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I zoomed out and noticed the island looked like Pac-Man!

Hi everyone We have voted on the winners of this GIF competition! There were many great entries and the choice was not easy. Because it was so hard to choose, we decided to give away 4 Alpha keys instead of 3. If you didn't win this time: Thanks a lot for participating. We really appreciate you being here and joining the competition! And never fear! The next GIF competition is already open. But now! *drum roll* The winners of this competition are: @Melonhead For this very cool tank construction. It not only looks very good as a GIF, but is also a quiet complex construction. Congrats! @PyroPixel For this very cute narrative of a dance party + good looking GIF. Congrats @shippolo For this very cute dude, which also took quite some logic to build. Congrats! @Cringele For this huge, computer destroying explosion. Congrats ^^ I'll send over the winner's Alpha Steam keys via PM

Hi everybody Wow. We never expected there would be SO MANY people participating in this give away! Thank you all so much for coming here and for your kind words Because of this overwhelming number of people, we decided to change the rules a bit. We will give away 3 Alpha keys now, instead of 2. Additionally, we will give away 1 key every week here. So stay tunned! If you don't win now, you might get drawn next week or in a month! This thread stays open, so new people can keep commenting to join the raffle. So, let's raffle! The random numbers have chosen: @SJung @ClemmyGames - The Best of Indie Games @Gil Congrats! All winners: Please drop me a PM to claim your keys

Hi all! This is the first time making a suggestion so here goes. Many animals feed on insects so why not nichelings? Potential food sources could be the bug swarms already in game, logs, and termite mounds. Logs would be found in grasslands and maybe jungles too. They would function like berry bushes, yielding a certain ammount of insect food and replenishing their supplies overnight. Termite mounds would be found in the savannah and can be cracked open, respawning two days after initially being destroyed. Like carnivorous plants, they can spawn as hostile or non-hostile. Non-hostile termite mounds can be cracked open and gathered from safely. When a nicheling gathers from or cracks open a hostile termite mound, they will be swarmed. The termite swarm must be licked off by another nicheling before the day ends or the nicheling will be bitten and take damage. I have designed an insectivore head inspired by anteaters and pangolins. I call it the Sticky Tongue! I imagine it would give 3+ insect collecting and 3+ smell. And perhaps the beak gene could give 2+ insect collecting.

Edit: Snorms are a good name.

Sounds nice! Few suggestions: The day before a tree falls, it should have a crack in it's trunk so you could avoid it. Also it should make a cracking noise. You should be able to gather nestingmaterial and nuts from fallen trees but once they're empty, they're empty and will disappear. It would take 10 days for a fallen tree to despawn. They despawn faster if you collect from them. Also if you collec all they have to offer, they despawn during the next night. Armored body would protect the nicheling so it would only take damage from the hit. It would still be stuck under the tree and it would take damage every day until the tree despawns. Also it could protect baby nichelings by standing in between the tree and the baby. Stones would do the same thing.

We aim to release early access in september. The plan is to release a bigger update each month starting next month. And smaller updates every ~2 weeks containing popular drone part and features suggestions. So keep upvoting the things you like to see in the game

I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish, there is no beta at the moment. Developement is still in closed alpha, and to join you need a key that have to be redeemed on steam.

My familly curently has 3 pets, here they are: I present to you Mollo, she's a guide dog and she helps me with stress. This is Gabi but we always call her Gabou, she's very grumpy and she seems to hate everybody but in the inside she's sweetheart. (She also loves to sit in poted plants and destroy then ._.). We adopted her from a shelter. And here is Trombone, (means paperclip in french) she's always happy and meows at everybody. She purrs a lot and always up for some hugs and snuggles. A friend of ours found her and we decided to keep her.

It took me 15 minutes to get the first 6 second gif and then 10 more to let the thing calm down enough to take a gif of the aftermath... this is the COMPUTER DESTROYER and contains 3000 parts

I decided to create a 4-wheeled drone: Not shown in the gif is the fact that more downward thrusters activate when the sensor at the bottom isn't activated.

