Very cool game! Love it. Nice and peaceful playing at my own paste :) very nice! There was no tutorial or anything but i got the idea fast enough how it works and was partly the fun really! But maybe some tips here and there would have been helpful or to clear up why i can only build one windmill onto the “rock building” instead of more then one.
I would love to get feedback on my game so if you have time please look at my sim city like puzzle game: https://guldor.itch.io/citybuilder
No idea if you want feedback but here we are… The currency of the game was not very clear to me, i did not know when i would run out of gain anything and completly misted the currency to begin with. It feels a bit outside of the game. like there is mysterious money. Not sure if currency is needed at all just building and trying to get the best version(without making mistakes) could be enough. Also i had trouble placing buildings on the bottom since the UI was in the way. An other thing i would love to see is that after building you can build the same building again instead of having to click on the icon again.
Overall very cool! Love it and want to play it again!
I think I found a bug. Cleared all buildings on the peninsula but somehow stuck on 64%. I used the destruction pylon to hover over the entire map but it didn't seem like I missed anything.
this game is incredible good! It's totally different from a city building game, art is awesome and gameplay is so much interesting and relaxing! Loved it!
I had to dial it down to easy because I'm terrible, but what a relaxing time. Solving puzzles and making a beautiful landscape you leave behind on your way to parts unknown.
hell yeah! i remember the game from ludum dare, the progress is amazing :D i liked playing it then and love it right now :D cant wait what next updates will bring
I bought this game a couple of days ago, and I've already spent a number of hours on it. I was so delighted that first time I put a greenhouse down and got that burst of green coins. Such a cute game that rewards you all along the way. I really needed something environmentally positive. :D
This game's awesome, despite being real zen it goes hard in the strategy department. It's almost like playing chess against yourself but there's no room to pull any punches - if you don't plan carefully in the first act of a level, then you can set yourself up for failure in the second or third act. Reminds me of the global warming mechanics in the early Civilisation games.
I love the idea and would love to be able to play it, but it doesn't show up properly on an ultra-wide monitor. There's no screen resolution settings, and it looks like the vertical height of screen elements is based on the width of the screen - so everything runs off the top of the screen.
Sorry we overlooked this! Until an update's released that has better resolution-independent support, you can run the game using command line parameters to force a 16:9 (windowed?) aspect ratio.
(Whenever I do this for something I might use often, I make a shortcut to the executable and the command line parameters to the shortcut's properties.)
e.g. TerraNil.exe -screen-height 1920 -screen-width 1080
Thanks! It looks like the width and height are switched in the command below, but it worked. (FYI - it'll still use the previous full screen/windowed setting, but Alt+Enter toggles that fine).
I knew there must be some way to make Unity use a particular resolution, but was not finding how for the life of me.
I liked the vibe of this game, and the learning curve was hard enough but not too steep. It turned out to be a puzzle game more than a resource/automation management game - I got some happiness when that light bulb when on for me.
After I figured the basics out, though, I didn't see much reason to continue. It needs a little more complexity or new challenges to keep me coming back.
This game is fantastic! I especially love to watch the scene once the game is won and all the machinery is cleaned up. Are there any plans to allow revisiting previous maps? Perhaps combined with a high score system where clicking the score would load the reclaimed map.
At first it looks way to easy, but when playing it is atleast a bit of a challange (played only first two stages). I think there is enough challange in this game, and im intressted in to where it wil go.
One thing: The mainmenu GUI is not working properly on my 21:9 aspect ratio. No problem in the game itself, so not realy important. But a GUI scale option would be nice.
Really enjoying this game, it's a twist on the usual "city-building" simulator and creating a landscape is really satisfying.
A couple of queries: I noticed that the waterways dry-up when the pumps are recycled which seems a shame and surely impacts on delivery and transport of the recycled equipment to the rocketship. Is there any way to prevent this?
