Dive through the ocean, soar through the air, and hike through the forest in these extraordinary nature games!
Whether you’re looking to design your own world or discover a new one, you’ll be sure to find yourself immersed in the gorgeous games ahead…
World Nature Conservation Day Sale features many nature-themed games of course on Steam ( July 28 – August 2 ) our environment and climate crisis simulator Imagine Earth is on board there with a 30% discount and a stream is running.
Development Blog
And of course, a small update on the state of development should not be missing. We are about to release a new update August 9 that takes into account many wishes and your rich feedback.
New Vegetation
There will be a new, third vegetation. Beside terran forest and mushroom forest it is something between deciduous and flower forest. It is slightly alien-like and will be included in two of the six planet themes.
Reduced Story Mode
Also, at the beginning of the campaign you will be able to choose which difficulty level you want to play and we have a reduced story mode in the works, because again, another faction of players felt annoyed by too much info and popups.
Enhanced controls
There will also be a lot of improvements to the controls and interface optimizations, as many newcomers still had problems getting to grips with the management of entire planets.
So, just as you’re used to from seven years of Early Access, we continue to make Imagine Earth better and add new features. You can be curious about what is still to come and please do not stop to contribute your feedback, ideas and wishes to the development.
Auto-Mining Function
We want to move further in the direction of making automation work better. An important step in this direction is the auto-mining function for warehouses named in the title. When you activate it, your harvester drone automatically flies off and harvests valuable resources. The system even makes sure that different resource loads are collected evenly and prioritizes those that you have reserved for storage. The previous mining tool then also serves as a way to manually prioritize a resource for mining.
Overlay for Resources
It is now possible to activate overlays for rare resources, fossil resource deposits, fertility, temperature and building types via the building menu on the left side of the screen. Some will recognize these from an earlier version. Back then they were immature, but we have revised and brought them back.
Optimized Gamepad Controls
We’ve optimized the gamepad controls and now you can use the directional pad to jump directly to your spaceports to trade, jump to workshops to craft, or jump to the cities or gaia constructs in your area of influence.
World Editor: Control other Factions
When you build a new world in the world editor, you can now click on the factions at the bottom right to switch to them and build buildings for them. Another step in the direction that you can soon script entire missions with story.
Mixed Feelings
Personally, after the particularly brilliant start of the final version of Imagine Earth, we currently have mixed feelings about the feedback we get. Regarding the reviews, it just feels like the game is being torn between two fronts. Some complain about too many dialogs and constant explanations, while the other front is unhappy about too little tutorial and too weak, incomprehensible instructions. Looks like this is really a tricky topic and we have to admit that the idea of making it a challenge to explore and understand the game itself doesn’t have the necessary appeal for everyone.
Anyways, we would really love to have a broader picture, so if you have played Imagine Earth already and normally don’t feel like writing reviews for games, we warmly invite you to take a few minutes and give Imagine Earth a review.
New Features
Added: Uncover rare resources with scan even when paused Added: Highlight new Goals with animation Added: Bonus missions: End Competition after completion. Other competitors will leave the planet to you Added: Interactive context infos for gamepad controls Added: Gaia forces to the ring whenever there’s place Improved: Make shallow ocean look better Improved: Difficulty “Hard” – Reduce Colony Payout (AIs go bankrupt)
New Fixes
Fixed: On Bora you could pre-activate the great pyramid Fixed: Terraform item sometimes did not work Fixed: Harvesting of rare resources is cancelled when loading a savegame Fixed: Magni unable to complete as can’t decontaminate Fixed: Undiscovered rocks show their resource type in the description Fixed: Colony rating layout Fixed: Wrong gamepad description dialogs taken out to reduce messages Fixed: Gamepad controls: If renaming cities the game menu was opened Fixed: Bora: Mission script error if player takes over other city ruins
Seven years have passed since our real-time global civilization simulation Imagine Earth first embarked on its epic journey through Early Access. Today, the full version of the game finally launches here on Steam – with a big launch update to boot!
Thanks to the 43,000 Supporters – You made this happen First of all, a big thank you to all EA supporters, for your interest and support over all these years! You have made the continuous and independent development of this unusual game possible – global building sim, which can become a real survival thriller in the conflict between growth and sustainability.
