Biomes

Biomes : A world building toy

"In a calm and relaxing atmosphere, build your world by placing environment tiles like forests or seas. But beware, your world is evolving too!

Watch the larger environments expand and even create new ones. Let your creativity flow into your world and watch it evolve on your own or with your help."

Biomes is a project I got to do in school for my second year. During this semester, I and 3 of my teammates had this idea of a world made of tiles, each tile a biome, and the world would evolve on its own, the different biomes clashing against each other, sometimes making a brand-new biome combination of the two other in the way.

On this project, I had my hands full with the programming part. Making a simple grid system and how to manage the tiles groups has biomes entity, how they would evolve with time etc...

Besides that, I also made the sound design from the UI to the music, trying to turn into sounds the peaceful and relaxing feeling we were seeking making that game. The music is semi random, divided in multiple segments they play in a different order each cycle based on a few rules to keep an organic feel.

If you would like to test the game out, then here's the itch page of the project (you can play it in browser!)

It was a pleasure to work on such a project, but we know it could be better. We're thinking about turning it into a fully fleshed out game at some point, the toy is versatile enough to offer multiple Game design directions.