Maia v0.48u4 (Simulation) [2015] - Steam Early Access

Title: Maia
Genre: Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Developer: Simon Roth

v0.48u4• MSAAx4 and MSAAx8 support in the menu. If your GPU is hefty enough to run antialiasing you can now benefit from the extra clarity and detail in the graphics. • Text effects are now also tweakable in the menu. If you had problems reading the text before due to the scan lines or glitching, you will be able to adjust them to your needs. • Long planned optimisations to the renderer. For some people they may see as much as a 30% increase in performance and also less lighting tile errors. • Balancing for colourblindness. Several colours have been tweaked and information adjusted to make the game more playable. • Fire and fire damage added. • Space suits can become charred and damaged over time. • More placement information, you will get a visual and text warning if interaction points of an object are blocked when in placement mode. If all interaction points are blocked, the object will not be buildable. • Interaction point holograms are brighter and more obvious, change colour when blocked. • Several unbuildable objects now fixed. • Colonists will no longer get stuck placing a flag. • Colonists will no longer eat chickens to extinction. • Colonists wearing suits will no longer spin on the spot in the airlock. • Game config.xml reworked, holds more settings data. Less likely to get corrupted, can rebuild properly if a corruption is detected. • Picking game res at startup will pick the desktop res instead of the highest capable res of your monitor. • Heat haze glitchyness fixed. • Game rendering/lighting optimised, many shader bugs fixed. • Reflections optimised. • A new email tab. See all your emails, queue them up, right click to dismiss them. • Email system's first email is now a quick intro to using it. • Emails for deaths, research notifications and other major events. • More email variation. New important information may be mentioned by colonists. • Sleep is more effective at reducing fatigue. • Flywheel system's model changed for easier reading of the lights. • Several tweaked models and textures on items like the worklight. • Critical AI bugs fixed. AI will now never ignore blueprints. • IMPs will prioritize minerals better. • The protobirds are now a bit more likely to kill chickens. • Colonist lander capsules now work better. No more map glitching and multiple colonists can come down. • Colonist lander UI is now never hidden, but is greyed out and a timer provided. • New UI fixes and improvements. • Loads of new music. Really really awesome synth ambient tracks that will make your spine tingle. • Brand new comprehensive tutorial to get new users up and running with the game much faster. • Toilets are no longer death traps. • Flags have stopped exploding. • Level generation is now deterministic so the tutorial will always be on a good world. • 30+ major critical or crash bugs fixed. • Glitching on older Nvidia hardware fixed. 

Maia is space colony building simulator from independent developer Simon Roth. Guide your colonists as they make planetfall on a hostile alien world and do your best to ensure their survival and safety.
Your Mission

Keep your colonists alive by constructing their off-world habitat from the planets crust and sheltering them from a dangerous and often deadly environment. Your task is to gain a foothold on this strange alien world, building facilities where your colonists can live and work, as well as researching the secrets the planet holds.
Build your Base

To keep your colonists alive, you will need to build rooms for specific tasks. Your colonists need a living area, livestock containment and research lab, among other kinds of rooms. To expand your base further, you can use your IMP Robots to clear out areas of the cave your colonists have chosen to inhabit. The detailed simulation of temperature and atmosphere within the base influence the colonists and their actions.
An Enormous Procedurally-Generated World

Twelve light years from earth, the planet 3452C[Maia] circles Tau Ceti. Its atmosphere is toxic, its surface is ravaged by solar flares and meteor blasts and its unstable crust is constantly shifted by earthquakes. Nevertheless, it is habitable and there is room for you to build your base. The world is currently up to 2km x 2km with multiple levels.
Research and Learn from the Planet to Survive

The hard science fiction featured in the game is based on real technology. Because a lot of the equipment is ocassionally reliable 1970s-style technology, the colonists must also spend their time fixing and upgrading items as they build the base. The creatures that inhabit Maia are also based on real world research.
Dangerous Atmosphere

Manage the atmosphere in your colony with carefully placed airlocks, doors and bulkheads. Keep the air flowing or face the horror of painful asphxiation.
Advanced Colonists AI

Your colonists are real people. Simulated right down to their wants and needs. You must try to keep them happy, and perhaps more importantly, sane.
IMP Robots

Let the IMP robots do all the digging for you. Use these robots to clear out areas so you can build more rooms.
Treacherous Weather Patterns

Maia isn't safe. The weather alone can be deadly. The meteor strikes, seismic activity and solar flares can become risks to your colonists and their equipment.
Genetically Engineered Super Chickens

To survive, your colonists will need to create and manage new sources of food. Introducing the genetically engineered super chicken, the Uberhuhn. With research you will be also able to harness the local fauna and flora to keep the rations stocked.
Custom Engine

Maia's game engine is custom-made by Simon Roth. Exclusively used in Maia, the custom engine has stunning graphics and visual effects.