@@GuyllianVanRixtel it does but those are slowly getting patched out with every update so after 5 or so updates I can definitely see most of the issues being gone
I can’t wait to see the log after school! One idea that would be really neat would be a food pyramid. If an animal ate the majority of a certain food type, like a purple spider like species eating the majority of a certain grass species, it would be placed higher on the food pyramid than the grass. Edit: I saw the log and it was just as cool as I hoped
It was only until I saw this, that I realised that the game really needed another way to view clades, it is currently a bit of a slog to find any new species that are successful. Got me more and more hyped each dev dairy ngl.
At 3:49 a small correction: an invasive species always requires the help of humans to be introduced in a new part of the world. If a species spreads into a new region by natural dispersion, it is just selection of a more "competent" species :)
Every time you post an update, my reaction is ranging from "oh nice, glad that was accepted!" and "that's a really cool new idea!". Extremely happy with the direction this project is going in :)
This update is great. Before we could make the story of our created planet's biology but we could never easily tell what that story was. Now we can and I can see playing this game being a lot more interesting.
To my surprise, with the current settings you already get more false negatives than false positives: very often I delete as many things as I can with the bulldozer circle, and it still doesn't count as a mass extinction. However, if you later turn out to be right after all, it's an easy fix of course :)
Could you add stones, moss and roots to your game world? This would dramatically improve its appearance, and allow for features like sunbaking on rocks or small root eating creatures! This would be so awesome and completely overhaul your games graphics.
I can finally find species faster, nice work. also some more ideas 9.more cold hardy leaves. 10.a longer daynight cycle with stars and a sun (and maybe moons?)
Looking good! I love seeing the progress you make on this wonderful project. I have a few recommendations to consider It may be nice to have a button that can toggle whether extinct species are included in the cladogram. It would also be helpful if there was some more integration of the epoch timeline with the cladogram. Mainly, giving different lines different lengths to visually place the trunk of a clade at the corresponding location on the timeline, to give a good idea to the player when it first evolved and split off from the rest of the tree. I think this could also be toggleable.
I'm really enjoying these videos, you don't waste time and your visualisations are very clear to read and easy to understand. The cuts to in-person footage also helps to break up the video. Good work dude, I look forward to the next video.
YESS! This is SO MUCH of what I've wanted from this game! I love seeing the history of how things have changed in species so this is perfect. Ever since I've played Niche and Spore I've always been hungry for a system just like that in an evolution based game. Very excited!
I think it would be interesting to have markers for specific notable events during the epochs, such as disasters, extinction events, and also biodiversification events (or explosions, eg the Cambrian explosion). I'm definitely not an expert coder or anything but I feel like you might be able to use a similar system to the extinction detector to detect large increases in the number of species.
I bought this game yesterday and I'm loving it! I've always been really interested in speculative biology and worldbuilding, but always fell flat when it came to creature design/ecosystem design. It's a great source of inspiration for me and other worldbuilders alike!! Keep up the great work :D
This game is actually ground breaking. Im so excited to see all this done. My wife and i love playing together and she hasn't seen any of these videos yet. Im so ready for the update to blow her away. You rock dude!
I bought the game last year. Thankfully TH-cam decided to show me this video. I had no idea you had a channel. I appreciate the effort you put into your videos. It reminds me a lot of the old Creatures series.
My only criticism is that irl cladograms are usually formatted so that you can see the order in which new species emerged within the clade, it'd be nice to have that as an option as well as ordering them based on number of individuals
This system seems really helpful, definitely a great addition Although I did notice, basing success mostly around the number of offspring does heavily favour R selected species, not sure how that could be resolved
Everytime you release a video the game imoroves so drastically. It was already super impressive when i started playing at the beginning of thr year lol
Great addition. Only problem I’m mainly having with the sandbox simulation so far is I tried to start a world mostly on a blank slate. Making one animal, one plant, and one algae. The plants and algae diversified like crazy and spread across the map no problem. Took a decent while for other colors of plants to appear but algae colors varied almost instantly which is great. The animal species however while it did diversify a little bit, only ever has like less than 5 species at a time and all are almost identical to the starter species despite some of the branches growing limbs more suited for walking than the previous limbs. They are always confined the water never leaving it or evolving to live in deeper water and most of the oceans are inaccessible to them for this reason. I’ve auto jumped several times thinking maybe changes that drastic must take an extremely long time or are extremely rare but even after turning the mutation chance up to max it still doesn’t make a difference. It makes sense that the ones that were successful are the ones that are surviving obviously but one would think that since they did evolve limbs better for walking then they could take advantage of the plants and thus do better or if they evolved to live in deeper water then they would have more food and space. I did make a fairly simple creature specifically for it to be a blank slate default sort of creature that evolution can add or mutate existing body pieces into whatever path was best but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Are creatures able to evolve new body parts or do they have to mutate from existing parts? Because for them to evolve to live in the deeper water they need to have more fins but if they can’t evolve new parts then that can’t happen. I don’t believe I’ve seen any of my creatures evolve new parts. They only seem to evolve already existing parts into more advanced parts based on the path in the menu.
