Work on Creatura started back in March 2016. The still unnamed project evolved over next year, and decision to make the game more customizable, with focus on shaping the environment and breeding procedural plants, has been made. Those changes resulted in starting from scratch, and by March 2017, a first playable build of what the game is today has been compiled. Half year later, first closed alpha testers from Reddit got access to first public release, Creatura Alpha 0.1.
Another year later, in October 2018, Creatura Alpha 0.5 got released on Steam Early Access. Hundreds of players since then have bought the game, and helped to develop it either by giving direct feedback or crashing it. Now, in 2019, Creatura is finally stable*. The game is almost feature complete, and all of missing content is scheduled for future updates. With the addition of trading, rare specimens, unlockable utilities and obviously much, much more animal types - Creatura is going beta!
Right now Creatura is ready to be played if You don't mind missing content, and some odd crash here and there. The tutorials explaining the game are in place, first 5 animal types can evolve, millions of plant combinations can be grown in fully customizable tanks. Biomes have controllable climates, DNA of animals and plants can be fully edited, and consumables allow for better vivaria management. As long as You are interested in "creative-like" bonsai mode - the game is here. If You are here for animals - it's good point to get used to Creatura, before more complex animal evolution paths are available.
Because of incoming beta phase, in next week Creatura price will rise to 15.99$. As all of players who bought the game over the course of alpha, and had bet on the game eventually getting stable, got the chance to buy it for much cheaper - the same will happen in beta. Once the game is content complete and out of Early Access - the price will rise again, to 20.99$. For now - if You want to buy Creatura cheap or support it while still in alpha, the 10.99$ price (not including Steam discounts) still stands, until 21 May 2019.
Have fun, post screenshots, give feedback, stream and play the game. Thank You all very much for the support so far, and for making the development of this game a possibility. Now let's finally make some neat looking aquariums!
* - Your experience with "stable" may vary. It still can and will crash, just won't crash for no reason.
[ 2019-05-15 18:15:06 CET ] [ Original post ]
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Seed, Breed, Create.
From single cell organisms to complex ecosystems. Creatura is a virtual aquarium/terrarium tank to manage and simulate evolution from the very ground up. Every plant and animal inside takes part in natural and artificial selection, creating unlimited possibilities in simulating or recreating unique environments and pets, while being scientifically accurate with up-to-date biology research and helping to understand Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel great discoveries with simple and captivating gameplay.At The Beginning, There Was (Mostly) Water.
With empty vivarium tank at hand, start your journey to create thriving biomes using only time and artificial/natural selection mechanisms. Begin with single cyanobacteria to rush the botanical travel through algae, ferns, vines, grasses up to modern flowers and fruit trees, just by strategically taking plant cuttings, the same method agriculture used for last ten thousands of years. Every plant shape, colour and type is possibility, just wait for desired mutation to appear, take a clipping and plant it to create new and unique flora species.then, Wild Fish Appeared.
While some multicellular organisms thrive using only sun for photosynthesis, other quickly evolve ability to cannibalize living entities for energy. Where access to sunlight is unlimited, the algae will conquer ecosystem, but in other places, deep below, within abundance of decomposing biological material, the mighty proto-sponge will start the process of eumetazoic evolution. With Your guidance and just right conditions, the sponge will slowly free itself from ground and start the millennial crawl towards complex lifeforms. From that point, it's up to You to create and grow environment providing food and safety for one specie, while simultaneously crafting hunting grounds for others.then, Wild Fish Appeared.
the Ape That Ate the Fish.
After contemplating the cycle of life and beauty of it's creation - how about breaking it with science? Instead of waiting millennia for proper mutations randomly popping up, use in-game GCAT-DNA editor (based on state of art very real software used by modern scientists all over the world), sequence the genome, lookup DNA amino-acid groups on Wikipedia and play god... even more! While at it - claim the creations as new species, fill the animal and plant almanac with new entries, and create a unique life-tree. For the science! (And XP points, too)the Ape That Ate the Fish.
by the End, the Water Was Gone.
Whether You are completionist looking to unlock every specie and genus in game, or just casual player growing his own perfect virtual tank, Creatura provides relaxing gameplay, thousands of customization options and pleasant environment with limitless progress conditions. Play with your animals, trade plant cuttings, share tank designs and enjoy the unique digital world You've created from scratch, in the ultimate evolution vivarium experience.by the End, the Water Was Gone.
[/h2][/h2][/h2][/h2]- - Procedurally generated plants allowing for billions of possible combinations.
- - Create new flora species by taking cuttings of your plants and cultivating the mutations.
- - Authentic GCAT-DNA editor based on software currently used by scientists
- - Interfere with natural selection by modifying tank environment.
- - Discover new species of animals and plants, be first to name them and share online.
- - Design new, stunning vivaria, or recreate real-life aquariums and terrariums.
- - Relaxing gameplay, incorporating botany and biology research into game.
[/h2][/h2][/h2][/h2]- - Procedurally generated plants allowing for billions of possible combinations.
- - Create new flora species by taking cuttings of your plants and cultivating the mutations.
- - Authentic GCAT-DNA editor based on software currently used by scientists
- - Interfere with natural selection by modifying tank environment.
- - Discover new species of animals and plants, be first to name them and share online.
- - Design new, stunning vivaria, or recreate real-life aquariums and terrariums.
- - Relaxing gameplay, incorporating botany and biology research into game.
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- - Procedurally generated plants allowing for billions of possible combinations.
- - Create new flora species by taking cuttings of your plants and cultivating the mutations.
- - Authentic GCAT-DNA editor based on software currently used by scientists
- - Interfere with natural selection by modifying tank environment.
- - Discover new species of animals and plants, be first to name them and share online.
- - Design new, stunning vivaria, or recreate real-life aquariums and terrariums.
- - Relaxing gameplay, incorporating botany and biology research into game.
- OS: Any modern Linux
- Processor: Intel Core. AMD PhenomMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 4.3 compatible
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- OS: Any modern Linux
- Processor: Intel iX. AMD RyzenMemory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Vulkan compatible
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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