Future Plans - Sapiens Devlog 61
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- čas přidán 6. 12. 2022
- In this video I discuss my future plans for the development of Sapiens, why I won't be growing a studio, what I've been working on since release, and what's coming in the new year.
Create your own primitive civilization. Lead your tribe from the ground, immersed in the world while you shape it. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological advancement in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Original Sapiens Theme Music by John Konsolakis, www.johnkonsolakis.eu
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Don't stress over development being "slow". I'd rather wait a while for bigger and polished updates rather than frequent small updates
17:28 poor guy right there got yanked by the big bird
Living the dream mate, good on ya
I did not think I would follow the development of this as much as I have but you’ve done a great job explaining your approach and process throughout it all. It’s been great seeing your vision for this game come together so nicely!
I am really happy that the game is now available for Mac, I had to get it immediately 😃 Thanks and keep up the good job! Cheers
As someone who plays majority Early Access/Indev games im happily waiting for new content, its like waiting for the next weeks episode of your favourite TV series
I agree. Those of us who grew up in the era of only 3 or 4 channels and commercials every 10 mins. seem to have a bit more patience.
@@JW-hi5wd Hear, hear!
Yeah, Mac version! Thank you for bringing it to the Mac!
Ok. I need to do a series on this.
1. It looks awesome!
2. The passion and commitment put into it makes it even more a must play!
For the war: In ancient history it seldom was the blood fest most people will imagine. You can implement it as a sort of stand off too: Sapiens from one side standing 10m away from a line of sapiens from the other side, spear waving, shield banging, spears get thrown and one side runs away, maybe evne without having lost one, just a few injuries.
Just want to say. Thank you very much for The blockheads and my childhood
As a Steam Deck user I appreciate the controller support. You might consider the sizing of the UI at small screens. Some games have an UI size option (small/medium/large).
no one has ever said 'as a steam deck user' before 💀
@@domcripps well it's about time then ;)
@@domcrippsDo you mock him because he's using „language“? 😂
You should start working on the blockheads again please😢 It was my very young childhood, I loved that game, and or make it open-source
I agree with your decision of not changing anything. I really enjoy how it is going right now. Also don't feel bad for doing the small maintenance stuff. It is really important and if you neglect it in favor of content then people might start to have the expectation of you to always push out content updates.
When it comes to medicinal plants I would love it if different regions have different solutions to the illnesses the sapiens can catch. That way the start at a different place in the world comes with the consequence that you need to find out what plants are available and what they do from scratch.
Thanks for the update Dave, have a great xmas with your family. Cheers
i would love to play sapiens with my friend, create our own civilizations and eventually interact, either starting war or trade depending on what we think
Multiplayer is on the roadmap!
@@ayybe7894 indeed, i was more expressing excitement and what i planned to do with it, guess i should have worded it better 😅 thanks for trying to help though!
Enjoyed the update Dave. Currently, Sapiens is in my top 10 games that I play. Cheers!
Good Job Dave !!!! You know that the community of Sapiens will and always support you and the project !!!
Your devlogs are incredible! I wish you the best and hope you continue with them
I can't wait for the Mac release! Thank you Dave!
I don't know if you pay attention to these comments but I wanted you to know, first of all, I did not realise this was a one man show. And I'm completely blown away. The content and the complexity of the game was screaming small dev team to me, so bravo on that! Second, I was feeling impatient until I realised you were just one person, take your time, take your days off as you need them, do you. Your game is amazing (I would like to see more of the medicine herbs spawning) and I am excited to see it grow!
Great hearing about the MacOS Version! I would love to play it and only own an M1 Mac, so this is music to my ears.
You are the man! Wishing you the best of luck with the continued development of Sapiens. Love the game and will continue to play it as updates drop!
Please don't change the video format. I am not even a game developer myself, but I love watching these videos, because of how relaxing and motivating they are
Loving Mac support over here. Thanks. Keep doing everything the way you feel best.
