How should the Thrive community celebrate the release of game stages?

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

Are there any plans for a special celebration or event to commemorate the release of 1.0.0.0? Should similar events be held for the release of other stages of Thrive being completed?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Maybe the thrivestream for that release will be special in some way?

[hhyyrylainen]

That would not be a community celebration at all… rather it would be one by the developers.

(I’m replying to aah)

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

If the multiplayer prototype that was develop a long time ago did make it, perhaps we could’ve organized an event in the game itself, but oh well that isn’t happening.

[DeepSix (He who overuses footnotes)]

Linking to the 0.4.0 hype thread for reference.

0.4.0 hYPe thReAD!

In light of the recent Devblog, I thought I might make a fun little thing where we all get excited about the upcoming release. I’ll add a new image to the countdown each day. You meanwhile can post questions or memes or general hype for what we have in store. This thread won’t be too heavily moderated, so (within reason) go nuts. After all, it’s only… [5]

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Did 0.5.0 have something similar?

[DeepSix (He who overuses footnotes)]

No, it hadn’t. The hype surrounding 0.4.0 was largely because its release came more than a year and a half^[1] after 0.3.4. The devblog before 0.4.0’s release even said:

W_e’re not dead_.

We’re back. And things are about to get exciting.

Reading the devblog made me want to read the others before it written by the ancient ones.

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1. 6 June 2017 → 21 Dec 2018 ↩︎

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Well we can’t say “We’re back” for 1.0.0 so instead maybe we should say “We have proven the haters false” or something, since they always say Thrive hasn’t even finished microbe stage after so many years of development (despite that not really being a valid argument).

[Rathalos]

@aah31415

“We have proven the haters false”

I would strongly recommend not going with a negative, oppositional statement as a slogan. I don’t think that fits with what Thrive wants to be.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Yeah. Maybe something like “we finally did it!” (but worded better of course) would work?

[hhyyrylainen]

Why is this thread constantly drifting into what us developers should do for 1.0.0 rather than how the community should celebrate?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I mean, I think most “release celebrations” are already dev-centric celebrations so that’s where this might be coming from.
For a community celebrations, since this it microbe stage becoming “complete”, perhaps some kind of competition for an in-game microbe species that’d then be voted on by the community to… choose it as the “mascot” of the microbe stage perhaps?

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

Could we do some sort of collaborative event with Thrive YouTubers?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

We’ll need to reach out to them first.

[Animalia (Matti)]

Submit fanart of multicellular creatures?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I think that would be for when we are done with multicellular and not microbe…

[Animalia (Matti)]

True. Maybe the community can submit microbial art instead.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Yeah that seems like a good solution. Maybe it would finally be an another art contest too?

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

@aah31415

Maybe it would finally be an another art contest too?

On the developer’s forum, Build-Up to 1.0.0.0 - Meta, Deus post this meme:

Makes me wonder if we should have another meme contest along with the art contest?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I suppose so, the last “serious” one was so long ago afterall…