Progress Update 11/21/2020
Since our announcement last week many people have helped with translations during the last days. Thanks to everyone who took their time to help us! There's still work to be done, you can still help with translations by registering here.
We also improved the in game text so everything can be translatable, and fixed some bugs. The discussion about a new ATP system continues, now with a new thread (all previous discussion only happened on discord). With this we may be on track for …
Read More →Progress Update 11/14/2020
We are working on translations! This week we added a new translation system into the game and we are accepting community translations, so if you want to help us translate the game, you can register here. We released a dev-build for patrons featuring this system, translations can be accessed via the options menu.
We also discussed about ATP depletion and how it could feel better. Some propose to make a stamina-like bar, others to scale consumption the longer you use ATP, but we d…
Read More →Progress Update 11/7/2020
More work on binding agents. We are still discussing how to implement them in game and also how to code them, as it turns out, making this new feature is not an easy task so we need a proper plan to make it work.
And with all these changes we need people to test them, that's why we are asking for game testers! If you are interested read about it here. We want people that have experience testing games and also breaking them not just people who want to play the game. Speaking of w…
Read More →Progress Update 10/31/2020
We made a change to cell walls. Now they don't allow engulfing, which is to be expected since they are hard rigid structures that cover cells completely. We added this change to a new dev Build so, if you support us on Patreon, you can try it and tell us what you think about this new feature.
In addition to that, we also made some changes to saving and kept discussing about protein unlocking and how binding agents would work.
New BOTD featuring, among other things
Progress Update 10/24/2020
Binding agents are being discussed. We are figuring out how would they work and their appearance. Once that's dealt with we can start our journey towards the Multicellular stage!
And since that stage is going to be in 3D we may need cells to have three dimensions so the transition is smoother. This is just a concept, and it's not the first time we talked about this. We'll see how this develops in the coming weeks.
- The hover panel no longer displays tiny amounts of compound…
Progress Update 10/17/2020
Time to discuss the future of Thrive again. As you know, we had the 0.5.2 release last week and as always we discussed what is going to be included in the next release.
Last time we talked about binding agents and we want to work on them again in this version. Other new features include improving saving, improving balance, more work on the spawn system and working on the procedural patch map, among other things.
We couldn't have a trailer for the new version ready on time, s…
Read More →Devblog #26: Learning the basics
We bring you a new release, Thrive 0.5.2! What's new? Well, for the first time in years tutorials are back! At last, we have an easy way to teach new players the basics of this game. Another big feature is the new interfaces, we remade the Editor, Patch map and Report screen UIs to finally match the rest of the game.
You can download the launcher below to get the newest version, and read on for more information.
So, let's see what's in this new release. You can read th…
Read More →Progress Update 10/3/2020
A new release is on the horizon. We just published the 0.5.2 release candidate, so please tell us what you think and if you find any bugs!
The official release will be in one week. As usual, we'll talk more in depth about this new version in a devblog and what are our plans for the future of Thrive.
- New 0.5.2 release candidate
- F1 now opens the help menu
- Fixed autosave happening when loading saves and entering the microbe stage
- Added flashing and a sound…
Progress Update 9/26/2020
The new Editor UI is finished! Matching the main game UI just like in the original concept. You can try it yourself if you are a devbuild supporter on our Patreon. We are also working on a new auto-evo prototype which is also available for testing for patrons.
Next thing to update would be the patch report and we already started changing its UI a bit. Another thing we updated was… well the whole game, Godot 3.2.3 was released, so we also updated the game to use this new vers…
Read More →Progress Update 9/19/2020
We've talked about changing the microbe stage soundtrack for a while now. Most of these songs are years old and some members of the community think that they need a rework or that we need new tracks. We are still discussing about this so no decisions so far are final, but you can expect to see more discussion about this in the coming weeks.
There's more progress on the tutorial. You can download and try the new editor tutorial at our patreon, as always.
- Finished the ed…
