Calandiel did some more tuning of the Satellite Mapmode so I thought I'd drop a screenshot of the Northern Hemisphere of our test world.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Race Profile: Dwarves are Highly Civilized, Highly K-selected, and Highly Specialized for alpine environments. Dwarves are masters of infrastructure, investment, planning, and logistics. A measure of a dwarf's worth is that which they have built which has endured.4yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Aside from rainfall, we now have other factors influencing water availability including waterflow, watertables, and soil permeability. Here's my test world with these factors applied4yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
I've been working on UI for the eventual 0.2 release. Here's a screenshot of the tile/province inspector.3yr ⋅ Calandiel ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Goblins: fast to breed, fast to die, and small enough to create humble agricultural societies nearly anywhere. The Goblins of SotE shy away from the sinister, dungeon dwelling, glowey eyed monsters of many fantasy settings5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
An Infograph about the various bedrock types of Songs of the Eons, and how they influence the simulation!4yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Songs of the Eons gameplay will exist atop a hierarchy of simulations, each one heavily dependent on the last. This infograph gives a brief overview of the layers, as well as some examples of how each layer of simulation influences others5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
World of a thousand islands - tried to gen a tamriel and got this4yr ⋅ Hypeslayer20 ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Race Profile: Humans. Known for their unique Human Spirit, this race of civilized generalists are able to develop advanced, settled societies in nearly every terrestrial biome. They are known to be energetic, adventurous, and short sighted.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Our vegetation growth model is in full swing, but because of the growing complexity, we've started employing some data science libraries to get a handle on things. Here you can see the primary succession of a temperate forest over the course of 120 years (with seasonal growth variation)4yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Farming Favorability mapmode. This mapmode makesa composite of dozens of variables responsible for plant growth, and gives us a generalized idea of where the best farmland is (though this is a major simplification, as some otherwise marginal lands can be exceptional if you invest in them).4yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Southern Ice Sheet of my test world. It took awhile, but we now have authentic glacier, ice sheet, and ice shelf placement that captures the physics of glacial movement. We also represent glacial effects as well on soil and geography.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Header-waters of a mighty river (yep, we've got some prototype rendering of rivers, now)5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
We've now properly organized drainage basins. Each drainage basin consist of a unique combination of rivers, wetlands, and lakes, and each of those have their own unique characteristics which will influence the civilizations that develop on them.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Every waterbody is now properly connected. Now, when you click on a waterbody, it'll actually show you the path of that waterbody's drainage to the ocean/sea (in red) as well as all of the waterbodies upstream that drain into it (in green).5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Elves: One of SotE's most K-selected races. Here we see an elvish society that has recently emerged from a feral life and has adopted aggroforestry.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Say Hello to Harpies: SotE's first winged race. Harpies tend to settle rugged terrain and create small, enclaves of civilization amid vast tracks of feral wilderness (as we see in the illustration)5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
The 2nd Life History Spectrum that Songs of the Eons intelligent races can fall on: Feral vs Civilized5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Meet the Vermen: SotE's hyper generalist, hyper r-selected inhabitants. Vermen are spectacularly successful at both invading disturbed environments, but poor at creating settled societies.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
We can all agree that this is the cutest land bridge ever, right?5yr ⋅ ManitouWakinyan ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
One of the 3 Life History Spectrums that Songs of the Eon's races can fall on. The first spectrum? Specialism vs Generalism5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Calandiel was doing some prototype work on province naming and assignment. She put in gibberish obviously as a starting point, but hopping around the world and reading random results can be pretty hilarious. For instance, I bring you the mighty province of Knuckle Milk.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
We're working as diligently as beavers on version 0.2, but during those periods without juicy screenshots, I'll be releasing detailed race descriptions and illustrations. The first race? High Beavers of course! Read below.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
I see a lot of you posting worlds you generated. I present to you Eondia5yr ⋅ JiCe75 ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
The third life history spectrum that intelligent races can fall on: r-Selected vs K-Selected5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Was rummaging around and found this old build of SotE. This was around 6 weeks into development.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
First version of SotE's prelimenary province generation. The game will support up to 30 thousand dynamic provinces.5yr ⋅ Calandiel ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Ginormous drainage basin which includes hundreds of tributaries, inland deltas, and freshwater lakes. It actually passes through the desert in the North East before it finally drains into the ocean. Thought this was a fun show and tell :-)5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
In order to sort out soils, I've had to sort out Flood Plains. In this picture you can not only see where rivers are flowing, but how much we can anticipate they'll break their banks. This also corresponds to the area in which you have a lower water table and alluvial soils.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Map of useable water and likely sand dunes. This map takes into consideration other factors that influence water availability aside from rainfall, like wind, permeability of soil, and watertable. Sand dunes will not only be nearly uninhabitable, they will produce silts for the surrounding areas5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Extremely narrow strait for control of trade? ☑ Multiple river valleys? ☑ Resources for supporting Bronze/Iron civilizations? ☑ Candidate for a strong society? ☑ Comfy? ☑5yr ⋅ EpicProdigy ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Ice Age Geology has come along nicely. Finally have some proper Fjords5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
New elevation color coding in preparation for v0.1.5. It really helps to bring out higher elevation locales and areas of crustal extension. Opinions?5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Here is a map of global soil texture. Soil texture is a composite of sand, silt, and clay, and it has a significant effect on ecosystems and agriculture. Down below, red is sand dominant, blue is clay dominant, green is silt dominant, and the lighter mixed colors tend to be mixed5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
