Tenebrarium

Help, the new generation doesn't care about building the giant moss wall. What is wrong? Are they autistic?

The dragging to place something out of bounds bug is still here. And I noticed it only works when multi place is active. Also I noticed the spending money on items that failed to place bug happens when multi place isn’t toggled too. Also storages show that they have the item in them even though that item is completely gone

how do i make teno-nemones? i can't seem to place a seed on dirt

Is there a way to make dirt tiles? I didn't make Nemones early game and now can't finish my observations, I also am hurting for cla

love the game, but my meat is always around 0 even though there is meat in the meat stores for some reason

At one point, around half my population became abominations and exploded in the same spot... which sadly wasted a lot of food.

Pod button doesn't appear to work for me on the web.

Really loving the game! I think my record was 80 ish or 90 ish, but then it plummeted to 50, then 37, then 50ish. Anyways, the magnifying feature has a quirk, it can magnify everything in the UI besides the Teno Observations, the title can be read, but the information itself is blank, as in showing the background of the guide. Doesn't really affect gameplay, but it doesn't seem intentional so I thought to mention it. Thanks for the game!

Will you consider adding a downloadable build for linux?

Really cool concept! Best of luck with development!

Hi, absolutely loved playing this and i really like the direction this is going in. One thing I am interested in would be greater interaction with the teno e.g. more diverse personality within certain teno groups and varying from species to species. Or greater societal actions, religion or community hubs or rituals for the dead ect. A way to better understand these interactions and species traits would be nice as well as while the observation logs are good I think a more comprehensive and scientific log would be incredibly interesting. 

Another feature I think would be interesting would be the ability to induce a certain behavior in a teno and follow how that changes interactions such as a fear response. 

Overall though I absolutely adored the game, seeing the different paths you can take and how the colony progresses is amazing. I enjoy the replay-ability in trying to get different outcomes. The jellyfish teno are probably one of the cutest things I've seen too, love those guys.

I really enjoy this. I think it would have a lot more meat to it if you had to perform some action to acquire the resources you give to the Teno, (hunt for meat, collect spores for mushrooms, maybe some kind of excavation for golden rods), rather than you handing them down from on high. 

It would be interesting if the Teno had to find these things themselves, and you can only guide them toward the collection of those resources. This would put it more in line with the rest of the colony sim genre, but I think it would improve things anyhow.

I think it has really great bones and the whole idea of fusing/mitosis/dying is inspired, but there needs to be more dynamicism.

I am loving this so far, it's like the kind of thing I'd have on the screen like an ant farm once the colony became self-sufficient. Is there going to be the ability to save the game in the future? (Also for some reason the download didn't play with my computer, it said it "protected" me from the exe so I'm going to look into that, thought you should know)

it's cute but, you don't actually get to interact at all. most of the content is based around the items instead of the creatures which means I have no reason to care about them outside of the fusions. beyond that none of the interactions are layered in any way. what happens if it rains on a seed, what if I blow up X object with a rod, what happens when a water creature goes near a fire one? the answer is always nothing, so again there's little investment. also do monthly updates instead of weekly, itch likes that more

From 1 to 10 how good was this set up of my colony? Or if you prefer how bad was from 1 to 10? (If possible in next update ad a timer for showing the longevity of the Run and the Colony)

Was normal that ther are so many Teno-nemone? (If not clear i blacet just 1-2 of them at the start)

This is an excellent game.

Another comment mentioned this but the problem I have with this game is just the lack of information of what ANYTHING does really. I didn't know why there were two nearly identical "clay" resources were until I looked at a storage with the magnifying glass and saw that it said brick storage, I had no idea what bones, bone traps, sculptures, mushroom spores, teno-roots or hearts did or that rain wasn't just a random event until I read the development logs and comments. I STILL have no idea why my guys are exploding, I assume its the "Abominations" but I just can't know for sure because I'm told nothing. You don't even get told when you see a new observation, the first time I opened the Observations button, I had unlocked all but like seven of them because I didn't realize the button was there.

Another example, early on I tried placing wood down, they made a bonfire, "Alright that makes sense" I thought, so I placed more wood down thinking "Wood is surely a building material, it's not just used for fire" and paid the price as I now had three bonfires forming a wall in the middle of the colony and forcing the guys to walk all the way around it, what I learned from this? Each item is going to serve one purpose. Later on, I was struggling to find the last couple observations so I started reading the dev log and that's how I found out seeds have a different effect when placed on land vs on water. That was really frustrating.

