Cool! I really like the concept of managing a planet and the ecosystem within it, all the plant life and animals are connected in that way. There was definitely a lot of thought put into the placement system, as you can't put animals into water and it will find land near them to safely place in. I had about 100 rabbits on a small patch of land so I started moving them out into the flower fields and then the game got super laggy! I kept on playing and had tons of animals and flowers on the planet and was vibing to the music. For some reason the game didn't want to zoom or go fullscreen for me so I played it in the corner of my browser but it was all good. Also, I wasn't sure what gave me the blue gems was it just a time thing or did the ecosystem give me blue gems? Either way I was spending them and getting lots of animals with them all on 2x birth rate.
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Yeah there was a lot of lag in development but the fix was for Nycto to spend a couple of weeks refactoring some big systems, so I tried to make it so that it didn't get in the way too much :( Zoom we forgot sadly, which was definitely the biggest mistake! lots of people have said it was missing. The gems are gathered by the animals eating and the bigger the food that gets eaten the more gems :)