Developer posts and news about this game.
This week's experimental build is going to focus on enzymes and antibodies! My goal is to make their interactions more varied and interesting. You can play the experimental build by changing the branch: right-click in library > properties > game versions & betas > ex
This is the second part of the Simplicity Update which aims to streamline all of the confusing, spaghettid game surfaces. The manage screen has finally been unified into one surface, rather than having a separate surface for the loadout, cell editor and exchange. There are also o
v0.4.9-92: Implemented: * A STORY MESSAGES setting in Settings > TUTORIAL. Turned off, the lab's tutorial messages no longer open or pause the dish, and their tasks show only in OBJECTIVES * Amoebas swimming at full top speed while carrying engulfed prey. Carried prey now lowe
Another new map, this one has protovirin which makes cells produce viral particles while alive and virin which produces viral particles on death. Its also cold and acidic. I'm still just experimenting with maps while working on other aspects of the game. Changelog: v0.4.9-65: Imp
New Map VZ2-261020 has virin and zymogen-II and is hotter than normal. Testing out some 4 direction symmetry. v0.4.9-46: Reworked: * The IDENTIFY STRAIN card draws the M, E, ENTER and ESC keys in its footer as key glyphs instead of words Fixed: * The right-hand HUD docks overlapp
v0.4.9-40: Fixed: * Splicer gene values drawing over their bars, and the NAME YOUR STRAIN placeholder wrapping onto several lines. Values now sit beside their bar, and the name stays on one line * Lab STORAGE dose counts overprinting long compound names in a different text size,
My apologies, the last patch shipped with a premature change that broke the splicer screen. This was not meant to be included with the hotfix and has been reverted. v0.4.9-38: Fixed: * The bug report button staying on screen when Ctrl+F1 hid the HUD. It now hides with the rest of
Hey everyone! I am going to be releasing a series of new maps to experiment with different designs and compounds. This weeks map, Z3sM1-261019, is cold, leans alkaline and has a highly acidic version of Zymogen-III Symbiotic which modifies digestive enzymes to have the symbiotic
Hey everyone! I am calling this next set of weekly updates the "Simplicity Update" because I am focusing on simplifying the game as much as possible without removing mechanical depth . What this means is simplifying and consolidating UI surfaces, clarifying the core game loop, an
v0.4.8-27: Implemented: * A BUG REPORT button in the bottom-right corner of the menu screens, above the version number * A BACK button on the opponent browser and the creative cell picker, moved clear of the HUD's bottom-left readout * FILTER in the splicer steps through the gene
v0.4.8-4: Implemented: * A MONITOR setting under GRAPHICS moves the game to another display when more than one is connected * BUG REPORT remembers whether you include logs and diagnostics * Absorption pseudopods reach for a nearby crystal other than Trophin, hold on to it and dra
v0.4.8-2: Reworked: * Act 5's rival lab now holds its zone, takes neighbouring zones and harvests crystals (Early Access only) * Archaea give off the same heat as other cells instead of three times as much Fixed: * Act 5's rival archaea sitting still while their heat starved the
Hey everyone! My focus has been on enhancing and simplifying the existing systems in the game, and as part of that effort I have improved the legibility of the genetic targeting-based mechanics, adding more cell body types, improved amoeba, and introduced the new archaea cell typ
v0.4.7-13: Implemented: * ARENA LAB: SAVE a trained lab onto the MODELS shelf, and it takes a rival seat in your Bionet runs (Early Access only) * Custom trained LAB colors (Early Access only) v0.4.7-14: Reworked: * Main menu: destinations sit in two columns, PLAY and DATA, that
v0.4.7-10: Reworked: * More of the game is translated in all 28 languages Fixed: * Arena Lab episode limit bar flashing when changed, and showing a hexagon when clicked (Early Access only) v0.4.7-11: Fixed: * The top-left HUD row of four buttons spilling past its plate at 100% UI
v0.4.7-8: Implemented: * An episode limit on the Arena Lab page, from 1 minute up to 480 minutes, or OFF to let a match run until one side wins (Early Access only) * The procedural dish as its own choice on the Arena Lab map row (Early Access only) Reworked: * Arena Lab matches s
Hey everyone, This is one of the first major updates since Early Access began. Most issues appear to be around challenges in understanding the simulation mechanics, (a lack of) balance, and other sources of confusion. Looking ahead, my priorities are improving the clarity of exis
Hello! This stream is a bit of an experiment... the AI are a custom Neurosymbolic architecture, and they're learning to interpret game states through a vector space and then feed them through small NEAT-like neural networks to make decisions in real-time. These are the LABS in-ga
v0.4.6a-38: Reworked: * Strain value: ordinary strains are worth hundreds, strong ones thousands, and extremophiles millions; the cryobank price and the sell ask use the appraisal INSPECT shows Fixed: * INSPECT showing 1,000,000 as the value of an ordinary cell * The bottom bar c
v0.4.6a-20: * Fixed a Plasmodium showing no preview in the Splicer, so it could not be spliced * Watching a lab's game now keeps your VSync and frame cap v0.4.6a-21: * Fixed crystals vanishing when you leave a dish and come back, and older saves get their map crystals back * Fixe