I think a book like the other comment suggested would be a really nice way to implement it that just says what items/creatures do/are used for, frame it as a "research journal" since we're supposedly researching the little guys?

This is subjective but you don't need the game to be "mysterious" (Read: inscrutable) to be intriguing, I'm intrigued by the idea an auto-colony sim (that ISN'T ant themed for the thousandth time), I love Worldbox for example, I enjoyed the first half of my playtime here but I only stayed because of sunk cost fallacy and I wanted to finish the last seven entries.

I think that i let tem to tu many "nest" (if you are askink yourself wer are the nest, all the left side of the game board are nest)

I got to 500 before things started getting laggy but it was mostly fine until then and a lot of fun.

I forgot to take a screenshot, but I put the game down for a bit and came back to a healthy number of teno, a population count of negative 30, and a message saying the colony was dead. Not sure what I missed, nor how that happened. 

Got up to around 350-400 before the browser started to lag significantly, interesting concept. I definitely cheesed by just spamming food with no sustainability because as soon as I stopped the pop dropped to 50, now I'm trying to not drop any food and see how high I can get

i dont understand the game, love it though. I somehow got to 220 max pop and im sure i can go higher

Sweet! Now I can finally play! I found a bug though. When holding an item and then becoming a root they end up clipping the item onto the root tile. So it’s like basically inside a wall. Also what do bricks do? Or what ever it is they produce using clay and coal.

I’m loving the game, but less then I’m lost in the game. The concept seems nice, until you have no idea what’s going on. I love the idea of the game just throwing you in, and letting you explore and figure things out on your own, but problem is, there is nothing to figure out. And even if you do, you don’t realize what you figured out. This game needs a hinting system like !Hey! you did good, you gave clay to the lil blobs, and now they need coal to progress. Or !Hey! your blobs unlocked bricks! You did X to achieve that, do that more so they can expand. If you want later on to stop with the invasive tutorial pop-ups, replace it with a guide book, with buildings/resources/powers you already discovered/unlocked, with descriptions of what they are and can do/make. You cant just say “hey, colony do grow big-big. catch this golden rod.” without context. To this point, i don’t understand what resources my creatures need, or what half of them can do. I saw the red roots produce coal, but the plated trees seem to do nothing, and there is no reliable way, to my knowledge, to get clay, wood, or food(only bones), and they seems exclusive to my powers. Qol’s aside, i see great potential in this project. The way the creatures were building bone statues struck me with the idea that perhaps you could turn this into a religion/cult builder, perhaps replace money with faith, unlock rituals, expand your dominion. Especially because in this sense, you would have a path into the player having to summon enemies, or their waves in said rites, instead of just finding them in the dirt. Seeing you wanting to add combat, as written in the suggestions, I’m concerned that could take away from the casual nature of this game. With my proposed model, this stays fully optional for casual players, keeping the current game’s feel. The people who want combat however, have the additional benefit of being able to prepare for it longer if they want an easier, slower experience, activating the ritual as soon as hint pops up about them being able to for the ‘normal’ or ‘intended’ experience and difficulty, or, if they are on an n’th playthrough, speedrun the requirements to start it faster, and fight with a less developed colony. Essentially, the difficulty regulates itself, the premise is interesting and expandable, and the lore fits. You might have to overwrite what you already got, but its not a lot, so this is the perfect time for a change. I really want to see where you take this game. Also, I’m very sorry for the rambling. I guess the more feedback the better, but i still think i could have said this shorter, and less confusing. I’m waiting for the next update!

The game is very cute but I really struggled to understand what the stuff I'm seeing on screen are supposed to be. Not explaining what they do, I understand that that's a part of the game's mystery but it'd be nice if I could click on one of the squares and see "Storage" (I assume that's what those are?)

Add iOS control support please. Since this is a web browser version I’m able to run it and play it but I can’t give them any materials.

Ther are to many bone and to less use for them

the game is good i like it, it's a bit limited but for a super early aces is good, i suggest adding some landscape elements that you can unlock, expanding the colony,

like lakes or geysers or something like that, an also make the tutorial better and add item description. keep up the good work. 

Super fun, great visuals. Would be great if you added a way to add multiple materials at once, like a shift-left click to keep placing. It would help a lot with bigger colonies that have no way of getting clay

I wish that the observations would give why they do said action after serval times.