Quite a lot of noticeable progress this week! Several new patch events were added to mix up compound levels across many patches at a time. Auto-evo now recognises upgrades to toxin organelles, making Thrive significantly more toxic. Thermosynthesis now produces glucose to make it significantly less frustrating to use (This slipped into the…

Welcome all to Thrive 0.9.0! Characterized by improvements to visuals, the environment, and gameplay polish, Thrive has begun its rapid race towards the completion of the Microbe Stage with some significant headway. Read more about these changes in the text below, including details about terrain, current visual overhauls, metabolis…

Visible progress has been quite slow this week as our lead programmer is continuing to focus on reworking the saving system, which is something we need to do before moving onto further stages as it is a core part of the game architecture. Other work ha…

Further work on background systems, such as fixing saving, is paired with progress on numerous exciting features this week. Most notably, progress on terrain, some graphics effects, and work on auto-evo. Work on these features will likely continue through this upcoming week, along with continuous balancing improvements.

To ensure that …

We have a quite a few more tangible improvements for you this week! With some of the major overhauls out of the way last week, there was more time for the fun stuff. Of course, by tangible I mean Thrive’s terrain system. Some of the new terrain chunks you’ve seen over the past few weeks are now spawning in patches, and in the future be…