Lifecraft big (literally) updates

Hi everyone! We've been a bit quiet lately, but time has flown by as we've been hard at work on the digestion update, which is also laying down big foundations of the game core system.

As we were working on the extracellular systems we noticed that there wasn't enough distinction between the intracellular and extracellular zones, it didn't felt right! That's why we reprogrammed it from the ground so that the extracellular zones now operates on a much larger scale compared to the intracellular gameplay. Integrating these two different mechanics seamlessly required significant rework of the engine but we're finally satisfied with the results! We also have huge extracellular tissue stacks.

We've also worked on the extracellular building and dispatch system. Using tiny bricks you will see the structures grow. It looks really nice and is highly configurable.

Defending against bacteria in the extracellular space is very important and a mechanic that needed some thought and development. We’ve working on commandable units that you can directly select and move towards bacteria (just like a rts game). This mechanic will be expanded, giving a nice strategic apsect to the game.

We're also continually working on quality of life improvements, UI updates, and overall polish to enhance the game. Microtubules flow algorithm has been rewritten to move all the items simultaneously and feel more coordinated and:

We made many throughputs of structures precise and predictable so that cytostomes, pickers, microtubules have a precise and shown speed which will help you in optimizing your organism.

In the last weeks I’ve been busy creating new music that I think will fit very well the game atmosphere.

We’ll release the next nightly (available on the nightly branch) in the next days, feel free to test it and give us your feedback on Discord!

(from now on we’ll post more updates here every couple weeks to keep you updated on the game progress, we're kinda lazy with that but we can assure you that on Discord we post a lot of progress day by day!)