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…

Progress this week is once again less on the visible side, but nonetheless critical for future development! Thrive was converted to Godot 4.5, in a process that took slightly more time than expected. This also required the upgrading of the Thrive Launcher to version 2.2.1, future builds will not work with older versions of the launcher. Th…

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…

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…