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Species ALRE @QuQuasar

The mixed nuts behind Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution (speciesgame.com).

Joined June 2012
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Species ALRE@QuQuasar
25 Nov 2022
0.14.2.6 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.2.6

0.14.2.6 Changelog Added localizable strings and tooltips for emotion names, descriptions and adjectives. Added localizable strings for a large number of AI routine names, as utilized by the though…

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0.14.2.4 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.2.4

Changelog Tentative fix for a creature teleportation bug associated with pouncing attacks. Main menu buttons are now localizable (they don’t look quite as good as before, but it’s not t…

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Species ALRE@QuQuasar
30 Oct 2022
0.14.2.2 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.2.2

Changelog Add a Survivorship Curve to the Species Overview screen, derived from actual lifespan data taken from the simulation. “A survivorship curve is a graph showing the number or proporti…

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Species ALRE@QuQuasar
24 Oct 2022
Where to next – 0.15.0 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

Where to next – 0.15.0

You’ll have to forgive the lack of images and concept art, I ran out of time. Lately I’ve been moving towards fatigue, sleep, temperature and exposure to the elements all needing to be …

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Species ALRE@QuQuasar
10 Oct 2022
Tutorial – How to Translate the Game speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

Tutorial – How to Translate the Game

This is how you can translate Species into a language other than English, for those so inclined. Step 1. Access the Species ALRE Mod Packager in Steam by turning on the “Tools” filter. …

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Species ALRE@QuQuasar
10 Oct 2022
0.14.2.0 Released to Experimental speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.2.0 Released to Experimental

0.14.2.0 is now live on the experimental branch. This update does not include any gameplay changes, but instead includes an external tool: The Species ALRE Mod Packager This for-now bare bones tool…

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Up Next – Localization speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

Up Next – Localization

It has come to my attention that humans use words, with their fingers and also their human face holes, and further, that not all humans use the same vocabulary of words. This seems wildly inefficie…

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0.14.1.14 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.1.14

0.14.1.14 Changelog Fix a memory leak introduced in 0.14.1.12 that was causing an escalating series of freezes, ultimately leading to the game becoming non-responsive. 0.14.1.13 Changelog More cons…

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Species ALRE@QuQuasar
28 Sep 2022
0.14.1.12 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.1.12

Add a lifecycle progress bar to Creature Details – Overview page. Fix clade diagram problem that was causing long-term saves to become corrupt and fail to load. Clade diagram will reset on lo…

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Species ALRE@QuQuasar
18 Sep 2022
0.14.1.11 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.1.11

0.14.1.11 Changelog Change diet pie chart colours Add consumption percentage figures Fix crash when putting creatures in nursery Fix creatures not being lifted when being moved Fix Nursery UI disap…

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Species ALRE@QuQuasar
13 Sep 2022
0.14.1.9 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.1.9

0.14.1.9 Changelog Significant performance improvement: Creature AI now runs somewhere in the vicinity of 17% faster. Fix single frame micro-naps when all needs are satisfied. Fix “Index was …

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Species ALRE@QuQuasar
12 Sep 2022
0.14.1.8 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.1.8

0.14.1.8 Changelog Fix a hunger/sleep behaviour loop that kicks in when a creature has both zero fatigue and zero food. The LayDownAndDie subroutine returns, with a vengence. Remove mouse tooltips …

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0.14.1.7 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.1.7

0.14.1.7 Changelog Add nursery TURBOCHARGE option. If you turn TURBOCHARGE on in the nursery, it will dramatically increase the growth rate of eggs, juveniles and pregnancies. TURBOCHARGE is not re…

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0.14.1.6 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.1.6

0.14.1.6 Changelog Add Gene Cycling function to the nursery. Gene cycling artificially selects by one gene at a time, instead of by measuring the genetic distance to target. In theory, this should …

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0.14.1.5 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.1.5

0.14.1.5 Changelog Add small coloured progress bars above creatures heads for basic tasks. Tasks they will appear for include: Eating Foliage, Fruit, Eggs and Meat Sleeping Fighting Gasping for oxy…

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0.14.1.4 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.1.4

0.14.1.4 Changelog Add “Delete World” functionality to the Load World screens. Add a detection routine to disallow loading of corrupt or outdated saved worlds and warn the user when the…

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0.14.1.3 speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.1.3

0.14.1.3 Changelog Allow creatures to make their way to a nearby shadow-casting tree (if there is one) to sleep, taking advantage of the shelter it provides. Reduce how rapidly growth cost scales w…

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Species ALRE@QuQuasar
31 Aug 2022
0.14.1 is out now! speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.1 is out now!

Species 0.14.1: the Hearty Breakfast Update (that’s a much better name, my thanks to the steam user who suggested it), has now been released to the Stable branch on Steam. Eggs are the center…

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Species ALRE@QuQuasar
14 Aug 2022
0.14.0 released to Experimental branch speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

0.14.0 released to Experimental branch

Species 0.14.0.Ex has been pushed up to steam. You can get it by right-clicking on Species in Steam, going to Properties, selecting Betas and opting into the experimental branch. Please note: old s…

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Species ALRE@QuQuasar
15 Jul 2022
Survival Mechanics speciesdevblog.wordpress.com…

Survival Mechanics

The plan going forward is to gradually overhaul the basic survival mechanics of the game, to try and turn each individual creatures life into a survival minigame, borrowing from the tropes and conv…

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