Another week with incredible progress! Thermosynthesis is now fully implemented, adding a fascinating new layer to energy generation. Organisms must move between hot and cold areas, harnessing energy only when temperature rises.
We also made several adjustments to the UI, refining layouts and improving clarity to ensure a smoother experience. New icons and bars have been added to better visualize new mechanics and ATP balances.
Programming
- New DevBuild for our patrons:
- Thermosynthesis is now finally fully implemented. The feature now requires moving between local hot and cold areas to generate energy only when the cell’s temperature is going up.
- Improved microbe AI to be able to use the feature to enter engulf mode even if out of ATP
- Added lysosome effects to auto-evo and made auto-evo able to evolve them
- Added radiotrophy miche to auto-evo
- Added knowledge of radiation to the microbe AI, both for energy gain and for running away from damage
- Updated various icons to be SVG files to no longer be blurry at high resolutions
- Fixed sprint strain bar continuing to go up when engulfed
- Halved radioactive chunk spawn rate to get some initial balancing in
- Removed extra data calculations from auto-evo energy balance calculations
- Updated Harmony library
- Added a new translation: Japanese. Only a little bit of the game has been translated yet so please help out if you can.
- DevBuild: removed a save upgrade step that wasn’t really able to make older saves work well enough with new features
- Steam: updated the wording on our thanks for buying the game message to avoid negative undertones. The thanks popup also now defaults to being permanently dismissed after clicking OK once.
- Updated translations
Graphics
- New UI elements
Gameplay
- Thermosynthesis is now finally fully implemented!
Sound
- Nothing Substantial
Theory
- Nothing Substantial
Outreach
- We are glad to announce that the art contest has come to the end and we received 13 great submissions!
Now it’s time to choose the winner! Feel free to vote on community forums or on our discord server.
Other
- Nothing Substantial
