The Sapling
Wessel Stoop Developer
Wessel Stoop Publisher
2019-12-12 Release
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive
(1472 reviews)
Public Linux Depots:- The Sapling Linux [149.82 M]
Hotfix patch v9.21* Added extra 'reintroduce' menu item for both plants and animals
* In the greenhouse level, there are extra help messages to nudge the player in the right direction
* Sound settings are now saved in between play sessions
* 75% speedup of the system that makes animals animatable, decreasing load times and increasing FPS
* The system that makes animals animatable now only needs 2% of the memory it used before
* 90% speedup of the system that specializes generic animations onto a specific animal, decreasing load times and increasing FPS
* Fixed flying animals sitting still in the air just before dying
* Prevented eat and idle animations in the air
* Fixed objective list view showing the 'not met' icon while actual number was even higher than the minimum required in the greenhouse and disaster level
* Fixed mouths facing the wrong way during the cry animation
* Fixed the proto beak facing the wrong way during all animations
* Fixed mutated animals sometimes having incorrect statistics and abilities
* Fixed animals climbing in growing trees and growing themselves along with the tree
* Fixed organisms being visualized at the wrong side of the river for the disaster level
* Lock camera rotation after clicking the 'roots' button in the plant editor, preventing weird camera glitches
[ 2021-08-12 06:02:43 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 SETUP- OS: 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
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