@@Mineman95-ts3cl honestly even without disasters you’d think that if an animal evolved walking limbs from the basic swimming limbs then they would do better as they can take advantage of both land and sea and that would lead to evolutions of air breathing mouths but apparently not or at the very least evolve to live in deeper waters for there to be more access to food which would lead to loads of herbivores which could lead to carnivores evolving to prey on said herbivores.
Wow weird! In my experience (and also from what I read from other players), the evolution of land animals can sometimes take a long time (many max time jumps), in particular when there are more hostile conditions (or seasons)... but I don't understand why they didn't at least conquer the deeper ocean. Perhaps the initial habitat was small, which resulted in only small numbers of animals, resulting in a small number of 'guesses'?
@@TheSaplingI see what he means tho, I’m playing right now and creatures just won’t evolve another pair of limbs, they’ve just been bipedal for 10 Millenia, I want them to evolve another set of legs or arms
@@TheSapling perhaps that’s true idk. I’ll keep messing around with it. I also thought there was a bug with the game not showing me the parts on plants as all of them are just the stems but then I remembered they can evolve to shed their parts during certain weather and I realized that most if not all plant species almost always never have any of their parts. Even in the less colder regions. It’s just all stems.
I’ve always loved this series so much! I haven’t actually watched till the end yet, (it might already be there) but I really wanted it so you could grow more type of plants in one biome, some could be really tall and have all the leaves at the top to make it look like a sort of umbrella, that could be cool!
I still think the top-down version is better, even though it supposedly takes up more space. Why not just have a cladogram that can be moved around by the mouse, or at the very least a “this species is less successful so we’ll ignore it” approach? Also I think most people would be more comfortable with that version, as it’s probably the most common.
maybe theres something im missing but this style of cladogram also seems to not give any indication of time, or at least isnt very clear about it. at least with a traditional cladogram you can determine how old species are relative to eachother easily
This is so amazing! Can’t wait until the update releases, I feel like I’m actually going to play semi regularly now with all the UI/UX changes and QOL improvements
Incredible work!! Would it be possible to use biomass rather than organism count? In the "age of the dinosaurs" I'm sure there animal with the most instances would be some ant species or something that swarms, but the most impressive clade were... Well the dinosaurs! Biomass solves that problem nicely
I was looking for a comment like this! The bigger an animal the fewer of it the environment can support so the current way is biased against them. Here's hoping more people will bring this to his attention...
Didn't think of this at all, but you're probably right. If it indeed turns out the current algorithm gives too much attention to small organisms, I could simply multiply the count with the body size, so the fix is probably easy.
Not necessarily a perfect compromise. Today will be "the age of whales" if it was based on biomass alone, considering the quaternary also witnessed the growth of cetacean sizes, and that the baleen whales grew to be the largest species.
@@erlinacobrado7947 The correct way of doing it would be somewhere in between e.g. the value of each individual is logarithmically derived from their biomass. Otherwise it would just be planet of the insects all the time.
An interesting little minigame you could play with this new addition, is to pause the game after a long simulation; then, by going around and collecting the information on the stats and adaptations of each species, try and recreate the evolutionary tree of all the creatures in your world to estimate what evolved from what, and then compare that back to the actual autogenerated cladogram. I'm sure there is some palaeontologist or evolutionary biologist that would find this the most enjoyable thing in the world.
@@TheSapling you sir, are an inspiration and a testament to the human species. Not joking. People like you give me hope for humanity, which is hard to do for a young doomer like me. You really do inspire me man. Thank you for taking the risk of putting your creative vision out there for the world to see and I can't wait to see how you continue to progress this project. It's all just spectacular and I wish you all the success in the world.
I think it would also be good to not measure success of a species or clade by number of living organisms but by total biomass. For example this current epoch now may have more ants than humans, but humans are the most successful species, and this can be seen because the total biomass of humans is larger than that of ants.
Definitely, I'm constantly fixing all kinds of bugs... expect many patches once this update is released. About Kurzgesagt, my native language is Dutch (if you couldn't tell by the accent), which is relatively close to German
I just wanted to say, I love your game, and I'm loving the new updates! You spoil us lol. But may I ask for one thing: you could add more levels in the future, I finish the game too fast, then I have to repeat or to go to the sand box, the levels so far are cool!
Great update. The new clade is a great feature to have a better overview of the whole ecosystem. There is an idea that i would like to suggest. Have you already thought about a dynamic world developement system that handles small and large extinction event and influence the planet? That would be a system that handles different natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, snowstorms, wildfires, avalanches, volcanoes, meteors, etc. It could be a system that ranks them after their scale of destructiveness (influence on the whole planet) and decreases the probability the bigger the event is. Would be really cool to have different events influence the ecosystem. Anyways thanks for reading and have a nice day.
just purchased! im very picky buying games since im low-income, but this looks like an amazing update, im going to spend hoouurs on this game, can't wait for the future!
love your content, as always. can't wait to see where you go next. however, if i may, a minor detail, i know, but a slightly jarring one from a viewer/video editor's stand: i noticed you kept reaching for your recording device whenever you wanted to stop the recording. here's a little trick to make it seem more seamless. take a pause (you as the actor after saying what needed to be said) of about 3 seconds, then reach for your device and pause, in editing, you can cut out the unwanted parts much more easily. anyways, love your work, wish i was rich to du,p you a whole lot of money and a studio. keep it up!