Official Launch Trailer
Please stay tuned, we are tinkering with a complete Early Access history recap Imagine Earth entered Early Access in May 2014, and has been growing ever since, with updates coming approximately once a month. Today’s update is our biggest yet. We’ve rewritten the rules for competition and freeplay mode by introducing the ‘Word Congress’ – a democratic allegiance containing every faction on the planet, brought together by the threat of a climate crisis and environmental collapse.
Final Release FeatureThe World Congress This is where the battle between sustainable and exploitative corporations takes place. The World Congress is a democratic body with wide-ranging powers, to which each faction on the planet sends a representative. The factions have voting rights in the congress that correspond to their share in the galactic population. In the voting process, they decide on taxes and subsidies, funds for projects, penalties for rule breakers, and emergency aid. In addition, a representative of the United Space Nations USN is always present.
Proposal Round
At the beginning of a session of the congress, each delegation can propose new resolutions, which are then voted on. When resolutions are passed they apply to all factions.
You can see who benefits from your resolutions, as well as who stands to lose out. This data will help you make calculated political decisions.
Voting Round
Once the proposals submitted by the delegations are ready for voting, each faction pursues its own interests. The symbols on the representatives indicate whether they are more likely to vote in favor of or against a bill. Voting behavior is also influenced by a faction’s agenda, strategic advantages and by loyalty in alliances. However, nothing is certain until the final vote is counted. Diplomatic tensions abound!
World Status
This screen is always accessible and provides an overview of the state of the planet. Here you can see how different global trends develop in relation to each other.
LeaderboardsAs you may have noticed, all leaderboards of the early access version have been reset for the Imagine Earth 1.0.
What does the future hold?
Of course, this isn’t the end of the road for Imagine Earth. We’re planning to compile a list with all the unfinished ideas we’ve collected in the backlog to ask you what you think the game really needs. We are already working on an addon where you will be able to colonize procedural galaxies.
Hotfix 1.0.7
Joma: Fixed Birons not willing to by your medicine (really stupid…)
Reduced default world congress intervall for campaign and freeplay mode to 30:00
Updated Russian translations for UI elements
Fixed a few bugs that lead to exceptions or crashes
Global real-time civiliation sim Imagine Earth finally has a Steam release date along with a massive update.Big News Space Colony Managers, It’s been a long lasting journey of over seven years through the hyperspace of Early Access for Imagine Earth – Planetary Colonization. Our global real-time civilization sim Imagine Earth finally has an official Steam release date and will be delivered with a massive “world congress” update PC on 25th May.
Thank you all for making this possible.
Some of you have been following our project for ages, popping in every few years, and some are new to it, having only recently joined our quest for new, habitable worlds. Over all these years, the game has found over 43,000 supporters who have made the development of our world simulator possible until today.
Beta Test for Release Feature
In the next few days we will be making available a beta version of a new feature we are currently working on. If you would like to participate in this beta, please join our Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/fCJAUxc.
Open Space Addon
In parallel, we have already started planning and producing an addon in which you will be able to colonize procedural galaxies and the exchange of goods and commodities between planets will be strengthened. It will also be possible to upgrade your own space base and equip the settlement capsules with special properties.
Early Access Recap Post
To celebrate this important milestone, we will write a comprehensive summary of all the events and developments during that time. It’s going to be a turbulent journey through time.
Community Survey
Over the time of development, we have accumulated a long list of good ideas that we think would be great additions to the game. However, we want to get your opinion and wishes on how best to improve the game. Get ready for a big poll around the release.
we hope you are all well and ready? We have the next update ready for you! While summarizing the new features and changes to the interface, world, and game mechanics, I realized that #65 is probably the most comprehensive update in Imagine Earth’s Early Access history, and will remain so as Imagine Earth comes out in a month and a half as version 1.0 and exits Early Access!
Good Bye Early Access
Who would have thought that, to myself these words seem quite unreal and strange after almost seven years of EA. First of all, thank you for your interest and support over all these years! You have made the continuous independent development of this unusual global building and economic strategy game with environmental and climate simulation possible.