I really enjoy those semi technical, longer devlogs and I am looking forward to everything coming up.
Great update, thanks for taking the time to make this update. I'm still following and will make more videos as time permits
So happy I've stuck around to watch the development of this game!! It was truly so much fun to immerse yourself in and I can't wait to play again to try the new content I've missed!
This is a great effort and a satisfying play, looking forward to seeing where you go with this.
Very cool game and good to hear it is doing good!
thank you for your work, the videos definitely add a lot of value to the game for me!
Thank you so much for the mac version, I've been hoping for this.
Amazing stuff Dave. Have a good rest - really enjoying what you've put out so far with this game.
Your work is amazing, dude. Спасибо!
It's all good! Wishing you and the family a wonderful Xmas 🎄
Have enjoyed your Dev logs over the years and excited to see it coming out on Mac! Great that it was so easy to port to mac as you have kept this in mind all along. Thank you Dave!
Awesome update, you are living the dream!
just got the money to buy this game I've been following the development since the beginning! merry Christmas!
I look forward to watching the devlogs there always really good I have been watching them from the start, keep up the good work mate.
Thank you, i discovered your game about a month ago and i love it.
And i love the thought that it will keep developing. :)
It's great seeing how you finished your game. I started watching when you developed your planet generation and was instantly hooked. I really enjoy playing Sapiens, it's so relaxing once you have a nice society going. I'm looking forward to see what's next, after your well deserved break.
Keep up the great work. I have 300 hrs on here and am loving the game.
Just got the game about a week ago and I gotta say, I am having a blast. One of my favorite colony builder games already. I hope you and this game a lot of success!
I actually am so excited for the Mac support. I played so much of the game when it became available, and unfortunately had to stop when I had to return my windows notebook to my company. Keep doing the amazing work you do!
New to programming as a hobby to do exactly what you've done. I've seen this game on steam. Been interested. But now I must purchase. You've lived my dream and designed a game in my favourite genre. I will be grabbing a copy!
merry Xmas from Aucks Dave, hope you have a good one.
you are the ceo of inspiration
Hi Dave i'm from Italy, i used to play blockheads, i have so many great memories about that game, i was in love with it, the floating ilands, the gems tree, the cold/hot water mechanics, the underground ogre, the ice ogre, the shark, the shark theeth, i was in love with every part of that game, and now i'm so hyped about this new game,thank you for your beautiful creative mind, i wish you the best of luck!!!!
if it ain't broke, don't fix it. stay the path that's working for you. As much as I would love a larger experience, the game is quite wonderful already.
hey dave just passing by to thank you for the childhood memories i have created due to the blockheads and its great to see you are working on a new game aparently
Bravo, Kudos!
Ive been following your game development and its super awesome! you should add more some predators for people to fight off later down the line
for a while I’ve been calling this game “Dave Frampton’s Sapiens.” it sounds a lot more official that way. if the game ever needs to be renamed, there you go.
I do love the idea of the game and what you have done so far but is hard waiting on content, good job so far though.
This is a top 2 game for me, for games I’ve played in my lifetime. Only beaten by Civilization. But I’m really surprised you haven’t included a necessity for fresh water mechanic. The abilities and content from that alone such as irrigation and aqueduct systems would be cool to develop. Super excited to see the sapient go through the Bronze Age though. Hopefully some building with stones is in the mix somewhere. Love your work life balance man. It’s hard to wait for new content but hearing that the wait is for family time makes it all worth while! Cheers mate
As of the current version of Sapiens, I found it quite challenging to find all the ingredients for all the meds to treat all the various setbacks. And so, it's a good idea to build an outpost far enough to quarantine the infected. Given proper stations and ample food supplies from the main camp, I managed to keep the game virus contagion free by letting the virus run its course for each infected at the outpost. And with that, all the infected were saved one by one and kept the main camp safe and kept a diligent watch over who visits or wish to join the tribe. It's a good idea to monitor any infected at the outpost also as they will first attempt to return to the main camp. This is the only game that appeals so far in terms of "leading the pack" so to speak, a well thought out game world.
