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…
Progress Update 9/12/2020
There have been many new Pull requests lately, we also released two new devbuilds during this week, one featuring the new Resource gathering tutorial and another with the new microbe editor UI. Both available for our patrons as usual.
There were more new devs on the team too, and we kept discussing about the new features proposed a few weeks ago.
- Rewriting the options menu
- Made auto saves happen after transitions
- Fixed a bug related to loading saves while in the ed…
Progress Update 9/5/2020
We are starting to work on a tutorial. Just like in older versions, once again there will be a tutorial for those new to the game. If you are a patron, you can already test it for yourself. Also a lot of new developers joined us this week, mainly composers and programmers.
Last week's discussions continued, we've refined the concepts we had while taking into account the feedback the community gave us in our latest survey. You can read these discussions in the links down below. And l…
Read More →Progress Update 8/29/2020
There was a lot of discussion on the forums. Several new features were proposed, most notably, unlocking new organelles, proteins and enzymes randomly instead of having them all available from the start. Since this is a big change and we are still debating about it, we also made a thread on the community forums where you can vote on these decisions.
We added a few new functionalities to the saves menu and also made reproduction bars light up independently so you know for good wh…
Read More →Progress Update 8/22/2020
There's a new devbuild available for our patrons. It includes the changes listed in the previous progress update and a few new things, like balances to the spawn system and marine snow and UI improvements.
NicktheNick, who you may remember from his Auto-Evo algorithm , came back to the project. After he catches up with development, he said he'll continue working on his algortihm, so look forward to that in the following weeks!
- New reset button for the settings menu
Progress Update 8/15/2020
One of the main issues that came after the godot port was resource spawning, often leaving the player in barren environments. Obviously that needs to be fixed, and that's what we've worked on this week.
If you are a patron, you can test these new changes by downloading the latest devbuild. We also worked on improving cell physics so collisions between them match their shape. Progress on marching squares continues, it's now implemented in Godot so membranes should be using this n…
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