Price Increase
Of course, as we approach the final release of the game, it’s worth mentioning that we’ll be ending the Early Access discount for backers and early birds in a week after update #65. The price of the game will increase to $24.99/€ But this has been thought of for years and is quite common and will not happen before Thursday 4/23/21. Those who grab it by then will save themselves the 25 % increase in the full price. But we’re convinced that after 7 years of 1-2 month updates Imagine Earth has reached a quality, depth and maturity we can be proud of and which justifies a new price. Nevertheless, of course we understand the following question:
What Else is There to Come?
But as you might have guessed, it doesn’t end there. This update boasts an almost endless list of fixes and tweaks, but since the last update we’ve been working on quite a few other innovations besides the ironing. The final release will include a brand-new feature, the World Congress, which forces the various corporations to the negotiating table, where they must work together to negotiate measures against climate and environmental destruction. As a game mechanic, this strengthens the interaction between the corporations and also the already established diplomacy system, since the negotiations have a direct impact on international relations.
Final Release Features
The World Congress
The World Congress is in the making and will be ready for release End of May, it is where the amount of redistribution between sustainable and exploitative corporations will take place in the future. The congress will also be a democratic body in which all factions have voting rights corresponding to their share of a planets population. In the future, taxes on resources and trade will also be decided there, the revenues of which will flow into a World Fund from which important investments can be made. In addition, this body with global authority can also decide on penalties for corporations that have sabotaged or harmed others.
Emissions Trade
We remain committed to delivering an authentic environmental simulation with Imagine Earth. To do this, we have recently revolutionized the emission trade that exists in the game. For this update, we have simply reduced the redistribution, because the previous solution made farming unprofitable. As a result, the game has regulated away the climate problem by making all corporations go bankrupt due to overly high flat fees. For the final release version there will be a new system for trading emission rights, only the share of the world population decides how much greenhouse gases a faction may blow into the air.
Content of This Update
UI Optimizations
The influence of buildings and other effects they had in a certain radius are now visualized with dashed outer borders instead of colored field markers.
If one of the groups has not landed yet, it has been shown as failed / eliminated in the Victory Panel so far.
Show loading animation enlarged and in the center of the screen.
When you change the game speed, the game fades in time display.
In the final screen of a failed mission, the title and menu ring were missing.
Correction: The button for landing permission button activates the placement of City Center again.
If you now open the research panel or the technology menu, you will receive clear introductory texts that explain the playful function of the interface.
Navigation panel: Show own cities – No. Cities of other factions: Show names only when hovering.
Icons of other factions and units are displayed permanently again.
Quick actions overlay smileys to show quality of life from now on.
There were just too many smileys over cities trying to visualize the quality of life of balanced districts.
Unit Uplink: Ads were not centered over them.
Previously her already 20% field pollution prevented the construction ring from opening on this field.
Faction and trade panel was re-centered.
Tool ring closed again for traders when clicked from further outside.
Fixed 11 different graphic problems on the UI.
World and Balancing
Towers and research districts now clearly indicate with a bright light if they have active laser or pulse cannons installed for defense.
Contamination icons are more important than inefficiency icons.
Repair icons are more important than inefficiency icons. Also so you can see the rebuild tool in case of destruction.
Strange deductions were displayed in the ring menu for districts with optimal quality of life.
There is now only a maximum of 3 Xrathul, Assimilators or Pirates at the same time.
Assimilators now also attackable with fire, but this has only weak effect.
Prevent the opposing factions from spamming the player with diplomatic messages and alliance offers.
Warehouses and towers needed a revamp of the method that dynamically lets you drive out of the ground when upgrades are made.
The same, broken method had prevented missiles from neatly riding up from the silo in the Space Port when they were finished building. Which made them virtually invisible to players, making mission completion visually difficult.
If you had taken over a faction, a city, so far this collected the victory point for it.
The mood of the city is now saved.
Fire particle effect was reduced from 9×2 to 4 emitters. In addition, it now looks visually reduced so that you can still see something on the planet below.
When jumping to a custom city, do not open the tool ring.
Damn, all planets had ring?! How long has that been the case?
Field marker recolored the colors of the other markers every time.
Oceanic water surface was too crinkly.
Underwater objects were sometimes faded out too early.
Titanium mesh was not set directly.
Titanium asteroids on Tuto removed.
