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Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.


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Breed an army of beetles, feed and raise them, then send them into battle!
Beetle Uprising is a combination of real-time tactics gameplay, breeding simulation, and home building. Your mission: conquer the abandoned lot and smite all who stand in your way! Featuring a complex genetics system based on real-world science, your army of beetles can be interbred to bring out the best traits for combat, aesthetics and survivability.


Key features

•   Beetle breeding is built upon a complex genetics simulation, placing the most immense beetle possibilities behind tactical biological decisions.
•   Look after your beetles as if they were your pets. They need food, shelter, company, toys to play with, and cleanliness: every beetle appreciates a well-kept nest.
•   Play through 16 unique real-time-tactics (RTT) style campaign missions with your personal beetle army.
•   Send beetles on dozens of additional solo-missions to gather resources for the home nest.



From the relative safety of your nest, you will breed generations of beetles that will fan out over the treacherous abandoned lot to conquer territory and unearth its riches. Unlock the secrets of your genetic potential through careful pairings of select members of your swarm. Learn new abilities and enhance the performance of your species over generations of offspring. Biting is a dependable attack that no beetle should underestimate, but what if you could spit caustic bile? drain your enemies' vital fluids? or perhaps explode in a wondrous shower of carapace flavored shrapnel! This and more are only a few choice alleles away... should you discover them.

But your domination isn't all biting and slashing. You must rear your beetles and tend to their needs of food, comfort and health. As you conquer new territories, you will retrieve the necessary resources like seeds, berries, and that most prized of delicacies: rotting meat. Send out your beetles to explore new areas, learn of their defenses and treasures. If your chosen champions are up for the task, they may well find rare items to aid the swarm in its rise to power. Perhaps they’ll retrieve a soothing bar of soap, a rubber ball, or even some nutritious brains! Nothing tickles the ganglia like comfort foods.



New beetles joining your ranks will inject fresh DNA into the gene pool. Not only will they unlock new abilities and enhance their foraging and fighting traits, crossbreeding will also reveal rare beetle aesthetics like horns, spikes, ridges, colors, textures and metallic finishes! Each beetle you raise will be uniquely yours, a master of statistics, looks, and stature.

Taking over each territory will require specialized abilities and tactical decision-making as you lead your swarm into battle. Feel the fluid joy of your horde in battle. You don’t push individuals about like puppets, you usher them about as a maestro would lead a symphony building up to a crescendo and crashing them upon your enemies like a tidal wave of destruction.






















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Re: Beetle Uprising : complex genetics simulation + real-time tactics
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2020, 01:22:22 AM »
Beetle Uprising Beginner Tutorial
May 1, 2020




Welcome to Beetle Uprising! This video will get you started in your mission to conquer the abandoned lot. It goes over the basic mechanics, such as keeping your beetle family happy and sending them out to fight! Once you're done with this, if you like to delve a little deeper into the complex genetics aspect of the game, check out the video below:

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Re: Beetle Uprising : complex genetics simulation + real-time tactics
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2020, 01:23:46 AM »
Beetle Uprising Advanced Breeding Tutorial
May 1, 2020




Beetle Uprising features complex breeding with a genetics system very much inspired by how things work in the real world. This tutorial video delves quite deeply into the way you can combine beetle attributes with their dominant and recessive traits to get the best out of your colony! It can be a bit daunting at first, but don't worry if it doesn't all sink in first time - the system is designed so that only a basic understanding of it can still produce great results. Make sure you've watched the beginner tutorial first.

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Re: Beetle Uprising : complex genetics simulation + real-time tactics
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2020, 02:27:22 AM »
Behind the Scenes of Beetle Uprising: Egg Editor
Thu, July 16, 2020

Developer David shows some insight into the processes needed to make the BU genetics system

We thought we'd share some behind-the-scenes stuff from the development of Beetle Uprising, as we approach the full release!



Here's a screenshot of David's egg editor. He built a custom Unity Inspector to label genes and give himself drop downs to tweak the genes given out with a particular egg. In Beetle Uprising, most of your best beetles will come from generations of cross-breeding, but every so often you’ll need to add fresh genetics to the gene pool which come from beetle eggs.

