It’s a brand new year, and development has been picking up once again to bring along fresh new features and bugfixes. Better yet, our paid employee is now off winter vacation and will be returning to development, meaning you can look forward to a steady pace of development here on.
There’s still a little bit of work to be done fixing the post ECS-refactor issues that arose from the previous update, but once that is done and out of the way, you can look forward to some updates to our game launcher. In addition, we’ve got some hands on the long awaited unlocking mechanic as well.
Here’s to a great start of the year!
Programming
- Thrive now uses .Net 8.
- New DevBuild for our patrons:
- Added middle mouse button for panning to the list of rebindable keys
- Added new setting to control the number of native executor threads(affects physics performance)
- Reduced density of big iron chunks to make them pushable by cells again
- Fixed regression in entering engulf mode in a colony where other members could engulf but the player couldn’t
- Fixed toxin projectile visuals not loading properly from saves
- Fixed saving not working in the editor if a save made in the editor was loaded and the stage was not entered in between
- Fixed the metrics panel entity counts not making much sense with the ECS changes
- Middle mouse button can now be used to pan in the society stage
- Late multicellular speed now depends on the amount of myofibril metaballs
- Added some extra safety checks to task executor based on one recent crash report
- Wrote an overall Thrive ECS architecture describing document
- Implemented dependent entity delete for future use in Thrive
- Updated our scripts to run on .NET 8
- Updated translations
Graphics
- Nothing Substantial
Gameplay
- Easteregg ideas
- Continued discussion on gameplay
- Refined thoughts on combat in Thrive’s cell stage.
- Further discussion on the matters of multicellular scale.
Sound
- Nothing Substantial
Theory
- Nothing Substantial
Outreach
- Nothing Substantial
Other
- Nothing Substantial
