Survival of the Fittest | Synthetic Selection Dev Log 1 

Indie devs consistently making shit miles better than anything AAA corps could ever think of

can't wait for rainworld meets space engineers who gave the survivor a protean gundam

YES FINALLY ANOTHER DEVLOG.

There is a forth classification of player… the playing-god classification!

2:24 “It just works” you better know the weight you carry with that phrase.

Glad to see it’s going in a survival game category. Those environments do not need to go to waste. Like seriously those dark areas with pillars everywhere? Fits way too well for a game like this

WE ARE SO BACK BOYS HOLY I HAVE BEEN CHECKING THIS CHANNEL EVERY MONTH PRAYING

Can’t wait to make a levitating tank that spawns mini dragonfly drones that spawn heat seeking missiles.

Oh shit it’s here finally! The first (second) devlog!

I’ve dreamed about a game like spore where everything else evolves along with you! Really excited to see how this is gonna turn out!

Babe, synthetic selection devlog dropped

2:59 this is the best example of “OH F### OH SH## OH GOD GET ME OUT OF HERE”

WOOOOOO! Just seeing the development and concepts is so fascinating. I did love the INSANE looking procedural bosses from the very first stuff before you even had this channel but it’s crazy to see how things changed. Best of luck with the continued development

A developer on RU-vid who didn't instantly abandon their project? This is getting interesting.

this is some of the coolest shit i've seen, please don't leave us after a few devlogs like Mythic Legion

You’re the ONLY dev making all this? Dude wtf. I assumed at least 3-5 ppl were doing this

Hi I’m excited to see whats next it’s so cool! Edit 1: I am so confused on how you did this but I feel this will become the future of games. Ima stick around and see where this heads!

that jumping wing transformation combo is the coolest thing ive seen

I swear RU-vid somehow knows when a channel is going to upload again. I always get recommended a video of a channel that hasn’t uploaded in a while not long before they upload again.

HE DID IT, AFTER MONTHS HE ACTUALLY MADE HIS FIRST DEV LOG!

Lets Go!! Some progress, i am so bloody hyped!!

Could have a button where your ai for procedural generation completes your creation, adding onto it / masking changes based on what the original creation was.

I was just going back through my playlists and I checked if you posted anything and BOOM! 29 minutes ago! 😁

AN UPDATE LESS GO. I wish I could learn to make this stuff

NEW UPLOAD FINALLY🎉🎉

Very cool, but I have my thoughts about node systems. I like the game called From the Depths by Brilliants Skies. They have so called Breadboards, which is basically like your node. And breadboards are either super small one with 3 PIDs for altitude/roll/pitch or beasts that can take nearly full control of a unit (FtD is more RTS like game than a FPS one). In FtD is a very frustrating that while editing breadboards you can't select a few nodes and move them at once or copy and paste them. It is partially solved by the fact that you can have multiple breadboards on board, but you would have a problem in making breadboards to actually speak to each other. So, my point is that nodes can get a very complicated. I really suggest you to make an option of a text-driven behavior specifications. You can easily implement something like reusability of a code/copy and pasting modules and etc. Basically, it would be far more convenient to build sophisticated scripts for your creature to follow. Also, how much player can automate it's own unit? Technically, can I make a beast that fly itself and fight completely autonomously? How much is there behind a node system? Like is it supposed to be a powerful tool by concept or is it just a tool to map yor key input to a movements of your beast? Can I add some PIDs for keeping my creature at constant altitude above the ground? Would we have some sensors to read from? Also, I see thet you connect parts via lines... It also can get really complicated. Look at the game called Stormworks: Build and Rescue. All of a components need to be connect to each other via lines in order to exchange energy, information, commands etc. And even and starter builds it gets really complicated... Like just look at the starter helicopter in that game: it is a flying noodle factory. It partially helping that game have several "planes" for this connections, so you don't see all of them at once. In FtD your unit have some general commands, each represented by a real number, and for each active block you have like a table which all of that commands and numbers that describe how to react to this command. Like you may have thruster at the bottom of your craft and put in the table "Hover Up/Down: 1" which would mean that if command "Hover Up/Down" is 0.1 (you wanna slowly raise your altitude, for example), and your thruster will work at 0.1 * 1 = 0.1 percent of it's thrust. Like, it is easier to see than to describe with words. Also, you can give a name to each individual component and refer to this component by a name in Breadboard. Also, you said that enemies will also evolve "behaviorally". Bu what did you mean by that? A) Nodes are totally controlling behavior of a enemy and the evolve randomly B) Nodes control only key mapping to body parts movements, but general behavior of a enemy is controlled by built in AI. For example, all units have built in AI which making them charge towards the player, but they evolve in a sense that they move bodyparts differently to propel themselves. In case of B you can have a few enemy AI presets with their own spec to max out, like charger-AI which makes enemy to charge at you and evolve into beasts which higher speeds and higher mass, range AI which makes AI stay far away and shot at you while evolving long-range shooting appendices. And I really suggest you to play From the Depths or a Stormworks, to see an examples of what community builds in this sort of games and how they handle building processes.

