It’s the final week before the release of 0.7.1 and we are shifting our focus more towards bug fixing and polishing of already developed features. We finally implemented long-anticipated dynamic environments and many other cool features!

Excited to see all these features yourself? Feel free to download our 0.7.1 release candidate and give it a spin! Afterwards feel free to share your experience with us and have fun playing!

Programming

• New DevBuild for our patrons:
  • The world now starts off with no oxygen and photosynthesis once evolved will add oxygen to the world
  • Metabolosomes are now locked until reaching a patch with oxygen
  • Iron respiration no longer requires oxygen to keep it viable in the vents biome
  • Added a new music track for the ice shelf biome
  • Added a microbe background distortion shader effect that can be enabled in the options (this may become the default in the future)
  • Added an experimental bloom effect that can be enabled
  • Changed membrane bump map UVs to not distort with the membrane animation
  • Reworked patch and some UI icons as SVG files
  • Auto-evo can now generate flagellum length mutations
  • Reduced pulling cilia power a bit when there are many of them
  • Added missing models to the art gallery model viewer
  • Fixed a bug where the editor showed patch compounds as they were during the previous generation
  • Fixed showing how long gas compound storage takes to fill up, which didn’t make sense as cells don’t store the gas type compounds
  • Fixed regression in fossilization dialog not working
  • Made cloud benchmark spawn all types of clouds
  • Organelle tooltips are now dynamically generated from the organelle JSON data
  • Updated wiki text content
  • Updated translations

Graphics

• New model for the Mitochondria

• Experimenting with Bloom

Gameplay

• Nothing Substantial

Sound

• New microbe theme for the Ice Shelf biome
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESuEeqjlBE0

Theory

• Nothing Substantial

Outreach

• Art Contests have officially been relaunched after a long break!

Other

• Nothing Substantial