Some units were rendered gray.
Camera movements of cutscenes de-jerked.
Terrain-stoneyness locked icon added.
Trader spaceships – animation went crazy when hovering.
Complete Playtest
Mission Tuto: bars in the supply capsule were missing.
Planet Rounos: Joe Dectow’s AI built strange things and sometimes just didn’t do anything it was supposed to.
Planet Bora – Planetary shield was displayed above all pyramids.
Planet Edora – The mission got stuck at the end sequence.
New dialogs that are important to the story can no longer be pushed away as easily as before. As a result, fewer details and info are now lost unintentionally.
Completion screens for successfully completed missions no longer overlap.
Various fixes for bugs in the missions Joma, Lorian and Magni, which sometimes made them rarely or not at all playable.
AI Balancing
In the future, the AI will be prevented from repeating friend requests. Until now, if you were too nice to them, they would literally bug you with alliance offers.
Game Setup UI
A faction says “Hello” succinctly when you select them.
Do not show Speaker in Game Setup Editor menus.
New yellow Okay Button when you are in the options for setting up a custom game on a single planet for competition and endless play mode.
The number of research licenses is adjustable.
We moved the UI a bit to the right, so that you can see the place behind menu and character.
Minimum and maximum planet temperatures were swapped.
Sound Optimizations
World Sounds, Spoken Language and UI Sounds are now separate options. So in addition to the music, everything can be beautifully fine-tuned for individualized sonic enjoyment of Imagine Earth.
Pirates, Xrathul, Uplinks and other merchants now have default greetings that come whenever you click on them.
“Plink” loading sound built out at the beginning of the game because proven to be annoying.
Two different, new voice announcements when you launch into the main menu.
The sound effects in the UI now sound more impressive than ever.
Volume of speakers turned down so they no longer overdrive.
Sound overload removed when you first start the custom game setup.
List of building panels
Cleaning tab – move nuclear contamination to the bottom because you can’t do anything anyway.
Various Highlight and Comfort tweaks.
Resource panels
Population dropdown now includes extensive indication of when a new landing permit will be issued.
Fixes
You could blithely wander around the planet with a tower because you could move it within your own radius.
It was possible to use the left gamepad stick or the mouse during cutscenes and crash the game.
Switching to the new Unity version brought illustrious render and shadow effects. Hard to imagine such a thing.
This was also possible in the planet view of the editor.
Even with shortcuts you could open unwanted panels.
If you pressed the restart button on a planet, you suddenly started with a different number of victory points.
Button hover sound was often played twice.
Disable UseGuiScale for all fullscreen panels and set optimal size.
Whenever a faction said something and the speech bubble closed, the speaker and dialog popped up again briefly in the message panel.
Object shadows (except planet): shadow casting for buildings, etc. can be deactivated.
Strange striped graphic errors in the terrain display.
Black holes – alpha color values of transparent terrain layers corrected.
Planet in the main game menu does not rotate.
Overglow Sunburn issue after update to Unity 2020.2.7f1.
Sea surface hidden colony borders.
Operation of different panels, hovering through on planets.
UI was lost when loading during a cutscene.
Quest icons flicker on planet silhouette.
Space was cut off from certain camera angles.
World Congress & Space DLC
Open Space Planet Menu.
AI voice allocation on regularities.
Use UI speaker with subpanel in voting.
Open Space game concept – A new company in each round.
Onboarding of Alex a new member of the Serious Brothers Clan.
We developed a concept that in Open Space mode you have a space base where you can store items. These can then be taken in limited numbers in the capsule to the planet.
We got the latest version of Imagine Earth running on Xbox One X and One S and to our delight, it runs very well on these consoles after some tweaks.
Initial load times and GPU optimized on Xboxes.
Xbox Achievements built in.
Xbox Submission build and visualization.
Created a whole mountain of Xbox Submission icons.
Dear space pioneers, this update means a not inconsiderable revolution for the game. The characters in the game, which we already gave a complete makeover in the last update, learn to speak in this version. That’s easy to say, but it changes the gameplay of Imagine Earth in an incredible way. The talented voice actors we were able to hire give the characters a personality we never thought possible before, and condense the action of the campaign into an unprecedented adventure. We are overjoyed to have successfully completed this elaborate gameplay operation and hope you enjoy it. Replaying the game is more rewarding than ever because of the many improvements we have made in balancing, menus and performance. Give it a try and share your impressions and ideas with us.
