Multicellular Stage

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Stage Details
Gameplay Type 2D
Previous Stage Microbe Stage
Next Stage Macroscopic Stage
Editors Body Plan Editor, Cell Editor
Internal Name multicellular_stage
Concept for the multicelullar editor by Uniow

In the Multicellular Stage, your cell colony will become more complex and specialized, until it becomes a macroscopic organism. The stage ends when your species becomes big enough in size to become macroscopic and move onto the Macroscopic Stage.

Overview

Life in the oceans flourishes. There will be a lot of diversity. The world has suddenly gotten a lot smaller for the player as they are the biggest thing around in the microscopic environment.

The player will now control a colony of cells that form a larger organism. The colony size will gradually increase with more specialized cell types preparing the move to macroscopic.

Transitions

The stage starts when cells bind together through use of Binding Agents (Adhesion Proteins) and the cells can no longer unbind (they become actually a single organism).

It ends when the player's species evolves to be a big enough cluster of cells to move to macroscopic size.

Features

The gameplay of the multicellular stage will feel a lot like the Microbe Stage. Gameplay will continue on the 2D plane with other cells, but the difference will be that the player will now control a growing colony. The difference from the end of microbe stage is that the colony can no longer be disbanded, instead it acts like a permanently stuck together, singular organism. The microbe environment is still used and the player can interact with microbes.

In the editor, the player can now create and edit cell types in addition to making changes to the structure and organelles of those cells. Any change made to one cell of a cell type in the colony will automatically apply to all other cells of that type. Using different cell types the player will be able to specialize different cells in his colony towards different functions, giving them a big advantage over unicellular organisms.

At the end of the stage the player controls a large colony of cells that can dominate the microscopic world, and then take a leap to grow even bigger and become a macroscopic creature.

There is a separate page for the Multicellular Stage GDD describing the stage mechanics in more details.

UI

Nothing has been discussed.

Concept Art

Current Development

Multicellular stage development has started but it is not very fleshed out yet.