✨ Highlights
Your worlds can finally remember.
This update brings the long-awaited Save & Continue system, allowing your Biome — its Neeblies, Florin Beds, and gentle chaos — to persist perfectly between sessions.
Alongside this, the Neeblarium now greets you with a developer splash screen, a first-pass credits scene, and early groundwork for future audio polish. It’s a major quality-of-life milestone wrapped in cozy presentation updates.
💾 Save & Continue — Worlds that Remember
The Neeblarium now autosaves your world quietly in the background (autosave.json) and restores it when you return.
What’s Remembered
🌸 Florin Beds & Resources — placement, growth logic, capacities, and sprite variation
🧬 Neeblies — genomes, hunger/thirst/energy/health, family ties, homes, and IDs
🥚 Eggs — position, color, and incubation progress
🌍 Camera — your last position and zoom
📊 World Stats — births, deaths, generations, and causes
A new load-after-scene handshake ensures the world only restores once everything’s initialized — preventing the classic “pop-in” of misplaced entities.
🎮 Start Screen Polish
Your opening moments now feel more cohesive and in-theme:
“New Game” is now “New Biome”
The Save Card doubles as your Continue option, labeled “Resume Last Biome”
Click or press Enter/Space to continue where you left off
Displays your last save with Population and Generation: Population: 18 | Gen: 5
A gentle “Saved X ago” timestamp keeps you connected to time passing
🎬 Presentation Updates
Developer Splash Screen — a short, warm greeting before the menu. Managed and seamlessly transitions into your start screen.
Credits Scene — a soft scaffold for the upcoming credits roll. Clean layout, centered text, and thematic typography groundwork.
Project Splash — background color adjusted to better suit the Biome’s palette.
🪞 Visual Identity & Assets
Added new coldboot.studio and Neeblarium logo assets for splash use.
Updated design screenshots and internal imagery.
Fully replaced all in-code terminology from “Fertile Zones” → “Florin Beds.” 🌸
📘 Roadmap Expansion
MVP 1.5_ROADMAP.md now includes the first wave of “nice-to-have” features:
🎵 Sound & Music (planned)
✨ UI Sound Effects (planned)
📜 Credits (in progress)
These additions establish the scaffolding for the next polish phase — sound, presentation, and finish.
🌼 In Short
Your Biome now wakes where you left it — families intact, Florin Beds thriving, and tiny lives carrying on.
The Neeblarium has learned to remember, and with memory comes meaning. 💚