Created by Dokimi
For Minetest 5.4.1 - 5.5
Shengwu Nine should be in games folder like so:
Minetest > games > shengwu_nine > mods/menu/... etc
Explore an alien world inhabited by a selfreplicating alien superorganism. It's alive!
Life has been detected on planet Shengwu Nine - humanity's first discovery of extraterrestrial life. You are the first human scientist sent across the lightyears of space to Shengwu Nine. What will you discover?
This game is unfinished, there's not much to do currently. Play in creative mode and watch the superorganism grow. Use the tools to investigate and manipulate growth.
Find dormant bots (black), wait for them to wake up (red), watch it grow. It will take several hours to get big. Eventually it can become very impressive.
(Try leaving it running in the background for a few hours - have patience!)
Shengwu Nine is opensource - that means it is as good as you choose to make it.
Shengwu Nine is currently an early Alpha prototype, therefore expect bugs, missing features, performance issues.
At present I am not planning to develop this further. The core of the game is Ecobots2, content I made a few years ago and haven't touched since. Ecobots2 was itself already halfway to being a game, and I thought of making it into one at the time.
I have made Shengwu Nine to fix some compatibility issues, and rid Ecobots2 of dependance on Minetest default. Now it is a proper foundation for making a cool sci-fi game.
See Docs > Game_design_idea for what this might look like as a finished game.
Do you like evolutionary algorithims, cellular automata, etc? Do you want to make a game based on such things? I am happy for you to develop Shengwu Nine further if you want(It's just not a priority for me right now!)