Ambitious Survival Game “Eco” Kickstarter Launches Today

The Kickstarter for Eco launches today at 9am Pacific.

Link to the campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1037798999/633699603?token=7ec97781

Eco is a survival game where it’s not just the players that must survive, but the world itself.

  • Collaborate to build a civilization, developing technology to stop a meteor collision.
  • All resources come from a simulated ecosystem, with thousands of plants and animals simulating 24/7.
  • Everything you do affects the ecosystem, and players can destroy their food supply and world (server-wide permadeath)
  • Create a player-run government to make decisions as a group, proposing and voting on laws
  • Use data gathered from the world to make decisions. Debate with scientific argumentation.
  • Create a player-run economy that allows you to sell not only good but services in the form of server-enforced contracts (simulating a player driven quest system).
  • PvP takes the form of capturing criminals who break player created laws, suffering punishments defined by the law.
  • Your food level determines your skill-increase rate, making food very important and tying players directly to the ecosystem from which it comes.
  • A game with goals higher than entertainment, we plan to also get it in schools and are creating teacher-tools that allow them to participate and guide students in this world.

Source: Press Release