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Maia 0.63: LOST IN SPACE
If treated poorly enough, colonists can now leave the base and head off to their inevitable deaths in the barren wastelands of Maia. Fulfilling food, rest, social needs and building an aesthetically pleasing base will all be important to keeping them loyal. That said, some colonists are just cowards, so don't feel too bad about them.
The games bodily simulation of the colonists has been made more accurate with heat loss through convection, conduction and radiation in different mediums. Colonist metabolisms are finer tuned with effects from sweat, to kinetic energy losses affecting them as they go about their days. Keep your colony warm and sources of water abundant to keep them happy, efficient, and breathing.
The day length of Maia has been made longer. This will give your colonists more time to carry out essential.. and less essential tasks, and take the pressure off growing colonies. Conversely with the slower simulation of the climate and weather, and longer nights, solar and wind generation will now be more challenging to keep online, requiring a greater focus on efficient storage and energy management.
[ 2017-08-15 17:41:14 CET ] [ Original post ]
Maia 0.63 is ready. This update brings a lot of new features as well as an overhaul of the game's simulation and balance. I want to say thank you to everyone who gave feedback over the summer, it's helped me improve the game significantly. Here's a video of me playing the latest build and showing off some of the new features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3i7aMNqyvA&feature=youtu.be
AWOL
If treated poorly enough, colonists can now leave the base and head off to their inevitable deaths in the barren wastelands of Maia. Fulfilling food, rest, social needs and building an aesthetically pleasing base will all be important to keeping them loyal. That said, some colonists are just cowards, so don't feel too bad about them.
High Energy
The games bodily simulation of the colonists has been made more accurate with heat loss through convection, conduction and radiation in different mediums. Colonist metabolisms are finer tuned with effects from sweat, to kinetic energy losses affecting them as they go about their days. Keep your colony warm and sources of water abundant to keep them happy, efficient, and breathing.
Maian Time Slip
The day length of Maia has been made longer. This will give your colonists more time to carry out essential.. and less essential tasks, and take the pressure off growing colonies. Conversely with the slower simulation of the climate and weather, and longer nights, solar and wind generation will now be more challenging to keep online, requiring a greater focus on efficient storage and energy management.
Notable Changes since 0.62:
- IMPs no longer get stuck sparking.
- IMPs will now place minerals in the smelter. They cannot start it themselves however so you will have to manually - or wait for a colonist.
- Player now receives an email when they lose all their IMP robots.
- Flywheels can be clicked on to be put into charge only mode. Allowing you to store energy for emergencies.
- PAUSE BUTTON added to the UI. Pausing no longer causes glitching, is compatible with the building UI. (Don't get too used to the bottom left placement, it's going in the top right soon)
- UI changes to hide text and mouse attached objects when hovering over buttons.
- Mouse now sits properly infront of UI items.
- Condenser now has visible running water when clicked on or used.
- Minerals make dust clouds when dropped or clicked on.
- Workshop table, bodybags, foot packets, grass and other items now have click reactions.
- Alien plant samples have a nice mist effect.
- Numerous tweaks to AI and balancing.
- Large amounts of food creation balancing.
- Food preparation bugs fixed.
- All food KJ calculated more accurately based on the correct breeds and in many cases have increased substantially (potatoes and chickens are over double what they were).
- Ration packs are now far more likely to be built.
- Ration packs can be opened by colonists and the player.
- Colonist standard and binge meal sizes increased.
- Condensers now advertise the high level "water purification" need (like the solar stills) so are better prioritised when building.
- Many small optimisations and a huge amount of code cleanup. Potentially fixing a lot of bugs and likely preventing future ones.
- Missing rain fixed.
- Food trays appearing "unbuilt" issue fixed.
- Colonists now simulate heat radiation and conduction due to convection on their skin.
- Colonists put less direct heat into a room (as roughly 20% is put into kinectic/mechanical energy)
- Fix for missing molerat animation causing a crash.
- Smelting priority tweaks.
- Stockpiling bugs fixed.
- Creation of hydroponics planters priority increased.
- Bug fixed on determining food creation priority need.
- Colonists with suitable skills (construction) will be able to produce twice as much building materials from the smelter.
- Colonists are less likely to hoard materials.
- Colonists can now binge on food if they need to make up more than one meal. This means they can eat 10000kj of energy rather than the usual 6000kj.
- Colonist energy needs slightly balanced to account for heat generated by food digestion.
- Wind turbines will take more damage before advertising repair task to colonists (although will repair bots will maintain the current level)
- Fix for black tiles being left when a door is removed.
- Doors sat in the middle of rooms will now automatically be set to be destroyed by colonists.
- Fix for missing text on the Fusion and Fission reactors.
- Fix for KW/W mixups.
- Fix for IMPs not picking up fossils.
- Desks now moveable by colonists.
- Fix for colonists not filling up the storage room shelves with raw food once a prep station has become full.
- Smelter now advertises it's need for minerals sooner after being emptied. This should speed up construction of building materials marginally.
