New Roadmap!

An exciting revision to Drunk On Nectar's roadmap is now underway! Planetary Ecology, Biomes and Plant Life are the game's new focus; these exciting additions will provide a larger context for the game's existing attractions while greatly enriching the surrounding flora, landscapes and the Nature Sandbox mode's untapped potential as well. Your enthusiasm and ideas are greatly encouraged for this exciting new direction :)
A picture from DoN's original Dev Prototype, depicting the game's early vision :)

Background

Thusfar Drunk On Nectar "The Nature Simulator" has provided a detailed treatment of invertebrate life, but with only minimal depiction of the larger macro level habitats which its creatures inhabit, such as landscapes, biomes or even planetary ecology. To bridge this obvious gap between the game's larger vision (and subtitle!) and its current focus, the time was now ripe to shift gears, zoom out and add broader perspectives as part of the game's already unique offering. This will provide a larger context for the game's existing attractions while allowing a more free and relaxed growth of the game's overall natural world depiction.
Time to zoom out a bit, as our little Grasshopper (see left) clearly inferred! :)

Ideas Invited

This initiative is still in very early stages, so there is enormous scope and interest in your own ideas, creativity and contributions. Please use this Inspirations Thread for sharing your inspirations. Any pictures and inspirations of the Natural World/Landscapes/etc, personally taken by you are particularly welcome in this thread along with your thoughts, commentaries and suggestions :) For those wondering what this means for the eagerly awaited Praying Mantis update, that update has currently been indefinitely postponed. The current plan is to pick up that thread again at an opportune time; I appreciate both your enthusiasm and understanding in this regard :)

Thank You!

As always, a heartfelt thanks to everyone for your patience, kindness and support in helping the game grow and thrive all these years. Please join me on this exciting new adventure by posting your inspirations in the official Inspirations Thread :) That's it for now, but stay tuned for more Nature Goodness! With , Venugopalan Sreedharan Developer Of Drunk On Nectar

[ 2020-01-17 14:48:21 CET ] [ Original post ]