The Sapling: Fight & Flight update trailer

Website: thesaplinggame.com/
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Twitter: / thesaplinggame
0:00 Opening
0:23 Bodysizes
0:31 Edit soil
0:38 Family trees
0:44 Attacking instincts
0:50 Defense
0:55 Instinct and sense visualization
1:01 Scales, feathers and fur
1:08 Eggs
1:19 Beaks
1:25 Sitting in trees
1:33 Gliding
1:43 Wings
2:01 Game details

[@theavacadoguy2640]

Ok I've started playing the update and oh my god it's incredible. before, it was honestly kind of boring, but now there's so much more diversity in the things that can evolve. Thank you for working so hard to bring us this update and i look forward for everything to come in the future.

[@itsjustalf7747]

Inr it’s so good

[@ollugamer951]

I love and want this game but my gaming pc is broken... for now

[@GreenAgouti]

Thank you for adding a bunch of the features I've been hoping for.

[@kcflick6132]

I just bought this! I hope you can make a career from making games like this!!! We need more living ecosystem simulators!

[@tridos2574]

This game is so underrated dude! I hope your game grows

[@talonortiz6004]

It is really underrated but there’s not much games like it and that is why it such a great game

[@tridos2574]

@@talonortiz6004 species alre is a similar game but it hasn't been updated for a long time and it doesn't evolve plants

[@lourdthebluefoxie]

Yeah

[@ruudvandenhove6905]

same this game is the best!!!

[@lorddonqweetle]

when the sapling music kicks in

[@Get.Rich.At.Home_]

Man this is amazing, you should add small plant spieces like grass to make it less barren looking when plants grow

[@ad-ver-teasecommentarycrit652]

Yea it would really help tbh

[@magmacube8689]

Your game is so underrated. This update is awsome.

[@majkatrebaticka2957]

A random loong neck bird: weeeeeeeeeeee... Fly Pokemon fans: Ho-Oh!!!!!

[@qui-gontimtherandomraptor1072]

This reminds me SO MUCH of Spore and I'm all here for it 😍😍😍

[@TheShepard2055]

Dude optional symmetry would come in handy 😂 I’m gonna keep asking until you implement

[@Rimmsolin]

Kerbal player lol

[@RavenRains]

This is what I wanted spore to be >.> Truly amazing work.

[@JoseELeon]

This looks amazing

[@matvprado]

Just bought your game. Thanks for the work!

[@literallyagalaxy7789]

Just brought the game today and I love it!

[@demolition3612]

Next thing you know, well be getting creatures that can make tools. Or just creatures that can eat other creatures

[@talonortiz6004]

Looks great can’t wait to try it

[@ultraapple3997]

It is the Best game ever

[@ultraapple3997]

But the next update is at 15th june.

[@talonortiz6004]

It is the best game to me

[@kevinwoverin6611]

@@talonortiz6004 i was one of the first people to play this game AND its wolverine approved lol

[@luquinhas-24]

that's amazing!

[@rathosalpha]

The most truth ful trailer

[@milkman1818]

8$ well spent

[@comradekenya37]

Wow wonderful game, think I’ll check it out. Also water creatures would be cool

[@sheepsheep_sheep1061]

cool

[@RedPandaGod01]

This looks like a successor to spore with more realisam

[@ultraapple3997]

Omg! I- I- I can't speake!

[@leothedinogamer3480]

Hmm if this update adds flying Animals does that mean the next could add aquatic ones?

[@TheSapling]

Hi Leo, I try to never make any promises so I can change my mind without disappointing people (and I indeed change my mind all the time). Having said that, I like the idea of roughly following what players are interested in, and aquatic animals the most requested feature BY FAR ;)

[@rathosalpha]

The next update should be aquatic based with new parts mouths and systems like gills and oxygen and being able to switch from gills and lungs and fins webbed feet pelican beaks moisture for gilled creatures so if moisture is high enough and the gilled creature has the right parts it can go on high moisture land and creature should be able to get shells and there should be creatures living one other creature or just riding them but adding extra weight like the tree system but added weight

[@a-ragdoll]

that would probably take a while, as u might have to (almost) completely rewrite the evolution system, as i think evolution works different in water

[@itsjustalf7747]

Ayyyy I can’t wait to see part 6, have you thought about makeing a discord server for the sapling when you have the time?