Thanks for this feedback, much appreciated :). I actually left these parts in on purpose to highlight that I'm alone (that is, a passionate solo dev, not a greedy company with a professional camera crew) and to make it look like I'm explaining these things on the fly (which is totally fake, btw, I often do at least 5 takes). Good to know at least one viewer noticed and thought the video would be better without them :).
i discovered your channel today and I can say that you've already done much more in just two years than the spore creators in 7+ years and this says a lot, I think I will follow this project for a lot of time, but I have one question: why don't assuming personal for helping you with the work and with money? p.s. you're amazing, subscrbed
Love your videos. I would suggest you turn off autofocus when you do your outdoor talking segments. It's what is causing your video to pop in and out of focus. Just set it up, find a good spot where you are in focus then record your walk in and talking head portion. It'll make your videos much better!
You're absolutely right, fully aware of this problem! Point is that I'm often much further than an arm's length from the camera, so once the camera has 'found me' there's no way I can tell to 'lock' this focus. Manually trying to set the focus has failed 100% of the time so far: it often looks in focus on the small display, but super blurry on larger screens. I guess the real solution is to buy a camera actually intended for vlogging :)
Or put a large stick or object in the scene where you will stand, focus on that using autofocus, then switch it to manual. Then just record your talking head at the same location. @@TheSapling
I love this idea, because often I have to look through all twenty something pages of extinct animals to find a certain animal to see what went wrong or what it evolved from, so thus can really help me classify, and organize everything in the game a whole lot easier. Now a random comment, me and my brother play this game and really like it, but one thing you did wrong In my and my brothers eyes, is getting rid of the default map from before the Aquatic update. I like having the creativity to make my one planet with its own feature and characteristics to see how life can develop, but I would also like to have simple pre- made maps for new players to have something simple that is pre made so they can easily learn how to make a planet, what some planets can look like, how it affects like, and give them further inside into how that whole system works so they are not just thrust into the deep end without help.
Yes, I do believe that these examples you have said could bring a better experience and learning process to new players with a preset world to help understand how the game works, how the planet editors work, and how to make their own planets and experiment s. Thank you for looking at my comment and adding suggestion to me and my brothers idea, and I think that the game is great, this update is great, and most the new things in it are great, and even though it's not relevant to the current update, can you add a few more animal features for animals like invertebrates with tentacles, or insect-like legs, and some other insect traits like more eye that can see better, or insect wings, or other insect traits, PLEASE take this idea into consideration in another update I even thought of names like "The Invertebrates Update" or "Creepy and Crawly" for all things that most people consider creepy like centipedes or spiders. PLEASE DO THAT I'M DESPERATE!
something I'd like is being able to favorite saves, and they'd show up in a separate bar to the right, and if a save is favorited when you manually save while playing the favorited save then it will automatically overwrite the save. also renaming saves as a feature in the game instead of having to go into the files. also natural disasters would be good for performance because lots of death=less models=better performance. in the planet editor we should be able to manually change the height of an area. also legs that can be on steeper environments (I don't know if that's already in the game). I haven't watched the video yet so I don't know if any of these are actually going to be added in the next update. forgot to add this but I think branches should use less energy. also natural disasters should have a menu like random mutations. also increasing mouse sensitivity when holding right click would be nice. I keep editing this comment ahh. in the animal editor there is a bug where when you rotate the camera the animals "body segments" or "spine" dot things stay in the same position on the screen (it fixes itself when you zoom in or out) it happens when you use wasd to rotate. current too strong and can't breath should be instincts if they're not in the update yet. I remembered another one, gills, they would just invert how long it can spend on land and water.
i hope you see this dev, Idea 1: make grass blend in with other colored grass. Idea 2: make when a meteor hits in the water, makes the water raised up for few years or decades! depending on where it is. Idea 3: optimize it a little better. Idea 4: make animals have a new instinct too live and dig underground like ants and have a queen. Idea 5: make chance slider like the fire chance slider BUT instead for a tornado to happen, it can only happen in windy season. Idea 6: make volcanoes look better and instead of fire happening, it spews out boulders of lava!!! Idea 7: make a trait where animals and fish can camo to there natural surroundings, like a chameleon PLUS can be attached to there instincts like if scared then camo, and a new scared feeling to the instincts. Idea 8: Make an option where you could view your world flat or round. Idea 9: make a sick/disease system where they could vomit, not move as fast, dies and cant eat, you could inspect them to see if they are sick or not. Idea 10: make them have to drink water and wash themselves, beware if there is a predator in the water they would bite the heck out of the animal, animals have to clean themselves and wash their teeth or else they cant eat because they have cavities, inspect the animal to see if it has cavities or not. i will add more ideas soon bye.