In this shot, We’re looking at the "Best Stats" egg. It shows part of the visual genes, and a bit of the attack type genes. Here, different genes control morph targets in the beetle 3D model (such as making spikes or width or legs different sizes). Similar genes control the custom shader which gives you visuals such as color, iridescence, stripes, or masks. Once a beetle is hatched, its properties are fixed. If you want a different look or ability, you'll need to breed or acquire new eggs from missions.

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Re: Beetle Uprising : complex genetics simulation + real-time tactics
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2020, 11:31:17 PM »
Behind the Scenes of Beetle Uprising: The Nest
Wed, 9 September 2020



A little behind-the-scenes look at what makes the underground nest hub tick from an engine perspective.

TIme for another quick behind-the-scenes look at Beetle Uprising!



This is a screenshot of the nest. It shows a small navigable area near the exit. Over time, as you level up, the nest gets bigger - this is done by removing the rocks around the border (some are highlighted here).

They are set up to block navigation dynamically, so once they are disabled and disappear from the scene, the floor underneath opens up for use by the beetles and for placing objects. We adjusted things so the navigable area is a little ways from the walls and you don't see Beetles penetrating them, although very large beetles are big enough that sometimes their legs might stick through as they turn around in a corner.

As the expansion rocks are removed new nest lighting is activated, so the floor beneath them looks cheerful and safe. You can also see 4 big rectangular patches of "fence" around the nest so a player cannot click outside and drive Beetles crazy trying to navigate somewhere impossible, or place a tasty snack out of reach.

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Re: Beetle Uprising : complex genetics simulation + real-time tactics
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2020, 01:29:21 AM »
Beetle Uprising - Releasing 5th November!
Sat, 10 October 2020



Beetle Uprising is leaving early access on the 5th November 2020! The campaign is finished, Mystery Mode added!

Beetle Uprising has a release date! Breed more beetles, juice the bad ones! Take over the Abandoned Lot and avenge the matriarch on 5th November 2020, when we'll be leaving early access. As well as the full set of levels, the full release introduces Mystery Mode, with random rewards to add a little twist to proceedings.




Keep an eye our the Beetle Uprising social media - Facebook and Twitter - for more information as we approach this date!

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Re: Beetle Uprising : complex genetics simulation + real-time tactics
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2020, 01:49:57 AM »
Beetle Uprising Released!
Thu, 5 November 2020



Beetle Uprising has left early access and is now a full release. Thank you for getting us to this point!

We're finally here! Beetle Uprising has now left early access and is available as a full game on Steam. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported this project through its development; the game is now feature complete and the Abandoned Lot is 100% ready to be conquered!

There has been an optional beta to test some of the final additions running recently; thanks to everyone who has played this and given us feedback.




As well as the completion of the campaign levels, a new feature - Mystery Mode - has been added. This gives random rewards instead of set ones in the campaign, which could lead to some interesting beetle abilities and stats earlier on! We look forward to seeing what you get.

The publishers, Slug Disco, have been doing some streams of the game lately and they'll be doing a special stream as part of the release at 6.30pm UK time (1.30pm US Central) on YouTube. That'll be streamed on the Slug Disco channel:

https://www.youtube.com/SlugDisco


So, there you have it. Your Abandoned Lot is infested with ants, spiders and beetles not borne of the Matriarch. Claim what is rightfully yours by breeding the best beetles in Beetle Uprising!

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Re: Beetle Uprising : complex genetics simulation + real-time tactics
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2021, 12:42:23 AM »
Easy Mode Just Released
Tue, 16 February 2021



We are pleased to announce we have just released a new mode for Beetle Uprising - Easy Mode!

In Easy Mode you will find the following key features:

•   Reduction in happiness penalties.
•   Breeding is biased toward the stronger parental allele.
•   Beetles with blue star genetics are now highlighted in all modes.


In practice what this means is that there will be less of a grind needed to get those killer beetles that can dominate the harder levels and enemies in the game.

That's not to say you will be able to get three stars in all levels straight away as the game is balanced for re-playability - what it does mean is that you shouldn't struggle to complete the levels even to a 1-star standard.
 
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Re: Beetle Uprising : complex genetics simulation + real-time tactics
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2021, 11:36:03 PM »
Beetle Uprising Livestream | Ep. 1 - Beetle Menace




Streamed live on Apr 14, 2021

Join Liam as he tries to take back the lot and avenge the beetle matriarch!


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