It's amazing to see how far this project has come. I love the robotic insect designs that show up pretty frequently. Reminds me of a game I loved as a kid called Drone Tactics. Completely different gameplay (turn based tactics) but based around giant insect robots. Also, steam workshop integration for craft and module sharing would be amazing. Just saying.

Finally, this dude remembered is channel's password (he will not exist another 5 months)

Yo another dev log🎉

You mentioned you’re going to add a way to leave messages in game like dark souls / elden ring to leave builds behind for future players to find them. Since I assume it’ll be a code block to “assemble locally” the vehicle, perhaps add a method to sanitize the code block for the vehicle blueprints so nobody can drop malicious “messages” as my first instinct as a cyber security engineer is “oooooo that looks fun and explicable!” But I want you to succeed so.... yeah :D cool concept, can’t wait to see it at release

I cannot fathom a AAA studio making a game like this, and I've not been more excited to see a dev log in a while! Bravo!

This game will probbly be the literal best game to be released in the future. i actually might just become a patreon supporter now!!

the creating and sharing their ideas is reminding of the old game Spore, loved that game

Q&A Q1 will this game be on console? Q2 what is the price of the game? Q3 will it have multi player? Q4 what is your favorite block?

Wow, I saw the last devlog, but I didn’t think the system could make so many different things. This is a technical marvel!

This isn't just a game bro, 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Its in a league of its own, This will cause massive shifts in the innovation space when it comes to game dev and engineering 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 cant wait

Let's go its back

This game looks awesome. I want to help out somehow, but I’m terrible with code and you already have art- do you already have music?

Damn man it's good to see you!

I would love this game to be like a mix of Minecraft open world and evolution where are you fight something you go away for a minute go back and all the sudden they have wings

LESGOO SYNTHETIC SELECTION DEVLOG!!!

i love this game so far. i have too much anxiety to try and go for an alpha test build rn but im excited for this

LETS GOOO ANOTHER DEV LOG

I’m really glad my 7 segment display node graph was put into the devlog. If you’re wondering, it’s the one at 1:20.Still disappointed my calculator didn’t make it into the video though

this sounds like spore but everything around you evolves too, and i am 110% on board with this also i hope, if its not already a thing, that the future iterations include a survival mode akin to games like the isle, mostly because that sounds incredibly fun to be an active player in an ecological arms race against the environment as everything around you is evolving to try and hunt you or avoid you, forcing you to evolve in order to just survive. definitely going to be playing this as soon as i can

This may be my favourite game when its finished

i like the rain world daddy long legs like creatures

Bro just went like "Also I added an actual coding system to the game. Now look at this cool bug."

Nah bro is really cooking something🔥🔥 jokes aside am really excited for this game

When i was a kid i dreamed of having lots of legos then i dreamed of playing scrap mechanic then trailmakers now, this is my dream game. Like if ur gonna be engineer

You should make the creatures fight each other since this is technically nature and well even if your not there somethings fighting and taking the DNA to evole to

Holy Moly just yesterday I was thinking about this game

this game is gonna be so much fun when it releases, ur so passionate about it pls don't sell ur project to some kind of souless company, u gonna make millions cause of this game

This game is so original he made me switch to my original account just so I can subscribe and support this game we need this game

multiplayer 1v1 or team against team would be so much fun in this game too

How large can we expect the enemies to get. Some of the older clips you showed us had massive colossi like enemies in them. Will we still see enemies that big in the game?

