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Thrive: Progress Update 9/20/2025

Some important progress has been made, though this week’s dev build isn’t as feature-rich as prior weeks. Perhaps most immediately noticeable to gameplay – species you target for endosymbiosis are now much less likely to go extinct, making the unique unlock mechanic much more viable. Some work on the graphics side of things, including impr…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-09-20 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 9/13/2025

A solid week for the development team has passed! First, some progress on performance improvements, including a tweak to the cache system which should hopefully minimize the stuttering issues which would plague some players after they spawn. Additional progress has been made on the ECS switch, with our lead programmer reporting a relativel…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-09-13 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 09/06/2025

Our MP calculation system is now much more polished! This will particularly show when it comes to our tolerance sliders. Some sizable volunteer contributions can also be seen on our GitHub, with numerous changes to metabolism coming. Other highlights this week include discussions on difficulty and the 3D world generator.

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-09-06 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 08/30/2025

A sizeable amount of progress has been made the past week, with some refinements to the planet editor, greater polishing across multiple features, and some graphics improvements. Players should now be able to create more varied experiences on their planet, and should find mechanics to be a lot more consistent across the Microbe Stage and M…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-08-30 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 08/23/2025

First week after the release of 0.8.3, and most of the standard post-release procedures, as well as tweaks, are occurring. Along with developer forum discussions, some decent work is occurring behind the scenes, which can be accessed on our dev build.

  • New build of the day
    • Made hydrogen sulfide decay speed up with the pre…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-08-23 | Comment

Thrive: Devblog #48: Planet Achievements

Have you ever wanted to customize an alien planet? Do you yearn for the glory of making a microbial lifeform unlock an achievement? Does reading about balancing force you to the edge of your seat? If you answered yes to any of the above, then look no further: Thrive 0.8.3 is here!

As always the update is available for free with…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-08-16 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 8/09/2025

Next week sees the release of a new version of Thrive, which will hopefully prove to be a rather enjoyable update to our community. As has been so with other releases, there is a 0.8.3 release candidate available for players to download and play. We would appreciate any and all feedback on several features – balancing has received some…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-08-09 | Comment

Rigs of Rods 2025.08 Release Candidate 2 Released (Unsupported)

Today we are releasing Rigs of Rods 2025.08 Release Candidate 2. This release is a follow up to the previous release candidate.

This is pre-release software. It is not officially supported.
Use at your own risk.

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-08-05 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 8/02/2025

A decent amount of progress has been made this week, with a good amount of progress on achievements and the implementation of the first settings related to planet customization. Though customization options for the planet generator are somewhat limited – partially due to it being a first implementation, and partially related to the simpler…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-08-02 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 7/26/2025

This week’s devbuild is less dense than usual, but a solid amount of work has occurred behind the scenes. The framework towards achievements is being established, though we are waiting on some graphics work to decorate them. Some solid work has also been done on the basic planet customization options, though a sizable amount of playtesting…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-07-26 | Comment

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