The Sapling
Wessel Stoop Developer
Wessel Stoop Publisher
2019-12-12 Release
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive
(1442 reviews)
Public Linux Depots:- The Sapling Linux [149.82 M]
Patch 9.38* Made the time jump dynamic: the player can now choose how many years to skip!
* Polished the walking system, which should drastically decrease the amount of animals floating or sinking in the floor
* Revised the memory overload prevention: automatic level reload every 2000 years (and time speed continues after reload)
* Fixed another group of 'impossible animals', related to eye positioning, that made the game glitch
* Fixed a bug where all animations suddenly stop after a few years of playing
* Fixed randomly appearing infrequent crash when animal animations were reset (as preparation for the next animation)
* Fixed randomly appearing infrequent crash when a new animal was created
* Fixed a lot of warnings that appeared in the log files, so that the errors become easier to spot
[ 2022-01-15 06:25:55 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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