Here's the information from our August - September 2019 Newsletter of what Ecosystem is all about. Read this, go and download the demo, then come here to help shape the game!
"It’s time for us to talk about a partnership we’ve forged with our friend Tom Johnson. Tom has been working on a unique evolution-based sandbox game called Ecosystem for some time now – and it’s a game that really deserves to see the light of day. We’ve been advising Tom in the context of the wisdom we’ve gained from EotU, and will be acting as Ecosystem’s publisher to bring it to the world!
An infinite variety of creatures can evolve in Ecosystem
In Ecosystem, you have control over an ocean environment where a huge variety of marine animals can evolve and thrive, or falter and perish. The pressures of natural selection, guided by your hand, will determine which lifeforms are fit for purpose and which will be confined to evolutionary history.
Reefs and plant beds, placed by the player, support the evolving Ecosystem
Your creatures can take on an infinite variety of physical and behavioural forms, all driven by genetic and neural algorithms. It’s a game with incredible depth and, we hope, a bright future."
I hope to keep it stable. It's still got some kinks to work out but at least few people have tried leaving it running for long periods as a kind of experiment to see what will pop up. When I first started, the pace of creature evolution was much slower so I often had to run it for awhile to get results at all