Hi all! Ive been working on a lot of new things and I would love to share them with you. Last time, we spoke about the Water System. Now, I'm almost done implementing it! The lake or sea water will be polluted by toxic gas in space from time to time. For this reason, as well as to distribute water more efficiently, you will need a system of Water Towers, Wells and Water Points to supply your growing Realm with water. Technological advancements will allow you to produce cleaner, safer water for consumption, increasing the health of your Meeps. Heres an example of what your system might look like!
Large ice and snow comets can break off of the Turtle's flippers, crashing down on the world below and causing havoc. Damaged buildings would have to be repaired before becoming operational again. Heres an example of what happens visually when those comets crash down!
Wanderers will be able to annex Kennels, allowing their dogs to have offspring, so that more Wanderers (and AI Wanderers) can have canine companions. Heres an example of what a kennel might look like:
I've been working hard to improve the UI, and the UX is much smoother and more intuitive already - it's an ongoing process, but Im excited to share it with you!
And last but not least, remember the Research Overview Screen we talked about last time? Well, the design and icons for a bunch of research items have been completed. I am currently implementing their impacts.
Once again, thank you for all of your support, encouragement, and excitement throughout development. I cant wait to share more about World Turtles with you! If you want to be more a part of the journey, feel free to join our Discord where you can hang out with myself and the community. De Chelonian Mobile Gideon Discord : https://discord.com/invite/2NEb4HxwhF

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Please … help us save our Turtle … it means the World to us!

Gather Some Meeps and Develop a Realm

Is there anything more exhilarating than your first move on a fresh map? A small band of Meeps have gathered together with enough supplies to construct a basic resource gathering outpost. Expand their skills, improve their efficiency and guide them towards guilds, societies and more advanced structures. They, and their children, are going to need these to have a fighting chance of saving their Turtle.

Explore, Examine and Cooperate

Find and cooperate with other bands of Meeps scattered on the map. Work with the environment to improve negative situations and affect progress without destruction. Learn about your world and push back the boundaries of physics in order to advance.

Save Your Turtle, Save Your World

Space can be a harsh and unforgiving place, especially to an enormous Turtle. Like the Meeps, their World Turtle also needs your guidance to stay safe and nurtured. And while you’re at it, maybe you can save some others as well…

Background and Vision

I am a solo Indie developer. I joined the Game Dev party quite late in life, and got my first glimpse of Unity almost exactly 2 years before making the first demo of World Turtles, my very first game, available. I'm amazed at the progress I’d been able to make during these two years and owe a great deal of gratitude to various tutorial channels, plug-ins and artists whom I leaned on during the development. None more than Catlike Coding, whose brilliant Hex Map tutorial series kickstarted this entire endeavour.

I have spent a lot of time polishing the task queueing and progressive construction systems, utilising different threads, UI and more and I feel the basic foundation and technical mechanics of the game is ripe for branching off into various promising directions. The free demo is a small vertical slice designed to exhibit the commitment I have to developing a good-quality game and hopefully pique some interest.

I have a good idea of the general direction I want World Turtles to head in, but there’s a myriad of possibilities available for the execution. For now, I’m focusing on a single-player sandbox-type environment. This will hopefully be followed by a small campaign and a map editor. Having some sort of multiplayer capability would also be wonderful, but there’s a lot to be done before then.

I would love developing World Turtles further alongside a group of enthusiastic real-world Meeps. Please, join me and be a part of the journey!