Fixed time non resuming after some situations that were pausing it.
Fixed bug allow to zoom to early during camera tutorial.
Fixed blurry skill tree screen.

Planetary Life

Pressure explanation?

How does pressure work with creatures?

21 Aug @ 1:04pm

General Discussions

Fertility View

Not sure if this is already in the Early Access version but the game could really use a fertility map mode and view.

SBA77

19 Sep @ 2:37pm

Suggestions

So What Do Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Meteors, Wildfires, and Tornadoes Actually Do?

So I've just downloaded the demo, and I'm just not sure what the above mentioned things are used for. The tutorial doesn't explain and from my own observations most of them don't seem to have a use. You'ed think earthquakes and volcanoes would be used to raise and lower land on a large scale or create new landmasses but earthquakes are too inconsistent and random for that and all volcanoes seem to do is melt ice and turn it back into water. Meteors don't seem to have a much of an impact and only create dus...

SBA77

3 Oct @ 5:27pm

General Discussions

QUESTIONS AND IDEAS

hi i only really started this game yesterday and havent really seen anything plus my first time posting anything on steam but i like evelution games like this but i always feel as if im never involved so im gonna try for the first time giving some ideas so i hope you can answer first questions im not too sure how tectonic plates work do they cause earthquakes do they do anythinmg and do they move i have no idea but i have some ideas first maybe they can act like continents with certain species sticking t...

ashxcell

12 Dec @ 7:13am

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