It's available for users with the operating system Windows XP and previous versions, and you can get it in English. The game version is 2016 and the latest update happened on 1/04/2017. Since the game has been added to our selection of programs and apps in 2016, it has achieved 7 downloads, and last week it had 1 download. From a purely Apple perspective, the Mac OS has its roots in an earlier Apple computer, the Lisa. The Lisa was a revolutionary computer that was the one of the first to sport a. In vascular plants, the root is the organ of a plant that typically lies below the surface of the soil. Roots can also be aerial or aerating, that is growing up above the ground or especially above water. Furthermore, a stem normally occurring below ground is not exceptional either (see rhizome). Therefore, the root is best defined as the non-leaf, non-nodes bearing parts of the plant's body.
Indie developers are the ones striving for new ideas and exciting gameplay concepts nowadays, given the fact that most big studios prefer to concentrate on their long-running franchises instead. On the other hand, gamers are always looking for new ideas as well, because it can get quite boring to play with the same toys over and over again, even if the stories and the settings are different.
Like roots in the soil is a simple adventure game that’s more of a walking simulator than anything else, in which your only input is to move the camera around to get a different perspective of the characters. Although it actually sounds very boring, the developers have managed to make the experience extremely engaging, as well as very atmospheric.
In short, there are two characters following the same path through a city, except that they do it at different times. Hence, one of them is in a relatively normal town, while the other is in a destroyed version of it, probably post-apocalyptic. By simply moving the mouse around you can get glimpses of both versions in real-time, which is a very neat technical gimmick.
There doesn’t seem to be any dialog or actual missions to undertake, but the atmosphere is definitely engaging. You can read some interesting quotations along the way, as well as try to understand more about the characters, but the main focus is on the atmosphere as a whole. Hence, seeing the destroyed city and watching the two characters stroll through their own version of reality.
As mentioned before, the graphics are not revolutionary from a technical point of view, but the level design is very nicely done, and the colors are engaging as well. Furthermore, the soundtrack playing in the background helps a lot with the atmosphere, especially if you are a fan of the ambient genre. As far as the controls are concerned, the mouse look is as straightforward as it gets, so there are no issues in this regard either.
All in all, Like roots in the soil is more of a tech demo at this point, especially since it features only a few minutes of gameplay. However, the idea could evolve into a proper game with enough effort from the developers, and we can only hope they do so in the future.
aeroponics: a technique for growing plants without soil or sunlight in which the roots of the plant are suspended in the air and misted periodically with nutrient-rich water and light is provided by specialized grow lights
aquaponics: a technique for growing plants without soil or sunlight in which the roots of the plant are suspended in water and waste products of fish and bacteria living in the water provide nutrients for the plants; light is provided by specialized grow lights
carbon dioxide: A gas consisting of one carbon atom bonded to two oxygen atoms; the byproduct of cellular respiration in animal cells and combustion of organic materials essential to the process of photosynthesis in plant cells (carbon dioxide is also a greenhouse gas)
hydroponics: a technique for growing plants without soil or sunlight in which the roots of the plants are suspended in nutrient-rich water and light is provided by specialized grow lights
photosynthesis: the process by which plants convert carbon dioxide, water, and light energy into sugars and oxygen in order to store energy; the opposite of cell respiration
stomata: small openings in the leaves and stems of plants which can open and close to exchange oxygen and water vapor for carbon dioxide
transpiration: the process by which plants release water vapor back into the atmosphere through their stomata
water cycle: an earth system where water is cycled from the oceans to the atmosphere via evaporation, then it is cycled to the soil via precipitation, and back to the ocean via runoff or when transpiration takes place as plants absorb liquid water from the soil and then release it into the atmosphere via transpiration