Nicholas, you finally do some weekly updates, and now you give us 2-year-old videos to fill up the content?! WHAT. THE. HELL. Sorry, just a fun throwback.

As you can somewhat tell from the title and the video, today, in this weekly update we will be reviewing the first feature to come to Spess (SpessVR if you will) which was botany. But that's not all, we will also be starting a new topic in these kinds of posts, which is contributor team introductions and overview! It will be basically quick summaries of people who helped develop Spess over the years.


Yeah, I think Botany in Spess is unique and FUN. Basically, the point is to mutate plants and acquire rarer plant "DNA" and new types of plants with specific uses. Here's a very good summary written years ago but it still holds 100% true and is what we followed across the years.

Originally posted by Nicholas (Discord):

Mutation will be dynamic, as opposed to standard TGstations specific mutations. This means mutation can be done from every plant, but there's a considerably high chance for specific plant mutations. For example, a standard tomato may mutate into nearly anything, but it has a very low chance of doing so, however, it does have a considerable chance of mutating to something similar such as bluespace tomato or blood tomato (new breeds of tomato basically)

And here's a flowchart or whatever. For the basics.

Anyways. We will be covering more features next week!


In this section, we will be overviewing Spess contributors one by one every week. First one up, Liam!

Currently works in a VR development company in his home country.

One of the first Spess developers, he helped pioneer non-VR (desktop) mode, created level editor, which led to making all in-game stations player-made and more streamlined. You can find him and everyone else in general at our Discord of course.


Anyways, I don't think anyone will read an article/update larger than this, so I'll STOP.

Make sure to check out our official website to get a gateway to all our other social media: https://spess.space

For any suggestions feel free to start discussion in our Discord as well. ayy.

Welcome to the now weekly update! We will now review game progress & news every week rather than every month! woo!

So, since the current station that we used for development is very tiny, we had a need to design a larger station. This is something that players will be able to do themselves as well in Spess Desktop Mode.

Currently, you can save your map to load it into multiplayer for everyone to play on, we're hoping to bring the map save feature to the Steam workshop as well!

I will post part two next week. But for now, make sure to join our Discord for further discussion!

https://discord.gg/9s6QdEy


[i.imgur.com]Xenobiology at its state is basically botany, but you grow "cute" little alien slime life forms instead of plants. They wander around station, grow different organs and components, and mutate into larger sizes.

They also can rise in population, or overcrowd, causing that CHAOS.

Future plans are even more sinister. Once they grow too big or mutate enough, they will be aggressive towards players or other entities, attempting to eat them, muhaha.

So yeah like that, we will try to announce and properly detail Spess features every week or so.

Make sure to check out all our platforms! Get on our Discord, and also, help fund development at Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/spess