I've hit another stumbling block - on the "mountain" stage (the third one) I can't seem to raise the biomes percentage over 29% (40% is needed to advance) even though they're clearly covering over half the map and all three biomes I can build have a tick on their creators.
There's a bug on the mountain stage where the game wants you to make wetland. There is not supposed to be any wetland on the mountain stage. Sorry about that, the only fix I've found so far is to restart the map :(
Ah, okay. Hopefully that'll get ironed out in a future update (I know it's still in development). Am enjoying the game a lot, so can live with re-starting the map. :)
Playing it again, it seems that when you quit to the menu then continue the saved game, it changes from three biomes to four, so the issue seems to be with loading saved games.
I was really enjoying this game, up until the mountain level. I don't know if I'm just being stupid or what, but there just aren't ever enough trees to create all the flower fields required.
I struggled with this too! After only just beating it, vfqd told me about a strategy that makes it significantly easier. I don't want to spoil it for you if you want to figure it out for yourself though!
You only need a small piece of fynbos to start a fire, so if you plan your excavators so that they either just cut off one tree, or that a tree creates fynbos across a river, you can use that little piece as a firestarter for forests while keeping all of the rest of the fynbos for biodiversity.
This way you're not using up the existing trees for forests, and any new trees that you get from the Arboretum can also potentially be used for beehives.
Another possible approach I've found to work is to leave unscrubbed wasteland around the edge of the tiles that will become forest, then build new scrubbers/greenhouses on the margin around the forest after the placing the arboretums. You need to plan ahead a little to make sure you can actually get power to those parts but otherwise its quite simple and can give quite a lot of tiles for fynbos.
Found this while exploring itch.io, I love it, really calm an relaxing, ultra light and really adictive, beautifull pixelart an art style, i´m just on stage 2, but it really catched me up
The UI is broken on ultra-wide screen (3440x1440) for the panel where you choose terrain in main menu. Top bit of it is not visible as it is off screen. The "Welcome to Terra Nil" has the "0% of 50%" circle over the text, again probably cause of the alignment. Popup/tooltip for the bottom-left circle, again off-screen.
You need to test the game against ultra-wide. In Unity you can add new resolutions to test in the aspect ratio drop-down in game view.
More and more people have access to these kinds of resolutions so you need to either add support for it or you need to lock the game res to aspect ratios you designed for so that we have black borders on sides when game will not work well on ultra-wide.
Sorry we overlooked this! Until an update's released that has better resolution-independent support, you can run the game using command line parameters to force a 16:9 (windowed?) aspect ratio.
(Whenever I do this for something I might use often, I make a shortcut to the executable and the command line parameters to the shortcut's properties.)
e.g. TerraNil.exe -screen-height 1920 -screen-width 1080
think the game has softlocked because I'm at stage 3, and the game says I'm 65% of the way through recycling... but there's absolutely nothing left. At all.
Not sure if you're aware of this, but when you try to launch the game on Windows 10 it throws a Windows Smart Screen error and tries to prevent you from launching the game. I've done a bit of research after encountering this error before, and it's apparently a problem with Unity games that have a custom icon. For some reason Windows flags the icon as a security risk.
waterpumps are a bit glitchy when you use the undo button, i've watched my riverbeds fill up more than they ought to be after an undo before.
adore the game. i wish there was an option to start from latter stages of restoration when replaying a level - with like, maybe suboptimal map states for balance? i've been stuck on mountain for ages and am considering going back to floodplain baby land so that i can see all the charming animals again.
This is a wonderful game, the most incisive take on builder mechanics I've seen. A few bits of feedback, most of which echo things other players have said:
* Resource-based failure detection has a pretty reliable false positive when building a greenhouse near 0 that nets you enough to keep playing. See attached screenshot below.
* I'm finding I often run out of trees before I reach the pollination goal in phase 2, and the game doesn't offer any guidance as to how I can build in this or the prior phase to avoid this. All the other mechanics offer pretty clear built-in learning experiences like, "arrange your rivers and wetlands carefully to contain fires", whereas I don't really know what I can do to earn myself some breathing room for the tree+bees goal. It's possible I'm missing some point of strategy here though.
