Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox is a god game with fully simulated genetics and evolution. Create species of plants, herbivores and carnivores and try to control the ever evolving ecosystem. Design and create genetically modified organisms, but remember when you start tampering with genetics it is hard to undo your mistakes...
Key Features
Fully modelled genetics and evolution
The behaviour and appearance of each organism are determined by their genetics. How tall will a plant grow? How fast can an herbivore run? How often does a carnivore seek prey? These genetics are passed down generation after generation, with random mutations caused by radiation. Evolution is fully simulated, there are no tricks or statistical approximations. You are watching life evolve on your computer.
Weather and Climate Model
Temperature, humidity and wind are all modelled in the game. The weather and climate effect your organisms and perhaps your actions affect the climate as well…
Genetic Engineering
One of your key objectives is to investigate the organisms you create. Build collectors to harvest resources and research stations to observe the organisms. Eventually you will unlock the secrets of genetic engineering. Create your own genetically modified organisms, but be careful, once a genome has entered your ecosystem it may be hard to undo the damage…
Science to be Done
What do all those genes actually do? How is the world score calculated? What does world efficiency even mean? Much like a real scientist you will need to investigate, analyse and work with other players to try and answer these questions. To help you along the way the game outputs data in xml files so you can really get your science on.
Secrets to Discover
Who is employing you to create this ecosystem? Why are they doing it? Why are you doing it? What are those targets for? The answers to these any many other questions are out there, you just need to work together and find them...
Today we are excited to announce Pill Bug Interactive's next game: Cycle 28 .
To celebrate we are going to run an Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox (ID) community guide competition. The winners of which will get free copies of Cycle 28 with full closed beta access.
Over the last month we have gained a large number of new players to ID. These players missed out on the game’s amazing launch, during which everyone was working together to figure out what all the genes did to their flora and fauna. To try and help these new players out Pill Bug will be writing our own official guides, but we would love to see what the community can do, hence this competition.
On the first of February we will rank all the community guides by their rating and give the top 3 guides a Cycle 28 beta key (which is also a retail key).
To learn more about Cycle 28 and add it to your wish list check out the store page here .
Minimum Setup
- OS: Linux (Most distros should work)
- Processor: Quad Core @ 2.3GHzMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel(R) HD Graphics 520
- Storage: 500 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Large ecosystems may cause performance issues on systems without dedicated graphics cards.
Recommended Setup
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04
- Processor: Quad Core @ 3GHzMemory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 or equivalent
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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