Progress Update 9/19/2021
This past week we have continued our ceaseless efforts to hunt down every living bug hiding in Thrive, as well as contemplating methods for improving the present gameplay experience. Many of our developers are currently tied up in school and such however, so progress is still noticeably slower.
- New Devbuilds for our patrons:
- Added credits to the game
- Auto-evo can no longer add a second nucleus to a species
- Auto-evo now takes floating chunks as a food sourc…
Progress Update 9/11/2021
With school starting this month, development of Thrive has seen a bit of slow down this week as many of our developers now find themselves busy with the resulting schoolwork. Rest assured, development shall continue as always.
Our donation campaign has now ended. We are thankful for those of you who have donated, and intend to give back by developing Thrive to be the best it can be.
Those who have donated sufficient amounts will have their provided aliases listed in Thrive's cre…
Read More →Progress Update 9/4/2021
This week we have been busy viciously hunting down any bug we find in our continuous efforts in keeping Thrive clean and healthy. But that's not all we have been up to; We have recently been playing around with turning physics in hopes of providing more engaging gameplay overall.
We would also like to remind everyone that this upcoming week is the last week of our donation campaign, where donators who contribute at least 20€ (23.60$) will have their name included in our game credits…
Read More →Progress Update 8/28/2021
We hope that everyone has been enjoying the latest release of Thrive so far! With 0.5.5 now let loose, we are pleased to find that binding agents are indeed much more stable and enjoyable, save for a couple of reported bugs that we hope to have fixed by the next update.
Speaking of which, 0.5.6 is currently looking to be another large bugfix release as we continue to chisel away at our extensive backlog of bugs and other issues. Of course, that doesn't mean we can't find some way to…
Read More →Devblog #29: Shining Cell Colonies
This month's update brings some long awaited bug fixes to our favorite cell collecting feature, binding agents, to provide a much more enjoyable and stable cell colony experience. In addition this release will allow you to carry over your old cells from the previous version, allowing you to continue where you left off without starting anew. Keep yourself alert, because our upgraded autoevo algorithm will ensure that rival species will be much more adaptable and capable to better compete with…
Read More →Progress Update 8/16/2021
A bit delayed progress update this week, well for last week at this point. Our usual progress update person is taking another break and the person who stepped up to make this progress update was busy, so now a third person is doing this progress update (Hi, it's me, hhyyrylainen).
We are closing in on 0.5.5 release, as we want to get that release out, while our donation campaign is still ongoing. As such we released a release candidate last Saturday. You can find that here. N…
Read More →Progress Update 8/7/2021
The new ice particle model is almost done, there's also a new devbuild for our patrons, its main feature being a new option that allows users to select the audio output device. And we have a new Solar system generator prototype.
New devbuild for patrons:
Added an option in the options menu to select the audio output device
Fixed automatic code checks ignoring many files they shouldn't
Fixed a typo in setup instructions
Added a he…
Progress Update 7/31/2021
As usual there's a new devbuild this week fixing some issues with the help menu and the UI, introducing new light values for biomes and fixing some crashes among other things. This week we also discussed about improving the evolution system and how oxygen would affect cells.
- New devbuild for patrons
- Fixed the uneven text amounts in the help menu columns
- Changed help menu over to using the new bbcode syntax so now it shows active keybindings and compound icons
Progress Update 7/24/2021
Another devbuild for our patrons was released this week. In it there are fixes for some crashes, improvements like making npc cells move right after spawning and making the ambience tracks replay instead of only alternating between them. The new radiation sound effect is being worked on, it will increase intensity and change as the player gets near radioactive objects.
- New devbuild for Patrons:
- ESC can no longer be unbound as getting it back in a keybinding is not…
Progress Update 7/17/2021
We are now accepting donations! If you want to contribute to Thrive now there's a new option besides Patreon. We are also adding a new Contributor License Agreement, which will be necessary to publish Thrive on Steam. Now the game will continue to be free and open source but these are new options for those who want to give us monetary support.
Speaking of which, hhyyrylainen can now officially work as a part time developer for thrive thanks to your contributions to our Patre…
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