I can't say I like this idea. The idea of not being able to control something like that really doesn't feel right in a game like this. If it does become something, I hope it's optional, because the thought that you could suddenly lose a Nicheling to something that's much harder to deal with than wounds would be kind of a buzzkill. Not every island has healing fruits on it.

I also think we could be able to design our own islands, like what they look like, what climate they have, what biome, or we could mix and match, like have a mountain biome but the climate was super hot, like a desert.

of couse it doesn't need one, it is fine just as it is, but i think it would make a fun optional gameplay I am mostly just throwing around with wild ideas that randomly pop up in my head and then think about how to make them possibly work to see what others would think about it ^^ and for the "too many nichelings"-issue, just don't let the other one get too many, steal their food sources so they can't feed everyone and have to lower their numbers, mark your teretory by killing intruding nichelings if need be, this kind of battle is also a constant in natural selection and evolution and that game mode would be a bit different than solo for sure, but it would fit the theme nonetheless

Upgrades! Fire! Meltdown! Performance? Happy fixing!

or maybe insted of "You unlocked a new Gene" it says "You Unlocked Nimble Fingers/Bearyena Snout/ Water Body/Claw"

While I like the idea of a collecting tail, the design just does not look realistic to me. No real animals have split tails, and I do not think nichelings would either. If it was just prehensile, It could still be used to collect in a limited capacity.

It always looks so strange when the babies come out with the horns, so I thought it would be idea if the horns would grow as they age. Newborns would have no horns, babies with 1 gem would have little stubs. Ones with 2 gems would just have a smaller version of the horns than the adults? Once they become adults their horns would be fully grown.

Sorry I didn't know where else to put this. I try and send a direct message, DM, in the forum and it says I can't because my inbox is full.... but I only had 1 conversation. Exact Error: "Your inbox is full. You must delete some messages before you can send any more." I deleted the conversation and I was able to send a Direct Message. After sending another one, I tried to test things by DM'ing someone else (after waiting that 1 minute that the forum requires) and the error comes back up for me.

Take a look at these pics and tell me to my face they arent cute Your very welcome.

Hey folks We put together a road map that shows all the things we want to add to the game during the Closed Alpha. There will be a total of 4 updates. Update 1-3 will add new features and update 4 will mostly improve and polish things up. There will be plently of smalles updates/patches inbetween with bug fixes, improvements and new drone parts. To all Closed Alpha Testers: Please give us lots and lots of feedback so the game will be in great shape for Steam Early Access

I have played Niche since its early access version 0.0.7 so I have seen a lot and I fell in love with the old grafics (no not the experimental branch ones. The original ones ^^). I would love to have an optional package where we can play with the current game mechanics and just the old textures (I wouldn't even mind if you made it a dlc we had to pay a bit for). I think that would be also useful for users who don't have such a strong grafics card. Would love to hear your thoughts on that idea

I saw Seri Pixel Biologist playing the new beta and I noticed there are tons of trees. She mentioned it can be hard o navigate around them so I thought that instead of making the trees less dense, beaver teeth can cut them down. A someone by the name of Sammi Kim replied to my comment and suggested that if beaver teeth become an option, that when trees are cut down we could get "nuts, nesting material and a lookout stump".

I call this the angry unibrow. Here is the key for angry unibrows. Very thin pattern density + pattern density medium Huge pattern Pattern shape C Mask

Maybe it could only sense what the weather would be like in the next, let's say, 5 days, or it could be where it only says 'within the next 5 days there will be a day when it's rain and 1 Heat'.

I would love the ear movement!

I generally like the idea of an assist-mode. It could help those who just want to play the game without worrying to much about beeing good at it.

Cough, cough this is the Nimbatus forum. I'll move it. Did you play on the release preview?

After I click on the beta tab I cant opt int the beta tab and from what i know I don't need a code. HELP

I had another idea for an ear type! I had an idea where nichelings could have slightly large ears but with tufts of hair on the top (similar to Canadian lynx) this could help them hear prey underground. I think this feature would most help with the snow biome and this feature could maybe help you pounce on prey if they are underneath the snow???