Hey I indeed see this, thanks for your input! Without making promises, I like all of these ideas! Idea 8 I actually already tried, but back then it required such a large part of the code base to be rewritten, it felt like starting from scratch ;).
Suggestion: How about a random stat for creatures that determine their “quality?” One of the main troubles I’ve had with this game is the animals being too fertile and just straight up devouring my fps with the INSANE amount of eggs they lay. To fix this, the quality stat would determine wether or not creatures should mate and lay eggs depending on how high their quality is. You could also make this so that higher quality creatures have the best of their stats (speed, weight, etc) encouraging something like survival of the fittest!
This would also pave the way for a sexual selection feature that could take advantage of traits. For example, males might instinctually go towards females that glow, hence incentivizing females to glow brighter or for longer periods of time.
@@Afrologist ooo also a good idea! There could also be an option that lets you choose between asexual and sexual breeding, allowing for some more variation. Something similar could be applied to plants, maybe? Like plants with flowers and reproductive organs need to be at a good amount of health to proliferate? Idk, sound like a lot of stuff to program, but it’s nice to think about.
Simulation wise, I really like these ideas (without making promises as always). Not sure if they will fix the low FPS problem though; wouldn't organims just evolve to maximum quality?
@@TheSapling it would be randomized. Like of course if two parents are max quality, the children will have a higher likeliness to have good quality, but for the most part, random. Or random mutations could reset the quality to like, half because it IS a mutation, yk?
Literally one of the only things I still wanted for the game. This is the perfect update and also congrats on the success of your game and channel!
We need another evolution simulated with this update!
Agreed!
Almost sure he is gonna post
This new tree system looks like it's going to be so much better than the old one
Quite the observation
For completeness, the old family tree, zoomed in and focused on 1 species, is still there as part of the new species detail view.
How is it possible that every single update is a 10/10, if this continues in 5 updates this will be GOTY
well its a very niche game so probably not GOTY but I can easily see this continuing to be the one of the best ecosystem games out there
Eh, the game still has many problems with lag and the camera.
@@GuyllianVanRixtel it does but those are slowly getting patched out with every update so after 5 or so updates I can definitely see most of the issues being gone
Every new update showcase amazes me again. Can't wait for this game to get the attention it deserves.
I can’t wait to see the log after school! One idea that would be really neat would be a food pyramid. If an animal ate the majority of a certain food type, like a purple spider like species eating the majority of a certain grass species, it would be placed higher on the food pyramid than the grass.
Edit: I saw the log and it was just as cool as I hoped
A trophic flowchart kinda thing. That'd be neat
Without making promises, that would indeed be cool!
It was only until I saw this, that I realised that the game really needed another way to view clades, it is currently a bit of a slog to find any new species that are successful.
Got me more and more hyped each dev dairy ngl.
Well... you got me. Im supporting your game, just bought and installed.
Exactly what always confused me in the previous content; figuring out where stuff was evolving from 😅
At 3:49 a small correction: an invasive species always requires the help of humans to be introduced in a new part of the world. If a species spreads into a new region by natural dispersion, it is just selection of a more "competent" species :)
Thanks Daniel! I assumed the term meant 'organism new to an ecosystem'
You are my favorite indie game dev, these updates are great & you're actually listening to the base. Great job bro, Sapling is 100% going to blow up.
Very excited about this! Getting a good handle on the history of life on our simulated worlds will be so much more convenient!
Every time you post an update, my reaction is ranging from "oh nice, glad that was accepted!" and "that's a really cool new idea!". Extremely happy with the direction this project is going in :)
i love the cladogram, one of my biggest pet pieves was how confusing which species is related to which was
So hyped for this feature! And the epoch system also looks sick as hell
Perfect for your evolution series!
This looks great. I'm so excited for the update!
This update is great. Before we could make the story of our created planet's biology but we could never easily tell what that story was. Now we can and I can see playing this game being a lot more interesting.
this has got me the most excited not that the others havent but this seems very very very interesting
5:05 6:bonjour
It should be atleast like 50 so it won't count a random group dying from old age as mass extension
To my surprise, with the current settings you already get more false negatives than false positives: very often I delete as many things as I can with the bulldozer circle, and it still doesn't count as a mass extinction. However, if you later turn out to be right after all, it's an easy fix of course :)
@@TheSapling Theres a bull dozer?
Mate you are crushing these videos. So many so consistently! Props!
Hey why are here! lol
@@Snakeyess can’t help it!
Could you add stones, moss and roots to your game world? This would dramatically improve its appearance, and allow for features like sunbaking on rocks or small root eating creatures! This would be so awesome and completely overhaul your games graphics.
Roots are already a thing in the game?
