Progress Update 11/11/2023
Great progress has been reached in the refactoring efforts, and we were finally comfortable enough with the refactor to merge the changes into Thrive proper. There is still a lot to be done however, and while the game is in a playable state again, there is still a great deal of polish and reimplementation that needs to occur.
Some major features such as the ability to save, and microbe colonies are still unconverted and do not function. And there may be a new wave of bugs and crashe…
Read More →Progress Update 11/04/2023
Regrettably we do not have any new features to show off this week, nor a BOTD for our patreons. Rest assured we are still making great progress with the now-merged refactoring changes to Thrive! We are no longer having significant issues with our Windows build, and are making good progress with the reimplementation of essential features post-refactoring.
The current great hurdle our programming lead is facing is setting up our native library tools, which has been causing them no sma…
Read More →Progress Update 10/28/2023
We have an exciting new expansion to the Thriveopedia; The organelle pages! This category will avail players with everything they need to know about each individual cell component. Pages will include basic details on the part's function, guides and strategies on how to make good use of them, and even summaries of their real-life counterparts and how they really work!
The refactor effort is still going strong this week, now with functional updated collision shapes for our microbes. T…
Read More →Progress Update 10/21/2023
The refactor saga continues, now with a mostly functional microbe stage running with the newly rewritten physics processes. It's still very much rough around the edges, but good progress has been made, and we are confident that the refactor will be done before the end of the year.
In other news, we will now have the option to play the early multicellular stage in freebuild mode. You'll finally be building the biggest baddest clump of cells in the pond, while vibing to the new biome-…
Read More →Progress Update 10/14/2023
The microbe stage refactoring to improve the game performance is starting to near the finish line now. A pull request has been finally opened for it with the hope being that it can be merged in the coming weeks. After that once we have the game stable enough already to play, we'll announce the release date for 0.6.4.
The Thriveopedia is getting more content added to it soon. This next set of content includes pages describing the various organelles in the game. Along with other a…
Read More →Progress Update 10/07/2023
This has been another productive week for our programming team, with a fresh host of bugfixes and UI improvements bringing further stability to Thrive. Not only is our beloved microbe stage going to run so much more smoothly, but the early multicellular stage will finally be fairly stable as well.
The refactor is still ongoing, but our lead programmer has made great progress converting a majority of the microbe code to the new system. Once done, the early multicellular stage will ne…
Read More →Progress Update 09/30/2023
This week we continue to receive a wide range of additions and fixes courtesy of our programming team. Among those are some infamous crashes in the multicellular editor, making for a far more stable experience! We also now have a functional search bar in our Thriveopedia, in case you couldn't find one of the four entries.
The refactor is still going strong, albeit slowly, as our lead programmer was moving locations, and is also bogged down by checking on the large volume of incoming…
Read More →Progress Update 09/23/2023
We've had a flurry of activity throughout this week, with returning developers and new faces alike coming together to push forward a great amount of progress. Looks like our next release will be seeing improved UI, less crashes, more part customization, and an overhaul to the physics and autoevo performance.
Naturally, this is happening at a time where we are in middle of a significant code refactor. So despite the exciting changes being made, it's actually beginning to push our nex…
Read More →Progress Update 09/16/2023
We've had a burst of activity this week due to the sudden contributions of some unaffiliated programmers, so we are happy to say we've got a nice devbuild for this week as a result.
Unfortunately, the resulting onslaught of PRs that needed testing and approval ended up slowing down our work on the physics integration. We are lacking in dedicated playtesters and reviewers, so the task falls upon the shoulders of our programming team. Nonetheless, we've still made some headway.
Progress Update 09/09/2023
New feature development continued this week for 0.6.4 with the new feature of allowing chemoreceptors to be customized to detect cells. This will allow some interesting gameplay options like finding prey or predators that might be a threat to the player.
The performance related microbe stage reworking is still ongoing. Hopefully it won't be too long before this work is complete enough that we can share what kind of performance to expect with the changes and when we are able to finis…
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