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Platform(s): PC
Genre: Simulation
Developer: Dry Licorice
Release Date: 2024/2025

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'Plasma' Is A Robotic Physics Playground, Coming To Steam Early Access In 2023 - Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on Sept. 16, 2022 @ 12:59 a.m. PDT

Plasma is an engineering sandbox game where you unleash your creativity with fun and intuitive robotics, physics, and visual programming tools.

Plasma is a physics-based engineering playground empowering players to create and explore mechanically complex devices using a groundbreaking robotics physics engine and user-friendly visual programming tools.

Plasma is the creation of Patrick Corrieri and Marco Bancale, the creators of Poly Bridge and Kingdom respectively, and places the players in a world where they can build any device they can imagine. Thanks to a state-of-the-art physics engine and user-friendly visual programming tools, players will be able to design complex robots, arcade machines, rampaging spiders, and even whole game worlds, and then share them with the community.

As well as building, players will be able to download and iterate on each other’s projects, easing the initial complexity curve and making it accessible for newbies to pick up. See a cool car and want to know how it works? Grab it, learn what makes it tick, then change it to your liking, and make your own variation.

Plasma creations can be brought to life thanks to a visual programming interface, the Sketch, enabling both beginners and advanced players to experiment, tinker and create unique devices, gizmos and fully-interactive robots and mechanoids. Thanks to the built-in sharing platform anyone can make these available for others to discover, use, learn from and modify.

Alongside the ability to create whatever they can imagine, players will discover a world of challenges and experiences designed by other members of the community. Here, in a tech-toy-like setting, players of all ages will be able to explore and learn the visual programming system step by step, building knowledge over time.

 


Plasma is set to launch through Steam Early Access in 2023 and will make full use of the Steam Workshop capabilities.

“The Early Access version will have all the core gameplay implemented. Workshop integration, World editing, hundreds of components, everything is there to use the game to its full extent. We need the community's input to grow the game in the right direction. Moving forward towards full release, we aim to implement more components, more worlds to explore, more content overall, while polishing the core building experience and fixing any bugs and issues. Once the game is stable and content-complete, we plan on exploring the feasibility of real-time multiplayer.”

“I’m so excited to see my dream game come to life, as an avid physics and robotics enthusiast I am very pleased with what the team has accomplished and I’m really looking forward to seeing what players do with Plasma and how they can help us shape the future of this very ambitious project!” - Patrick Corrieri

“I am very happy that Plasma finally exists. It’s been living in my head as an idea for a long time, but now it’s here and players will be able to play it and contribute to its evolution into something amazing!” - Marco Bancale

Key Features:

  • BUILD: Free-form building with hundreds of components! Scale, rotate, paint, customize every aspect to make the device of your dreams.
  • CONTROL: A user-friendly visual programming tool to control behavior and logic for your devices, with advanced nodes to get anything and everything done.
  • SHARE: Explore the Steam Workshop to discover loads of devices and populated worlds, learn from others and share your own creations for others to enjoy.

Plasma is in development for PC (Steam), scheduled for 2024/2025.


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