@@nicefloweytheoverseer7632 I mean roots that are visible in game, that travel over the ground, similar to fig trees
mooshrooms as well
Parasite plants @@Brosquini
Of course@@arianelcole
I can finally find species faster, nice work. also some more ideas
9.more cold hardy leaves.
10.a longer daynight cycle with stars and a sun (and maybe moons?)
Without making promises, all ideas I like!
This is so sick! I never knew I needed this but I really did.
Cool, you'll be able to see the evolutionary tree
You already could, just not very easily
Looking good! I love seeing the progress you make on this wonderful project. I have a few recommendations to consider
It may be nice to have a button that can toggle whether extinct species are included in the cladogram.
It would also be helpful if there was some more integration of the epoch timeline with the cladogram. Mainly, giving different lines different lengths to visually place the trunk of a clade at the corresponding location on the timeline, to give a good idea to the player when it first evolved and split off from the rest of the tree. I think this could also be toggleable.
Without making promises, I love these ideas!
The complexity of this project simply amazes me. This is definitely one of the most interesting devlog series I have seen.
Amazing game i absolutely love it cant wait for this update
The informational UI showing traits/family/stats/behavior looks great!
This update is shaping out to be fantastic! Super excited to play
Oh boy new devlog dropping.
I love these and im going to be sad when they finish
I'm really enjoying these videos, you don't waste time and your visualisations are very clear to read and easy to understand. The cuts to in-person footage also helps to break up the video. Good work dude, I look forward to the next video.
YESS! This is SO MUCH of what I've wanted from this game! I love seeing the history of how things have changed in species so this is perfect. Ever since I've played Niche and Spore I've always been hungry for a system just like that in an evolution based game. Very excited!
I think it would be interesting to have markers for specific notable events during the epochs, such as disasters, extinction events, and also biodiversification events (or explosions, eg the Cambrian explosion). I'm definitely not an expert coder or anything but I feel like you might be able to use a similar system to the extinction detector to detect large increases in the number of species.
Thanks for your input, an interesting thought indeed!
I bought this game yesterday and I'm loving it! I've always been really interested in speculative biology and worldbuilding, but always fell flat when it came to creature design/ecosystem design. It's a great source of inspiration for me and other worldbuilders alike!! Keep up the great work :D
This is EXACTLY what I wanted, good work!!
i was literally going to suggest this for the game today, and I am SO GLAD you’ve added the cladograms. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
This game is actually ground breaking. Im so excited to see all this done. My wife and i love playing together and she hasn't seen any of these videos yet. Im so ready for the update to blow her away. You rock dude!
Yes!!! This update is one of the best out of all of them, if not the best. Good work, i would love to see these updates in your game.
Perfecrly timed for me to relax at home and watch it
Your making the greatest strides ever in evolutionary simulation this it needs to be used as a teaching tool your genius
I'm so hyped ! Can't wait for this update !
I bought the game last year. Thankfully TH-cam decided to show me this video. I had no idea you had a channel. I appreciate the effort you put into your videos. It reminds me a lot of the old Creatures series.
Thanks! I've played a lot of Creatures 3 as well
My only criticism is that irl cladograms are usually formatted so that you can see the order in which new species emerged within the clade, it'd be nice to have that as an option as well as ordering them based on number of individuals
Thanks, this is useful feedback :)
This is awesome !!!
Thank you so much for all this hard work !!
This system seems really helpful, definitely a great addition
Although I did notice, basing success mostly around the number of offspring does heavily favour R selected species, not sure how that could be resolved
Huh I never thought of adding that, but i'm happy that you did!
i hope this project gets enough funding and attention to become super polished
This looks like a brilliant addition! Well done 👏 👏
Keep up the good work man
This game is awesome even though I can’t play I love watching these
Everytime you release a video the game imoroves so drastically. It was already super impressive when i started playing at the beginning of thr year lol
I’ll wait till it’s a bit more developed but the Claude things got me hooked. I’m going to keep an eye on this.
Hell yea man, been playing this game for a bit and love seeing the process.
Great addition. Only problem I’m mainly having with the sandbox simulation so far is I tried to start a world mostly on a blank slate. Making one animal, one plant, and one algae. The plants and algae diversified like crazy and spread across the map no problem. Took a decent while for other colors of plants to appear but algae colors varied almost instantly which is great. The animal species however while it did diversify a little bit, only ever has like less than 5 species at a time and all are almost identical to the starter species despite some of the branches growing limbs more suited for walking than the previous limbs. They are always confined the water never leaving it or evolving to live in deeper water and most of the oceans are inaccessible to them for this reason. I’ve auto jumped several times thinking maybe changes that drastic must take an extremely long time or are extremely rare but even after turning the mutation chance up to max it still doesn’t make a difference. It makes sense that the ones that were successful are the ones that are surviving obviously but one would think that since they did evolve limbs better for walking then they could take advantage of the plants and thus do better or if they evolved to live in deeper water then they would have more food and space. I did make a fairly simple creature specifically for it to be a blank slate default sort of creature that evolution can add or mutate existing body pieces into whatever path was best but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Are creatures able to evolve new body parts or do they have to mutate from existing parts? Because for them to evolve to live in the deeper water they need to have more fins but if they can’t evolve new parts then that can’t happen. I don’t believe I’ve seen any of my creatures evolve new parts. They only seem to evolve already existing parts into more advanced parts based on the path in the menu.