You can listen to Alias new voice in the latest official trailer.
https://youtu.be/Kf_ApUXgMtU
Forest Ambient Sound
To increase the atmosphere of the game, we have added forest sounds, leafs rustling in the wind and birds chirping around you when you move the cursor over larger connected forest areas and zoom in on them with the camera. This soundscape will soon be expanded to include civilization noise, sounds from air cars and factories, ship horns and rotors that bring the world to life.
Harvesting Tool
We have revised the multi tools, with which you can perform actions like repairing or harvesting multiple times. Each tool now shows with icons on which fields it can be applied. Upgrading, repairing or cleaning buildings were already there and now we have also combined mining and harvesting operations in one handy tool. It replaces the previous deactivation tool, with which you could temporarily shut down production, because that was very rarely needed.
Technology Panel
Many of you missed the technology panel as it provides such a splendid overview for all available buildings and enables you to install upgrades to all of them. So we put it back in business and enabled gamepad controls as well.
Need for Speed
A lot more performance optimization has been done. More multi-threading to make use of available CPU cores and better distribution of logic calls to get rid of CPU usage peaks.
Cheers to the Winners
We have optimized the Victory Panel to more clearly communicate which faction is ahead in the race for planetary dominance.
List of Buildings
We have further optimized the building list of the global planetary management interface to get a targeted and faster overview of the infrastructure and to be able to react in a comprehensive and far-reaching way.
Everything at a glance
All strategic menus of the game are now united in the message panel, which is uniformly structured in mouse and gamepad control.
Ideon Goals Visualization
The indicator for the completed mission objectives and the Ideon captured on the planet are now also visible during the game.
Share Market Panel
The stock market menu has also undergone a visual overhaul, which is not only pleasing to the eye but also simplifies navigation with the game pad.
New Research Panel
The Research Panel has undergone an update that not only ensures that the upgrade descriptions have now all found a permanent place in the box at the bottom right, so they no longer obscure the navigation in the research grid. The system itself has also changed. To be able to research more than one thing at a time you have to build additional City Centers. Only the amount of research districts now regulates the efficiency or speed of research.
Translations
Big Asian language update! Imagine Earth is now available and playable in a proper simplified Chinese version as well as in Japanese and Korean. Have fun, spread the word.
By the way, have you recognized the brand new cover image we made for Imagine Earth?
Interface Changes
Replaced “Imagine Float” font with “Sansation” for better multi-lingual support
Gamepad: Display red cursor when something is not possible
Introduced blur for tool ring when trading with other factions or space traders
Hide city borders when switching planets
Planet rotation in main menu
More visible icons for scrolling in savegame menus
Display forest debris when damaged by tornado
Display highlight when game is paused
Fixes
Renamed Illuminati to Illumati
Reduced pollution by Fishery and Shellfish farm
Fixed saving problems for sound settings
Fertility Gaia power no longer causes creation of a desert somewhere and vice-versa
Asteroid crater not visible after impact
Fixed Xrathul vs. AI endless repairing of city centers
Ideon sold not properly updated
Each additional spaceport increases frequency of traders
Don’t let pirates steal Ideon in campaign missions
Dear planet colonizers, just in time for the Steam Winter Sale we can offer you a very special update as the new illustrator’s character design has been finalized and successfully integrated into Imagine Earh – Planetary Colonization. Please help us by testing the new features and give feedback into the Steam forum. If you like what we are doing think about reviewing the game on steam – this will help the project a lot!
New Factions and Campaign Characters
You’ll see them everywhere once you start the game. Design wise it’s another evolutionary step forward to the finishing line for version 1.0. Because these people are more likely to be taken serious and showing authentic emotions throughout the campaign.
Tension Tracks
Whenever there is danger in the air you will now also be able to hear it. When asteroids are raining down on your colonies or Xrathul aliens are closing in to feast on your colonies special tension tracks will be played that reflect these threats in the music of the game.
Performance Optimizations
On the CPU side of the game calculations the code has been enhanced and cleaned up for multi threading. That enhances the game speed quite a lot – especially for systems that have a slow CPU.
