DoN aims to provide the most comprehensive nature experience gaming has ever seen. To this end, the game has been built at invertebrate-scale (a micro world) for an unprecedented level of detail. Plants in DoN are not flat props but living, growing entities that flower, pollinate and propagate across seasons like real plants. Finally, each species has unique gameplay depending on its morphology.
The current release features four invertebrate species: Jumping Spider (Phidippus Regius), Butterfly (Viceroy), Dragonfly (Common Hawker) and a Bee (Solitary) along with three flowering plants: Orange Lily, Greater Knapweed, Imperata Cylindrica (Grass) and a non-flowering plant: Fern. Trees and other flora are also featured but with only limited simulation at present.
Additional species of animals, plants and ecological phenomena are planned for addition once the game's EA goals (read above) have been met. You are welcome to vote for a creature or plant you're excited about for addition in the community forums!
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While no game can possibly cover all of Nature, Drunk On Nectar is a sincere commitment to go as far as one possibly can.
The Sandbox mode is a big part of DoN's offering while the other game modes continue to grow the Sandbox will not be left far behind.
This update adds a brush mode for placing creatures/plants (requested by the community!) and provides access to 16 new props (stones/branches/trees) that can be placed by you to transform the map.
Here's a full video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAidAMGOk8I
And to whet your appetite, here are some GIFs :D
1. Brush mode - planting made easy
2. Add creatures rapidly
Swarm of male and female Jumping Spiders :p
3. Ants placed with the new brush tool
4. New Trees available to plant:
5. Sandbox Baby caterpillars!
6. Of Ladybirds & Leaves:
7. Conclusion - Give DoN's Nature Sandbox a Go!
Again, here is the full video :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAidAMGOk8I
How can I save my Sandbox Creations?
This is a shortcoming that still needs to be addressed. There is no way to save your creations (yet). On the bright side, this will come in a future update. A Sandbox-driven Level Editor (create your own Creature Quests!) with Steam Workshop support is planned too. Once the current backlog of updates is cleared, save/load functionality will be taken up.Feedback for Sandbox mode
The brush feature actually came about as community feedback, so if you'd like to see anything else in the Sandbox don't hesitate to ask! The more feedback the game receives about existing mechanics/features, the more rapidly it can grow and improve.That's it for this update! In-Game tutorial maps for all creatures will be coming next.
With ❤,
- Venugopalan Sreedharan
Minimum Setup
- OS: Ubuntu or equivalent distro
- Processor: 3 Ghz Dual-Core 64-bit CPUMemory: 8000 MB RAM
- Memory: 8000 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3 compatible GPU with 2 GB VRAM
- Storage: 10000 GB available space
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