I'm so glad to see this after robocraft 2 was killed, i thought there would not be a game like this for a while.

YAYYY FINALLY!!!, reminds me of the game terra tech

This looks so good. It's like making an artificial evolution line.

THIS IS BEYOND COOL! Any chance you might be releasing an early access or testing version? I would love to test for you and i'm sure loads of people feel the same

Finally bro I was starving and sick until this came out

This is my dream game, I am eager to the point I am eager beyond how I can say. I am so eager that I forgot how grammar works

I swear I checked in on the channel at least 3 times in the past month just in case a new upload came through 😅

I feel like this would work really well as a subnautica style game

Waited for soooo looooong for this devlog . Finally!!❤❤ Honestly i thought we will never get any other update.

What robocraft 2 should have been. x3

This game looks soo awesome! Really need to try it :D love everything about it Great work!

Another banger of a video!!! Let’s go boys!!

This shit FIRE man. Great work

0:58 bru that's just _hovercar experiments_

i inspire to be able to put something like this together!

I absolutely love the experimentation and discovery capable in a game like Noita, and if you do something similar with simple units that have complicated interactions, I am all down for that.

plssss keep going i MUST play this game asap

i love the idea of robot ecosystems from the start of the video up to here 0:24 really caught my attention at how things move so smoothly and animal like but knowing its made from small parts makes it crazy how fluid it is please keep up on the animations of this it makes things so beautiful to look at

Please keep going 🙏 . This is amazing!

YEAHHHHH DEVLOG TIME LETS FREAKIN GO

Honestly, i can imagine this game being used in school to teach about the component based aproach to design or something along those lines. Im super happy that you kept the complex nature and didnt decide to dumb it down, this game is going in a great direction!

This. is. so. INSANELY COOOOOOL 🔥🔥🔥

Estimated release date? will it be on steam?

this is looking so good! i wanna play!!!

this looks INCREDIBLY cool

This looks pretty cool. definatly looking forward to what you do with it.

HES FUCKING BACK!!! *LETS GOOOO*

i saw the first video i was so overwhelmed and after a while i just thought that maybe you stopped working on the project and now after watching this video and literally having chills and an increased bpm with my heart im gonna tommorow pay to the patreon, im so excited.

It's a really cool looking sandbox. I am curious to see how you manage to turn it into a game. Really cool project. Excited for you.

will the game be mac compatible?

FINALLY. So good to see you are still allive, i love your ideas !

Will there be a mobile support?

3:35 'its just like natural selection, but somehow... artificial? not sure what to call it.' SYNTHETIC SELECTION BLUHEHFEJEFJKSDMMFNAKJSKDW

I LITERALLY GASPED WHEN I SAW THIS

I love the idea of being able to find creations while exploring similar to soapstone messages

This is an amazing project! No expectations, just grateful you’re sharing this with the community cause it’s super inspirational and looks like a blast to play with! Thanks :)

THIS LOOKS EPIC! I simply love the idea of an ecosystem or creatures that are synthetic- Horizon kinda hit this, but it never really went into the ecosystem aspect- creatures interacting with one another, creatures evolving. If I get the alpha version, I'm spending 10 billion hours just trying to make a fancy creature >:D Seriously though, looks stunning!

It's interesting how a lot of us devs actually want this one game, but we all start to tackle this from different sides. You started with structure and function of entities (future characters and animals) in a way I dream to do in my project in the future. I'm very curious if you will come up with a way to generate different species or will you rely on user created and hand-crafted models of the entities. Anyway, grat stuff! Looking forward to your progress!

will it be free in the future?

Seriously hoping you don't get pressured like Dani did, nice game

5 months later.....................

I hope this takes off and becomes popular enough to get a PC and console release Because I don't have a working PC and playing this on a controller would be interesting

New dev log 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥

Are you using "simulated atmosphere" ? Or is everything in a vacuum with gravity?