- Stockpile settings for building materials lowered so people get less stuck if they don't realise they should be managing it.
- Stockpile settings panels now comes up when mousing over a room. Hopefully people will realise it exists now.
- Window sizing bug fixes.
- Full screen now works far better.
- Rendering quality improved.
[ 2017-08-15 17:41:14 CET ] [ Original post ]
Maia 0.63: LOST IN SPACE
If treated poorly enough, colonists can now leave the base and head off to their inevitable deaths in the barren wastelands of Maia. Fulfilling food, rest, social needs and building an aesthetically pleasing base will all be important to keeping them loyal. That said, some colonists are just cowards, so don't feel too bad about them.
The games bodily simulation of the colonists has been made more accurate with heat loss through convection, conduction and radiation in different mediums. Colonist metabolisms are finer tuned with effects from sweat, to kinetic energy losses affecting them as they go about their days. Keep your colony warm and sources of water abundant to keep them happy, efficient, and breathing.
The day length of Maia has been made longer. This will give your colonists more time to carry out essential.. and less essential tasks, and take the pressure off growing colonies. Conversely with the slower simulation of the climate and weather, and longer nights, solar and wind generation will now be more challenging to keep online, requiring a greater focus on efficient storage and energy management.
[ 2017-08-15 17:41:14 CET ] [ Original post ]
Maia 0.63 is ready. This update brings a lot of new features as well as an overhaul of the game's simulation and balance. I want to say thank you to everyone who gave feedback over the summer, it's helped me improve the game significantly. Here's a video of me playing the latest build and showing off some of the new features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3i7aMNqyvA&feature=youtu.be
AWOL
If treated poorly enough, colonists can now leave the base and head off to their inevitable deaths in the barren wastelands of Maia. Fulfilling food, rest, social needs and building an aesthetically pleasing base will all be important to keeping them loyal. That said, some colonists are just cowards, so don't feel too bad about them.
High Energy
The games bodily simulation of the colonists has been made more accurate with heat loss through convection, conduction and radiation in different mediums. Colonist metabolisms are finer tuned with effects from sweat, to kinetic energy losses affecting them as they go about their days. Keep your colony warm and sources of water abundant to keep them happy, efficient, and breathing.
Maian Time Slip
The day length of Maia has been made longer. This will give your colonists more time to carry out essential.. and less essential tasks, and take the pressure off growing colonies. Conversely with the slower simulation of the climate and weather, and longer nights, solar and wind generation will now be more challenging to keep online, requiring a greater focus on efficient storage and energy management.
Notable Changes since 0.62:
- IMPs no longer get stuck sparking.
- IMPs will now place minerals in the smelter. They cannot start it themselves however so you will have to manually - or wait for a colonist.
- Player now receives an email when they lose all their IMP robots.
- Flywheels can be clicked on to be put into charge only mode. Allowing you to store energy for emergencies.
- PAUSE BUTTON added to the UI. Pausing no longer causes glitching, is compatible with the building UI. (Don't get too used to the bottom left placement, it's going in the top right soon)
- UI changes to hide text and mouse attached objects when hovering over buttons.
- Mouse now sits properly infront of UI items.
- Condenser now has visible running water when clicked on or used.
- Minerals make dust clouds when dropped or clicked on.
- Workshop table, bodybags, foot packets, grass and other items now have click reactions.
- Alien plant samples have a nice mist effect.
- Numerous tweaks to AI and balancing.
- Large amounts of food creation balancing.
- Food preparation bugs fixed.
- All food KJ calculated more accurately based on the correct breeds and in many cases have increased substantially (potatoes and chickens are over double what they were).
- Ration packs are now far more likely to be built.
- Ration packs can be opened by colonists and the player.
- Colonist standard and binge meal sizes increased.
- Condensers now advertise the high level "water purification" need (like the solar stills) so are better prioritised when building.
- Many small optimisations and a huge amount of code cleanup. Potentially fixing a lot of bugs and likely preventing future ones.
- Missing rain fixed.
- Food trays appearing "unbuilt" issue fixed.
- Colonists now simulate heat radiation and conduction due to convection on their skin.
- Colonists put less direct heat into a room (as roughly 20% is put into kinectic/mechanical energy)
- Fix for missing molerat animation causing a crash.
- Smelting priority tweaks.
- Stockpiling bugs fixed.
- Creation of hydroponics planters priority increased.
- Bug fixed on determining food creation priority need.
- Colonists with suitable skills (construction) will be able to produce twice as much building materials from the smelter.
- Colonists are less likely to hoard materials.
- Colonists can now binge on food if they need to make up more than one meal. This means they can eat 10000kj of energy rather than the usual 6000kj.
- Colonist energy needs slightly balanced to account for heat generated by food digestion.
- Wind turbines will take more damage before advertising repair task to colonists (although will repair bots will maintain the current level)
- Fix for black tiles being left when a door is removed.
- Doors sat in the middle of rooms will now automatically be set to be destroyed by colonists.
- Fix for missing text on the Fusion and Fission reactors.
- Fix for KW/W mixups.
