Progress Update 04/05/2025
This week we focused more on fixing what we have already rather than going full speed ahead on new features. We added a new stage loading screen which should help with graphics loading related stutters during gameplay. Now the game will take an extra second to load all needed graphics and shaders before going to the microbe stage. Besides that, most changes this week were further small improvements to the tutorials or fixing small GUI size problems or typos.
In other, Thrive-related news, we have redone our main website (where you are reading this update)! This has been a really long-time in the making with the previous software not really being updatable without fixing a bunch of stuff so we instead swapped technologies entirely. There are still various parts of the new site that needs improving and some fixes, but hopefully everyone is able to read this new update post. Also sorry for breaking the news feed in-game, at the latest that will be fixed in the next release but we might do something earlier than that.
Programming
- New DevBuild for our patrons:
- Added a loading screen for stages during which graphics are loaded and shaders compiled to reduce stuttering during gameplay
- Added an auto-save the first time the editor becomes available
- Fixed sizing of some tutorials
- Further improved wording of some tutorials
- Fixed a typo in the auto-evo explanation popup
- Fixed wording in toxin tooltips claiming they use oxygen by default
- Fixed light level bar sizing in the editor
- Fixed at noon light level label not using rounding
- Fixed damage on touch system trying to deal 0 chunk damage
- Improved multicellular growth code to not use a method for iterating that required extra memory each time
- Updated translations
Graphics
- Nothing Substantial
Gameplay
Sound
- Nothing Substantial
Theory
- Nothing Substantial
Outreach
- Nothing Substantial
Other
- Nothing Substantial
