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Watch a simulated 2D world including weather, plants, animals, and humans in this casual sandbox game about nature and life. Start meteor showers, spawn new animals, or just let things play out naturally. It's like a screensaver you can play.

Ardarium is a 2D simulation that automatically generates a random map and populates it with plants, animals, and humans. The point is to be something pretty and colorful that you can watch like a screensaver or play like a simple sandbox game.

Animals look for food, avoid danger, and reproduce. Humans do those things and also build nations, go to war with each other, and cultivate the land.

The world constantly changes. Land deforms because of erosion, tectonic uplift, volcanos and meteors. Elevation changes cause coastlines to shift and alter weather patterns. A forest might turn into a desert because it no longer gets rain. A submerged hill can become an island if the land rises above the water. A human settlement might thrive due to an abundance of food and then decline because of disease. Animals evolve to be bigger or smaller, faster or slower, based on which ones survive to reproduce. 

Anything the player can do, like spawning animals or starting meteor showers, is something the simulation also does automatically. You can leave it running as long as you want and the world will continue as normal.

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In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $2.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Ardarium.zip 74 MB

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playing this via steam it is a pretty fun game. Did do a little first impression on YouTube. The volcano got angry during it and went BOOM. One suggestion for the developer can we have some more control over the game.

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. I would definitely like to add more ways to control the world. I'm thinking about adding a screen on the main menu where you can change things like how much heat the sun adds, how fast plants grow, chance for fire based on temperature, etc.

yes this would be interesting 

also new things in the esc menu would be cool

This is a really neat thing.  How was it made?

Thanks. I made it in Game Maker Studio.

Cool.  I got it from steam.  I'm not proficient in Game Maker, and I wish I was, because I'd love to work on this with you.  I use Clickteam and I was curious if that's what you used, because it looks like it could have been made with it.

Game maker is really easy to learn. I haven't heard of clickteam but it looks similar to game maker's visual programming mode.

I've tinkered with it for sure.  I need to get more into it.  Great update with the windowed mode by the way.  Is there a way I can email you?  Or do you have a discord?

I haven't set up any social media for the game yet. There's just the steam community page right now.