* The "continue" button on the game failure dialog doesn't seem to do anything.
* The "exit" button should ask for confirmation, and/or its caption should be amended to clarify that it means exiting the game entirely.
Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you're enjoying the game! I've interestingly found beehives to be the easiest in testing. Maybe for the purposes of your playthrough, try placing them before doing a burn or the hydroponiums. But in a more general sense, I'll think about your feedback and how I can incorporate it, thanks!
beautiful pixelart, relaxing music, and a surprisingly amount of strategy involved. overall a very nice experience. i also really like the emphasis on cleaning up after the restoration. great work, vfqd!
Hello there! Great game so far, however, I have trouble accessing the full UI. I'm on a 32:9 screen (bit niche, I know). Is there a way to start it in 16:9 windowed mode?
Haven't tested on any other operating systems, but as a workaround, the game respects the Unity standalone player command line arguments on Linux (I use them to launch in windowed mode) https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CommandLineArguments.html
The relevant arguments are -screen-fullscreen, -screen-height, -screen-width
Hello, devs! Are you planning to translate your beautiful game to different languages? If so, i'd like to help you with the translation to Russian language.
What a nice game! I like it. I'd been looking for something non-violent :^) I'm having trouble with saving, though :^( I can't click 'continue' after reloading the game, even after completing the first stage, and if I 'return to menu' and then re-enter a stage, all my progress is erased. Help??? Thanks!
No worries, thanks! Btw, in case any more info is helpful, I'm playing on Linux and basically just dumped the game files all in one place and am running the Terra_Nill.x86_64 executable directly in the terminal. Also, I think after playing a bit longer, the game is correct saving that I have completed level 1 even after I re-load the game, and while I'm playing the game, I can return to menu and then hit 'continue' to pick up where I left off. However, if I re-load the game before completing a level, that's where I seem to not be able to hit 'continue.' Best wishes with your game.
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Very cool game! Love it. Nice and peaceful playing at my own paste :) very nice! There was no tutorial or anything but i got the idea fast enough how it works and was partly the fun really! But maybe some tips here and there would have been helpful or to clear up why i can only build one windmill onto the “rock building” instead of more then one.
I would love to get feedback on my game so if you have time please look at my sim city like puzzle game: https://guldor.itch.io/citybuilder
No idea if you want feedback but here we are…
The currency of the game was not very clear to me, i did not know when i would run out of gain anything and completly misted the currency to begin with. It feels a bit outside of the game. like there is mysterious money. Not sure if currency is needed at all just building and trying to get the best version(without making mistakes) could be enough.
Also i had trouble placing buildings on the bottom since the UI was in the way. An other thing i would love to see is that after building you can build the same building again instead of having to click on the icon again.
Overall very cool! Love it and want to play it again!
Thanks for the feedback :) I'll check out your game when I get some time
I think I found a bug. Cleared all buildings on the peninsula but somehow stuck on 64%. I used the destruction pylon to hover over the entire map but it didn't seem like I missed anything.
https://imgur.com/1Mg2MnM
Damn that's definitely a bug, really sorry about that :(
this game is incredible good! It's totally different from a city building game, art is awesome and gameplay is so much interesting and relaxing! Loved it!
Thank you :)
I had to dial it down to easy because I'm terrible, but what a relaxing time. Solving puzzles and making a beautiful landscape you leave behind on your way to parts unknown.
<3
hell yeah!
i remember the game from ludum dare, the progress is amazing :D i liked playing it then and love it right now :D cant wait what next updates will bring
Thank you!
i really like it especially as hobbyist unity dev i am really impressed with how far such a small team has come
Thank you :D
Really nice game, loving the art style and enjoying playing it so far.
Couple of things, the viewport can shake constantly when trying to move the camera to the middle when a level is complete.
Tier three isn't explained that well, you basically have build a network of pylons and ports so you can build the other buildings?
