The same as with last week, our lead programmer is currently on vacation, so progress Thrive is limited. But, we will still be providing you with weekly updates on volunteer programming contributions, and things that happen outside of programming.

For Multicellular auto-evo, the scoring is now in a functional state, though there are ve…

As announced last week, our lead programmer is on vacation, so progress on Thrive is slowing down. But, we will still be providing you with weekly updates on volunteer programming contributions, and things that happen outside of programming.

In terms of volunteer contributions it is actually also quiet compared to recently. Item numbe…

Hello everyone, and welcome to another weekly Thrive update! With our lead programmer going taking a well deserved vacation for about 5 weeks, this will be the last one for a while with significant changes actually being added into the game. We are however, still planning to provide you with reports on in-progress volunteer contributions d…

It’s already time for the second major update of the Multicellular Stage! In the last update, we first introduced the Cell Specialization system. This has now been greatly improved upon by refinement of its calculation, expansion of its effects, and the addition of an adjacency bonus for cells of the same type. We also have an entirely new…

Last week we told you that this week would be the last one to add new features before the next release. However, due to a scheduling conflict with when we would then have our release stream (can you guess what the conflict was with?), we decided to delay it by one week. Which happened to be quite convenient since two large features being w…

Despite this work week once again only having 4 days, there is still a significant number of patch notes. In new mechanics, we have the visualization side of the cell adjacency system (the back-end was already included last week). Whenever you have a cell type selected to place somewhere, or are hovering over a cell with the cursor, any ad…

This week was a lot more busy with things changing in the game itself compared to last week. These changes include some very old issues in the game that were finally fixed. Additional changes include the ability to set more fine-grained compound cloud behaviour (at the cost of performance, or alternatively reducing quality to increase perf…