Thrive v0.3.2 Now Available news

DOWNLOAD: Github.com

READ FULL DEVBLOG: Revolutionarygamesstudio.com

Finally, the awaited end-of-summer release is here! It's a couple months after the beta that was released back in March, but we managed to squish in a bunch of new features since then and fix 12 game breaking bugs, some of which were here since pre-0.2.3. That means you should have very smooth gameplay with relatively few crashes compared to the old versions. But don't forget to save often (I spent over a week fixing that functionality)!

In this release:

• Compound Clouds! Enjoy the fluid compounds as they drift through the currents instead of the ancient, discrete particle emitters
• Continued Linux Support—Ubuntu, Arch, and Fedora should all work
• Colored Organelles—organelle materials are now tinted to be the same color as the membranes
• Damage Indicator—the membrane and all organelles now flash red when you take damage
• Process System—no longer spend hours trying to get 5 reproductase to reproduce only to have your cell get rid of it once vacuole storage are full!
• Engulfment Indicator—the membrane flashes blue when you engulf another cell (or another cell engulfs you)
• New biomes—whenever you die, you will be randomly placed into one of 5 new biomes. Discover them all!
• Endosymbiosis—engulf free-floating chloroplasts and toxin vacuoles repeatedly until you manage to assimilate them and use them for yourself
• Gameplay Tuning—less MP in the editor, better steering, less ATP consumed, and others...
• A bunch of bug fixes—most importantly, the save/load button actually works this time, and won't crash the game on you!

Controls:

• Point mouse to turn
• WASD to move around
• Mouse scroll wheel (or +/- keys) to zoom
• E to release toxins (if you have any)
• G to engulf other cells (you must be bigger in size)
• ESC to bring up menu.
• F2 to switch between microbe stage and microbe editor
• F4 to save your current gamestate
• F10 to load your previous saved gamestate
• F12 to save a name-change
• Symmetry button between undo and redo in editor

Devblog:

Click here to read a more in-depth devblog about this release. It talks about everything we've been working on, as well as other unrelated stuff.

Videos:

This time, we have both a release trailer and a play through video. The former shows off the various new features, while the later goes into an in-depth discussion of how to play the game.

Have fun Thriving!