I would like to see a different color to distinct the infected (viral virus) and even see it flashes on the sapiens list so we can distinguish at a glance.
As for the other kind of danger coming from mammoths, it would be neat to have a research tree on traps, things to impede them from harming the sapiens and of course another means of obtaining their well earned furs and meat to provide for the whole camp and outposts.
Not sure exactly when bows and arrows were invented, but it would be interesting to see that aspect into Sapiens on the scale of sapiens evolution.
Since I love fishing, that too, would be a nice addition as we can reach large bodies of water (lakes, ponds, and even the seas), why not spear fishing for sustenance as well. Down the line, rafts, wood boats.
Would be nice to create baskets made of flaks twines to carry much more on longer trips (exepeditions, migration).
thank you
I'll deffo buy this when it comes on mac
you inspire me
Now that we are starting to get quite a lot of things to grow are we going to ever getting planting zones? If you do plan on this, what do you think the best way of implementing it will be? (Box zones, drawn polygon zones, tile zones, etc.)
on mac too!!! thank god
Just partition the drive 💀
Thanks so much for controller support. Its becoming more of a norm for many gamers like myself who work all day on a PC and rather play something on the couch. Not to mention steam deck options and console like you mentioned.
Been following you from pretty much the start of the devlogs. One of the things that excites me the most at this point about the game is the modability. Any time I see a platform like this, and then mod support I get visions of a world filled with absolutely any item/plant/animal/rock you can run into in the real world. I would be really curious to hear what your thoughts are on the limitations of the engine in terms of capacity to load different types of things into a world. How many different *types* of plants/animals really make sense from a performance stand point? Does modding support all aspects of the game, such as base resources and derivatives? Jobs? Thanks for your thoughts.
Most of the performance limitations come from the quantity of objects, not the diversity. I think it will probably stay that way, it's one of the benefits of the art style with no textures and low detail models. So there shouldn't be any major problem having thousands of different types of objects.
I agree the potential for mods is pretty exciting, and yep, all of the skills/resources/AI etc. are in the Lua code so are fully moddable.
Are caves going to be added to the world as well? This would be a really cool place to build in.
I will definitely work for free for you just to learn and help this game grow if I'm given a chance, my brain is really bursting with ideas watching your videos.
It's cool bro
dude! this game is sweet!
Awesome news about the controller support, been playing on Steam Deck so more native support would be handy. Cant wait for the multiplayer support. Would be interesting if we can get the dedicated server working on a raspberry pi. If your planning Linux I think it should be attainable.
Have you thought about bluring the shadows the further away it is from the object?
I think it is a huge improvement visually, specially if you have mountains that cast shadows on terrain
Great game. Only thing I would change would be the zooming in and out. The + & - buttons would be better.
i just bought the game. like the idea and potential is huge.
Hi Dave, I have been playing your game. Its a really good game so far. I was thinking about the idea of war between Sapiens where as others have said. You could develop as a simple fight between Sapiens to more complex situations. I was also wondering if there would be more skills added to the skill tree.
As a Mac, and Steam Deck owner... I do appreciate your efforts to make your game available to as many people as you can, I think the reason why there are few MacOS players is because we do not get enough games, so we buy consoles. Well, that's my theory. lol - I am eagerly waiting for Mac Version and multiplayer, I already convinced my wife and my brother to get their copy! :P
Wow! Its are really amazing! I loved your game, got to be so good can play it! :> the graphics are so simple, but at the same time... they are the best!, plan some day add a system of the Sapiens can create new clothing?
Hey Dave, can you add this video to the Sapiens playlist in your channel as well?
Just came here from the blockheads, i didn’t know it was even a game, hey mr dave! 👋
Carry on, no corps!
I'd like to see you make a play thru series to take a break from the developer videos.