This is why we need disasters as it could force animals to move an adapt
@@Mineman95-ts3cl honestly even without disasters you’d think that if an animal evolved walking limbs from the basic swimming limbs then they would do better as they can take advantage of both land and sea and that would lead to evolutions of air breathing mouths but apparently not or at the very least evolve to live in deeper waters for there to be more access to food which would lead to loads of herbivores which could lead to carnivores evolving to prey on said herbivores.
Wow weird! In my experience (and also from what I read from other players), the evolution of land animals can sometimes take a long time (many max time jumps), in particular when there are more hostile conditions (or seasons)... but I don't understand why they didn't at least conquer the deeper ocean. Perhaps the initial habitat was small, which resulted in only small numbers of animals, resulting in a small number of 'guesses'?
@@TheSaplingI see what he means tho, I’m playing right now and creatures just won’t evolve another pair of limbs, they’ve just been bipedal for 10 Millenia, I want them to evolve another set of legs or arms
@@TheSapling perhaps that’s true idk. I’ll keep messing around with it. I also thought there was a bug with the game not showing me the parts on plants as all of them are just the stems but then I remembered they can evolve to shed their parts during certain weather and I realized that most if not all plant species almost always never have any of their parts. Even in the less colder regions. It’s just all stems.
Oh yeah baby. LET'S GO!!!!!!
Dont ever give up on this beautiful game man please 🙏 Its everything ive ever wanted
How does this channel not have 1M subscribers. This content is beautiful!
I’ve always loved this series so much! I haven’t actually watched till the end yet, (it might already be there) but I really wanted it so you could grow more type of plants in one biome, some could be really tall and have all the leaves at the top to make it look like a sort of umbrella, that could be cool!
Definitely possible yes!
Loving this series!
You just keep giving! Hype for this vid!
I still think the top-down version is better, even though it supposedly takes up more space. Why not just have a cladogram that can be moved around by the mouse, or at the very least a “this species is less successful so we’ll ignore it” approach? Also I think most people would be more comfortable with that version, as it’s probably the most common.
maybe theres something im missing but this style of cladogram also seems to not give any indication of time, or at least isnt very clear about it. at least with a traditional cladogram you can determine how old species are relative to eachother easily
Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated!
There indeed is no clear indication of time with the approach I chose; hence the separate timeline
This is so amazing! Can’t wait until the update releases, I feel like I’m actually going to play semi regularly now with all the UI/UX changes and QOL improvements
Thanks! Keep in mind it will be super unstable initially though.
Incredible work!! Would it be possible to use biomass rather than organism count? In the "age of the dinosaurs" I'm sure there animal with the most instances would be some ant species or something that swarms, but the most impressive clade were... Well the dinosaurs! Biomass solves that problem nicely
I was looking for a comment like this! The bigger an animal the fewer of it the environment can support so the current way is biased against them.
Here's hoping more people will bring this to his attention...
Didn't think of this at all, but you're probably right. If it indeed turns out the current algorithm gives too much attention to small organisms, I could simply multiply the count with the body size, so the fix is probably easy.
Not necessarily a perfect compromise. Today will be "the age of whales" if it was based on biomass alone, considering the quaternary also witnessed the growth of cetacean sizes, and that the baleen whales grew to be the largest species.
@@erlinacobrado7947 The correct way of doing it would be somewhere in between e.g. the value of each individual is logarithmically derived from their biomass. Otherwise it would just be planet of the insects all the time.
@@erlinacobrado7947 Im pretty sure today would be the age of cows, actually.
I cannot express how much I adore this game holy hell
An interesting little minigame you could play with this new addition, is to pause the game after a long simulation; then, by going around and collecting the information on the stats and adaptations of each species, try and recreate the evolutionary tree of all the creatures in your world to estimate what evolved from what, and then compare that back to the actual autogenerated cladogram.
I'm sure there is some palaeontologist or evolutionary biologist that would find this the most enjoyable thing in the world.
Hahaha yeah I think so too :D
I need to buy this game! Excited to see this game get more development!
I AGREE ITS SO DAMN PRETTY
This is EXACTLY what i wanted
Yaaa these are some of my favorited videos, I think I’m going there watch the one of the other ones while I wait
This game is two words greatness and greatness i love this game
also nice piano songs
I think it's time for another simulation video with all these new features! I would definitely watch the heck out of that.
Haha good to know, I indeed plan to make one
@@TheSapling you sir, are an inspiration and a testament to the human species. Not joking. People like you give me hope for humanity, which is hard to do for a young doomer like me. You really do inspire me man. Thank you for taking the risk of putting your creative vision out there for the world to see and I can't wait to see how you continue to progress this project. It's all just spectacular and I wish you all the success in the world.
