0.4.3 Features Discussion Thread

[DonGororo]

@NickTheNick

3. Dynamic backgrounds. Getting rid of the static background images with the static bubbles. Adding dynamic bubbles instead, with blur and visual signs of water movement. Also cells that move in the background. I think this will hugely improve the game’s visuals and immersion!

Wouldn’t it be easier to try to make backgrounds look like they did before the bsf change? At least in the short term? It seems like changing the whole background system would be a big task.

@NickTheNick

6. Reduce compound yield from engulfing organelles/cells to 25%. Then add lysosomes as a new organelle, and they increase the compound yield you get from engulfing to 50%. It’s a little too easy to harvest compounds from engulfing organelles right now, and this would allow us to add the lysosomes organelle to the game.

This is something I’ve been thinking about, making predation more interesting. The way it should work is that once you engulf a cell it stays inside you untill you digest it, in turn slowing you, in this case lysosomes would make digestion take shorter.
I think bacteria can’t eat other cells and instead expell digestive enzymes to break down their food.
I think doing something similar could make some interesting mechanics and would make prokaryote gameplay more unique, we should talk about this in another thread if we end up implementing it in the game.

@NickTheNick

7. New ambient SFX like bubble sounds, underwater echos, etc. The gameplay does sound a little quiet right now.

IRUY already made Some background sounds for different biomes and Twiggs has been working on new sound effects for the UI and the game in general, since we already have some work done this is a feature we should add in the next release imo.