Progress Update 04/13/2024

Progress continues in the endeavor to switch to Godot 4, with a healthy amount of bugs having been squashed since last week. Unfortunately there are still roughly 20 issues deemed high priority, but hopes are that they will be handled sometime between now and next week in time for the release candidate.

For those interested in assisting us in the hunt for bugs, you can play our Tech Test build available for download here.

• New DevBuild for our patrons:

Progress Update 04/06/2024

This week we've finally reached a substantial milestone in our upgrade to Godot 4! All known lock-up issues have been prevented, and a few UI bugs have been rectified. The only remaining glaring issue is the presence of a crash upon closing the game, which seems to be related to keybinding somehow.

Since we are likely to have missed some more bugs during development, we are once again asking the community for assistance in locating any emergent bugs that have arisen from this massiv…

Progress Update 03/30/2024

This week we have been able to effectively tackle much of the game breaking bugs that arose from the switcxh to Godot 4, once again making for a playable Thrive. Unfortunately we are still struggling with a mysterious lock-up issue, the cause of which has yet to be discovered. We may actually have to find some outside help for this one from Godot developers if possible.

Once the lock-up issue is dealt with, we are hoping to release a public alpha test to help make sure we've caught …

Progress Update 03/23/2024

Progress continues on the massive undertaking of upgrading to Godot 4, and we have since advanced far enough to begin making devbuilds once again. Unfortunately the game is very much in an unstable state at this time as Godot has dramatically changed much of how it functions as opposed to our prior version. So expect much in the way of bugs, visual oddities, and general instability for the time being.

For the coming w…

Progress Update 03/16/2024

Development has remained focused on the change to Godot 4, with exceptional results thus far. Unfortunately, we once again have little else to show off beyond the programming side.

For those interested in tracking the current progress of this undertaking, you can do so by viewing our github project.

• Developmental work has been all but focused on transitioning to Godot 4. As such, we unfortunately do not have a devbuild for this week.

• Nothing Substantial

Progress Update 03/09/2024

We're a week into the godot 4 conversion now, and having dedicated our efforts on this task, we have unfortunately left little to visually show for our efforts. The font was broken and must be redone in every dialogue, pretty much every texture no longer imported correctly, and the GUI scaling decided it no longer wanted to play by the rules.

The conversion has undoubtedly been a chaotic endeavor, but good progress has been made. Hopefully this is the last time we need to totally re…

Progress Update 03/02/2024

It's been a week now since our release of 0.6.5, and aside from a few niche issues that should now be fixed in the latest devbuild, everything seems to be running smoothly.

With the release out of the way, development has since moved on to the conversion of Thrive to Godot 4, which is quite the undertaking. This change is unlikely to result in any palpable differences on the player side of things, but should loosen up some of the constraints that we have felt with the older versions…

Devblog #40: Unlocking Potential

Another few months, another Thrive update full of game-changing new features and improvements! Headline features of Thrive 0.6.5 include organelle unlocking mechanics and fog of war for the patch map, adding more elements of progression to our evolving gameplay loop, together with further performance enhancements on top of those made by the rework last release.

Read on for more details, or visit the download page linked below to get the new version. As always, the update is avai…

Progress Update 02/17/2024

We now have a release candidate available for the upcoming release of 0.6.5 this week. This upcoming update brings a couple of impactful features relating to player progression such as the new fog of war that obscures the map until the player explores, and the unlocking system for new parts as the player plays the game. These are accompanied by some changes to thread-handling in an effort to increase game performance, and a large amount of miscellaneous bugfixes.

If you would like t…

Progress Update 02/10/2024

Not much to write home about this week, as there hasn't been any significant development on new features aside from work on the sprinting prototype. Much of the focus this week has been on improving the multithreading system of Thrive in pursuit of better and more efficient performance. The science behind this is pretty complex, but it should hopefully further improve performance for those with enough available threads to support the system.

• New DevBuild for our patro…