A downloadable game for Windows

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Note: Buying Scale Space on itch.io entitles you to a Steam key once Scale Space is put on Steam as well as all future updates!

Highlight features:

  • Emergent Physics Gameplay
  • Sandbox
  • Musical Soundscape

Have you ever looked at a snowflake and wondered: Why does the universe build beautiful things, instead of just being a big, boring mess?

Scale Space is an emergence engine. You are given control over the fundamental constants of reality—energy, chaos, coherence, scale—and tasked with collapsing a sea of chaotic particles into breathtaking, self-organizing structures.

But every answer you create only leads to deeper questions. If you're made of trillions of tiny, vibrating things, why do you feel solid? How can you fit something that goes on forever inside a box?

In Scale Space, you will:

โ€“ JOURNEY across a dimension of scale, from the infinitesimally small to the cosmically vast.

โ€“ MANIPULATE the very laws of physics to guide the formation of complex, emergent patterns.

โ€“ WITNESS the birth of complexity from chaos, creating everything from atomic structures to galactic superclusters.

โ€“ POSE the universe's deepest questions and watch as it answers not in words, but in form.

Is the future already written, or are you the one who decides what happens next? What are the invisible strings that make the whole universe act like one single thing?

The universe is a cloud of "maybe," and you are the collapse.

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To run the game, simply download and unzip- no installation required!

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In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $4.20 USD. You will get access to the following files:

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Development log

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Uh, my ship needs to calm down.  Deadly levels of radiation aren't the end of the world or anything.  Every time I find something cool it's like "Run!  We are dying."

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Haha! Well the tip I'll give you is- it's based on your computer's real entropy so the warnings mean your framerate is dropping. That's why it happens when you find the cool stuff :) Here are some mitigation tricks:

  • Keep your distance from more complex things (imagine that they're hotter)
  • Look away from complex things to give your system a break
  • Zoom back from complex things using mouse scroll or the zoom buttons
  • Use different viewmodes to reduce the load on your computer (for example, some of the glow effects are more taxing so if you turn them off, you can look at more complex things)
  • If you get absolutely stuck in a nightmare, you can click the entropy button and it will send you back to the void where all the parameters reset and your system can reset as well.

I made this feature because when I tested it-turns out everyone who plays the game pushes to the maximum complexity their computer can handle, so this system gives you a way to know how close you are to frame drops. If you want to turn it off- you can control voice and sfx in the top left options!

I love how you gave it a spaceship feel.  It's an extra layer of fun on top of the pretty pictures.  Wonderful!

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wow

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this is gonna be really cool

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New update to check out! :)

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Was bummed I couldn't play, don't know how I missed the demo lol.  Without a sliver of sarcasm, I truly believe it's games like these that drive the medium forward.

Ah that's very kind of you to say, thank you! ๐Ÿ”ฅ Please do report back on your experience playing it!

Will do!