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-…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Progress Update 09/02/2023

It's a brand new month, and progress continues to be made behind the scenes with the physics integration. Microbe movement has been reintroduced in the performance benchmark, and it currently shows a 100 fps increase compared to the normal performance at the same benchmark stage. Note that this result isn't final as the changes are still ongoing.

It's important to mention that until the integration is done, many features our volunteers contribute will immediately be subject to chang…

Progress Update 08/26/2023

The physics simulation integration continues as the primary focus, which should ultimately result in significant decreases in processing time related to physics handling. Our programming lead reports a roughly 20-50% faster processing rate for what has been integrated so far, which is very encouraging. Unfortunately this means there's not much else to report this week aside from another change to our AI.

• New DevBuild for our patrons:

  • The AI will now usu…

Progress Update 08/19/2023

This week we've had a bit of progress behind the scenes as our programming lead focuses on the performance refactor, which should hopefully free up enough resources to make for a more stable gameplay. Analysis on the state of AI is ongoing to determine what needs to be improved, so you may notice AI related github tasks begin to emerge.

And finally, a returning programmer has taken the time to put together a video explaining Thrive's autoevo and related matters! More on that below.