Load Planet Dialogs
These screens finally show all the information you need to know when loading a planet in competitions or in the workshop.
Game Pad UI Optimized
All interfaces for game pad controls have once again been overhauled to make it a joy using game pad controllers as well. The game features on Steam are now officially set to full game pad support. Since we haven’t received a lot of feedback on this yet, we’d be happy if you have a try and tell us what you think.
Interface Changes
The list of Buildings has been redesigned to make mass repairs, cleaning and upgrading of infrastructure in your colonies a piece of cake.
Hide build menu info when cursor hovers planet behind it
Hide buildings list until first city is built
Reformatted descriptions in victory points overview
Building list notifications centered between bookmarks and factions panels
New startup logo
Fixes
Fixed campaign research counter
Fixed build panel still shows selected item, when another category is selected
Sound volume should not affect music volume
AI keeps asking for alliance
Icon shown in wrong height over asteroids with rare resources
Most of this winter’s update 62 for Imagine happens under the surface or in the controls and interfaces. There is a lot of fine-tuning to optimize the general usability of the game with gamepad and mouse alike. We also worked on the Xbox implementation and the translation. Yes, the characters in the game will soon not only look completely different, they will speak to you! But according to the season there are also some improvements on the ice planets, a new soundtrack and much more…
Light Curser
A simple and effective optical innovation is that the cursor now emits a light on the night side of planets. As half of the planet is logically in the dark and the landscape there is not very impressive without shadows from the sunlight, this light brings life to the dark. Water surface reflections and also gold, metal and crystals sparkle exactly where you look and act on the planet.
Heat Radius of Volcanoes Increased
Dormant volcanoes can be awakened with ideon bombs and thus heat up the landscape in order to be able to better grow food on icy planets, for example. For a while now, this can also be achieved with thermal generators. It was urgently necessary to increase the heat range of a volcano compared to that of a generator.
Brand New Ring Styles
The style of the construction and tool rings was adapted to each other and visualized in a cooler way. The information about the tools no longer overlays the navigation in the ring but is clearly arranged on the right side.
Winter Wonderland
The snow-covered landscape was optimized and embellished. Small but fine adjustments ensure that the landscape is still visible under the snow cover and that the structure of the surface is seen. Thus the snow cover also makes houses and plants even more recognizable.
New Character Design
Just to get you used to this quantum leap in character design, here is a preview of what the next update will bring. We found a talented illustrator and he redesigned all the characters and taught them how to talk in elaborate animations. We believe this will give a fundamentally new feeling to playing Imagine Earth.
Keyboard and Mouse Controls Info Optimized
We have also optimized the control display for mouse & keyboard control. On top of that there are a few handy new shortcuts.
New Soundtrack
Another new track has been added to the Imagine Earth soundtrack. Making the whole atmosphere of Imagine Earth more rich, symphonic and diverse.
New Languages
We added community translations for Polish and Japanese language. If you happen to speak one these languages please let us know how the quality is because we can’t check it ourselves.
Autumn Sale – 35% off now!
Gamepad Refinements
Gamepad cursor with action icon for tool
Delete mode für Editor planets
Briefing/Goals/Planet info buttons
Refined control of factions panel (bottom right)
Refined gamepad control of button selection
Directly close build ring
More Fixes
UI problem in Inventory ring description
Refined generation of fossils and resources on planets
Fixed mood influence range of health district upgrade
Fixed buildings sometimes showing with a delay after camera jumps
Increased heating range of volcanoes in cold areas
Build panel now shows building descriptions when no upgrade is hovered
Reduced Xrathul bait crafting resources to three
Improved AI abilities to defned against Assimilators and Xrathul
Friends of planetary colonization, finally a new update is ready and delivers a big chunk of improvements. One of special importance is the integration of the gamepad control, for us the opportunity for a major overhaul of the whole interface. Controller support is important for the XBox version but would you use it on PC? Tell us how you think about it and what else could be tuned. Have fun reading and trying it out, here’s the direct link to the feedback forum.
