Progress Update 6/04/2022
This week we've had a little slow-down as many of our developers find themselves wrapped up in the affairs of life and education. Despite that we still make steady progress, and a few fun things to show off.
- New DevBuild for our patrons:
- Fixed toxins not firing in the cell facing direction, instead they fired in the direction the cell wanted to point at
- Pressing space in the microbe stage now pauses or resumes the game
- Updated translations
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Progress Update 5/28/2022
This week was another split between building out further prototypes for future stages, and continuing to flesh out the microbe stage. We don't have any screenshots to show just yet, but rest assured that the macroscopic prototype (the 3D second half of multicellular) is currently under development.
Back in the tidepool, we have a lot of quality of life improvements to the gameplay of microbe stage, including some balance tweaking on the brand new cilia organelle! Finally, we've been…
Read More →Progress Update 5/21/2022
Much of our work for this week has been involved in various WIP features, such as an in-game concept art gallery and changes to the auto-evo algorithm. Don't worry though because we still have a good amount of finished additions to show off such as variable turning speed, eukaryotic damage reduction, and the new cilia part!
As your cell gets bigger, it will turn more slowly. As of now the only solution to this is to manage your size, or evolve the newly implemented ci…
Progress Update 5/14/2022
We had a decent amount of progress this week with many of our WIP features like the patch map generation and engulfment, which we are very excited to see completed. We've also had an exciting amount of assets created this week, which are shown off below. These additions are looking to make for an exciting update in the future of Thrive!
We regret to say that saves are going to be incompatible between 0.5.8 and 0.5.9 and will not carry over. The features we are implementing will chan…
Read More →Progress Update 05/07/2022
This week we focused out efforts on fixing alot of the issues found in the latest release, as well as continued progress on the patch-map systems, and testing out various ways to grant benefits to cell size.
we have re-released 0.5.8.1 as there was a problem where the crash reporter didn't correctly generate crash callstacks, making the reports almost completely useless. To rectify this a tweak was made to our Godot build scripts and new builds of 0.5.8.1 were released everywhere th…
Read More →Progress Update 04/30/2022 | Patch 0.5.8.1
Update 0.5.8.1 is now out, and introduces a good amount of performance improvements, among other things. We hope that this significantly improves the enjoyability of Thrive, and look forward to hearing any feedback on the changes.
This week we focused on performance, and the causes behind it. We eventually discovered that the spawn system was spawning entities far faster than they could be despawned which resulted in a massive hit to performance as time went on, such is why later ge…
Read More →Progress Update 04/23/2022
Ever since the release of 0.5.8 last week, we have been having a blast seeing all the cool creations players have made in the multicellular prototype. We've been getting a large amount of feedback as well, which has helped tremendously in identifying some difficulties with game performance that we have since pursued. Next week, we hope to create a patch to address some of the performance issues that players have reported, and maybe some other changes that didn't quite make it into 0.5.8…
Read More →Devblog #32: Making History
Thrive version 0.5.8 is finally here; And with it comes the versatile signaling agents, which allow you to actively communicate with your allied cells; New randomly generated region names, which gives each world a new and unique flair; The highly anticipated multicellular prototype, which permits you to progress further than ever in the grand journey of Thrive; And of course, a grand host of other changes and bug-fixes!
You can download the launcher below to get the newest version, and r…
Read More →Progress Update 04/09/2022
This week our team exploded in activity as new and old developers alike were invigorated by recent developments, which resulted in a great amount of progress made. The fruits of our labor will officially release on the 16th, but you may also experience these newest changes now by downloading our newly available release candidate build.
- New DevBuild for our patrons:
- Various fixes to the early multicellular prototype, cell layouts now show up right
- Patch nam…
Progress Update 04/02/2022
This week we've finally produced a playable build for the multicellular prototype which currently features cell type specialization and gameplay. This is a monumental step in Thrive's development, but there are yet many more steps on the long road of progress that await us. This prototype will be packaged with the 0.5.8 update, which also includes the new signaling agents part and a large host of other changes.
0.5.8 is currently scheduled to release on the 16th of this month.
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