Lifecraft System Requirements

1. Through evolution you will be able to slowly become a more advanced organism which will have to deal with all the benefits and drawbacks of it: you will need more energy, more complex resources and you will have to manage more high level processes (eg.

2. Evolve: evolution will let the player discover new elements of gameplay which will make the organism more complex but able to become larger and larger! Starting from circulation and leading to brain and neurons.

3. Grow: you start as a small organism and soon you will need to expand to make room for more structures and access better and novel resources in the outside broth.

4. Think: at some point the organism could want to automate management of the subsystems through finer regulations, that’s where neurons come into play: with sensors and logic you would be able to set specific rules which will make behavior of the organism automatic.

5. Digest: at the beginning of the game, simple resources will be necessary but later in the game you will need to digest complex resources (food) into basic elements, you will need teeth, stomach and intestine.

6. Heal: what happens if the organism gets wounded? It will need to heal, possibly through hemostasis to stop bleeding, and then through regeneration of tissue.

7. Burn: energy is a crucial aspect of the game, you will be able to produce ATP, which can be considered energy stored in a battery, through glycolysis and even mitochondrial respiration! Energy will be used to power building both inside the cell and outside the cell.

8. Breathe: most of the energy used by a living organism is produced by cellular respiration which requires oxygen and produces carbon dioxide.

9. digestion, circulation) to survive: you’ll become a fully fledged organism composed by many subsystems which must cooperate in a perfect balance.

10. Lifecraft is a survival game in which you start from a simple cell, striving to survive by assimilating resources from a sort of primordial broth.

11. Survive: a working organism requires some parameters to be stable in their correct ranges, this is called homeostasis.