Steam News27 September 20205y ago

Botany feature overview & MEET THE TEAM

Nicholas, you finally do some weekly updates, and now you give us 2-year-old videos to fill up the content?! WHAT. THE. HELL. Sorry, just a fun throwback.

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addedAs you can somewhat tell from the title and the video, today, in this weekly update we will be reviewing the first feature to come to Spess (SpessVR if you will) which was botany . But that's not all, we will also be starting a new topic in these kinds of posts, which is contributor team introductions and overview! It will be basically quick summaries of people who helped develop Spess over the years.

addedBotany - Feature SummaryYeah, I think Botany in Spess is unique and FUN. Basically, the point is to mutate plants and acquire rarer plant "DNA" and new types of plants with specific uses. Here's a very good summary written years ago but it still holds 100% true and is what we followed across the years.

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addedYeah, I think Botany in Spess is unique and FUN. Basically, the point is to mutate plants and acquire rarer plant "DNA" and new types of plants with specific uses. Here's a very good summary written years ago but it still holds 100% true and is what we followed across the years.

Nicholas, you finally do some weekly updates, and now you give us 2-year-old videos to fill up the content?! WHAT. THE. HELL. Sorry, just a fun throwback.

As you can somewhat tell from the title and the video, today, in this weekly update we will be reviewing the first feature to come to Spess (SpessVR if you will) which was botany. But that's not all, we will also be starting a new topic in these kinds of posts, which is contributor team introductions and overview! It will be basically quick summaries of people who helped develop Spess over the years.

Botany - Feature Summary

Yeah, I think Botany in Spess is unique and FUN. Basically, the point is to mutate plants and acquire rarer plant "DNA" and new types of plants with specific uses. Here's a very good summary written years ago but it still holds 100% true and is what we followed across the years.

Mutation will be dynamic, as opposed to standard TGstations specific mutations. This means mutation can be done from every plant, but there's a considerably high chance for specific plant mutations. For example, a standard tomato may mutate into nearly anything, but it has a very low chance of doing so, however, it does have a considerable chance of mutating to something similar such as bluespace tomato or blood tomato (new breeds of tomato basically)

And here's a flowchart or whatever. For the basics.

Anyways. We will be covering more features next week!

Meet the Team - Liam (developer)

In this section, we will be overviewing Spess contributors one by one every week. First one up, Liam!

Currently works in a VR development company in his home country.

One of the first Spess developers, he helped pioneer non-VR (desktop) mode, created level editor, which led to making all in-game stations player-made and more streamlined. You can find him and everyone else in general at our Discord of course.

Final thoughts

Anyways, I don't think anyone will read an article/update larger than this, so I'll STOP.

Make sure to check out our official website to get a gateway to all our other social media: https://spess.space/

For any suggestions feel free to start discussion in our Discord as well. ayy.

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