Edapt

[Flagella (Leader of the Formic Union Space Agency)]

Edapt is an evolution game made by me for some reason. It is heavily inspired by Thrive but I have a few ideas to make it unique. It has already been discussed heavily here, so I’m creating this thread so that those posts can be moved here and so that future Edapt posts can be made here instead of there.

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[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

How do you plan to make the membranes/cell shapes work? For now all cells look like circles

[Flagella (Leader of the Formic Union Space Agency)]

After update 0.0.0.0 the cells will look like they did in Thrive 0.2.4, and membranes will be added later (0.0.1.x-0.0.2.x).

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Do you plan to keep this style or also replace it later on?

[Flagella (Leader of the Formic Union Space Agency)]

@aah31415

keep this style

Do you mean the 0.0.0.0 style or the current Alpha 2.4 style?
By the way you can find the change log in the website now.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

The 0.0.0.0 style based off of Thrive 0.2.4

[Flagella (Leader of the Formic Union Space Agency)]

Probably only until after development of the stage before microbe stage is done, which should happen at 0.0.6.0. Membranes will be added before that though. The game is probably not going to have hyper realistic graphics like Thrive will.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So where exactly are you planning to be divergent from Thrive now that we’re speaking of it?

[Flagella (Leader of the Formic Union Space Agency)]

We discussed this before I believe.

@Flagella

@Poodelicus

What sort of way are you planning to make it different, or is that classified?

It’s not classified, so here are some of my ideas:

Playersight: Seeing from the eyes or sensory organs for the entire game up to the start of the Civilization Stage. This does not just apply to the 3d macroscopic organisms. Chemoreceptors are planned to have the same effect as eyes but for the Microscopic Stage. In case you’re wondering how you could possibly see from a 2d organism, what I plan to do is use retracing or something to scan the 2d environment for anything that the chemoreceptor an see, and project it onto a 1d line stretched vertically to fill the whole screen so that we can actually see it.

Stage Before Microbe Stage: I plan on eventually adding a stage before the Microscopic stage which could either be called the Protenoid Stage, Nanoscopic Stage, RNA stage, or Archaic Stage. It will be all about forming the first cellular life from almost nothing. I have no clue what the game play could be like though.

Rejected Thrive Ideas (and other unrealistic stuff): Thrive has rejected a lot of stuff for being too unrealistic, which is fine for thrive because it follows it’s design philosophy, but I don’t plan on exuding things because of realism. While the game will try to be decently realistic (not perfect because it doesn’t need to be, as Thrive exists), any unrealistic stuff will be able to be enabled through a version of the LAWK toggle with multiple states. Such ideas include life on barren planets and gas giants, UNDERWATER CIVILIZATIONS, hyperspace travel, magic, and the multiverse.

The game will have 5(or 6) stages (The names are pretty self explanatory. The stage names are simple because I find stuff such as “Awakening Stage” to be confusing):

Nanoscopic Stage

Microscopic stage (Microbe Stage and Multicellular Stage)

Macroscopic Stage (Macroscopic Stage and Aware Stage)

Civilization Stage (Awakening Stage, Society Stage, Industrial Stage, and Space Stage)

Multiversal Stage (Ascension Stage?)

That’s about all the ideas I have right now, and it will probably be done by 2060!

As you can see, I have many Ideas. Also is the thrive music free to use, as my music sucks?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I am not so sure it is F2U

[Flagella (Leader of the Formic Union Space Agency)]

I won’t use it unless it is certainly free. I’ll find something else.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I am not sure if there’s much royalty free music that’d fit an evo game…

[Flagella (Leader of the Formic Union Space Agency)]

That’s why I’m not using royalty free music. I’m currently making the simplest music here.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

How many tracks have you tried making thus far?

[Flagella (Leader of the Formic Union Space Agency)]

I have made the menu music, and I need to make 3 more tracks for other stuff.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I presume one for editor and the other 2 for the gameplay?

[Flagella (Leader of the Formic Union Space Agency)]

Probably. I’ve already done the second track.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

How long does it take you on average to make one?

[Flagella (Leader of the Formic Union Space Agency)]

I’m doing nothing and it sounds good for some reason. It takes 30 seconds.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Maybe you have a talent in this…