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im not gone yet XD whats next? a new game or more updates cant wait to see what you come up with that game was hours of fun tinkering and experimenting and it was quite different

this is working much better thanks I'm still trying to cause the giant plant

Could the massive size of been a bug just how other things don't render proporly like spamming upgrade?

and a seed drag of 100 leaves seeds that never touch ground and become more like static objects or air mines to the drone

if i can get it to recreate The seeds were huge and slow and the plant had to be atleast 8 or 9 digits in biomass but the limiter only goes to 7 places and the plant was massive im trying to recreate it

With Great power comes great responsibility... well i abused that power so i think we need a way to kill invasive species because i have massive plants when who's seeds land send animals flying and leave a giant blue plant in the map and it spreads very fast

Awesome

gene animal variation (very far future)

Genes that determine mode of transportation ex insect legs like millipede arachnid ant ect wings. Water transportation like fins gill efficiency for if it needs surface air at all like whales or amphibians or if it can stay under water indefinitely. Still going on a water and or island based map... Nests like birds fish insects land animals etc birds could use cliff faces or trees possibly. Mating behavior like how many eggs or live birth at one time and how fast. Animals defense/offence like it has a high speed so it will use that to advantage over other options or it has horns or spikes so only an animal that has evolved a good way of handling it would choose it as a priority meal. Underwater plants. Possibly genes that determine if it is carnivore herbivore or omnivore to do away with just carnherb limit. Possible gene to determine how likely male or female and how often they mate from rats to I don't know... Some kind of animal that doesn't mate a lot.

Something I would like to see is another smaller forcefield generator that let's me pick position and size of field in its range because I find the current one bulky and hard to manage

Much later... Probably a map maker for people to make (massive) maps with rivers lakes oceans mountains deserts forests ect

A minimap that you press m for to see the plants and animals positions on map with terrain and hitting m again gets map hidden off screen to not clutter stuff

Possible voice actor that you can synth to make it say what is needed

Also I'm intently staring at the trello screen every night to see what the science might be. I love the suspence and not knowing to be surprised like the first time I saw your game and think wow thats pretty awesome.

Love the progress and I'm spreading your game to my friends and small YouTube channels to gain attention and I can't wait to purchase the full game in the far future and I will see what I can do with donations in the time being but my union has screwed up my paycheck yet again so things are tight as they didn't close the ticket and took over 300 in client payed twice meaning I have to wait for them to reissue the check next month... Back to ramen anyways love the game I'm still playing alpha 10 since last week still find it fun to tinker with

HP pavillion notebook 15 nx211d

i bought 8 more gb of ddr3 and i have overclocked it with amd overdrive to a firehazard level still doesnt run ok

700 mb video memory 1.6ghz quadcore

Windows 10 pro

Amd A8 -(some amount of numbers blah blah)

• Alright! LOD is working great and the particles are no longer so laggy when i have alot on the screen
• when ever i right click to turn the camera im getting the beep from it selecting the organisms tab
• I can finally look up which is awesome so i can see what time of day it is
• Putting extra voltage into my cpu on this notebook did defintly help
• I upped my GPU frequency from 200 MHz to 780 using amd overdrive and graphics run smoothly so about 500 and lower gets slow and it looks like 2.0GHz processor is what is minimum to run ok
• Spamming random plants/animals spawn in no longer causes massive loss of frames

All and all the optimization seems to be working great for medium low build computers and my bare bone office computer can run it decent now

Hp Pavillion notebook 15 nx211d

1.6ghz quadcore and an extra 8gb i purchased and installed of ddr3 ram

Nice! I'll test it tomorrow and see how it works. Glorious progress

possible animal adaptation to the environment ex avian herb and carn as well as aquatic (this is expanding on my idea of the third map being a tropical island setting with water)

Xbox 360 wired controlers work better and dont require a extra reciever to be purchased

Alot of computers that are low end cannot play your games because they are in the 200-700MHz and less that 1GB video memory

Then theres the people that have only 1.6ghz processor that cant even run the program

One more thing its harder for me to find your game because when i search intelligent design i of course am directed to lessons and speeches on intelligent design instead of the fun game

That will probably change to your game being top result burying them instead when your game gets more popular

also on the drone i sometimes feel the urge to look up for perspective on how big something must look from the animals perspective but i can only turn my camera vertical 90 degrees down and front XD i know its a drone with a bottom camera but still its the future dont they have any other types of drones

another thing is maybe to drain some of that extra biomass there could be a store for upgrading the drone like horrible nerf the drone to start off with and then give it abilities for purchase so i feel like im improving

hmm possibly you could start as a player from the ground you have to walk around and then you can purchase the drone to deploy it and use it for a different perspective? just thinking of things to do with buying and biomass at the moment

Sorry for the big post

Well one community is of course the steam community and i also talk about it in the voice chat when i play csgo.. another one is the roblox game that all the little kids play they offer advirtising that is pretty cheap compared to other gaming websites. I try to drop the names of good games when i hear people say they are bored

Now if you want a lot of attention when you get your game polished off and get alot more content in it you should try and contact these few youtubers that is the most powerful way to get your name out there Here are the youtuber channels These guys focus primarily on strategy games or games where you create things EX: Spore, cities skylines, Tycoon games, rimworld, many other alpha games

Heres the names and links

If you want just a start there is this guy if he is interested he will definitely put it out there Ryan or toxic time waster he has around 19k people who watch his channel and climbing he is the one i watched to decide if i want to buy a game or not. https://www.youtube.com/user/Ryan123220

This is a much bigger channel and this guy loves to play early alpha games he has almost 400k people that watch him https://www.youtube.com/user/Blitzkriegsler

one of my favorite people to watch is this nice brittish guy that goes by latherix 138k if you ask him nicely and tell him a bit about your game theres a good chance he might give it a couple episodes just to show people https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLXUteuWTuXIjxf2OpKC4A

Make sure you give these guys the link to your game home page so they can put it in the description if viewers want to play it

Youtubers are one of the best tools for feedback on the game, to see if theres a bug, something that might need to be balenced, or just to see what mechanics people enjoy.

Origin Drms are harder to pirate of course and you might make a bit extra going through them as well that is if they accept it

For the no thought the game can run fine as is right now i dont seem to have any problem currently performance wise and im on a horrible notebook for office work Steam release

Me having bought many many games through steam i tend to avoid buying a game until it has a lot of content because i like to pick up right away play it for possibly days at a time most of my games have at least 500 hours on them

To the yes thoughts that sounds amazing

So yeah YouTube is for sure the best way to get your name out there as it is of course the way most very early alpha games got off the ground.

Let me know what you think

Something i was wanting to see on the plant side i have no clue how long it is for the plant to make a seed or how many seeds it will make so i was wondering if there could be some little seed pod or something like a flower ( i have no idea) to see the seed production so i can keep track of what plants grow and spread faster

I was wondering what you plan to do with the plant and animal models past basic shapes and if theres a way that i could save specific animals and plants and give it a name so if i lose it to some random circumstance i could not have all my research down the toilet

Any plans of other things i can do with the extra biomass i now have a surplus of?

Btw great game. huge fan im trying to spread the word of this great game its very rare to see a game of genetics anymore