Hi everyone!

It's been a while since the last update!

Over the past few months, I have been working on something totally new and unexpected.
This was out of the original scope of the game, but it was requested from some people and decided to add it.


It was more challenging than expected, specially in terms of gameplay.
I could have taken the usual approach of player controlling one cell in an arcade-style game. moving around the scenario, feeding, evading larger cells and eventually evolving into something bigger.

However, this didn't match with the original philosophy of the game, where you have full control of a planet and its ecosystem, therefore you are not just controlling one creature or specie, but everything!

So, this cell stage was designed as a kind of Petri dish, where you will find a variety of cells moving, reproducing and evolving.

As a player, you can influence them and and guide their evolution manually.
At some point, basic cells will evolve into multicellular life forms, and later, when those are enough evolved, you will be able to evolve one more time and create a macroscopic life form ending this stage.

The outcome could be a creature, a plant or a fungi with different properties based on the evolved multicellular properties.

Optionally, you can ignore this part and just create some basic life forms in the planet using a template. Although, these templates won't cover all the possibilities.

For now, this part won't be included in the current demo, but I hope everyone enjoys this new feature when the game is released.

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.

Join us to discover Planetary Life!

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!

Watch our stream featuring gameplay of Planetary Life, and make sure to try out our first public demo!

Join us to discover Planetary Life!

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!

Watch our stream featuring gameplay of Planetary Life, and make sure to try out our first public demo!