The Planetary Life project! 🟣 Source code 🔵 Resource files 🟣(a mix of purple-blue alike) /🟡 Textures 🔴 Audio/Godot's import files 🟢 Godot's scenes #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Over the past few days, I've been working on resolving the biggest bottleneck in game performance, including some other optimizations, and the results are incredible! This isn't new content, but everyone will benefit from this update! Here the before and after:

Working on the civilizations. Here you can see population management, resources, buildings, technology research... All of these systems are actually implemented and working. Still using visual placeholders! Next: rules and culture. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

First civilizations prototypes for Planetary Life. Disclaimer: Everything you see are placeholders! #gamedev #indiedev

One month since the release of Planetary Life on Early Access and I can only say... THANK YOU!!! ❤️ The game has surpassed all my expectations and the community is amazing! And there will be even more exciting news for the game coming soon!

If you were expecting Silksong to cost $30 or more, this is a good opportunity to spend the $10+ you saved on another indie game.

Shouldn't go down after the first day? 🧐🤯 I can only say a huge THANK YOU to everyone! ❤️ #gamedev #indiedev

From evolving cells to building a thriving planet ecosystem.... This is the ultimate guide for Planetary Life players to help them get started! Follow the dev -> @pitxardo.bsky.social Watch video: youtu.be/uHz-vldyhG4

Planetary Life out now on Steam Early Access!!! The game includes: - Procedural planets 🌍 - Climate simulation ⛈️ - Global disasters 🌋☄️ - Create and evolve animals/plants/fungi 🐟🦎🌱🌴🍄 - Cells 🦠🔬 Link to the Steam page in the first comment (or my profile). #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine

One day left for the Early Access release!!! #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

I’ve emailed Steam keys to content creators whose YouTube channels match my game. If you know someone I should reach out to, let me know! #gamedev #indiedev

3 days left! youtu.be/WVA4fqLxk4c

Slam and Roll now just $4.95! Tons of fun packed in — with 100% positive reviews from players. Why wait? Get it now!

You know you are close to release when you start getting a massive amount of emails asking for keys...

We are pleased to announce the release date for the early access version of Planetary Life! Mark your calendars! 15th August 2025 Wishlist now on Steam! (link in the profile)

Just make it exist first, you can make it good later! 🌍🌱

New and improved animations for flying creatures. Now, they will land to eat plants or attack other creatures. #gamedev #indiedev #simulation

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Timelapse day/night cycle. #gamedev #indiedev

How it started... How it looks now! 😱 😱 😱 #solodev #gamedev #indiedev

Hi #PitchYaGame ! Planetary Life is a simulation game where you play with planets, life and evolution inspired by SimEarth and Spore! 🌍 Procedural planets ⛈️ Climate simulation 🦎 Evolve creatures and plants 🦠 From cells... 🚀 ...to civilizations! Wishlist now on Steam! 💖

Planets aligned! #GodotEngine #indiegame #gamedev

The final skill tree for the incoming Early Access release! #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

Improved illumination and vegetation for Planetary Life. This will be specially good for the walking camera. #indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine

A month ago, I tried @pitxardo.bsky.social's Planetary Life Demo. One Sunday, I played it for 14+ hours. Out of that simulation, I created a video that got me to Youtube Partner. Even as a demo, this game has a special place in my heart. Can't wait for Early Access youtu.be/s_NaIqK4DNU

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More components to show!

Added necks.

I'm still alive and making progress towards the Early Access, but not always I work on things that can be easily show in a short video (also, I want to keep some surprises). Could you identify the new components?

This is Planetary Life! A simulation game where you get to play with planets, tweak climates, evolve plants and creatures!

Question for all developers: What do you think are good places to market your games?

Hi! I'm Rune, a full-time solo indie game developer (art, design, code, ...). After releasing my first game 'Eye of the Temple' I've been busy developing procedural generation tech for my current game 'The Big Forest'. I often post about it; here's a sampling of my experiments. #GameDev #ProcGen

In 1995 how do you render polygonal tires in a fully 3D racing game? You don't! Just make them 32(?) directional sprites, and they are gonna look great!

Navigating multiple star systems and their planets in Planetary Life. 🌌🪐🌔☀️🌘🌎 #GodotEngine #indiegame #games

Hi #screenshotsaturday! Is the scale of this game right? Watch it until the end 😙 #gamedev #indiedev

A, B or C? #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 #indiegame #space #gamedev #indiedev

Testing the change of rendering from high poly planets to the low poly version. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Testing the new low-poly version of the planets for far away cameras.

Some nice screenshots from users playing the Planetary Life's demo! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

The demo v0.5.7 of Planetary Life is already available on Steam (link below). And now yes! This will be the last demo until the game gets released on Early Access. In other words... I'm moving toward the first release version of the game! #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine

Now that Bluesky allows bigger videos, it's time to share as a direct video the latest trailer of Planetary Life. Enjoy! #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #indie #evolution

Planetary Life, a simulation game about planets, life and evolution! New trailer! 🚀Wishlist now on Steam! (Link below) ✅ Procedural planets 🌍 ✅ Climate simulation ⛈️ ✅ Global disasters 🌋☄️ ✅ Create and evolve animals/plants 🐟🦎🌱🌴 ✅ Cells 🦠🔬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ue_...

Improved atmosphere shader. Bluer skies and you will be able to see stars at night. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

By the way! I just launched the latest demo version of Planetary Life on Steam today! 🚀 Take a look and share some feedback please! ❤️ This will be the last demo, after this is coming the Early Access release!!! 😱😱😱 Link to the Steam page in the first comment: #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine

#screenshotsaturday All this was recorded in the same planet. All the terrain, all vegetation, all animals, all biomas... everything is procedural and automatically generated based on some evolution and climate rules. You can wishlist this game now (link in the first comment)

New texturing system for creatures: COMPLETED! ✅ I needed to update all existing components. That was a lot of work! But the new system looks nicer, runs faster and allows me to add more details and colors to the models. 🐞🐅🐌 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

I added animations (apart of walking) to procedurally generated creatures. Combined with some AI improvements, I think this gives more natural feeling to them. By the way, I have to improve that attack animation. 🤔 #indiegame #gamedev #simulation #procgen

I just released a new dev log about the cells in Planetary Life. Don't miss it! #gamedev #devlog #gaming youtu.be/R6EmCYkM5-s