Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution News

The New World UI is a mess. Let’s not sugarcoat it: clicking the “New World” button is like kicking a beehive, except instead of kicking you’re clicking and instead of being assaulted by wrathful insects hell-bent on vengeance you’re exposed to a confusing excess of numerical input spinners hell-bent on vengeance.

So, the first part of the new 4-part New World screen will be a simple Quickstart screen, designed to get you away from menu and into the game as quickly as possible.

Keep reading here: https://speciesdevblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/02/the-quickstart-page/

It’s about time I wrote one of these. I’ve been working quietly on 0.13.0 in the background for a while now, but I didn’t want to write anything solid until I was certain 0.12.0 no longer being haunted by the dreaded ArithmeticException.

0.13.0 will revolve around improving the New World screen, or at least changing it to be something more user friendly than an impenetrable wall of number spinners. Instead of one New World screen, the game will have 4: Quickstart, Starting Creatures, World Editor and Advanced Settings.

Read more here:

https://speciesdevblog.wordpress.com/2019/06/03/where-to-next-0-13-0-the-map-editor-update/

Changelog:

* Strapped the ArithmeticException bug (the most common cause of crashes in the game) to a table and attempted to bisect it with a laser. Gloated for a while, then left the room in the certain knowledge that escape was impossible and my victory was complete.
* Increased the scale of limbs to make creatures in general a bit more interesting and... appendagery. That's a word now.

Changelog:

* As I have still been unable to catch the ArithmeticException (the most common cause of crashes in the current version), I have purchased a significant quantity of fireworks from the Acme Corporation and laid an ingenious trap.

When the crash happens, the program will report a significant quantity of additional information about the problem that I can use to track it down and fix it for good.

Changelog

* Once again attempted to defeat my nemesis, the ArithmeticException bug (the most common cause of crashes in the current version). I'll get you this time, gadget.