Hi all, There are, understandably, two very frequent connotations being made between World Turtles and existing popular culture. I wanted to address those briefly here. TL;DR We all have a very positive relationship and mutual respect for each others efforts and intentions! The Wandering Village I have actually become online friends with Philomena (team lead of The Wandering Village), and she's been very friendly and helpful towards a noob solo dev. The two games' designs were done completely independently - we only found out about each other later, and became friends due to it. I've been working on World Turtles since 2019, long before I heard of The Wandering Village. I've also purposefully not played or watched TWV since I didn't want it to influence me. I actually have a YouTube channel with dev logs from 2019 (and there exists some early independent YouTube coverage as well) showing my progress, I'm just a lot slower than the TWV team! Many of World Turtles' Discord members came straight from the Discord of The Wandering Village! Discworld I am a huge Sir Terry Pratchett and Discworld fan. It is indeed why I chose this setting. However, the World Turtle myth has appeared in various forms via various civilizations across earth and is, in itself, not a problem. I actually contacted Rhianna Pratchett about this very early on to make sure I would not be stepping on any toes. She is completely fine with me using the setting, as long as I dont make it Discworld-y by basing my characters, places and ideas directly on those of Discworld. To add to all of this, there's also Beyond These Stars coming out fairly soon, but I also know their team lead, Sam, and the situation is similar to the other two discussed above. See you in the game! Gideon

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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!