This project is so cool!
This is the feature that pushed me over the edge into buying this game
loved this video :D
Can’t wait for the update to come out this is going to be huge.
I think it would also be good to not measure success of a species or clade by number of living organisms but by total biomass. For example this current epoch now may have more ants than humans, but humans are the most successful species, and this can be seen because the total biomass of humans is larger than that of ants.
Not sure if ants would agree ;). But it's a good suggestion indeed, keeping this one in mind for if the results of the current algorithm disappoint.
Love your videos and the updates!
cool vid!
It would be really cool if you posted a tutorial about the sandbox mode, balancing ecosystems, etc
Honesly, being able to see a phylogenetic tree of the creatures in an evolution game is a no brainer
Guess I had no brain for years then ;)
This is very nice !! And based on Kurzgesagt's model
I hope you will also correct the bug/crash problems😉
I’m more confused on how he pronounced kurzgesagt correctly?!???!??? My guy isn’t just studying evolution, he’s studying sorcery.
Definitely, I'm constantly fixing all kinds of bugs... expect many patches once this update is released. About Kurzgesagt, my native language is Dutch (if you couldn't tell by the accent), which is relatively close to German
I just wanted to say, I love your game, and I'm loving the new updates! You spoil us lol. But may I ask for one thing: you could add more levels in the future, I finish the game too fast, then I have to repeat or to go to the sand box, the levels so far are cool!
Thanks for this input, I thought nearly all people only played the sandbox!
I'm so hyped
Same! I always wanted a clade diagram!
Oh man I love evolution
Great update. The new clade is a great feature to have a better overview of the whole ecosystem.
There is an idea that i would like to suggest. Have you already thought about a dynamic world developement system that handles small and large extinction event and influence the planet?
That would be a system that handles different natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, snowstorms, wildfires, avalanches, volcanoes, meteors, etc.
It could be a system that ranks them after their scale of destructiveness (influence on the whole planet) and decreases the probability the bigger the event is. Would be really cool to have different events influence the ecosystem.
Anyways thanks for reading and have a nice day.
I really like this idea indeed :)
just purchased! im very picky buying games since im low-income, but this looks like an amazing update, im going to spend hoouurs on this game, can't wait for the future!
I absolutely love this and love waiting for the updates can we maybe get a gameplay video soon ?
Thanks! I plan to do another Evolution Simulated, if that's what you mean, but I will take me a few months I'm afraid
A cladogram is something which I felt should have been from the start but it's not as vital as the core mechanics of the game. Good job!
love your content, as always. can't wait to see where you go next. however, if i may, a minor detail, i know, but a slightly jarring one from a viewer/video editor's stand: i noticed you kept reaching for your recording device whenever you wanted to stop the recording. here's a little trick to make it seem more seamless. take a pause (you as the actor after saying what needed to be said) of about 3 seconds, then reach for your device and pause, in editing, you can cut out the unwanted parts much more easily. anyways, love your work, wish i was rich to du,p you a whole lot of money and a studio. keep it up!
Thanks for this feedback, much appreciated :). I actually left these parts in on purpose to highlight that I'm alone (that is, a passionate solo dev, not a greedy company with a professional camera crew) and to make it look like I'm explaining these things on the fly (which is totally fake, btw, I often do at least 5 takes). Good to know at least one viewer noticed and thought the video would be better without them :).
Big Challenge. 😮 But you nailed it. 🤓👍 Breathtaking! 🥳 Can't wait to start the beta. 😍
i discovered your channel today and I can say that you've already done much more in just two years than the spore creators in 7+ years and this says a lot, I think I will follow this project for a lot of time, but I have one question: why don't assuming personal for helping you with the work and with money? p.s. you're amazing, subscrbed
A major reason for starting this project is to finally have something were I do everything myself!
Love your videos. I would suggest you turn off autofocus when you do your outdoor talking segments. It's what is causing your video to pop in and out of focus. Just set it up, find a good spot where you are in focus then record your walk in and talking head portion. It'll make your videos much better!
You're absolutely right, fully aware of this problem! Point is that I'm often much further than an arm's length from the camera, so once the camera has 'found me' there's no way I can tell to 'lock' this focus. Manually trying to set the focus has failed 100% of the time so far: it often looks in focus on the small display, but super blurry on larger screens. I guess the real solution is to buy a camera actually intended for vlogging :)
Or put a large stick or object in the scene where you will stand, focus on that using autofocus, then switch it to manual. Then just record your talking head at the same location. @@TheSapling
Haha good idea, I'll see if I can a stick next time ;)
I cannot wait for this update
I love this idea, because often I have to look through all twenty something pages of extinct animals to find a certain animal to see what went wrong or what it evolved from, so thus can really help me classify, and organize everything in the game a whole lot easier.
