ok, that's brilliant! The whole time while watching this I was thinking that this is the reversal of everything Factorio is.

I do love a good factory but would like to play this game too.

@@therealcrisis8439 reminds me a lot of FoldingIdeas’s essay “OOPS! I did a colonialism in Minecraft!” in which he basically concludes with the point that our expressed preference for games about factory building, taming wilderness, and conquest reveals a lot about our culture. He specifically talks about how creating an ecosystem could be just as complex as a factory.

@@aidanwarren4980 Creating factories is much easier to gamify, is easier to model and program, and is generally better understood than all the vagaries of ecosystems. It's also a long established genre, and fits into people's fantasies and urge to build or improve things (inherent to the human condition) better. Even people who love nature and the land want more than to see it utterly pristine. In addition, I'd say that this game seems to be a bit... ecotopian. There's nothing wrong with biodiversity or keeping lands fairly wild, but something truly wild is both a bad idea and impossible; the species we have today have mostly evolved with humans and for or with human use in ways that can't be reversed and lead to negative consequences if you try. Those deer are probably going to have a population boom in a decade or so that will leave large amounts of them starving to death and do damage to the rest of the ecosystem, for instance; this game doesn't seem to account for the need for management

Wonder if you can find the rusty husks of cars, stuck in the endless loop of an apocalyptic one way system.

This is what one-way systems do to a society.

@@Jovian999 I think you'd find big piles of bridge ballast at the bottom of every river too

The whole game is a redemption arc

Sorry let me fix that for you, How delicate ecosystems can BEE

Honestly, we need more games like this, if only just to move the general tone of games away from the grimdark and back into the sunlight.

Because games like wasteland and fallout and metro make us realize that our planets health is something to care about. Lest we live these fictional realities.

@@laserlights9684 That's important, but it can also frame the collapse of human civilisation as inevitable, which it really isn't. Even complete ecological collapse isn't necessarily the end, if we take steps to correct the course and fix our mistakes (better late than never, right?).

@@Axius27 It's difficult being this positive when we see a far-right government (for which I didn't vote) torching the Amazon in order to turn it into soy plantations and strip mining.

@@cartermariano We have to laugh, otherwise we'd cry. Personality, I think that we can still fix things, but the longer we wait, the harder things will need to change. A new political wave is approaching, a backlash to the rise of the right. We just have to make sure that when it hits, it lands on policies that we need.

I think it's a bastardization of Tacitus' account of Calcagus, a Celt who fought the Roman Empire. "They make a solitude and call it peace."

Can you explain it to me? I might not have understood it.

@@YHLGguitargeek Two very common rhetorical questions used to express that the answer to a question should be obvious are "Is the Pope Catholic?" and "Does a bear shit in the woods?". Over time these phrases have had their constituent parts swapped around to add a humourous spin to them, while still preserving their initial purpose. The two most popular variations are "Does the Pope shit in the woods?" and "Is the bear Catholic?", the second of which is the basis for the joke. Hope that was clear enough for you!

@@godempressjaune thank you so much for explanation. Someone with foreign background, like me, would never be able to figure it out.

@@godempressjaune thanks lol.

@@_darquan I'm a native speaker and I was also confused. :)

I mean... The mechanics are similar. Absorb all the materials nearby to recreate a lush biodiverse ecosystem

You're right!! Never thought about it, but Okami is absolutely that style

It does fit quite well.

I wasn't, lost most of my green, damnit.

Try Viscera :)

brilliant

Since it's earth's flora and fauna I think you play as humanity. We got bored once we felt earth and realized everybody else had done what we feared we would do to our selves and decided to clean up a bit.

Maybe this is a project by a solar punk government after the revolution and they're restoring the more hard hit areas of earth

Maybe it's just Wall-E, still cleaning up after us idiotic humans

best ref

it's not really a nugget, it's more of a splat.

No, for that Percy you need to travel to Jamaica ^.^

Yeah...I'm really not sure why locks actually exist. Daisy-chaining two or three silos to the shore is easy, cheap, and fast.

Glad I'm not the only one here!

It does seemingly burn, it's apparently just immune to catching on fire from concentrated sunlight

I agree

agreed, he’s been a staple in my life since i was a teenager, amazing to think it’s been that long

Can I put my hands back up again please?

How does one even fix the existance of a kilometer-tall sewage silo?

Part of the problem was that Jon didn’t need to keep building silos for locks. The loading docks can collect the lock without needing silos which he should have known because that was the problem in the first place.

As a matter of fact I suspect loading docks collect buildings just like a silo does, and the point of silos is to collect things you can’t reach with a loading dock.

In the original version in phase III you could use an expensive flying drone to pick up buildings near trees for that reason.

@@NixodCreations IIRC they also didn't have you needing lochs to go up a waterfall either. Also I hope the seed cannon in in there somewhere still, that was always super fun.

This game is just: What if the institute were the good guys.

That might be a perfect asymetrical competitive multiplayer game.

It was the alpha or something I think

Definitely not this, though there have been other restoring-nature games in the past.

They are very different in style but the mechanic of optimization of a finite resource to make progress and regain it remembers me of how Islanders plays

Nerdcubed played the prototype of this game on Itch . io, (it's called Terra Nil Prototype), so maybe you're thinking of that?

Yep the spot under the buildings were wasteland afterwards as well

I mean, if the world is already trashed, isn't it possible that we already scrapped the cities and cars and whatnot? Like, alright, world ended and everything is dead, let's tear it all down and stockpile all the resources to fix it. That's why there was nothing on the map, but you magically have the ability to put down advanced technology. Definitely right though, even doing that wouldn't get you everything you need to create all that stuff.

I just want to be able to landscape and "greenify" my settlements in FO4 lol I'm sick of uncuttable bushes in sanctuary and plants that only grow in annoying places