Simearth remake 20186/5/2023 ![]() ![]() No referral, affiliate, livestream, and/or survey links. This is not the place to spam your channel or stream. No screenshots of websites or Twitter.įollow the rules of promotion. No general URL shorteners (bitly, tinyurl, etc). Submit only the original source of the content. No Giveaways / Trades / Contests / Items for sale / Donation Requests / Crypto anything Cosplay posts from content creators who focus primarily is adult content will be removed. Mark your spoilers and NSFW submissions, comments and links. No bandwagon/raid/"pass it on" or direct reply posts. Discussion prompts must be made as text posts. Note that we do not allow non-gaming meme templates as submissions. Submissions must be directly gaming-related, not just a "forced" connection via the title or a caption added to the content. ![]() Directly messaging individual moderators may result in a temporary ban. Only message the team via the link above. Simply message the moderators and ask us to look into it.ĭo NOT private message or use reddit chat to contact moderators about moderator actions. Apparently, it is supposed to look like this.īefore today, I had never actually played Sim Earth.If your submission does not appear, do not delete it. But based on Wikipedia and other internet sources, it was certainly interesting. You could control atmospheric gases with percentages down to three decimal places, the rate of continental drift, reproduction and mutation rates, and so on. You can place devices that change the planet’s development, like oxygen generators or monoliths. You can even produce, through manipulation of evolution, a sentient civilization which develops technology – and if it becomes dependent on nuclear power, it can annihilate itself in nuclear war if fuel becomes scarce. All of this depends on a finite budget of energy units you have available for fiddling with the planet, as deity or spacefaring progenitor race or whatever. And if nuclear blasts destroy the highest technology level, you get a bonus civilization – machine life! This is a game where sentient molluscs can battle carnivorous plants for supremacy. It turns out that on this platform, it is inscrutable. Most games in this genre and this era end up being pretty impossible to decipher – the constraints of low-resolution screen real estate, low memory, and control mechanism make it very tough to create a strategy or management game that is at all intuitive, or a tutorial that is at all effective. Not only that, but game design at the time was not supportive of in-depth tutorials or explicit gameplay explanations of any kind. I would imagine the instruction booklet was helpful for this game, though, to some extent.īut about six button presses from turning on the game, I got stuck on a blue screen. None of my buttons would allow me to retreat from the blank blue above the menu. A game where fiddling with the atmospheric composition of a planet allows you to tweak the evolutionary prospects of a variety of eukaryotes is probably not what the gamer demographic at the time was looking for. I would love to see a real Sim Earth remake or sequel done with contemporary technology and design philosophy, but maintaining the same in-depth sandbox quality. This is exactly the kind of thing that Spore was lacking – any kind of granularity, any kind of feeling of simulation, to give its superficiality some weight and impact. SimEarth was more of a true simulation, than a game, meant to show the general public the core concepts behind the badly-named “Gaia Theory”. This has nothing to do with the planet being “alive”, but postulates that all Earth systems – its biosphere, atmosphere, hydropsphere, lithosphere, etc – are all interconnected, and affect one another. Sounds like common sense, but a lot of people have a hard time grasping this without lapsing into either incredulity, or mysticism (even though it should be common knowledge by now that the only reason we have an oxygenated atmosphere is because life itself made it, and is maintaining it as such. ![]()
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