Now a random comment, me and my brother play this game and really like it, but one thing you did wrong In my and my brothers eyes, is getting rid of the default map from before the Aquatic update. I like having the creativity to make my one planet with its own feature and characteristics to see how life can develop, but I would also like to have simple pre- made maps for new players to have something simple that is pre made so they can easily learn how to make a planet, what some planets can look like, how it affects like, and give them further inside into how that whole system works so they are not just thrust into the deep end without help.
Thanks for this insight! Would you say planet presets ('starter planet', 'ocean planet', 'snow planet', etc) could serve this purpose?
Yes, I do believe that these examples you have said could bring a better experience and learning process to new players with a preset world to help understand how the game works, how the planet editors work, and how to make their own planets and experiment s.
Thank you for looking at my comment and adding suggestion to me and my brothers idea, and I think that the game is great, this update is great, and most the new things in it are great, and even though it's not relevant to the current update, can you add a few more animal features for animals like invertebrates with tentacles, or insect-like legs, and some other insect traits like more eye that can see better, or insect wings, or other insect traits, PLEASE take this idea into consideration in another update I even thought of names like "The Invertebrates Update" or "Creepy and Crawly" for all things that most people consider creepy like centipedes or spiders. PLEASE DO THAT I'M DESPERATE!
something I'd like is being able to favorite saves, and they'd show up in a separate bar to the right, and if a save is favorited when you manually save while playing the favorited save then it will automatically overwrite the save. also renaming saves as a feature in the game instead of having to go into the files. also natural disasters would be good for performance because lots of death=less models=better performance. in the planet editor we should be able to manually change the height of an area. also legs that can be on steeper environments (I don't know if that's already in the game). I haven't watched the video yet so I don't know if any of these are actually going to be added in the next update. forgot to add this but I think branches should use less energy. also natural disasters should have a menu like random mutations. also increasing mouse sensitivity when holding right click would be nice. I keep editing this comment ahh. in the animal editor there is a bug where when you rotate the camera the animals "body segments" or "spine" dot things stay in the same position on the screen (it fixes itself when you zoom in or out) it happens when you use wasd to rotate. current too strong and can't breath should be instincts if they're not in the update yet. I remembered another one, gills, they would just invert how long it can spend on land and water.
i hope you see this dev, Idea 1: make grass blend in with other colored grass. Idea 2: make when a meteor hits in the water, makes the water raised up for few years or decades! depending on where it is. Idea 3: optimize it a little better. Idea 4: make animals have a new instinct too live and dig underground like ants and have a queen. Idea 5: make chance slider like the fire chance slider BUT instead for a tornado to happen, it can only happen in windy season. Idea 6: make volcanoes look better and instead of fire happening, it spews out boulders of lava!!! Idea 7: make a trait where animals and fish can camo to there natural surroundings, like a chameleon PLUS can be attached to there instincts like if scared then camo, and a new scared feeling to the instincts. Idea 8: Make an option where you could view your world flat or round. Idea 9: make a sick/disease system where they could vomit, not move as fast, dies and cant eat, you could inspect them to see if they are sick or not. Idea 10: make them have to drink water and wash themselves, beware if there is a predator in the water they would bite the heck out of the animal, animals have to clean themselves and wash their teeth or else they cant eat because they have cavities, inspect the animal to see if it has cavities or not. i will add more ideas soon bye.
Hey I indeed see this, thanks for your input! Without making promises, I like all of these ideas! Idea 8 I actually already tried, but back then it required such a large part of the code base to be rewritten, it felt like starting from scratch ;).
Volcanoes don’t normally launch huge rocks but it would be interesting if volcanic eruptions effected the weather
You should add fungi in the next update and you could have the mycelium kind of above ground like the roots of an oak
It's often suggested, but I can't really figure out how a fungus editor would work, as they are mostly invisible ;)
@@TheSapling you could have the mycelium be above ground
ah yes, I can figure out where the creatures with legs on their head originated from.
Suggestion:
How about a random stat for creatures that determine their “quality?”
One of the main troubles I’ve had with this game is the animals being too fertile and just straight up devouring my fps with the INSANE amount of eggs they lay. To fix this, the quality stat would determine wether or not creatures should mate and lay eggs depending on how high their quality is. You could also make this so that higher quality creatures have the best of their stats (speed, weight, etc) encouraging something like survival of the fittest!
This would also pave the way for a sexual selection feature that could take advantage of traits. For example, males might instinctually go towards females that glow, hence incentivizing females to glow brighter or for longer periods of time.
@@Afrologist ooo also a good idea! There could also be an option that lets you choose between asexual and sexual breeding, allowing for some more variation. Something similar could be applied to plants, maybe? Like plants with flowers and reproductive organs need to be at a good amount of health to proliferate? Idk, sound like a lot of stuff to program, but it’s nice to think about.
Simulation wise, I really like these ideas (without making promises as always). Not sure if they will fix the low FPS problem though; wouldn't organims just evolve to maximum quality?
@@TheSapling it would be randomized. Like of course if two parents are max quality, the children will have a higher likeliness to have good quality, but for the most part, random. Or random mutations could reset the quality to like, half because it IS a mutation, yk?