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Tyto Ecology

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Immersed Games

Immersed Games

14 Apr, 2016 (9 years ago) 3.99$ STEAM
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Description

Please note this indie title was released in April 2016 and is no longer actively supported. If you purchase, please test it immediately to make sure it runs on your machine and request a refund if not.
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In Tyto Ecology, you have the power to create your own biodome and fill it with life!
Start with an empty biodome as your canvas, then create a rich, diverse ecosystem by balancing producers, consumers, and decomposers. You’re in control as you work to create a functioning ecosystem from the ground up, problem solving to learn life science principles. Tyto Ecology, an ecology simulation game, teaches Next Generation Science Standards to learners in a fun and innovative way!

This is a calm, slow-paced game (at least until things start going wrong) that encourages learning through experimentation as you work to sustain, or destroy, life. Up to a year of time can pass while you are away, so you come back to changes in your ecosystem and potentially several problems to handle each time you return to the game.

Features:
  • Build and create your own self-sustaining ecosystem
  • Over 70 animals and plants to customize your biodomes
  • Use the data tool's map to monitor your ecosystem
  • Earn achievements by completing ecological challenges
  • Sandbox game with hours of replayability
  • Use Photo Mode to capture the perfect moment
  • Educational gameplay that fits with Middle and High School Next Generation Science Standards

About the Ecosystem


Tyto Ecology is not just another building game or something where the player's actions don't have meaning and consequence. In order to master the game, the player is mastering life science principles.

The ecosystem begins with producers, plants that are the basis of each biome, with plants regenerate leaves that are eaten by animals (depending on how healthy they are). The plants have vegetative, flowering, and/or fruiting reproduction cycles, including a need for pollinators in order to successfully pass through the blooming phase, and animals must eat fruit in order for the most possible amount of seeds to germinate and begin. Next come the consumers: herbivores, insectivores, predators, scavengers, and omnivores.

These animals live and breed in territories over time, eating their appropriate food, and in many cases becoming food. Some plants and animals are poisonous or tough (like tortoises), limiting which animals can eat them! In addition to managing all this over many different species, each plant and animal creates detritus over time, and decomposers must be used in order to complete the cycle of life! If detritus builds up, poop, bones, and debris will begin to appear in your ecosystem and the health of everything in it will be reduced.

Windows Requirements

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 or higher (64-bit only)
  • Processor: 4th Generation i3 or higher
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD 5000 or higher
  • Storage: 840 MB available space
Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Mac Requirements

Minimum:
  • OS: 10.11.2+
  • Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
  • Storage: 800 MB available space
Recommended:

    Linux Requirements

    Minimum:
      Recommended:
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        Green Thumb - Desert

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        Gardening is fun! Have you written your name in jointfir clumps yet?

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        Green Thumb - Rainforest

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        Gardening is fun! And important to your biodome. Keep going!

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        Green Thumb - Grassland

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        Gardening is fun! And there should be a lot of grass in the grassland!

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        Circle of Life

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        Animal eats plant, decomposer decomposes animal matter, plant uses decomposed nutrients to grow. Just like rock-paper-scissors.

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        Consumers' Paradise

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        Place five animal territories in your biodome. Try not to let them starve.

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        Babies!

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        Awww, they're so little! The predators will probably like them, too!

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        The What and the Bees?

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        There's something seedy about these fruits...because fruits have seeds!

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        Week Sauce

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        You survived a week. Just 51 more of these and you might have an achievement that's actually impressive.

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        1 Year Anniversary

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        Happy first birthday to your biodome! Enjoy this, because years 2 through 9 won't get you any achievements.

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        Decade

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        Ten whole years of ecology! Think you can make it for fifty?

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        Deer Prudence 1

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        Justify this pun by having a Mule Deer survive to a ripe, old age.

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        Deer Prudence 2

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        Yes, we re-used this pun for the Marsh Deer.

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        Consistent Gardener

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        The flower that blooms best blooms last...then the entire plant dies.

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        Half Centurion

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        Silver anniversary! Now *this* is something to celebrate!

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        Team Tortoise

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        Slow and steady wins the race to maturity! (For Desert Tortoises, anyway.)

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        Everything the Light Touches...

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        Everything the light touches is now yours, even at night!

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        All the Animals - Desert

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        The animals of the desert are all yours to command!

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        Plenty of Plants - Desert

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        You've unlocked every plant in the desert! Is it going to rain soon?

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        All the Animals - Rainforest

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        Release the rainforest creatures! ...Because they're all unlocked!

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        Plenty of Plants - Rainforest

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        You've unlocked all the rainforest plants! Now you can make a real rain*forest*!

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        All the Animals - Grassland

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        From mouse to bison, all grassland animals have been unlocked!

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        Plenty of Plants - Grassland

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        The grassland plants are all unlocked! Can you believe we put three types of grass in here?

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        Can of Decomposers

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        Thanks, earthworms, for keeping detritus from wrecking the biodome!

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        Centurion

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        You've played one-hundred years of Ecology!