Imagine Earth is an enthusiastically developed experimental simulation game of me and Martin. To build up your colonies on untouched new worlds you have to research technologies and produce energy, food and goods for your growing number of inhabitants. As the local colony manager you will soon get into a conflict between the corporations profit goals which are to exploit and utilize the planets resources and the need to develop a sustainable civilization to avoid riscing a global climate collapse and therefore making the biosphere unlivable.

Demo version and crowdfunding

We will definitely bring a demo version with the new year. That time we’ll also start a crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo.com to raise money for the last period of development which is considered taking up nine month more. But the Plan is to release early alpha and episodic updates. Every two months there will be a new playable planet, one directly after the funding… Expect more infos and material appearing on our official project website imagineearth.info in the following days …

The Gameplay Footage at the end of the trailer is from a new gamplay mode called “Time Trial“. At the point where your company has been bought up by corporations, this mode will get unlocked after finishing the missions and while have to compete against the expansion clock to match the corporations profit targets.

Hey Friends, we just released a new trailer for Imagine Earth.
It’s online already a for week on our new profile on indieDB.com How do you like it?

Hey guys! Me and Martin just got on Indie DataBase indiedb.com with our enthusiasticly endless indie production “Imagine Earth” and to celebrate this we are releasing the latest 2 minute game trailer on this platform first. Please enjoy watching and tell us what you think about it…  We are also preparing a demo version that will definitely come with the new year. That time we also want to start a crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo.com to raise money for the last period of development which we consider to take nine month. Our Plan is to release Early Alpha and Episodic updates of every finished planet directly after the funding… consider more infos and material appearing on this site in the following days or check by the official project website www.ImagineEarth.info Thanks for your interest! The time of planetary colonization has come. Claim your territory on various planets with huge cities. Expand into space faster than any other corporation.

Good news everyone!

We invented Shopping Malls that will bring a lot of excellent stuff to raise the mood in all City Districts nearby. An alternative way of raising the life quality in growing cities and to secure the delivery of goods to your people. A simple truth about comsumerism it makes your people happy!

Here an early scribble of those shopping malls and other Districts that will enhance the citycomplexity

Thanks for the interest and have a nice week!Jooki & Martin

There are new things in the Worlds of “Imagine Earth Ltd.” We talked about these Rocks in last week’s update. They are nasty blockades and mining them will take time and money but your growing civilisation needs room and rocks might even reveal interesting groundtypes after beeing removed.

Gold deposits

are the counterpart to these disturbing rocks. You see them on the left of the screenshot above. Mining those will grant you a big income. It will also take time, but this extra income will be particulary helpful in the phase of starting a new civilisation, which often isn’t too cost effective in that state!

Temples, graves, pyramides

From now on you will find some rare and old constructions on every globe which could be summarized as world cultural heritage. Temples, graves and so on will have a very positive and widespread influence on the mood of your citizens and their life quality while they provide cutural tradition and identity to your people.

But you might be tempted to plunder these historical facilities for cheap instant credit at the latest when your planet falls into crisis…

Good news everyone! A new world is born. It’s a small world of only 180 fields but it is coated in beautiful deciduous trees and topped with interesting formations of rock.
Proud like parents we present the latest starchild but we still haven’t named it yet, we thought about asking you for a smart name. Something short… like Joma or so …and two abstract syllables would really be enough… please drop your idea on our facebook site.

This one got nessecary because we finally realised that the stuff in the current tutorial world is enough for two. It’s even smaller than Tuto and the boss will not ask you for more than 700.000 population just to train the basics of city tuning and supplies. So people can go into the first tough job with more ideas how to start a civilisation successfully. In the storyline this one will be the application test before you get the job and get into Joe’s department.

Rocks will play an important part in the game mechanics. They block fields and mining them will take a long time. You will have the expensive option to blast them away at any time.

But there will also be some cliffs filled with precious metals and mining those will make rich enough to start new inventions or at least pay some bills.
As they are also overgrown by forests the do a bit of emission and pollution compensation.

Working on this planet we decided to give up the city building limitations. Districts can now be built everywhere buts it’s still vital to upgrade the citycenters the old way of course.

Please check out the old demo on steam or stay tuned for the new one in a few weeks. In that case you might want to sign up for email release notification on the right?

Today we wanna talk about life quality. Those who played the old demo version on steam already know that smilies over the citiy districts show the mood of your people. Back then, this life quality which is divided into 7 major states was responsible for the growth of population and depended on the availability of resources. Today as tax money is collected automatically we decided to add more relations to that.

Still every mood better then neutral makes the population grow. But additionally the circle around the smiley is closing faster as life quality improves and bonusbags of coins will popup over the district in addition to the normal income!

There are three basic criterias:

• Food is vital for your people to survive.
• If you have sufficient energy, life quality will be neutral.
• If you also have sufficient goods, life quality will become positive.

Additionally your people’s mood will be pushed up by wonderful things like Forests, Organic Farms and also by nearby Park Districts and Shopping Centers.

It is lowered by the specific influences of polluting powerplants and industries in the neighbourhood and is reduced by one level in case of critical ground pollution of the city field. It is also reduced if the citypart is devasted what means a critical state of structural integrity or health if you like to say so.

According to our latest poll at the facebook page most people will be playing Imagine Earth with mouse and keyboard even though we have implemented an interesting solution for the xbox360-gamepad. But so we also developed a set of hotkeys, that will boost planetbuilding!

The universal ringkeys will enable you to access any tool or construct with the combination of not more than 1 or 2 keys. Press W and then E and you have immediately placed a citydistrict. If you are hovering a field with a building then the keys direct to the tools in there Q or A start upgrades while for example will start a repair D.