Ah thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed the game :)
What a great little game, I am hooked.
Rotation of buildings (particularly greenhouses) is very important, a fact that isn't made immediately obvious to you in-game.
Thank you! And thanks for the feedback
Very good graphics & unique conception!
<3
<3
I bought this game a couple of days ago, and I've already spent a number of hours on it. I was so delighted that first time I put a greenhouse down and got that burst of green coins. Such a cute game that rewards you all along the way. I really needed something environmentally positive. :D
:D wonderful
When I click zen mode it doesnt do anything?
Hey :) it just makes it so you don't get a score at the end
I mean like when I click the zen mode checkbox it stays empty
Should be fixed with the patch I just posted!
This game's awesome, despite being real zen it goes hard in the strategy department. It's almost like playing chess against yourself but there's no room to pull any punches - if you don't plan carefully in the first act of a level, then you can set yourself up for failure in the second or third act. Reminds me of the global warming mechanics in the early Civilisation games.
Brilliant! Thank you :)
I love the idea and would love to be able to play it, but it doesn't show up properly on an ultra-wide monitor. There's no screen resolution settings, and it looks like the vertical height of screen elements is based on the width of the screen - so everything runs off the top of the screen.
Sorry we overlooked this! Until an update's released that has better resolution-independent support, you can run the game using command line parameters to force a 16:9 (windowed?) aspect ratio.
(Whenever I do this for something I might use often, I make a shortcut to the executable and the command line parameters to the shortcut's properties.)
e.g. TerraNil.exe -screen-height 1920 -screen-width 1080
Thanks! It looks like the width and height are switched in the command below, but it worked. (FYI - it'll still use the previous full screen/windowed setting, but Alt+Enter toggles that fine).
I knew there must be some way to make Unity use a particular resolution, but was not finding how for the life of me.
I absolutely love the artstyle and the gameplay is fantastic!
Thank you :D
One of a kind game, the graphics are fantastic and the gameplay is engaging.
<3
I liked the vibe of this game, and the learning curve was hard enough but not too steep. It turned out to be a puzzle game more than a resource/automation management game - I got some happiness when that light bulb when on for me.
After I figured the basics out, though, I didn't see much reason to continue. It needs a little more complexity or new challenges to keep me coming back.
Thank you, and that's a fair point, we're working on it :)
This game is fantastic! I especially love to watch the scene once the game is won and all the machinery is cleaned up. Are there any plans to allow revisiting previous maps? Perhaps combined with a high score system where clicking the score would load the reclaimed map.
Interesting idea, thanks :)
At first it looks way to easy, but when playing it is atleast a bit of a challange (played only first two stages). I think there is enough challange in this game, and im intressted in to where it wil go.
One thing: The mainmenu GUI is not working properly on my 21:9 aspect ratio. No problem in the game itself, so not realy important. But a GUI scale option would be nice.
Keep up the Great work
- P
Thanks for the feedback, pleased you are enjoying it :)
Really enjoying this game, it's a twist on the usual "city-building" simulator and creating a landscape is really satisfying.
A couple of queries: I noticed that the waterways dry-up when the pumps are recycled which seems a shame and surely impacts on delivery and transport of the recycled equipment to the rocketship. Is there any way to prevent this?
Hey Zagrebista, this is actually intentional, you're supposed to leave the water pumps until last and try not recycle them :)
Thanks! :D
I've hit another stumbling block - on the "mountain" stage (the third one) I can't seem to raise the biomes percentage over 29% (40% is needed to advance) even though they're clearly covering over half the map and all three biomes I can build have a tick on their creators.
There's a bug on the mountain stage where the game wants you to make wetland. There is not supposed to be any wetland on the mountain stage. Sorry about that, the only fix I've found so far is to restart the map :(
Ah, okay. Hopefully that'll get ironed out in a future update (I know it's still in development). Am enjoying the game a lot, so can live with re-starting the map. :)
Playing it again, it seems that when you quit to the menu then continue the saved game, it changes from three biomes to four, so the issue seems to be with loading saved games.
