Progress Update 8/13/2022
The development team has gone through some organization efforts this week, with the goal of creating a more comprehensive experience for new and old volunteers alike. We will now be holding monthly team meetings to catch up and communicate with the team and their projects, as well as updating documentation and guidelines on the development process. These efforts will streamline the developer experience with Thrive, and make for a more coordinated team.
Of course, these changes are n…
Read More →Progress Update 8/06/2022
This week we've been focused on discussing the future of the microbe stage going forward, what changes need to be made to finish it up, and how to resolve some of the gaping holes in our designs for later stages. That's not to say we haven't gotten any tangible work done of course!
The autoevo exploration tool is now implemented in our latest devbuild for use and perusal. This revolutionary tool will allow you to put the magnifying glass up to autoevo and see exactly what it's been …
Read More →Progress Update 7/30/2022
This week has seen more small updates and bugfixes, along with discussion of some more serious changes to the player experience. With a growing consensus that Microbe Stage is in the later stages of development, these features will need to fight for a place on our feature backlog.
One of our ideas is beyond the Microbe Stage: bringing Thrive to Mac. Doing this will have a cost in time and money, so we will only take the plunge if there's enough demand. If you're an Apple use…
Read More →Progress Update 7/23/2022
It's been a week since the release of 0.5.9, and we are stoked to see all of the feedback, creations, stories, and ideas that players have been providing. It makes us happy to see everyone having fun with the revamped microbe stage, but there is yet more to be done. After our big rush to wrap up the previous update, direct development has since slowed down. Instead, everyone has found themselves at the drawing board coming up with the latest plans and concepts for our next update.
Read More →Devblog #33: A Whole New World
Three months since our last release, we’re back with another Thrive update. Thrive 0.5.9 heralds the arrival of a large slate of game-changing features, many of which have long been stuck on our to-do pile. From procedural patch maps to 3D editors, cilia to thermoplasts: read on to learn more about these new additions.
As always, to get the newest version, either download the free launcher below, or purchase Thrive on Steam or Itch.io to support the game’s development.
Read More →Progress Update 7/09/2022
This week we focused almost all efforts on finishing up the remainder of in-progress features for the release 0.5.9. Can't wait for our release next week? Excellent! We are proud to announce our release candidate for community members to download, test, and find any final bugs. We've added a lot of big new features in release, and we would appreciate any many people as we can hunting for anything we might have missed.
- New DevBuild for our patrons:
- Reworked the…
Progress Update 7/02/2022
This week we have focused most of our efforts into wrapping up the big features of 0.5.9, which we hope to have done before the feature freeze likely coming next week. All that remains is the engulfment rework and the procedural patchmap, which are very close to completion.
Should we not be able to get the procedural patch-map done in time for release, we might have to delay the release by one more week or two in order to finish it. Else, we would have to break save compatibility in…
Read More →Progress Update 6/25/2022
This week we've made great progress on 0.5.9, with the merging of new-game settings and difficulty options. We've also included some new graphics and performance settings to give players more control over their framerate in the game. This combined with the addition of cilia, a reworked spawn system, in-game art gallery, improved MP calculation, and engulfment revamp is going to make for an impressive release on the 16th of July!
- New DevBuild for our patrons:
- Added…
Progress Update 6/18/2022
This week we got a lot of smaller programming issues and features done. We also made progress towards the late multicellular prototype and new engulfing mechanics.
- New DevBuild for our patrons:
- Reworked spawn system to have many more cells in the game at once making the game feel less empty and tweaked cloud spawning.
- Editor button available tutorial now uses the GUI element highlighting to make really sure the player notices the button
- Species naming is n…
Progress Update 6/11/2022
This week our graphic artists have provided us with a new host of exciting assets to feast our eyes on, while our programmers remain hard at work on the biggest features coming to 0.5.9. It's shaping up to become a sizable release, and we can't wait to see it come to fruition.
- New DevBuild for our patrons:
- Fixed remaining cases where the new auto-evo islands fixing code could get permanently stuck
- Refactored our game screen fade manager and tweaked the fades
