The Great Circle

Factsheet

Description

[PLACEHOLDER]The Great Circle is a survival game set in a Tanzanian wildlife reserve. Players live as one of the reserve’s animals or as one of its people, from park rangers and researchers to poachers and farmers. Animals form families, hold territory, migrate, and get sick, and a player’s choices ripple through the ecosystem. The game is developed by Sentient Solutions LLC for Windows and is coming soon to Steam.

History

[PLACEHOLDER]The Great Circle is the first game from Sentient Solutions LLC, a Florida studio founded by Termaine “TJ” Jenkins, a self-taught developer in Tampa. Public development updates go back to November 2020. The game is self-funded and supported by its Patreon community, with Alpha and Beta testers drawn from its Discord. [TJ: add the founder story you want public.]

Features

[PLACEHOLDER]Drawn from the Steam page and recent devlogs. Items marked “planned” are not in the current build yet. [TJ: confirm this list against the current build.]

• [PLACEHOLDER]Play as an animal or a human in a large, open African wildlife reserve with savanna, grassland, wetland, jungle, mountain, and desert regions.
• [PLACEHOLDER]Every animal has its own name, personality, and stats, and remembers other animals and players by scent.
• [PLACEHOLDER]Family groups and herds, nesting and territory, mating and live births, and migrations driven by how livable each area is.
• [PLACEHOLDER]Weather, natural disasters, and climate change shift where animals can survive.
• [PLACEHOLDER]Every sound in the world comes from a creature you can track down.
• [PLACEHOLDER]The Grid tracks and simulates tens of thousands of creatures, resources, and events across the map, not only near you.
• [PLACEHOLDER]Story Mode as park ranger Jennifer Maia, caught between the park, local villagers, and a gang of poachers, with multiple endings.
• [PLACEHOLDER]Planned: Documentary Mode for recording your own wildlife films.
• [PLACEHOLDER]Planned: multiple save slots, a permadeath Survival mode, and characters that carry over from single-player into co-op.

Videos

Images

• TODO: approved still 1. No file to download.

  Concept art

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  Concept art

• TODO: approved still 3. No file to download.

  Concept art

• TODO: approved still 4. No file to download.

  Concept art

Logo & icon

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Awards & recognition

[PLACEHOLDER]None to list yet.

Credits

[PLACEHOLDER]Termaine “TJ” Jenkins: founder, design, and programming. [TJ: confirm roles and add anyone else who should be credited.]

Contact

[PLACEHOLDER]For press and publishing inquiries, use the contact page. For game questions, email thegreatcirclegame@gmail.com. [TJ: a press email is not available. Email routing and a domain are not set up yet.]

• Contact page
• Discord (opens in a new tab)