DEVLOGS
The Sapling: Fight & Flight update
Today the Fight & Flight update is available for evolution simulation game The Sapling. This second big update extends the game with eggs, fur, fe... [read more]
Tuesday 15 June 2021
Optimization: what I did to make the game 300 times faster
A major point of feedback for evolution simulator The Sapling is that the players wanted larger levels. To make this possible, I spent three months op... [read more]
Tuesday 03 November 2020
Running The Sapling for 7 days straight: this is what happened
To celebrate the release of the flower update of The Sapling, there was a 1 week live stream of the game on Twitch in the beginning of September. I ha... [read more]
Tuesday 06 October 2020
The Sapling: flower update
Today the first big update for evolution simulation game The Sapling is announced: the flower update. It will release September 10th, and will extend ... [read more]
Thursday 13 August 2020
Breakdown of the visual style of The Sapling
How was the graphical style of The Sapling achieved? In this interactive breakdown I'll show you, step by step. At the bottom there's an interactive s... [read more]
Thursday 13 February 2020
Under the hood of the procedural music in The Sapling
This article is an in-depth interactive explanation of how the procedural music in The Sapling works. Furthermore, we see how I had to give up my pref... [read more]
Sunday 12 January 2020
The Sapling available in Early Access today
The Sapling as available as an Early Access title today! In this post I describe how weird that feels, and aswer the question everybody has about this... [read more]
Thursday 12 December 2019
Six 3D models to explain the evolution simulation
I am releasing six models created by playtesters using the plant and animal builders of The Sapling. Several bodyparts are annotated so you get an ide... [read more]
Thursday 28 November 2019
How player content works in The Sapling
The Sapling was built from the ground up with community interaction in mind. This interaction goes both ways: players can take stuff generated by or f... [read more]
Thursday 21 November 2019
The Sapling main theme music available
In this first devlog I announce the official release of the main theme sheet music, along with the sheet music and its separate layers.... [read more]
Thursday 14 November 2019
