Early tech demo for a planet terraforming simulation game, inspired by games like SimEarth, Spore, From Dust, and Black & White 2.

Technical Notes

This game is fairly demanding on your graphics card, as all physics simulations run on the GPU. Integrated GPUs are not supported and will run the game very slowly if at all. You don't need the top of the line, something around the level of a GTX 1050 should be fine, but an integrated GPU probably won't cut it.

If the game fails to load at all, try a different browser. The latest Firefox or Chrome should work. Internet Explorer is not supported, although an up to date Edge should also work.

If the game runs very slowly, make sure your browser is using the correct GPU. Many times the browser has to be explicitly told to use the more powerful discrete graphics card. Check the NVIDIA Control Panel (or equivalent) and see if you can set the browser to use a preferred GPU.

Known Issues

  • Visible seams are present at several places on the planet
  • Flow of fluid appears distorted near seams
StatusPrototype
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Authorrustinlee
GenreSimulation
Made withUnity, Blender
Tags3D, Procedural Generation, Relaxing, Sandbox, Singleplayer, Space, Unity
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse

Development log

Comments

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hey man just a question: is game still in development?? it's been nearly 3 years and game looks promising but im afraid that this got abandoned as a simple project.

What is this pyle of poo 

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Such a fun simulation, and the water is super impressive!!

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ITS SO COOL

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Top 3 Way To Lag Ur Computer
3: Playing Multi UHD 4K YouTube Video

2: copy and paste super long text (holding ctrl v)

1: playing planetsculptor

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Me: Why Is it not working :/
My Compooper: HOT, I'M SO HOT HOOOOOT!!!!

its so laggy

Make sure you have a dedicated GPU (not an Intel or AMD integrated GPU built into your CPU) and that your browser is using it instead.

ahhh ok

Will a download link be available at some point?

Thanks for your interest. I put a lot of work into making this initial prototype work in the browser without requiring a download, but it looks like that was a mistake since browsers are prone to using the wrong, slower GPU (almost everyone these days has an integrated GPU that's part of their CPU in addition to a more powerful, discrete GPU). The next version of the game (sometime this summer?) will be desktop only, probably just for Windows and Linux since I don't have a macOS computer to test on.

Alright.

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This is really cool!

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That fluid simulation is so satisfying to watch! I'm just pushing mountains around to watch water flow down the slopes.

i have a laptop whit a gtx 860 and i cant get more then 3 fps can i fix that somehow?

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Yeah it sounds like the browser is using your integrated GPU instead, what browser are you using? You should be able to go into the NVIDIA Control Panel, select the browser, change the dropdown from "Integrated graphics" to "High performance NVIDIA processor", then restart.

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Wow your right about the gpu

Will there be a way to download this in the future?

Yes, the web version of the game is a free pre-alpha, in the near future (spring/summer 2021) I'll run into a hard technical limit while adding features and all further development will happen on a paid desktop-only version with the web branch staying a free demo. Unity's WebGL builds are specifically missing CPU multithreading and compute shader support, both of which will eventually be necessary as the simulation becomes more detailed.

... I need more

(Good game (👍 ─ ‿‿ ─ )👍 )

can you lower the land?

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if you hold down shift and scroll the mouse wheel down, it will turn your circle red. Now it will take away land or water.

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it doesn't work

Just added keyboard controls for brush size and strength, you should now be able to hold down shift/control and press [ or ] to change size/strength

please add some sand & lava

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfKQCAxizrA

Definitely, From Dust is a big inspiration. Volcanoes and lava are the next planned feature after the atmosphere layer is implemented.

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cool. I separated water from lava using a temperature buffer (water = 0 // lava > 0) which also added interaction between both types (freezing of lava by water). it was cheap. I don't remember if we told which channels we used here : https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1013667/Creating-a-High-Performance-Simulation

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is it me or does this look like angel island from sonic 3

is that angel island?

Love this

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nicely done!

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: O

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Don't mind me, just seeing how long it can take to drain the world's oceans into one enormous pit that used to be the tallest mountain.