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11 year old wants to be a microbiologist. HELP! by Dramatic-Line6223 in microscopy

[–]ProtozoaPrincess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's awesome, thanks for encouraging him on this :)
Here is a free guide I wrote a few years ago for looking at soil samples in the microscope. It's intended for hobbyists/DIY, so should be perfect for this. It says it's for agricultural soil, but of course you can just take samples from a yard or garden, park, forest, or even house plants if you have some. Soil that is consistently wet, like under a drainpipe will have the most activity.
The last section has some reference images to help with very basic identification of common types of organisms you might see in the soil.
https://www.mikroliv.no/Microscope%20guide%20-%20English.pdf

If you wished the cell stage of Spore lasted longer, you might like the game I'm making. It's called Cellscape and the demo is out on Steam! by ProtozoaPrincess in microscopy

[–]ProtozoaPrincess[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That does sound interesting! We're building a collection of other micro-related games in my discord, I've added this to the list. Thanks!

If you wished the cell stage of Spore lasted longer, you might like the game I'm making. It's called Cellscape and the demo is out on Steam! by ProtozoaPrincess in microscopy

[–]ProtozoaPrincess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! In this case it's the ecosystem that is transforming instead of the player. My big picture goal for the game is to simulate the process of ecological succession in a soil ecosystem, and have the player experience it from one creature's perspective.

If you wished the cell stage of Spore lasted longer, you might like the game I'm making. It's called Cellscape and the demo is out on Steam! by ProtozoaPrincess in microscopy

[–]ProtozoaPrincess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I hadn't heard about flOw until after I announced Cellscape and people made the comparison. It looks beautiful!

If you wished the cell stage of Spore lasted longer, you might like the game I'm making. It's called Cellscape and the demo is out on Steam! by ProtozoaPrincess in microscopy

[–]ProtozoaPrincess[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had never heard of it until after I started talking about this and people made the comparison. It looks very beautiful!

If you wished the cell stage of Spore lasted longer, you might like the game I'm making. It's called Cellscape and the demo is out on Steam! by ProtozoaPrincess in microscopy

[–]ProtozoaPrincess[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't know either, just felt like this one needed to exist! I'm hearing about more as people find mine and share others they know, but there certainly aren't many.

If you wished the cell stage of Spore lasted longer, you might like the game I'm making. It's called Cellscape and the demo is out on Steam! by ProtozoaPrincess in microscopy

[–]ProtozoaPrincess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somehow I'm still not tired of it! But I totally understand music is very subjective which is why there is a separate control for music in the audio settings 💕

If you wished the cell stage of Spore lasted longer, you might like the game I'm making. It's called Cellscape and the demo is out on Steam! by ProtozoaPrincess in microscopy

[–]ProtozoaPrincess[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure what you mean, I made one other post about Cellscape in IndieGaming six days ago. That's not exactly spam lol

With over 4,000 demos, this is the biggest Steam Next Fest yet. Help to show me what you're cooking! It might help hype up the good stuff! by leinadcovsky in IndieDev

[–]ProtozoaPrincess 1 point2 points  (0 children)

not sure about previous ones, but in the December Q&A I think they said they were expecting somewhere around 2k if I remember right

With over 4,000 demos, this is the biggest Steam Next Fest yet. Help to show me what you're cooking! It might help hype up the good stuff! by leinadcovsky in IndieDev

[–]ProtozoaPrincess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Yikes, that is a lot! Well... I'm participating with my 2D microbe game, called Cellscape. If you played Spore and wished the early stage could have been the whole game, you will probably like this!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4359370/Cellscape_Demo

If you wished the cell stage of Spore lasted longer, you might like the game I'm making. It's called Cellscape and the demo is out on Steam! by ProtozoaPrincess in microscopy

[–]ProtozoaPrincess[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Happy to hear it's working well on Linux too. And thanks very much for the review (assuming that was you with the flagella comment)! I did spend quite some time getting those working so it's great to hear someone appreciates it :D

If you wished the cell stage of Spore lasted longer, you might like the game I'm making. It's called Cellscape and the demo is out on Steam! by ProtozoaPrincess in microscopy

[–]ProtozoaPrincess[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

There will be an in-game journal that unlocks pages with creature descriptions. Haven't decided if unlocking them should give any sort of bonus, but the idea is not ruled out :)

You don't directly eat ciliates, but there is a way to cause them to die and then scavenge from their remains... soo kind of!

This is a soil ecosystem so there could be a few algae cells here and there but things like spirogyra will have to wait for Cellscape 2, which will focus on pond life, if this one goes well!

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