Progress Update 12/30/2023

It's the last Saturday of December, and December fever seems to be on it's way out as development once again begins to pick up. We've had a good amount of discussion on various topics this week, both on the forums and internally as we question the current state of gameplay in Thrive. Unfortunately we do not have much of substance on the programming front to show for it just yet.

• Nothing Substantial

• Nothing Substantial

• Continued discussion on handl…

Progress Update 12/23/2023

It's winter time again, and many of our developers have been dropping off one by one for a much deserved rest and break from Thrive's development, including our lead programmer who is now officially on christmas break. Unfortunately this means there likely won't be any substantial news or progress made in the next two weeks, but certainly for good reason!

We hope everyone has a good one, and happy holidays!

• New DevBuild for our patrons:

  • Implemented fog…

Progress Update 12/16/2023 | Patch 0.6.4.1

Having just released our performance refactor update 0.6.4, we quite quickly became aware of a large amount of bugs and other issues brought up by our players. Thanks to everyone's help and reporting, we were able to track down the source of many of these bugs and patch them up with care.

The resulting patch has just been published today, and should result in a significantly more stable experience for our players. With the bulk of these bugs now dealt with, we should be able to begi…

Devblog #39: A Foundation for Tomorrow

For five entire months straight our developers have worked and toiled to bring about a massive rework in the functionality of Thrive's background processes. A massive undertaking that has left nothing untouched, and everything entirely different. This is without a doubt a fundamental change in the underlying rules of reality in the world of Thrive; A brand new physics engine complete with better performance. Nothing will quite feel the same as it once did, but it's still Thrive, and it …

Progress Update 12/02/2023

This week we are proud to announce the launch of our public release candidate. A stand-alone build that allows the public to test our latest release… before it's official release. Note that this is a bit different from our alpha build release, which was far less stable and undeniably broken.

We have just one more week before the official release of 0.6.4 finally makes it out to public. It's been a long time coming, so keep an eye out for it on the 9th of December.

We are…

Progress Update 11/25/2023

We've been getting a lot done this week with all efforts focused on smoothing out all the kinks and bugs that have resulted from our refactor. The microbe stage is once again in a largely playable state, but there are still many more bugs hiding in the fringes of Thrive. We have already surpassed our original planned release date for this update, and are now entering overtime to get the smoothest release possible.

In order to get things done right, we have decided to call on you…

Progress Update 11/18/2023

This week our lead programmer has called for all hands on deck to assist with hunting down all of the resulting bugs , crashes, and other complicating matters that have come about due to the recent code refactor. With the physics system having pretty much been rebuilt from the ground up, everything that relied on it has fundamentally changed and now requires checking on.

Unfortunately, we do not feel that this version of Thrive will be ready to release until we can successf…

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…

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…

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…