Spawn("Aloe") does not produce plant I need for the medicine. Also, unable to find Marigold plant either. Seems that 'Moa' no longer exist, but after spawn("mammoth") it appears right there. Is there a way to know whether in proximity that two plants exist at all?
Hi Dave, I've really been enjoying Sapiens but the one thing that made me not jump on it sooner was the price for a game still in alpha. You should keep the price at the sale price until you're out of beta, or raise prices incrementally as you get closer to version 1.0.
Whilst multiplayer will be very cool and interesting. I see that as a minor thing you could add.
Mate, I hope you realise that I and I assume, many many others expect in a few years to go from this (ancient tribes around the beginning of the Holocene) all way through to bronze age and ancient history, maybe iron works creating iron age, making huge empires from then to sprawling 1800s naval empires.
For That, firstly, you absolutely have to be able to control virtually everything from the map like a Paradox interactive game as well as the view we get default.
That's a lot, tbh I'd be happy with boats and some form of horseback and camelback travel. But I expect a lot from you over this decade...
I'm debating on purchasing this for early access. Is there any updates that are coming up soon for the game My understanding is the last one was 9 months ago and it was like the wind update or something. Game seems amazing.
You should start working on the blockheads again please😢 It was my very young childhood, I loved that game, and or make it open-source
Tell us more details of your implementation. Language, libs, code architecture, issues you had, etc.
Hi Dave,
This game is absolutely amazing, I completely fell in love with it and cant stop playing :)
Is there a way to make donations to you?
Enjoy your holiday and Christmas :)
Is there any way to move the game to 'proper' screen? I have connected two GPUs (one GTX1080Ti and one RTX4090). So, I want to play on TV (4K res.). In the menu, there is window option, but unable to move that window. Is there another way?
Could you add it where, we could play as one of the sapiens, like take over one? or be able to make our sapien to live in the world with our clan?
In pretty new to this game dev and programming stuff, but I'm wondering if it would be possible to modify a open source engine like Godot 4 with vulkan support. Without having to build an entire engine from scratch. And achieve a similar results as you have?
after controllers, any plan to support linux/steam deck
tho i think game works just fine with proton
it was working last time i played
but native linux support would be good
Keep posting videos, its great for marketing your work. Also, consider hiring at least one more person, to make art, models, etc....
As an andie game myself, I know its a very lonely experience, so if you have the opportunity to hire someone and share stuff at real time this will do a lot for your mental health, trust me.
Any chance for a Linux/Steam Deck support since your game uses Vulkan? If no then is it possible to help you with that? I do own Steam Deck myself and I use Linux as a development/gaming platform so I'd love to try and make the game work natively on it.
I haven't managed to get a Steam Deck myself yet, as they are not available in NZ, but I know a number of players are finding it runs great already, and on Linux via Proton too.
Good on you dave, stick to your guns.
I agree the games already pretty good you deserve a break
I bought the game because I found it through the devlog
Hey Dave, could you please update the Blockheads? Me and many others want to see that game get a major update again.
when will you work on The Blockheads again
Heh, 'spawn("chicken",100)'. Lot of chickens. :)
I like the game but my inhabitants just sit around ignoring my orders after a while, am I doing something wrong? A few of them do basic stuff like refilling fireplaces and torches, but they don't go fetch things or dig etc. I got quite a few people having minor symptoms from a virus, but I can't get medicine since no one wants to explore that :s No mods. I do have a lot of orders and many are far away, so I'm guessing it has something to do with that.
Wow, found Aloe. But it is at the 'end of the world', or as it says: "Too far from tribe". :(
rather take your time with quality then rush updates , tho you could consider taking on an college intern to help with content generation and bug fixes .
Hi, just wanted to say that while I like the face cam, I do think the constant switching between it and the gameplay makes the video feel a bit hectic to me. My suggestion would be to put a smaller version of it in the bottom right corner.
It reminds me that he’s human tbh
have to have combat and war system with other tribes
imagine sapiens with multiplayer