[@TheSapling]

Have thought about it yes, but I'm afraid managing it would eat too much of my development time. Not stopping anyone else from creating one, though!

[@lorddonqweetle]

ive noticed that the sandbox map has a teeny little problem, the plants spread out to far for simple organisms and there to slow to reach them fast enough

[@TheSapling]

Hey EverLootion, slower animals are indeed hard to get right in larger levels, but there a few things you can do to make it work, like plants with a lot of offspring, making plants that only survive in a small part of the map, or giving the slow animals instincts.

[@mannybutler7517]

hey quick question would semi procedural animations for eating and attacking be to much?

[@TheSapling]

Hi Manny, good question, I am indeed unhappy with the current non-procedural eating and attacking animations... problem is that it would be a lot of work to get right, while it does not have a lot of impact for the player (it's just a visual thing for when you zoom in), so things like these never end up as a high prio thing on my todo list :/

[@jacobrutzke691]

You should add insects but because of the sheer number there would probly be you could make them particle efects or just really simple so it doesn't lag out your game.

[@kyvilfongkot6372]

Hey seen your post in r/speculativeEvolution

[@theavacadoguy2640]

Today...

[@jamesjaiden7857]

add sea creatures and an ocean map. Even a ocean and land map combine

[@articfox9870]

Can you get this game somehow on mobile eventually? This game is awesome looking and I don’t have a computer :(

[@TheSapling]

Hey ArticFox, I'd love to, but it's not my focus right now. Also, I think only very small levels would be possible, as phones probably wouldn't be able to simulate thousands of organisms like PCs can ;)

[@marly1017]

Why didn't you make that into a voiceover video? Just asking

[@TheSapling]

Good question! I was thinking the devlogs are kind of 'voice over heavy' already and I'm aiming at another type of audience with this trailer... but I recently saw a trailer for No Man's Sky that is really similar (in terms of format) but WITH voice overs naming the new features, and that worked rather well... so not sure what I'll do next time.

[@arthurmorgan6783]

Can you please fix a glitch. I've been having a problem where whenver I edit a plant or animal a bunch of times, it duplicates all the plants makes it lag insanely.

[@TheSapling]

Hey Arthur, thanks for your feedback, bug reports are much appreciated! I have a few questions for you, but since you also emailed me I'm going to reply to your email instead so I have some options for markup and stuff :).

[@broski9938]

oo I hope you add pollenation to the game!

[@TheSapling]

You're in luck, it was already in the update before this one :)

[@broski9938]

@@TheSapling oh cool! I've been looking for an evolution game for ages, so glad I finally found one :D

[@rathosalpha]

you should make the next update a vote between the most wanted thing and your best idea for people to like the game more

[@carginfer2353]

Do you plan on doing another running the game for one week?

[@TheSapling]

Yes, once I get the game stable enough! Not quite there yet, currently working on the next patch B)

[@carginfer2353]

@@TheSapling ok, cool. Ty

[@HansHammertime]

Surely this was inspired by Spore, right? It looks so similar. Especially the creature editor

[@TheSapling]

Hey David, definitely! Had the rough idea already decades ago before learning about Spore, but it was Spore that showed me it could be achieved in a fun way.

[@komasa2191]

the next update we will have marine animals and plants?

[@TheSapling]

Hi Nicolas, I try to never make any promises so I can change my mind without disappointing people (and I indeed change my mind all the time). Having said that, I like the idea of roughly following what players are interested in, and marine animals (and by extension algae) are the most requested feature BY FAR ;) .

[@BananaMike780]

would be cool if you could switch random mutations on and off for plants and animals separately

[@TheSapling]

Hey PeenalJuice, will indeed be part of the next major update. It's been requested suprisingly often :) .