I whole heartily disagree with having actual coding in the game. The lessons learned from making work-arounds in the system that Markus mentioned is a good thing imho. As far as a compromise for reduced space usage - maybe just have a "programmable chip" part that is either restricted to certain parts of the game or extremely hard to unlock. Something like it can only control parts connected to the main unit, takes up 2x4 space but can have unlimited logical units in it. Sound modules might be fun! - similar to the ones in Mario Maker I assume. Could be used sparingly, or if someone wanted to make an elaborate equivalent of a mario maker auto-level that played music - you could make something that did that. *Immediately thinks of Close Encounters of the Third Kind*

Yes that is the idea I envisioned a one time purchase so say once you have bought 10 of the better armour blocks you always have access to those regardless of whether it is destroyed in a mission or not, so it would be more a case of saving up to buy a large number of blocks for larger builds meaning larger builds cost more than simpler smaller designs giving a further feel of progression.

Well it will depend on the enemy. Most likely it will slow down movement or let flying enemies fall down to the ground when frozen. We will play around with freezing mechanics when we add colder planets. We have not yet started working on this feature

A Delay would be nice to have. Adding more logic parts should be a win for all who know how to use it, so i dont think that 'build around limitations' is always an appealing way to play with logic. Sometimes i wish that all the logic could be in the core as a bunch of code. Python, Java, Basic... something like that, probalby in a simplified version. Btw: How about a sound-module? Synths playing the soundtrack of planetary meltdown while playing Snake or Tetris on the Drone in Nimbatus.

Yes your right! It would be cool to have it back!

To prevent large drones being created early game maybe add a block count system such as the first few accessable planets have easy missions and a block limit of 30-50, and after completing x number of missions you gain access to harder missions and a larger block limit. Also with the harder missions if the mission is completed with a smaller ship the rewards are higher then with a big ship, this will inspire players to design well instead of just big and powerful.

I already introduced myself but I thought I wanted to share a bit more about myself I am a young teenager who lives in MA. I have five chickens. I enjoy drawing and sometimes writing stories. I have always thought biology and genetics was super cool and I love animals. At first when I saw others playing Niche I wasn’t too interested but now I think would be the perfect game for me! Since it combines all my favorite things, games, cute animals and genetics

Hi, my name is John, I currently live in Great Britain, but I travel a lot (business) to the rest of European countries, mainly Eastern and Central Europe. And how many people here, I love to play Niche (on steam) I also play Path of Exile on Steam (PoE PC) and I consider this to be a great success in this respect. obvious to every specialist is that sometimes you have to do your job, even if you do not love it so much. The best thing that can be in this situation is to buy currency and enjoy life. Think about it before you write another comment. Because if you want currency, it's only in the Path of Exile buy currency Whank you very much guys

I dont have any pictures but I have two dogs, Nugget and Helgi. Nugget is a golden retriever (english and american mix) that was born with a stomache disease, his brother, Bruno, had that too, which he died as a puppy from.. ;-; Thankfully we saved Nugget and got him all better! Sadly he has a forever weak stomach and cant drink too much water and can only have vegetables and his dog food. Helgi is a mutt that we rescued from the streets in my old neighborhood. She was stray for three months and we found her at three months, we took her to the vet and fixed her up, we fed her and cared for her and now she is a fat lil (actually she is a medium sized dog so yea) sausage Also she is terrified of people wearing hats, we have no clue why. I also have three cats! Cricket, comet, and rat. Rat is a flametip siamese who lives outside of our home. (he pees on our clothes if he is inside) He is 16 years old and loves people! My mother used to work at petsmart or petco and they had a little abandoned kitten, no one wanted him so she took him in! Comet is a fat fluffy ginger manx of the age 12. he hates being pet on the sides or belly, if you dare do so he will scratch/bite you. He loves to be cradled and pet roughly on the chest. Oh, and he also wears a bow-tie. I dont really know his story but he did have a sister who was all black with yellow eyes. And that leads me to Cricket! She was born at our house by Comets sister. She had two other siblings, Emily and Goat, (Goat died later, and so did crickets mother) Emily is still alive but she was rehomed. Cricket is a tabby ragdoll with a brown coat and black stripes. Green eyes. (Comet cleans her alot and she does not like it very much :>) And yeah.. Those are my current pets! I used to have two hamsters but they died off sadly. Their names were Buttercup and Marshmello and I gave them the best lives I could possibly offer up. If you read through this all, then thank you! I had alot to say about my pets Also, not to mention I am hopefully going to get guinea pigs.. The rescues are just taking their sweet time to not end up with two little baby guinea pigs