*reverse factorio*
Android version?
Not at the moment!
is it planned
Not right now but that could change in the future
I was really enjoying this game, up until the mountain level. I don't know if I'm just being stupid or what, but there just aren't ever enough trees to create all the flower fields required.
I struggled with this too! After only just beating it, vfqd told me about a strategy that makes it significantly easier. I don't want to spoil it for you if you want to figure it out for yourself though!
Please do tell, I have absolutely no interest in slamming my head against this wall anymore.
You only need a small piece of fynbos to start a fire, so if you plan your excavators so that they either just cut off one tree, or that a tree creates fynbos across a river, you can use that little piece as a firestarter for forests while keeping all of the rest of the fynbos for biodiversity.
This way you're not using up the existing trees for forests, and any new trees that you get from the Arboretum can also potentially be used for beehives.
Another possible approach I've found to work is to leave unscrubbed wasteland around the edge of the tiles that will become forest, then build new scrubbers/greenhouses on the margin around the forest after the placing the arboretums. You need to plan ahead a little to make sure you can actually get power to those parts but otherwise its quite simple and can give quite a lot of tiles for fynbos.
I really love this game. It is clam, relaxing & addictive.
Thank you!
Found this while exploring itch.io, I love it, really calm an relaxing, ultra light and really adictive, beautifull pixelart an art style, i´m just on stage 2, but it really catched me up
Thank you :)
The UI is broken on ultra-wide screen (3440x1440) for the panel where you choose terrain in main menu. Top bit of it is not visible as it is off screen. The "Welcome to Terra Nil" has the "0% of 50%" circle over the text, again probably cause of the alignment. Popup/tooltip for the bottom-left circle, again off-screen.
You need to test the game against ultra-wide. In Unity you can add new resolutions to test in the aspect ratio drop-down in game view.
More and more people have access to these kinds of resolutions so you need to either add support for it or you need to lock the game res to aspect ratios you designed for so that we have black borders on sides when game will not work well on ultra-wide.
You misspelled "could" a few times. Other than that, pretty legit.
Seconded! I would love to fully explore this game but cannot
Sorry we overlooked this! Until an update's released that has better resolution-independent support, you can run the game using command line parameters to force a 16:9 (windowed?) aspect ratio.
(Whenever I do this for something I might use often, I make a shortcut to the executable and the command line parameters to the shortcut's properties.)
e.g. TerraNil.exe -screen-height 1920 -screen-width 1080
Hi. I'm trying to play on OSX, but the downloaded version says it can't be opened. Can you help me with this?
Ditto. I copied Terra Nil into applications, and double finger-clicked to open the menu, went to "open", and a "can't be opened" dialog appeared.
From what I understand, catalina has some weird permissions issues running unity games.
If you change the permissions it should work. Try running this command in the terminal in the parent directory of the app
sudo chmod a+x "Terra Nil.app"/Contents/MacOS/*
I'm have the same issue and fix said that's the files not found
Hi mac folks, finally got a mac to test on today. I got the command a bit wrong before, it's actually:
sudo chmod a+x "Terra Nil.app"/Contents/MacOS/*
Make sure to run this in the same directory as Terra Nil
I'll edit my previous post to be correct as well :)
When I run the command it says "no such file or directory," what do I do
think the game has softlocked because I'm at stage 3, and the game says I'm 65% of the way through recycling... but there's absolutely nothing left. At all.
Damn, sorry about that! That definitely seems like a bug. I'll check it out. You might need to restart the map, sorry!! :(
fair enough, thanks for the quick reply! game is otherwise perfect lol
Beautiful, relaxing, and with a surprising amount of depth. Absolutely love it.
Thank you!