- Fix for IMPs not picking up fossils.
- Desks now moveable by colonists.
- Fix for colonists not filling up the storage room shelves with raw food once a prep station has become full.
- Smelter now advertises it's need for minerals sooner after being emptied. This should speed up construction of building materials marginally.
- Stockpile settings for building materials lowered so people get less stuck if they don't realise they should be managing it.
- Stockpile settings panels now comes up when mousing over a room. Hopefully people will realise it exists now.
- Window sizing bug fixes.
- Full screen now works far better.
- Rendering quality improved.
[ 2017-08-15 17:41:14 CET ] [ Original post ]
Maia
Simon Roth
Developer
Machine Studios
Publisher
2018-11-23
Release
Game News Posts:
43
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Mostly Negative
(822 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
Public Linux Depots:
- Maia Linux [1.72 G]
About This Game
Maia is a strange and hostile alien world, toxic to humans, yet lush with new life. Your mission is to colonise this poison eden, survive it's dangers and establish humanity's first foothold in the stars. Created by independent developer Simon Roth, Maia is a space colony simulation game about surviving and thriving on another world.
Build your Base
Burrow into Maia's mineral rich crust to build and manage a complex base that fulfills your colonist's needs. They'll need somewhere to sleep, somewhere to build and a steady supply of food, water and energy.
An Enormous Procedurally-Generated World
Twelve light years from earth, the planet 3452C[Maia] circles Tau Ceti. Its atmosphere is toxic, its surface is ravaged by solar flares and meteor blasts and its unstable crust is constantly shifted by earthquakes. Nevertheless, it is theoretically habitable. Explore Maia through a series of vast procedurally generated mission areas, each one up to 2km by 2km in size.
Challenge Yourself
In addition to the sandbox mode players can take on four specific missions, with more to come in updates. Deal with an influx of refugees from a stricken space station in Cassiopeia, survive the perpetual night of arctic winter in The Twilight Zone, study Maia's local ecosystem in SN1572 and begin to terraform the planet in the shadow of an active volcano in Stratospheric Sulphates.
Research and Learn from the Planet to Survive
Maia is a hard science fiction game based on real or extrapolated technology. Some of the colonist's tools have been brought with them, but others must be fabricated from what they can find. Once your base is up and running colonists can begin to study the native environment researching new ways to use the flora and fauna of Maia to their advantage.
Dangerous Atmosphere
Maia's atmosphere is toxic to humans, so to keep safe you'll need carefully manage the atmosphere around your base with well placed airlocks, atmosphere generators, heaters and air vents. Air flow and heat circulation are realistically simulated, emulating the deadly challenge of surviving on an alien world.
Advanced Colonists AI
In Maia you don't have direct control of your colonists, they operate on their own initiative, fulfilling their wants and needs. You'll need to take care of both their bodies and minds if you want any of them to survive.
An Army of Robots
Colonising an alien world isn't something humanity can do alone, instead they've created robotic helpers to do the jobs they don't want to. The I.M.P. robot digs through Maia's crust and collects useful minerals, while the Utility Repair Robot takes care of all that routine maintenance humans can't be bothered with.
First Person Mode
Experience Maia through the eyes of your pet robots. Assume direct control and explore your base in first person, directly interacting with it by performing your robotic tasks. Become part of the world you've built.
Genetically Engineered Super Chickens
To survive, your colonists will need to create and manage new sources of food, thus the people of Earth designed the genetically engineered super chicken, the Uberhuhn. With enough time and diligent research you can even begin to collect and herd the native wildlife of Maia. Unfortunately most of it tastes terrible.
Custom Engine
Maia runs on a custom game engine made by independant developer Simon Roth. It is used exclusively in Maia and is purpose built specifically to support this game.
Immersive Soundtrack
Maia's immersive sci-fi soundtrack adapts and responds to in game events, ensuring it always reflects the mood of the game.The Inspiration
Maia was inspired by games such as Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital and The Sims. It mixes strategy, management and construction with dark gallows humour about the many dangers of an alien world. Maia also draws from the retro future style of 1970s sci-fi.To Come
- A full story driven campaign, several hours long.
- More rooms, and new base management systems.
- Multiple bases.
- More indigenous life forms and a functioning food chain.
- Somewhat sassy computers.
- Realistic water and lava simulation.
- Cats with bee suits.
Get Involved
One of the great things about early access is being able to have players follow along with the game’s creation. This immediate feedback is extremely valuable to the games development. You can see our updates and give us feedback on the game via Twitter or our Development Blog. If you need some help with getting started in the game, you can check out our guides, head over to the official wiki or sign up to the forum.
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: 64 bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3-10100 or AMD Ryzen 3 3100Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 280 or ATI 5770 - or equivalent with 1GB VRAM
- Storage: 4 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: OpenGL 3.2 support is required.
- OS: 64 bit
- Processor: Intel i5-3570K or AMD Ryzen 3600Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 470 or ATI 5870 - or equivalent with 2GB VRAM
- Storage: 4 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: OpenGL 3.2 support is required.
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