Genre: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Imagine Earth
Imagine Earth - Green Planet Bundle and Official Soundtrack released
With a little delay, today we are releasing the Green Planet Bundle which includes our planet colonization game Imagine Earth and the official soundtrack. With the income from the soundtrack sales, you help us do something real to save the forests. We will donate the additional profit from these sales to support the Eden Reforestation Project.
Why are we doing this?
From the beginning, this project was inspired by our conviction that playing Imagine Earth would be an exciting and motivating way to experience the most urgent and unavoidable challenge of mankind - climate change. The game crystalizes a planetary ecosystem and economy into mechanics that allow you to make your own decisions on how to solve the upcoming challenges. With this in mind we were able to survive seven years of Early Access, always knowing that we were working on something that would unfortunately only increase in relevance and urgency over time.
Now with the game being ready we want to add something more tangible on top, by supporting global reforestation and forest protection with the soundtrack profits of this bundle. If you want, you can take this oppurtunity to get the game and the soundtrack and to support the planting of new forests at the same time.
To kick off this campaign, we have already donated a symbolic cent to the organization for each of our 43,400 Early Access supporters. Thanks for supporting us!
Imagine Earth - Planetary Colonization | Full Release Update - Out now!
Seven years have passed since our real-time global civilization simulation Imagine Earth first embarked on its epic journey through Early Access. Today, the full version of the game finally launches here on Steam - with a big launch update to boot!
Thanks to the 43,000 Supporters - You made this happen
First of all, a big thank you to all EA supporters, for your interest and support over all these years! You have made the continuous and independent development of this unusual game possible - global building sim, which can become a real survival thriller in the conflict between growth and sustainability.
Official Launch Trailer
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Please stay tuned, we are tinkering with a complete Early Access history recap
Imagine Earth entered Early Access in May 2014, and has been growing ever since, with updates coming approximately once a month. Today’s update is our biggest yet. We’ve rewritten the rules for competition and freeplay mode by introducing the ‘Word Congress’ - a democratic allegiance containing every faction on the planet, brought together by the threat of a climate crisis and environmental collapse.
Final Release Feature
The World Congress
This is where the battle between sustainable and exploitative corporations takes place. The World Congress is a democratic body with wide-ranging powers, to which each faction on the planet sends a representative. The factions have voting rights in the congress that correspond to their share in the galactic population. In the voting process, they decide on taxes and subsidies, funds for projects, penalties for rule breakers, and emergency aid. In addition, a representative of the United Space Nations USN is always present.
Proposal round
At the beginning of a session of the congress, each delegation can propose new resolutions, which are then voted on. When resolutions are passed they apply to all factions.
You can see who benefits from your resolutions, as well as who stands to lose out. This data will help you make calculated political decisions.
Voting round
Once the proposals submitted by the delegations are ready for voting, each faction pursues its own interests. The symbols on the representatives indicate whether they are more likely to vote in favor of or against a bill. Voting behavior is also influenced by a faction's agenda, strategic advantages and by loyalty in alliances. However, nothing is certain until the final vote is counted. Diplomatic tensions abound!
World status
This screen is always accessible and provides an overview of the state of the planet. Here you can see how different global trends develop in relation to each other.
Leaderboards
As you may have noticed, all leaderboards of the early access version have been reset for the Imagine Earth 1.0.
What does the future hold?
Of course, this isn’t the end of the road for Imagine Earth. We’re planning to compile a list with all the unfinished ideas we've collected in the backlog to ask you what you think the game really needs. We are already working on an addon where you will be able to colonize procedural galaxies.
Hotfix 1.0.7
Joma: Fixed Birons not willing to by your medicine (really stupid...)
Reduced default world congress intervall for campaign and freeplay mode to 30:00
Updated Russian translations for UI elements
Fixed a few bugs that lead to exceptions or crashes
Update 0.66.13
Improvements
Joma: Reduced amount of goals that are active in parallel. Moved pirates to Lorian
Tuto: Stopped natural catastrophes for startup phase of the planet
Synchronized duration of messages with voice clips
Reduced likelihood of mistakenly closing a message with the right mouse button
Fixed generated planets sometimes having floods on startup
Fixed two bugs that could cause crashes
Update 0.66.12
Fixes & Improvements
Added dynamic resolution down-scaling for DX12 systems to improve performance when rotating the planet
Improved gamepad navigation in tool ring and crafting panel
Fixed game crashing when corrupt savegame is loaded on startup
Fixed lens flare shown in intro
Fixed "Mining" quick action shown in Tuto although warehouse is not available yet
Fixed game going into pause mode when jumping to a city from the navigation screen
Fixed UI layout for supply capsule
Improved layout of controls overview and updated RU translation
Update 0.66.11
Improvements
Swapped land claim and tech licensing bonus in research to have a better thematic fit
Simplified description of research panel
Always show "license" option in research panel
Improved value selection with gamepad in game setup panel
Rewrote industrial farm upgrade description to emphasize focus on herbicide-resistant plants
Extended descriptions of wind farms and financial district
Financial district upgrades are now exclusive
Further reduced default UI sound volume
Added some missing status information texts
Display icon of hovered building
Fixes
Fixed +/- buttons not correctly working in planet editor
Right click on time now slows down the speed again
Fixed wrong bonus for nuclear power plant
Fixed icon of city level 2 in research panel
Fixed gamepad icons in research panel
Fixed missing automatic line break in research panel
Fixed fade-in of planets in galaxy menu
Fixed wobbling of tool-tip in tool ring
Fixed three bugs that could lead to crashes
Update 0.66.10
Fixed winning of competitions not working
Fixed Rounos mission: Joe outpost take over and Joe landing on Bangka island is working now
Fixed invalid licensing of city centers
Fixed crash related to items placed in editor
Fixed sometime blurred screenshots
Increased scroll speed
Unified volume range for sound effects, voice and music
Balanced logic and AI to make Joe less "green"
Update 0.66.9
Emission compensation of land and ocean fields further increased.
