Artificial Island
A downloadable game for Windows
Controls
- Click tiles to move
- Mouse wheel to zoom
- Hold left mouse button and move the mouse to move the camera
- Hold left mouse button to open the context menu for actions
- F11 for fullscreen
- Resize the window to see how the game will look on smart phones
(Targeted) features are;
- Roguelike
- Survival
- Single player
- Thousands of living, thinking, building NPCs
- Procedurally generated one huge map
- Colonies of different NPC groups
- Psychological system for every creature
- Real economical laws
- Player is not more advantageous than any NPC
- “The total amount of mass and energy in the universe is constant”. First law of thermodynamics implemented
- Every creature in the game either has a mother and father, or is created by necromancers
- No plant will ever grow if it’s seed is not sowed by another plant
- Realistic inventory capacity; weight and bulk system
- Quest system according to NPCs’ needs
- No class and ability system. No threshold for capabilities like “15 swordsmanship for Tornado Strike”. Capabilities are mathematically calculated, each point matters. Skills will erode with time, and gained by practice
- No HP. Simplified anatomy is used instead
- Damage does not dramatically increase with higher skills. For example, if two characters with high “swordsmanship” skills fight, most of the battle will pass with “parries” and “dodges”. After one or two direct hits, one of the two characters will bleed to death
- DNA system
- No end game & no bosses. If the strongest creature in the game is slain, a stronger creature with better genes will come out after one or two generations (most probably)
- Realistic fire & spread of fire
- Realistic spread of temperature
- Day & night system, weather system, four seasons
- Crafting system
- Farming
- Fantasy/medieval simulation
- No music, just ambient sound
The game written for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS. Only mouse input is used in desktop, and touch events are used in phones; to make it possible for all operating systems to have exactly the same version of the game without any ports written.
The game and the engine is coded in C++, to keep it efficient; to make it possible for even old smartphones to handle a huge world with thousands of NPCs in it. There are currently none (zero) DLL dependencies, and the zipped game size is just 472 kb, including all contents.
Programmed by Çağlar Can
Graphic art by Aryen Sangha
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I have to work in a job to survive. Not all of us are born lucky unfortunately... I thought I can receive enough amounts of donation to solely focus on my project. I received zero. But one day, when I collect enough amount of money by working, I am going to focus on my project and finish it. Thank you for being my first believer :) It means a lot to me, and it gives me strength.
Oh, I'm still here, I believe you will become lucky someday. To be honest, I was so blind, that I haven't even thought that you could experience struggles of this kind. I will wait forever!
Hello, I just wanted to say that I'm still here.
I still believe in you, and I'm still waiting for the game!
I'm still looking forward to interbreeding alien species and witnessing historical events.
And I will wait until it is ready.
P. S. Oh, it's been only 12 days? It seems like an eternity!
I think this message can give you some mood. Even if you don't want to complete the game anymore, I know in the end you'll accomplish everything you want.
Hello Steve, I never expected another message from you! It's touching to see you never lost your belief in me! Still working and getting things more and more in control in my life. Sooner or later, my friend, this project is going to be completed. I didn't give up from it. If I got 500+ dollars per month in average as donations, I would immediately stop working and solely focus on it. I am living alone for around 4 years, with no family around me. If I was living with my family, I could also just focus on it. But for now, things are like that. I am going to overcome it by myself by working. If you want my social media, we can also talk from there :)
Yay, you updated!!!
Keep watching ;) I'm working 10 hours per day on average on this project now. Let's see what happens ;) I will upload a new version in 2 days. And then keep updating here every few days (I mean the executable. Videos and pictures won't change that often).
This game will be incredible after it gets all the mentioned features, but I can't execute it. I use Windows 10 x64. First, the game asked for "libgcc_s_seh-1.dll" & "libstdc++-6.dll". After I downloaded the files the program left me with message talking about error (0x000007b). Please help me.
Thank you!
I re-uploaded the game files. Can you please download and tell me if it works?
That was fast! Now everything works fine!