This week we discussed about gameplay, we wanted to figure out how Thrive should feel, and that encompasses many issues and areas of the game.
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When we first designed the patch map there was a consensus about not showing an actual map of the world to the players, after all cells don’t know anything about geography. But this idea has been questioned lately, and today we have several concepts to explore this new approach.
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This week has been slower than usual, most work was on small issues and also discussing how to balance gluttonous cells, i.e. big cells with too many organelles.
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Saving is getting fleshed out, there’s a new saving and loading menu accessible from the main menu and the game itself. ATP bars have been improved too, now segments can be hidden and there’s a new palette so they look better.
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Today’s highlight is ATP bars. The original idea behind them is that they showed how much ATP each process produced or consumed so the player had a better idea about their cell’s viability and built better organisms. These new ATP bars match that concept and they even allow you to hide individual segments to see what happens when one or more processes are inactive or to compare different builds.
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Saving is finally working, those donating to Hh’s patreon can download a new dev-build and test this new feature. There have been some changes on the spawn system too so it doesn’t spawn too many cells at once.
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There’s more progress on saving and work on another features. Chemosynthesis, movement and respiration have been buffed so they are now more efficient. And we also have a new auto evo prototype based on some of Tjwhale’s old work.
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As usual, we discussed what new features are going to be in the next release. We want to make a bugfix patch before a bigger update, but we aren’t sure how easy that would be, so for now we can’t tell if that’s going to be released.
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It’s been only two months since we started the last engine change, and today we are proud to announce our newest release: Thrive 0.5.0!
Yes, it only took us two months to rewrite the whole game in Godot. So what does this new release bring and what’s so good about this new engine? Well Godot is user friendly, has a lot of documentation, an active community and no missing important features. In other words, it makes development on Thrive easier, meaning that with this (hopefully) there won’t be any more engine changes.
But what does this mean for players like you? Better performance and compatibility, with this update those with Intel HD Graphics cards will finally be able to play the game without issue. Even better, as long as we don’t need native code, this and future releases should be compatible with Mac!
And of course, this version runs much smoother and without random crashes, so stop waiting and give 0.5.0 a try!
If you use Mac, download the game directly from here, since the launcher is not Mac compatible.
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We are getting closer to the next version, in fact the 0.5.0 public beta is already here! You can download it from this thread and test it. Let us know if you find any bugs or have any issues. We also set May the 16th as a provisional release date, there are a few remaining issues to be fixed, but as you can see Thrive 0.5.0 will be ready soon.
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