The Sapling - available in Early Access

A simulation game about life and evolution.

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Long overdue, an updated trailer for the game: https://t.co/TT7JPGvn2b

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Player GodlyShkaf sent me this: "I dunno about sexy, but this is definetely scary"

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@edrtgyrtesdrt Not sure; I started with three pairs of limbs, and one pair went from hands to gliders to wings!

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Milestone: when testing long running simulations, I just saw flight evolve for the first time! Players have told me it was possible for a long time, but I never saw it happen until now😎

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Just added 'how do i get babies to suffocate' to my todo list. This is about aquatic larvae for land animals, but it's still the weirdest thing I ever wrote

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Two Swedish students are writing a thesis on using The Sapling as educational tool, and they have some questions for the community: https://t.co/4Xiua0SKIm

[Ecosystem @EcosystemGame]

Aaaaand 1.0 is online!🥳
Finally the crustaceans are here and Ecosystem is out of early access! What a journey!

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@pernamalhada Apologies for the late reply! This time, I plan to do a more interactive version of the evolution thing (livestream it even?), but I haven't worked out the details yet. There will probably be a summary video, but I have no idea how much content there will be to summarize

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No better way to celebrate finishing another devlog season! Thanks for watching everyone!

[Léo Caussan - The Bibites:Digital Life (on Steam!) @TheBibites]

DING DING DING!
Exactly 168 hours after the video release, the wishlist count got up to 9,238!
Crazy that it was Wessel, The Sapling's dev who got it right, out of all guessers

Real Recognizes Real I guess😎

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Recorded some missing shots in nature... back home, I find hundreds (not exaggerating) of these seeds on my clothes. Guess the hooked seeds in the game need a buff ;P

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@BasedEpicUltra Thanks for sharing your ideas! Without making promises, I'm also thinking in this direction.

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@BasedEpicUltra Thank you for this insight!

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@BasedEpicUltra Thanks for sharing your ideas! Without making promises, I like it :)

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@B_B_GHAST Right now marine snow is only there if there are algae above it (at least in the simulation, not sure about the visualization). The specifics of the marine snow system might change though

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When you release a devlog about sex, and within 24 hours more people watch it than the previous two devlogs combined so far🤦‍♂️.

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@StonedNerd314 I expected it would do above average for a devlog, not that it would be this extreme.

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@Amargarrex I've grown to dislike the looks, so I'm trying to remove it silently to see how the players respond 😋

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Here we go again ;)

https://t.co/nOxq2Iigk5

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@Charedfossil Thanks for the pointer!

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Hey all, forgot to mention I will be skipping next week because of a short holiday (don't want to sacrifice family time). See you all with devlog 2/6 on Sept 21! Devlogs 3-6 will follow the usual weekly schedule.