Terraglass Lets Players Build a Bottled World and Explore It as a Bird or Crab
The desktop-window mode, where the bottle sits in a corner of the screen and its world keeps running while you work elsewhere, is the part that separates this from other sandbox builders.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
Teacup Worlds is developing Terraglass, a sandbox game for PC via Steam in which players build a small world inside a glass bottle. Players pour sand, soil, stones, and water to shape terrain, and water erodes the ground and can change river courses over time. Lava cools into rock and rain puts out fires. Players add creatures, place houses and trees, control villagers directly, and explore the result from first-person and third-person views.
Terraglass is in development at Teacup Worlds for PC on Steam. The release date is undecided, and English is the only supported language for now. Players pour in sand and water to shape the terrain, and the simulation carries on by itself: water runs downhill, cuts into the ground, and can reroute a river, while lava cools into rock and rain extinguishes grass fires. Creatures such as fish and crabs live inside the bottle, with butterflies out by day and fireflies at night. The bottle can sit in a corner of the desktop at an adjustable size and position, and time passes inside it while other applications are in use.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Denfaminicogamer 「ガラス瓶」の中に自分だけの小さな世界を作るゲーム『Terraglass』が面白そう。鳥やカニになって作った世界を探索することも可能