Progress Update 05/04/2024

With the latest release bringing Godot 4 to the public, we've been hard at work hunting down all of the resultant bugs we have successfully located. Progress has been going great, and we are hoping to release a hotfix soon enough!

Once we have the hotfix patch out of the way, development of the roadmap features will continue.

Programming

• New DevBuild for our patrons:

  • Fixed organelle models looking bad in Godot 4

  • Did some minor organelle visuals tweaks

  • Fixed win and extinction screens

  • Organelle placement sound is now only played if a placement action was done (fixes it being played for organelle removal)

  • Fixed various GUI popup related problems in the later prototypes

  • Redid modal manager connect and check operation to hopefully fix one case of signal connection errors printed in Godot 4

  • Added extra error handling to Thriveopedia load and save load against scene load failures which seems like a randomly occurring bug in Godot 4 engine itself

  • Added extra safety checks around native library load and printing of current CPU name if it is not detected as sufficient for running Thrive

  • CI builds work again so each commit has a build again now

  • Updated our automated code checks to work on Windows again

  • Removed trailing spaces in shaders that Godot did automatically

  • Added game export flag to ignore problems with installed Godot to just try to export anyway

  • Updated Nix flake to use Godot 4.2.2

  • Updated xunit from 2.7.1 to 2.8.0

  • Updated translations

Graphics

• Water currents in Thrive are currently being prototyped with visual effects! This is a vital step in eventually implementing player interaction with currents.

Gameplay

• Nothing Substantial

Sound

• Nothing Substantial

Theory

• Nothing Substantial

Outreach

• Nothing Substantial

Other

• Please welcome our newest programmers, Tales and Hexapod!