Hi Pack!
First of all, we wanted to give you a quick heads-up about all the things that are currently happening in the Niche universe :)
- We are porting Niche to Xbox1 and PS4.
- We will soon release 'Niche - Breed and Evolve' (a new Niche game for mobile that focuses mostly on breeding and less on survival)
- We are soon running a Kickstarter for Adam plushies (and they turned out super cute!)
- We are writing a draft for a book with an author about the story of Adam's sister Nara
(though this is still very WIP and we're not sure what will happen with it)
- And Philomena (Niche's lead game designer) started programming a new Niche-related prototype and is documenting it in our forums ^^
Come join us in the forums or our Discord if you want to chat about any of these :D
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The second topic for today's community news is a bug we had with save files on MacOSX:
Since December 17th Niche is using a new folder for the save files on MacOSX. Unfortunately this caused problems with the Steam Cloud sync and it did not sync the files anymore. The Cloud Sync should now be fixed and work again. You might get a popup asking if you want to download the old saves or upload the new ones when you start the game.
To recover old save files that were created before the 17th of December you have to copy them into the new save folder.
Here is how you can do that:
- Open the Finder
- Click on Go in the top bar, hold the Option Button so you can see the Library Folder
- Then click on Library
- In Library/Application Support are two Niche folders:
unity.Team Niche.Niche - a genetics survival game/Saves <- This folder is not used anymore and contains the save files before December 17th.
com.strayfawnstudio.niche/Saves <- This is the new folder which contains the saves made after December 17th.
- Copy the old save file that you want to play from unity.Team Niche.Niche - a genetics survival game/Saves to com.strayfawnstudio.niche/Saves
- If there already is an new save for the same slot, it will be overwritten. So make sure to make a backup copy of a save before overwriting it, if you want to keep it.
We are sorry for the problems that this change caused.
Hopefully this guide helps you to recover your old saves. If you still have trouble write us an email to support@strayfawnstudio.com and we can help you.
Cheers & Thanks
Stray Fawn Studio
Niche - a genetics survival game
Team Niche
Team Niche
2017-09-21
Strategy Simulation Singleplayer
Game News Posts 49
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive
(4067 reviews)
http://niche-game.com/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/440650
The Game includes VR Support
Niche Content Linux [189.27 M]
Keep your tribe alive against dangers, such as hungry predators, climate change and spreading sickness. Resource management and smart breeding based on real genetics are key in Niche. All worlds and animals are procedurally generated.
Niche is played from a top-down perspective, giving the player a god-like view over the board. Rounds are represented by a day cycle, in which the player controls animals to move and perform actions (collecting food, scouting a new field, mating, attacking a predator, etc). Animals have a limited lifespan, which makes procreation indispensable. An animal’s characteristics are defined by its genes, which are being passed on to the next generation. The player is rewarded with gene points for completing given tasks and for producing offspring. These points can be spent to unlock new genes, which increase the possibilities for evolution. Challenges come in form of animals dying and dwindling resources. The game is lost, when a player's tribe goes extinct. In the next game a new world is generated, but the previously unlocked genes stay in the world.
Games that inspired us
- The Creatures series
- Spore (mainly the first stage)
- The Curious Expedition
- Black & White
- Don’t Starve
Educational aspects
While playing Niche, the player is introduced to the scientific mechanics of genetics (featuring dominant-recessive, co-dominant inheritance, etc). The game also features the five pillars of population genetics (genetic drift, genetic flow, mutation, natural selection, sexual selection). All knowledge is interwoven with the game-mechanics. This creates the effect of learning by playing.
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04+
- Processor: 2 GHz Dual CoreMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia 8800 GT / AMD 4670 or faster
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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