Progress Update 12/24/2022
With holiday spirit rapidly ramping up, development of Thrive has ground to a near halt this week. Despite that, we've still got a few PRs lined up and ready to test and merge when possible. Unfortunately there will not be a devbuild this week as we haven't merged any changes, but that just means that the next can only be bigger!
Come next week, development aught to pick up again, but until then we wish everyone good tidings and a wonderfully happy holidays!
- There is no de…
Progress Update 12/17/2022
It's been a week now since we released our latest update 0.6.0, and we were very happy to see how excited everyone was for the new features. If you have your own things to share with us about your experience, please tell us in our feedback thread.
With 0.6.0 wrapped up, we have now set our sights on 0.6.1, currently slated to release in February.
New DevBuild for our patrons:
Removed “%” suffix from compounds in patch details
Switched …
Devblog #35: Dawn of the Living Fossils
Today we are proud to present the final update within the year of 2022; Thrive 0.6.0! Twilight now falls on the seas of Thrive, and the normally dominant autotrophs now face their greatest enemy… It is always darkest before dawn with the beautiful addition of the day/night cycle! Found a species you love and want to remember forever? Immortalize it with the all new fossilization tool included in the long awaited Thriveopedia, future home of all things informational. These and more, in T…
Read More →Progress Update 12/03/2022
This week we made a lot of progress in the development of 0.6.0 with a final big push of changes. We are happy to say that we've successfully pushed the day/night cycle, as well as many bug fixes. Note that we did not have time to implement tutorials or other accessory features for the day/night cycle, so you will need to enable it in settings to play with it.
With the feature freeze now in place, we have created a public release-candidate for testing purposes. If you decide to …
Read More →Progress Update 11/26/2022
Development continues as we march on to the eventual release of 0.6.0, which grows increasingly exciting with each new change and addition! it may be fortunate news or not, but we have decided to push the release date of 0.6.0 forward by a week to give us more time to finish up some of the heftier features such as the day/night cycle which as been giving us some unexpected trouble. We really hope to have these done by release, but cannot make any promises.
0.6.0 is now slated to rel…
Read More →Progress Update 11/19/2022
This week, development efforts have largely been centered around the continued testing and refinement of our day/night feature which has proven to be deceptively complicated to implement. The feature is not yet ready for the devbuild, but we hope to at least have it complete in time for the next release.
While probably not as exciting to most fans, progress continues on our upcoming revamped launcher which should substantially streamline user experience and process handling.
Progress Update 11/12/2022
The fruits of our labor finally emerge this week, with the now complete thriveopedia system fully operational and an exciting new video introduction for the game. Make sure to turn on intro videos if you have them disabled!
The Thriveopedia currently features the clade diagram, savefile statistics, and the fossilization menu used to marvel at species you have saved. In the future, it may also contain helpful articles providing in-depth information on certain features and functions o…
Read More →Progress Update 11/05/2022
We have made some exciting progress this week, with the introduction of a new game intro, conceptualization of a new macroscopic editor design, and excellent progress on many of the open pull requests left over from the previous update.
Unfortunately not much made it into the devbuild for this week, but that leaves plenty to look forward to next Saturday!
- New DevBuild for our patrons:
- Changed scene change mod callback to trigger slightly earlier
- Updated some c…
Progress Update 10/29/2022
This week we have begun to see a rise in activity as we are able to make some progress on some of our open PRs and the new and improved launcher. There may not be too much in the way of visible progress this week, but it's progress nonetheless!
- New DevBuild for our patrons:
- Added some guards against dividing compound amounts by zero this should hopefully reduce how often the NaN compounds bug happens
- Updated translations
- Narotiza has created a new fos…
Progress Update 10/22/2022
Not much progress to report this week, outside of a couple changes detailed in the programming section below. On the bright side, our developers are beginning to report back in so development can be expected to pick up a little in the coming weeks.
In other news, we've recently been featured in a blog-post by github in an article on how open-source games are providing a unique approach to the culture of game development! The article contains quotes from an interview between the …
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