I got a lot of inspiration for the design from every Valve game ever.
Also, you can notice that the Thrive logo in the upper right corner is empty, that’s because I wanted to create some sort of a “badge” saying “your civ tamed technology”, but I was not satisfied with the execution of my design.
But the idea went something like
this
Okay so this is the WIP menu screen animation that could maybe get into the game? I don’t know, it looks pretty nice right now, the lights are a bit bright but that’s because I could only make a quick render.
That’s a very short but effective alphabet. Won’t the words get very long after some time though, since there are only so many different combinations before you would have to add more letters?
If every word were four letters, there would be 4 to the power of 4 combos for words, minus the ones that start or end with ba or start with zoo.
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Oh. That totally makes sense now.
Machine.
Not bio. At all.
Just made to harvest gel.
Might have some bio actually to produce gel…
Maybe biomechanical.
They made it though.
Not all details are known, it was just a concept.