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The Sapling

Wessel Stoop Developer

Wessel Stoop Publisher

2019-12-12 Release

SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 82

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http://thesaplinggame.com

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The fight & flight update is available!

Today the Fight & Flight update is available for evolution simulation game The Sapling. This second big update extends the game with eggs, fur, feathers, family trees, an extended combat system, gliding and most importantly: wings. [previewyoutube=bgwtYGZfaeY;full][/previewyoutube] Over the past few weeks, all of these new features have been introduced one by one in a series of devlogs. An overview, as also shown in the trailer video:

Bodysizes
Edit soil
Family trees
Attacking instincts
Defense
Instinct and sense visualization
Scales, feathers and fur
Eggs
Beaks
Sitting in trees
Gliding
Wings

Besides these new features, there is still a long list of small bug fixes and enhancements, so expect many smaller polishing updates over the coming days and weeks. Once that is out of the way, the 6th and final video devlog for this update, about the game's music, will follow.

[ 2021-06-15 10:57:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!

Features

Design plants and animals.
Fast-forward time to and watch the ecosystem work like a charm or slowly fall apart (probably the latter :) ).
A sandbox mode where you can skip time and turn on random mutation, allowing true evolution.
An instinct system where you can specify what an animal should do when it hears or sees something.
A procedural animation system so any animal can perform any animation.
Procedural music mixed on the fly.
Everything set up to be easily extended by players.

This looks just like Spore!

Wessel Stoop has wanted to play a simulation game where you can build your own plants and animals, put them in a world, and see what happens since 2002. You can imagine his excitement when Will Wright, the father of simulation games, demoed his latest game Spore to an enthusiastic crowd. When Spore turned out to be all game genres except simulation, Wessel decided he wanted to try to make the game by himself. The Sapling is the result of that attempt.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 16 or newer
Processor: A processor with SSE2 instruction set supportMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities.
Storage: 150 MB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPMemory: 16 GB RAM

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