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Copy/paste from the official website: What is Species?
Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution is a scientifically-accurate natural-selection video game. It allows you to experience evolution first-hand, simulated from the very first principles of evolutionary science:
Variation (every creature is uniquely defined by it’s genes),
Mutation (child creatures are randomly modified versions of their parents), and
Natural Selection (the environment affects every creature in their struggle to survive).
With these principles as it’s gameplay mechanics, Species recreates the same unguided pressures that drove the development of all life on earth over the last 4 billion years.
Whether you just want to observe, watching and studying as the tree of life constructs itself from a single species, or you want to be an active influence on the development of the species in the game, is up to you. --------------------------------------------------------
Played for about an hour so far, and my worm-like creatures have developed some sort of tentacles:
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I have fooled around with climate changes too much - as it turns out the temperature adjustment is very severe, so I had some sort of volcanic lava surface on my island in a very short time, so the creature population dropped from 400+ specimens to 6... I had to nurture the remaining few by manually feeding and resurrecting them.
They look like bipedal dicks, just like nature intended!
Experiencing some sort of "seasonal" population changes, when the numbers grow to 50+ and suddenly drop back to around 15-20.
Used the "radiation" tool on some of the creatures, but it's hard to say if it had any effect... I just click and see what's going to happen at this point.
This tiny coastal region is all what's left of once prosperous worm society... I have no idea why there is so much sand everywhere
There is an option to hand-pick and place creatures, so i might manual redistribute some at a later point.
The game is very ugly and it crashed 2 times in a course of a single hour, but there is something about it... The alpha is free, and it's like a 90mb file - so grab it and see for yourselves!
There seems to be an option of exporting/importing creatures, so i will let it run for a while and post some ugly mfckers that i have created
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Having some sort of genetic degradation back to most primitive forms. For whatever reason, limbless worm-like creatures are back as a part of the evolutionary competition!
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I have moved some of the creatures to the opposite part of the island, hopefully it will encourage a new branch of life forms.
