Songs of the Eons, 0.2

Devlog

• State of the game (April 3, 2022)
  April 03, 2022 by Calandiel

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  Hi everyone! It's been a while so I'd like to write another update for people who don't check on our Discord server. In the last dev diary ( https://demiansky.itch.io/songs-of-the-eons/devlog/341192/j... Continue reading

  
• (January 2022)
  January 31, 2022 by Calandiel

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  Hi everyone, it's Calandiel. I'd like to talk about some of the work we've done this month. As some of you may know, we decided to push back the release of 0.3 and deal with some long standing issues... Continue reading

  
• (Mid-)December updates
  December 14, 2021 by Calandiel

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  Hi everyone, I thought it'd be a good time to write another update. We've made some decent progress but I'd also like to revisit the release date for the 0.3 update. If you'd like to watch Solitarian'... Continue reading

  
• The climate woes
  November 08, 2021 by Calandiel

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  Hi everyone, it's Calandiel again. Today I'd like to talk about climate and the release date for 0.3. And since I imagine the latter is what most people are interested in, let's start with it. Progres... Continue reading

  
• Recent work
  October 04, 2021 by Calandiel

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  Hi everyone, Calandiel here. Since December is relatively close now, I thought it'd be a good moment to talk about recent work and review the state of the project (in particular, how likely is the rel... Continue reading
• The need to feed
  June 15, 2021 by Calandiel

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  Hi everyone, Calandiel here. It's been a while since the last dev diary on itch.io so I thought I'd write an update for this part of our community. This time you can also see the update on YouTube, th... Continue reading
• 0.2
  February 28, 2021 by Calandiel

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  Hey everyone, it's Calandiel. So... 0.2 is out. Finally. It's been a while but we now have everything that was originally intended for this update, and more. Plants are here - with trees and biomes. W... Continue reading

  
• Hotfix for the latest release
  December 08, 2020 by Calandiel

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  The covid patch had some bugs with defines loading and some missing quality of life features so we released a small patch to fix them. It also fixes colors for tundras (they don't look like sandy dese... Continue reading
• The COVID-19 update.
  November 17, 2020 by Calandiel

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  So, coronavirus happened. It kind of threw lives for both me and Demian upside down and really slowed down the development. There also haven't been any public updates in half a year now, so I thought... Continue reading
• New update, new shaders
  March 16, 2020 by Calandiel

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  Hey everyone We just released another small update. It contains a reworked atmospheric shader, a new, retuned climate model, exposes climate variables as sliders in the defines section and improves m... Continue reading

  
• Vegetation updates
  March 16, 2020 by Calandiel

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  <a repost from reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/SongsOfTheEons/comments/fewvmc/our_vegetation_growth_model_is_in_full_swing_but/ > For some more context: the two graphs you see above is of a tile in... Continue reading

  
• Events, Decisions, Preliminary Biomes and the road to gameplay
  February 08, 2020 by Calandiel

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  Hey everyone, it's Calandiel. We just released a small patch (this time without a number because we won't call it 0.2 until vegetation is finished and we ran out of digits with the release of 0.1.9)... Continue reading

  
• New Years hotfix
  January 01, 2020 by Calandiel

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  We just released a patch for 0.1.9 It's a relatively minor update, focused on removing known bugs and bringing 0.1.9 up to full feature parity with 0.1 It's now possible to save world defines (which f... Continue reading

  
• Releasing version 0.19 as a Christmas Present!
  December 25, 2019 by Demian

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  Hello everyone! Given that we'll have to go quiet for a few weeks (and yet were so close to version 0.19) we thought we'd go ahead and release version 0.19 to the public! You can find the new file o... Continue reading
• Race Profile: Dwarves are Highly Civilized, Highly K-selected, and Highly Specialized for alpine environments. Dwarves are masters of infrastructure, investment, and planning
  November 09, 2019 by Demian

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  #Race Profile

  In eons old as rock itself, the earth was cold and still, But the mountain yearned for purpose, to have a voice and will, And so the mountain reached within, to make itself a mind, Reached down into h... Continue reading

  
• Releasing version 0.190 to patron tiers $10 and higher
  November 01, 2019 by Demian

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  Calandiel successfully fused versions 0.1 and 0.2 a few weeks back and we noticed that we were at a relatively stable build on our road to version 0.2. Since the holiday season will probably slow down... Continue reading
• Rocks, Part 3: Volcanic Rocks, With Great Rewards Come Great Peril
  October 20, 2019 by Demian

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  The Islands of LaaLeeLaay and the Islands of Samana were but a few dozen kilometers apart from one another. They experienced the same climate, enjoyed the same marine life, and were roughly the same... Continue reading

  
• Rocks, Part 2: Plutonic Rocks, The Stuff of Mountains
  October 13, 2019 by Demian

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  The Veep Neep tribe do not live a life of plenty. The high, sloped mountains they call home are sandy, dry, and not well suited for conventional agriculture. And so the Veep Neep subsist by laboriou... Continue reading

  
• Rocks, Part 1: The Curious Case of the Ardians and Kemrac
  October 09, 2019 by Demian

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  --------------------------------------------------------------------------- There was no doubt in the minds of Ardian philosophers: the “Goat Goblins” of Kemrac were not only an inferior culture... Continue reading

  
• Modding in 0.2
  October 03, 2019 by Calandiel

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  Hi everyone, it's Calandiel again ^ . ^ A fair warning, technical blabbering ahead Today, I'd like to talk about modding in SotE. As some of you may know, we really hope to create a thriving modding... Continue reading

  
• Results of the High Beaver patron vote
  September 26, 2019 by Calandiel

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  Two weeks ago we decided to put "High Beavers" and their name under vote. Here are the results, by Patron rank: As you can see, High Beavers won, so the name won't be changed ^ . ^... Continue reading

  
• Graphical updates in 0.2
  September 23, 2019 by Calandiel

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  #cala, #0.2

  Hey guys, Calandiel here. With 0.2 being more and more finished, I thought I'd write a couple small dev logs on itchio to show some of the progress we've made (in particular, progress related to the v... Continue reading

  
• The Foundations of Life
  February 12, 2019 by Demian

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  #Game Design, #Deep Simulation

  Why Ecology Matters: The Turks and Mongols developed a nomadic culture atop the sprawling grasslands of the Steppe, their horses nourished by the sea of grass. The dry, cold climate of the grasslands... Continue reading

  
• Why Does a Living World Matter?
  February 03, 2019 by Demian

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  #Game Design, #Deep Simulation

  Songs of the Eons aspires to be a game with a living world that simulates the underlying processes that we witness in the real world, from geology, climatology, hydrology, ecology, to economics… but... Continue reading