Our programmer untrustedlife has been working hard on a prototype that models the microbial ecosystem. At this point, it's basic, but beautiful to watch in action. From a few original microbes in a resource-rich environment grow dozens of strains and hundreds of individuals that compete over resources that are continuously being depleted as they try to maximize their own progeny.
All of this is occurring in a real-time fluid dynamics simulation where the environment is continuously turbulent and nutrients and cells are sent on diverging paths through the liquid environment.
We're very proud of this prototype, and believe it's an excellent way to investigate the ecology of microbe stage. We plan on implementing more varied bacteria, introducing genetic mutations, and making it easier to see which strains are different from others in the future.
Controls are simple- Once you've gained a flagella through endocytosis (soon to be changed to mutation), you can move your cell by clicking and holding LMB on the location you want to move to. However, the current is quite strong, and you'll have to plan your route carefully in order to get where you want. To speed up time, press F1, and to kill your own cell, press F3.
We hope you'll enjoy this and gain insight into the deeper-level environment simulation we plan to include in Thrive.
Once again, thank you for your support
~sciocont, Revolutionary Games Team Lead
Very nice! Though I don't understand what is represented on the screen and what it means to gameplay^^ Is there a detailed explanation somewhere?
The screen contains cells like yours- you control the green one, and the bacteria in the ecosystem around it. Some bacteria have a chance of being engulfed by your cell and becoming mitochondria (endocytosis), others can be engulfed and become flagella, which allows your cell to move around.
Cool, thanks!
Neat. There should be an option to control the strength of flow.
While it is a good concept, and a nice prototype for a promising game, it's a bit difficult. Maybe smoothen it out a bit for the less skilled?
Any specific suggestions to bring that about?
How about a Tutorial window, so people know what to do?
A bit more control over your cell, a somewhat slower decreasing life bar, and a faster route to flagella.
Those all sound like good suggestions. We'll give them to our programmer to help improve it. However, remember that these are only meant to test gameplay mechanics, and the real polishing up is for the main game.
Suddenly, the project looks alive again. How great!
I have high hopes for this game, I'll give it all my support!
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Hey umm can someone who works on this game just guess the full game? im guessing 2014 march the 8th
I mean when the full game will be realesed
Clicking the button in Rapidshare does not work. Other downloads on the same site are working, just not yours.
I concur, hitting the download button comes up with a "File not found" error. It's a shame, I'd like to try this out. :-/
Thanks for bringing that up. We'll check with our programmer to fix the issue.
Still down(File not found) xD cant wait to test this prototype
:D used yalls cell editor, that was dang good work.
To anyone with a copy- could you upload it and post a mirror link or something?
Yeah, if anyone has a copy it would be nice to post it on fileswap or something as a mirror
The download doesn't work :(
Yeah...
I hope these guys fix it.
Damn still not fixed.
What bothers me about this is that you've decided to host it on RapidShare, which requires an account to use - an account that I don't have, and don't plan on getting just to download a simple prototype. No offence, but who's idea was it to put the file on RapidShare? Because that was a pretty lame move. PLEASE refrain from doing it again.
Made a RapidShare account to get the download but um, no way to download it, in fact it don't even show up. Common guys its been a couple of months now.
I Cant Get It It Is On A Thing You Sine Up For And I Don't Have An Account On It sad Face
download link still broken!
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Download STILL broken, do you guys even read these comments?
I really hope this isn't an example of the support we can expect for Thrive when it's finished, because frankly, this is unacceptable. The prototype is hosted on a site that you need an account for to access, which is a very VERY bad move, the download link within said site itself is broken which is TERRIBLE, and eight months later NONE of those problems have been addressed or even acknowledged. I'm disappointed, Revolutionary, I expected more from a non-profit developer.
Plz rehost it on mediafire or somthing