These Mountains are the Height of the Himalayas, and Roughly the Same Size as Africa. Looks like someone's tectonics got a little overexcited5yr ⋅ ManitouWakinyan ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
All 3 Life History spectrums in one place. We'll be gradually releasing more details and descriptions of race over the coming months5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
So we now have all of our main bedrock types (not including unconsolidated sediments). The bedrock type reflects recent and past tectonic and volcanic activity, as well as changes in sea level, sedimentation, and biogenic processes.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
What world is complete without Ice Age Geology? Our quest to create Loess soils has finally detoured us through Ice Age continental glaciers and all the neat things they create. Down below is a picture of current glaciers (aqua) and glacier extent during the height of the Ice Age.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Due to popular demand, we went ahead and made proper Mediterranean alpine orogenies, complete with Italy style peninsulas and Sicily/Cyprus/Sardinia style islands. Here is an unclosed Mediterranean, aka, what the Tetheys Sea looked like before it closed on one side5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Here's the prototype for river flood plains surrounding rivers. This will result in alluvial soils around rivers as well as a lower water table. Forests in dry regions will hug these areas, and it will be common for agriculture to cluster in these areas5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Just added volcanic ash to soil composition. Areas with a lot of active volcanoes can spew ash on the surrounding area and enrich otherwise inferior soils produced from bedrock like sandstone and leeched out plutonics. The green area in the middle is the location of an active hot spot5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Doing some major revisions to volcanoes in preparation for volcanic lithography and soils, and in the process revised rifting. In this picture I bring you a temperate rift valley built mainly from volcanoes5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
A chart demonstrating SotE's agent model in an Imperial Army. SotE's societies will consist of varying levels of independent agents who pursue their own interests and interact with one another. Each have their own AI.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Was working on vegetation hydration today when I noticed this dragon head north pole. Raaaaaar.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Found a land bridge that reminded me of the one between North and South America.5yr ⋅ Richaaaaaaaaaaay ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Rigged up a vegetation growth potential map mode today. More details down below.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
I can already imagine the naval battles that will be fought for the control of those islands...5yr ⋅ Sir_Lazz ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
The Conclave: SotE's legislature in which Patrons can vote on issues related to SotE development as well as express their desires and interests directly to the devs5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Discord Discussion: In game, what you think would be the consequences of a race (or civilization) with good weapons technology in a world were most other races/civilizations are lagging behind?5yr ⋅ KarlosBRaga ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Locations of water constraint in the world. Anyplace green has sufficient water for full forests, red = virtually no forests, and yellow = some mix of grassland + forest stands (denser yellow = more trees).5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Thought I'd post some direct development related stuff. Here's an rigged up relative humidity map mode for v0.2, with some place holder textures5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Haven't shown you guys an Alpine Formation yet. Here is a formation that results from two shallow water ocean plates colliding, causing the crust to back up and form mountains on either side of the plate boundary5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Another one of our Mediterranean style regions that comes with our georevisions. You can see here a closed Mediterranean, complete with a Crete and Boot of Italy, and Triple Gibraltar.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
An interesting little straits. That river valley to the left of the straits would make an effective trading center5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Worlds with lots of mountains are one of my favorite worlds to generate.5yr ⋅ CheaseForFree ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Was tuning up for the Patron release when I came along this Japan-like island arc5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Made prototype estuaries. Turns out way better than I thought it would on the first try5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Did a major volcano overhaul, and getting much better results. Here is a Crete look-alike.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
I'm finally satisfied with the settings I set for world generation. This is my favorite map I've made so far, especially for the croissant-shaped continent on the left.5yr ⋅ Antakad ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Sedimentation and river deltas won't make it in to 0.1, but I think I managed to make some decent estuaries5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
The result of one minus accidentally turning into a plus in the code5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Been revising volcanoes and generate this cool little volcano / lime-island Archepelago5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Did some revisions to water flow mapmode. Here you can see a massive Sahara like desert with rivers running through it5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
First world I've generated and I already have a gorgeous sea to get excited about5yr ⋅ Harfus ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
World Customization Screen, with numerous pages of tuneable variables6yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Wind Erosion is now in. Valleys aren't as sharp as a result, but still needs more tuning I think6yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Crazy ass mountain world with nearly maxed out plate collision and mountain settings6yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
How does the apparent resource percentages translate to and affect the game? Does a certain workforce * resource % * workforce supplies and happiness + modifiers result into the produced amount?5yr ⋅ SlimeMan96 ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
A fun world I genned. This continent in the middle is actually completely separate from the surrounding continent.6yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Great Plains that span North to South rather than East to West in Asia5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Very ancient mountain, worn down by over a billion years of erosion6yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
Been working on super shallow limestone reef islands, the historic hideaway of pirates5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
A Reminder to those with v0.1, you can export maps using the F12 key5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
And here's another cool island and tropical reef system. Figured I'd post more since I missed out yesterday.5yr ⋅ Demiansky ⋅ r/SongsOfTheEons