Research System changed
No more research budgets are required to research in campaign. After the system of tokens and budgets was already switched off for other game modes, you can now finally do research in the campaign without having to wait for another budget. All you need are research facilities to drive the process forward. City centers also come with a built in research unit. Of course you can still buy and sell budgets, they are now called licenses and activate researchable options directly.
Ocean Sound
We installed a new sound system to bring atmosphere and plausible sound backgrounds to the planets, so that the environment feels acoustically richer. First there is an ocean sound, which now increases in volume the more oceanic fields are nearby. Next, we will apply this to city and forest sounds, for example.
Gamepad Control Prototype
We have invested an amazing amount of work in the implementation of a game pad control system so that the game can be released on the Xbox console at the end of January. Because of the use of rings and radial menus from the beginning, the whole thing turned out to be very intuitive and if you know the right places, it works surprisingly faster than the mouse control. But as the headline makes clear, this is all prototype. We would like to hear your opinion about how the game pad control feels in this first version.
New menu button font
One advantage of the whole game pad conversion was that we redesigned a lot of buttons and menu structures to be more readable and accessible. For example we found old load game menus that were long forgotten over time.
Tool Tips in Tool Rings
Previous tool tips have often covered the control ring half or almost completely. Therefore, the tools with name, price and description have been moved to the far right.
Soundtrack
Three new synphonically composed music pieces underline the flow of Imagine Earth in the new version. It is remarkable how much the music adds to the overall atmosphere of the game.
Colony Rating Revised
The dustiest menu of this upgrade was the Colony Rating, so it really deserves an all around makeup. New colors and functions. A division is now called “Commodities and Capital” and counts the liquid capital of a company and also the market values of its buildings there and includes them appropriately in the share value.
Joma Mission refurbished
What should not be missing in the game development is that one of the missions of the story-based campaign needs an update as game features and controls have evolved. This is always a great way to give the mission a refreshing touch.
Buildings List Panel
We delivered this area with a small but crucial weakness in the last update. You couldn’t click on the upgrade buttons and couldn’t jump directly to the buildings. This is now history and the control has been optimized a lot. The tab for dirt and the condition of the buildings has been split into two separate tabs where you can now also directly initiate a repair or a cleaning.
Buildings List Button
This button now makes the total number of pollution, building demolitions, incidents with poor quality of life and loss of productivity visible and allows you to jump there directly.
Game Setup Revised
Creating a new game has now become even more goal-oriented and handsome. Some inconsistencies have been fixed and the menu as a whole has been made more attractive.
Planet Completion
Now the achievable goals are also visualized on planets. This makes it a visible challenge to drive the success of the missions to perfection.
UI & Other Improvements
Renamed free play to endless game and sandbox to editor
Better descriptions in endless and competition game
Crafting and trading panel highlight selection
Red popup dialog when deleting savegames and profiles
Fixed load screen
Revised layout of money, emissions and population panels
New menu headers when starting a game
Revised layout and background of profile screen
Reduced size of forest graphics
Reduced runtime memory consumption and number of triggered garbage collections
We are very excited to share this happy announcement with you today. Imagine Earth now has Turkish interface and Turkish subtitle support! We value our Turkish fans and believe that playing the game in their own language will give them a better experience. We would like to thank Plus Localization for the excellent job they have done translating the game. We hope that strategy and simulation fans in Turkey are going to love Imagine Earth. Thank you to the Turkish players for the support you have given us so far and your support from now on…
Have fun
Size bugün bu mutluluk verici duyuruyu paylaşmaktan oldukça heyecan duyuyorum. Imagine Earth artık Türkçe Arayüz ve Türkçe Altyazı desteğine sahip! Türk hayranlarımıza değer veriyoruz ve oyunu kendi dillerinde oynamalarının onlara daha iyi bir deneyim sunacağına inanıyoruz. Türkçe çeviriyi mükemmel bir şekilde gerçekleştiren Plus Localization’a bu mükemmel iş için teşekkür ediyoruz. Strateji ve simülasyon hayranı Türk oyuncuların, oyunumuzdan keyif alacağını ve Türkçe Dil Desteği sayesinde oyunun Türkiye’de bir satış başarısı yakalayacağını umuyoruz. Bize bugüne kadar verdiğiniz destek ve bundan sonrasında vereceğiniz destek için Türk oyunculara teşekkür ederiz…