Russian translation updated - big thanks to Panterich!
Removed emission compensation setting in the game rules - will be included in a new feature to be released in version 1.0
Fixed performance lag of AI when detecting a good landing spot
Changed voice compression from ADPCM to Vorbis to reduce memory consumption and improve quality
Fixed UI scrolling with mouse when gamepad is connected
Reduced occurrence of production building incidents
Fixed "steam not initialized" bug when starting the game from outside of steam - thanks Roderick!
AI no longer builds unnecessary production buildings for goods
Allow destruction of city centers by floods
Fixed stuttering of UI components attached to the tool ring.
Note: We will be resetting ALL leaderboards in the coming days to have a clean start for Imagine Earth 1.0. You will be able to load your existing savegames to upload all existing high scores based on the current game rules.
Update 0.66.5
Improved responsiveness of UI. Avoid unwanted double-clicks and make sure all input is taken into account
Reduced emission compensation for big planets
Imagine Earth - Steam full release date revealed
Big News Space Colony Managers,
It’s been a long lasting journey of over seven years through the hyperspace of Early Access for Imagine Earth - Planetary Colonization. Our global real-time civilization sim Imagine Earth finally has an official Steam release date and will be delivered with a massive “world congress” update PC on 25th May.
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Thank you all for making this possible.
Some of you have been following our project for ages, popping in every few years, and some are new to it, having only recently joined our quest for new, habitable worlds. Over all these years, the game has found over 43,000 supporters who have made the development of our world simulator possible until today.
Beta Test for Release Feature
In the next few days we will be making available a beta version of a new feature we are currently working on. If you would like to participate in this beta, please join our Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/fCJAUxc.
Open Space Addon
In parallel, we have already started planning and producing an addon in which you will be able to colonize procedural galaxies and the exchange of goods and commodities between planets will be strengthened. It will also be possible to upgrade your own space base and equip the settlement capsules with special properties.
Early Access Recap Post
To celebrate this important milestone, we will write a comprehensive summary of all the events and developments during that time. It's going to be a turbulent journey through time.
Community Survey
Over the time of development, we have accumulated a long list of good ideas that we think would be great additions to the game. However, we want to get your opinion and wishes on how best to improve the game. Get ready for a big poll around the release.
The way the emissions levy works has been changed. Companies now have to pay compensation if they produce more emissions than their population share allows. For example, if you produce 89% of global emissions and have 50% of the world's population, you will have to pay an emissions levy for 39%.
Balancing the threats
We had a pretty big problem here. Natural disasters rarely occurred, while invaders made their way onto the planet far too often. Both problems have been addressed and we think we have found good defaults for competitions and free play. In addition, you can still adjust all settings in detail.
Balancing global warming
Until now, global warming mostly did not occur at all and thus many game features could not be experienced. We have re-evaluated our balancing rules and decided to reduce the emission balancing of forests to about 60% and of land and sea to 75%. We have simulated a few game rounds based on these new values, but of course your feedback on this is much more important, so please share your experiences on this.
Improved AI
Finally the AI is able to actually win a compeitition instead of just bumbling around, giving up because it gets bankrupted or destroyed by a Xrathul or Assimilator attack. There's still room for improvement, but in general it works pretty well.
Other changes
Build menu: Active upgrades are visualised more clearly. Improved descriptions of some buildings Increased likelihood of riots Uniform fonts in the game Reduced productivity drop for ocean farms in cold areas Greater range of world sounds
Other fixes
Land reclamation now works correctly in polar areas Fixed victory point selector not working correctly Fixed planet ring not displaying correctly for barren planets Radius of shield upgrade for city centre and border tower/buoy is displayed correctly Fixed crash in connection with meteor graphics Fixed that planets sometimes don't have forests when a new planet is created after a contest is finished Fixed that pirates sometimes get stuck on NPC cities Fixed duplicate building click sound
Beta of the new feature
In the next few days we will be making available a beta version of a new feature we are currently working on. If you would like to participate in this beta, please contact us on our Discord channel: https://discord.com/invite/fCJAUxc.
