Level Editor similar to that of Spore's Galactic Adventures Adventure Editor

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@Aluminium

The premise is simple; a level editor simply is not yet implemented within the game right away after release, but then comes as a major paid update later on after a year or two after the main Thrive game is released, because the developers deserve it after such hard work. It’s definitely a lot of hard work, but with enough developers focusing on the next major paid update, teamwork is always what makes the project perfect. I myself used to become so bored of Spore until that Galactic Adventures update was released and then I was no longer bored, spending 8 to 24 hours straight in an entire day working in the Adventure Editor. Even in the 1990’s, level/map editors in games like Doom were popular and allowed players to download maps built by other players and quite frankly that’s why Doom today, despite being a 1990’s game, is still popular; because players can make their own maps and share it to other players who can download the map right inside of the game without having to use external software.

In the case of Thrive, I think we have failed to introduce enough variety if a map editor is one of the most requested features.

What I envision that players could do is share saves where they may have made like a really unusable species, and the challenge is to salvage it. So far not many save files have been shared, but there’s at least Save files!

@Aluminium

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@Aluminium

Speaking of scripting, I’m not so much a fan of programming-language type scripting within the editor because learning to program is difficult ( it’s like trying to learn a different verbal language from another country ) but this could be compensated for by having things like a simplified creature/captain advanced behaviour editor within the editor that consists of clickable buttons rather than consisting of programming language, like this:

Then, I’m really interested how the Spore adventure stuff could make varied stuff? If you can just design planets and put creatures on them, that doesn’t create a narrative “adventure”, there must be some kind of custom game logic (perhaps scripting in disguise, which I basically see in that screenshot you posted). Making such a system is quite a lot of work as someone needs to program all the behaviours that you can edit with the dropdown menus etc.