Hello! My username is cirrus-lux and I've been playing Niche for a while now - having discovered it from JessiMew's videos like @lunaticraccoon. I'm originally from South Africa but currently live in New Zealand and am in my final year of a Bachelor of Architectural Studies degree. I am 20 years old and own two dogs - both of whom I have attempted to create in Niche, but I really just love all dogs. Niche is one of my favourite games because I absolutely love how gene inheritance works, having played all the sim games previously this was a completely different way to experiment with genetics and I fell in love with Niche. It's lovely to meet you all within this wonderful community

Okie dokie!

Edit should now have no time limit, we also removed the reaction limit.

Hey folks We are currently working on Niche 1 day per week with 4 people. The game is currently profitable for us, even though it's not making a ton of money. I think money-wise this will stay about the same this and maybe even next year. As mentioned, we will do one more big update this year. I don't know about next year yet. It very much depends on how things go for us as a company. We'll keep you up to date!

@ChasingNyx Angry birds ;)?

Awesome! I’ll try using them more!

Hi pack Thanks for all the bug reports for the new update (1.1.0) For version 1.1.1 we fixed the following bugs: Tails that are not properly attached to bodies Scorpion tail clipping Invisible antennas Animals merge with Home Trees Wrong text for palm tree when shaking Moss Brown fur doesn't give any biome camouflage on the whale island Jungle Root sways in the wind Asp tree stump sways in the wind Water digging (and increased amount of food found to 3) Dead creature not despawning when coconut is falling on the head Skeleton does not appear when on tree stump Asp trees are obscuring few, make more fade out Problems with blood clotting Purring 1 is missing the + in front in the gene tooltip Fin/Peacock tail genes displayed wrong Twins are merging together Baby animals can no longer fly far, destroy nests and do the mating call No spots on poison fangs Strange animal displacements when moving around Berry bush savannah double attack icon Not all new genes were mutateable And improvements: Added different particle effect for day start stunned effect Gave Scorpion Tail poison resistence Renamed Beak to Bird Beak If you come accross any of these things, please let us know: Strange animal displacements when moving around New day doesn't start when ending the day Game crashes (please include the log file in your post!) Please keep testing and reporting bugs! We opened a sub forum for the current version (1.1.1), so if you find any bugs in this version, please post them there! Please remember to ALWAYS include the version number in reports! (It's displayed in the top left corner on the startscreen). Otherwise we have no idea if the bug you are reporting has already been fixed. Please consider to add screenshots and/or .log files and save files in your bug reports. Thanks, and please keep testing Stray Fawn Studio

I love all of those pets! I have a Belgian Malinois called Shira, she is four years old and is completely crazy. She has the special ability to get on my nerves but I still love her more than I could describe <3 I'm also a bit into dog training and I practice with her every day (when I'm not studying in another city) and sometimes with other dogs like her father. Once I'm completely independent I'll have a lot more animals like rats, bearded dragons, cats and others

@ShriekingPterodactyl That sounds like a problem with Steam Maybe try again in 30 minutes?

Here are my darlings!! The chubby white kitty is Crackers, the one with the fangs is Bootsie, and the Persian is Inky. Trio of trouble. Bowser is the gecko and Tuff is the yellow lab.. Tuffy insists that he doesn't have enough toys (we call them woobies), what do you think?? Lol And I would want to have more reptiles (specifically skinks and pythons) if I could

Thought I'd quickly add a few pictures.