[@tobenamed610]

This update is great but I found a few bugs. I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but when a creature is sitting on a plant and the plant dies, the animal disappears. I've tried to see if it's just on the ground but I don't think it goes back down, it just blanks out of existence. When a creature climbs a tree that is growing, as the plant grows the creature grows to a crazy size as well and then both the plant and the creature disappear. When there are too many entities, they tend to group up and all face one direction. I have multiple screenshots of this, and I have tested it multiple times and at the beginning of every simulation the creatures all move around but once there are a certain amount I always see them not moving and facing one direction all together. I can see their legs moving but they don't go anywhere. It can be annoying when nearly all of them start doing this and the one thing I know to fix it is to jump time, which usually ends up in them being extinct.

[@TheSapling]

Hey ToBeNamed, thanks for your feedback and bug reports! Very helpful, much appreciated! I'll reply to your remarks one by one: 1. If a tree dies, any creatures in it die at well. In my head this made sense, but I agree the way it looks at the moment is mostly confusing... I'm thinking about putting the creature on the ground near where the plant died, but not 100% sure yet what would be best. 2. About climbing growing trees... wow, weird that I never 'caught' this one myself, but I already understand why this happens. It's on my todo list! 3. I actually also discovered this recently, and spend the morning trying to find a fix! Doing something about this is one of my high prio tasks right now, because it looks super weird indeed. Again, thanks!

[@TheSapling]

Update: I think I figured out the third problem, something with the procedural walking system not being added to all randomly generated creatures. My solution will be available in the next patch, which I'm trying to release tomorrow.

[@tobenamed610]

@@TheSapling Ok, cool!

[@zupzugsecend2467]

make a ecosystem tutorial

[@arnevaghaugseth3310]

Love the game but even after the update i find it really hard to have predators bequase they are stupid they starve while standing next to food also sometimes then i make a creture and is ready to put it in my game craches i got a good cpu so that cant be it and a rtx 3060

[@TheSapling]

Hey dream, thanks for reaching out, and sorry to read you had negative experiences with the game. As for the predators: did they have instincts and a food source of the right size? The greenhouse scenario should teach how to create successful predators step by step. As for the crashes: yes, there still seems to be a type of animal the animation system can't handle, but I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what it is... Do you remember what kind of creature you were making?

[@arnevaghaugseth3310]

@@TheSapling i was creating a monster whith lots of difret eyes mouths and legs and other parts. and for the predator thx for the help i finaly found it out :)

[@a-ragdoll]

@@arnevaghaugseth3310 what the hell did u expect if u make a abomination

[@arnevaghaugseth3310]

@@a-ragdoll idk XD

[@randomationstudios24x68]

Huh I’m surprised that flight is something you can evolve before swimming

[@lullabypoppera3914]

What about pollination? Does the sapling have THAT in it?

[@TheSapling]

Yup! I was the a main focus of the update before this one.

[@lullabypoppera3914]

@@TheSapling yay!

[@bossnass9319]

Spore 2 is it that you?🥺

[@Thatguy10148]

Make an aquatic update

[@TheSapling]

Hi mace man, I try to never make any promises so I can change my mind without disappointing people (and I indeed change my mind all the time). Having said that, I like the idea of roughly following what players are interested in, and aquatic life is the most requested feature BY FAR ;) .

[@Thatguy10148]

@@TheSapling got it your the only dev that actually follows it’s community and I just got of a 5 hour binge session of playing your game

[@Thatguy10148]

Off

[@blackcat2333]

make the creatures playable please

[@blazesmooth5573]

Where can I get this game from?

[@TheSapling]

store.steampowered.com/app/997380/The_Sapling/ :)

[@noob_master1544]

This pre th good game,in future would u like add pack hunting down something so they eat?

[@TheSapling]

It's an idea I really like, but at the moment it's not really possible because the game is grid based... so the animals can't really stand closely together.

[@gustttttttt]

me: spore 2