Hello everybody!
We’ve talked before about how in Humankind, you can create your own avatar and share it with your friends, so they can play against you even when you’re not around to join them for a multiplayer session. Today, we want to tell you about a cool way for those of you who play on Stadia to share even more of your journey through history with your friends, with a simple click of a button.
The Leave Your Mark feature of Humankind on Google Stadia will keep a record of your great deeds and achievements, and by following a link, your friends can play on the same map as you and compete against your score, while experiencing new content based on your history!
Check out all the details about Leave Your Mark and some other Stadia specific features below:
- HUMANKIND has been created with support for State Share, Stadia’s platform feature that allows players to save their game state and share their exact gameplay experience with friends at the click of a link. State Share is different in every game - within HUMANKIND, it’s known as Leave Your Mark. This feature enables players to record key events in their game - memories events, challenges that provide Fame, and Archeology Sites - and imprint them onto the world for friends to compete against. Can your friends reach the same fame and glory within your unique world seed that you achieved?
- While playing a single-player game, HUMANKIND records the key events of your journey to generate Narrative Events that will embellish the game for players that replay your game with State Share. HUMANKIND calls this feature Leave Your Mark
- Leave Your Mark consists of three categories of content that can be recorded by the game state creator for other players to compete against and engage with when they replay your game:
- Memories Events - These mark significant accomplishments by the game state creator during the game.
- Challenges - These are great actions by the game state creator that will generate additional challenges for players to attempt, rewarding Fame if accomplished in time.
- Archeology Sites - The map records the remains of civilizations and humanity left behind by the game state creator. Discovering these sites triggers bonuses and special Narrative Events.
- General info:
- Leave Your Mark cannot be activated for multiplayer games.
- Leave Your Mark is not available on other platforms, only Stadia by way of its State Share technology.
- When a player completes the final turn of a game with Leave Your Mark content, they'll see a dedicated screen that tallies their results against those of the original game state creator. The player can then decide to stop the game at that point, or continue playing.
- Direct Touch is a new Stadia feature supported by HUMANKIND that lets you interact directly with a game using your mobile phone touch screen. Instead of using an on-screen gamepad overlay, Direct Touch allows players to control the game by tapping, sliding, and pinching the screen with your fingers to directly play the game. You’ll be prompted to enable Direct Touch when you launch HUMANKIND on Stadia via your Android mobile device without a linked controller. (iOS support will be provided later.)
We hope you're excited to share your histories with your friends!
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