Progress Update 6/14/2025

Progress continues at a sedate pace as our full-time developer takes their well-deserved vacation from Thrive. More work from voluntary contributors has been uploaded to our GitHub, with some continued pending balancing tweaks and polishing. Some further discussion on preliminary concepts for future stages, as well as the completion of the Microbe Stage, has continued on the developer forums.

Programming

• No new dev builds for this week as our paid developer is currently on vacation. Volunteer pull requests can be seen on our GitHub.
• Continued work focused on polishing Multicellular mechanics done by dligr.
• Code cleanup work in progress by 0HyperCube.
• Balancing tweaks to preset difficulties, altering settings for a more consistent experience from generation to generation.
• More progress on general balancing tweaks from prior weeks.

Graphics

• Nothing substantial.

Gameplay

• Continued discussion on polishing tweaks for 0.9 and the completion of the Microbe Stage.
• A development forum post discussing potential concepts and direction for the Multicellular Stage.

Sound

• Nothing substantial.

Theory

• Nothing substantial.

Outreach

• Nothing substantial.

Other

• Nothing substantial.