Not sure if you're aware of this, but when you try to launch the game on Windows 10 it throws a Windows Smart Screen error and tries to prevent you from launching the game. I've done a bit of research after encountering this error before, and it's apparently a problem with Unity games that have a custom icon. For some reason Windows flags the icon as a security risk.
EDIT: This Unity forum post describes the issue. https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-5-the-digital-signature-is-not-valid-when-...
Thanks, I'll check it out
waterpumps are a bit glitchy when you use the undo button, i've watched my riverbeds fill up more than they ought to be after an undo before.
adore the game. i wish there was an option to start from latter stages of restoration when replaying a level - with like, maybe suboptimal map states for balance? i've been stuck on mountain for ages and am considering going back to floodplain baby land so that i can see all the charming animals again.
Glad you like it, and thanks for the feedback!
This is a wonderful game, the most incisive take on builder mechanics I've seen. A few bits of feedback, most of which echo things other players have said:
* Resource-based failure detection has a pretty reliable false positive when building a greenhouse near 0 that nets you enough to keep playing. See attached screenshot below.
* I'm finding I often run out of trees before I reach the pollination goal in phase 2, and the game doesn't offer any guidance as to how I can build in this or the prior phase to avoid this. All the other mechanics offer pretty clear built-in learning experiences like, "arrange your rivers and wetlands carefully to contain fires", whereas I don't really know what I can do to earn myself some breathing room for the tree+bees goal. It's possible I'm missing some point of strategy here though.
* The "continue" button on the game failure dialog doesn't seem to do anything.
* The "exit" button should ask for confirmation, and/or its caption should be amended to clarify that it means exiting the game entirely.
Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you're enjoying the game! I've interestingly found beehives to be the easiest in testing. Maybe for the purposes of your playthrough, try placing them before doing a burn or the hydroponiums. But in a more general sense, I'll think about your feedback and how I can incorporate it, thanks!
can't run in linux, why?
Hi there, what error are you getting?
The game doesn't work even though I set the permission,didn't popup anything
Hey, try installing the game through itch.io app. I'm using Manjaro KDE, the game is running fine.
This is such a beautiful concept for a game and you've executed on that concept wonderfully.
Thank you :D
beautiful pixelart, relaxing music, and a surprisingly amount of strategy involved. overall a very nice experience. i also really like the emphasis on cleaning up after the restoration. great work, vfqd!
Thank you so much <3
Hello there! Great game so far, however, I have trouble accessing the full UI. I'm on a 32:9 screen (bit niche, I know). Is there a way to start it in 16:9 windowed mode?
Haven't tested on any other operating systems, but as a workaround, the game respects the Unity standalone player command line arguments on Linux (I use them to launch in windowed mode) https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CommandLineArguments.html
The relevant arguments are -screen-fullscreen, -screen-height, -screen-widthAh thanks for pointing that out! Can that work for you @secretstage?
This worked perfectly, thank you both!
Fantastic!!
Hello, devs! Are you planning to translate your beautiful game to different languages? If so, i'd like to help you with the translation to Russian language.
Thanks for the offer! :) We're not sure about translation yet
What a nice game! I like it. I'd been looking for something non-violent :^) I'm having trouble with saving, though :^( I can't click 'continue' after reloading the game, even after completing the first stage, and if I 'return to menu' and then re-enter a stage, all my progress is erased. Help??? Thanks!
That's strange! I'll look into it. Sorry about that!
No worries, thanks! Btw, in case any more info is helpful, I'm playing on Linux and basically just dumped the game files all in one place and am running the Terra_Nill.x86_64 executable directly in the terminal. Also, I think after playing a bit longer, the game is correct saving that I have completed level 1 even after I re-load the game, and while I'm playing the game, I can return to menu and then hit 'continue' to pick up where I left off. However, if I re-load the game before completing a level, that's where I seem to not be able to hit 'continue.' Best wishes with your game.
Quite enjoying this game. Would be good if there was a windowed mode, though.
Thank you! And thanks for the suggestion :)
See the above comment for running the game with unity command line arguments to launch in windowed mode <3