A project i’ve been working on, a Thrive changelog from the very first version to the modern ones.
Note: its still unfinished, expect it to be finished in 3-6 days.
Thrive changelog:
0.0.1: microbe stage: added 2 randomly moving balls, added background that can change images.
0.0.2: microbe stage: made the background far away from the balls, clicking now teleports the player to the left ball.
0.0.3: microbe stage: added a player ball, removed teleporting.
0.0.4: microbe stage: turned one of the 2 balls into the player ball, added collisions.
0.0.5: microbe stage: turned the player ball into an ogre.
0.1.0: microbe stage: removed the second ball, made the backround move away from the player then teleport back, added music, removed backround image changing.
0.1.1: microbe stage: turned the player ball into a green donut, added a stationary green donut, added a rotating white light ball, removed music.
0.1.2: microbe stage: no notable changes.
0.2.1: microbe stage: completely changed the game, added hex microbes, added oxygen/glucose/ATP, added AI microbes, added glucose emitters.
0.2.2: menu: added menu, added music
microbe stage: added GUI, added oxygen emitters, added toxins, added more AI microbes, added flagella, added oxytoxy/nitrate/CO2, added music, added health.
microbe editor: added microbe editor, added music.
0.2.3: microbe editor: added save/load microbes, added mutation points, added zooming.
microbe stage: added more AI microbes, added ammonia, added carbon dioxide/ammonia emitters, added reproductase, added amino acids, removed nitrate, fixed toxins not working, added zooming.
0.2.4: menu: improved menu.
microbe stage: improved GUI, improved ammonia emitter model, added more AI cells, added sound effects.
microbe editor: added chloroplast, improved GUI, added species name, added forward arrow.
0.3.0: menu: added intro, added tooltips.
microbe editor: green/red highlight if you can place organelles, some organelles take up more hexes, locked chloroplasts, added undo/redo.
microbe stage: added microbe membranes, added organelle models, improved storage.
0.3.1: microbe editor: added cytoplasm, forwards is now up, added symmetry mode.
microbe stage: added parallax backround, added membrane colors for AI microbes.
0.3.2: microbe stage: replaced emitters with compound clouds, added red flashing to membrane and organelles when damaged, added more biomes, added blue flashing to membrane when engulfing, added chloroplasts and toxin vacuoles into the environment, organelles are now colored like the membrane, added tutorial, added membrane animation.
0.3.3: microbe stage: improved GUI (added compound bars), added mass, added random-evo, replaced reproductase with ammonia and glucose, added healing with glucose and amino acids, added organelles shrinking when damaged and growing when healing.
0.3.4: microbe stage: gave more utility to compound bars, microbes drop some compounds on death, improved random-evo (less toxic vacuoles), added passive healing.
0.4.0: menu: added new intro, added multiplayer prototype, removed quick-saving and loading.
microbe editor: added tooltips.
microbe stage: added prokaryotes, replaced random-evo with auto-evo, procedural species names, improved AI (added AI behaviours), added losing (extinction) and winning (thriving), new engine (stability, graphics upgrades), new organelles, new biomes (old ones replaced), added microbe intro, NPC members of your species now show up ingame, new compounds, reworked process system.
0.4.0.1: menu: new backrounds
microbe stage: improved compound blending, fixed bugs.
0.4.0.2: menu: even more bugfixes
microbe stage: even more bugfixes
0.4.1: microbe editor: membrane bound organelles are locked without a nucleus, added iron organelles, reorganised organelles.
microbe stage: player starts as a prokaryote, added small and big iron chunks, cells break into chunks on death, improved AI, engulfing is now dependent on visual size (rather than organelle count), osmeregulation and cell drag are now calculated per hex (rather than per organelle), improved graphics (backrounds, compound clouds, cells)
0.4.1.1: menu: removed multiplayer prototype.
microbe stage: added nitrogenase/atmospheric nitrogen, new model and icon for rusticyanin, new icons for CO2 and O2, new biome, fixed bugs.
0.4.2: menu: added microbe freebuild editor.
microbe editor: organelle models are now visible, decreases glucose every time you enter, new editor hex texture, added patch map.
microbe stage: new graphics engine (bs::framework), changed music volumes, added patches, rebalanced reproduction times, added reproduction bar, improved help menu, light is now a patch property and affects photosynthesis, added toxin organelle for prokaryotes, all cells now descend from the player, new organelle models/textures/flagellum animation.
0.4.3: microbe editor: made tooltips dynamic (shows efficiency in current patch), added ATP balance bar, more patch details shown on the patch map, added appearance tab.
microbe stage: new GUI, added pilus, AI species can spread to other patches, improved performance, improved membrane, fixed bugs.
0.4.3.1: microbe editor: new cell button only enabled in freebuild, fixed bugs.
microbe stage: membrane types now have different effects, pilus sound was adjusted, improved win text, fixed bugs.
0.5.0: menu: added options.
microbe editor: added zooming out.
microbe stage: switched engines to godot (improved performance), only shows useful compound bars, compound clouds no longer have straight edges, microbe corpse chunks fallback to using mitochondria model less, toxins are now particle effects, improved reproduction GUI, added fades to make transitions smoother, fixed camera jitter when moving.
0.5.1: menu: added new microbe stage intro.
microbe editor: segmented ATP balance bar based on organelles, processes with 0 are now in red, adjusted pilus physics size, improved help screen, fixed bugs.
microbe stage: added proper saving and loading and re-added quick saving, balancing changes, added a disolve effect for chunks, added auto move key (X), added chromatic aberration and distortion effect, added rigidity slider, fixed bugs, added backround particles.
0.5.1.1: microbe editor: fixed many bugs and crashes.
microbe stage: extinct species are now removed from the game world, fixed many bugs and crashes.
0.5.2: menu: added button inside load to open saves file, button to delete old saves, button to delete selected saves.
microbe editor: improved GUI, added more tooltips, added timer showing current ingame year, trying to exit with negative ATP balance shows a warning, failing to place an organelle plays a sound, the MP bar flashes red if you dont have enough MP, hexes placed in current editor session are now brighter than the old ones, more buttons play the button sound, MP bar now shows how many organelles in symmetry mode cost, ATP balance bar now again shows the total, loading a save made in the editor from the editor now works, patches now show their depth.
microbe stage: added tutorials, auto-evo populations are now calculated (instead of random), new auto-evo algorithm makes the AI species respond to conditions in patches, toxins have a new particle effect, saving/loading GUIs were improved, updated to godot 3.2.3, cell physics are now accurate to their shape, changing options during gameplay is now possible, options now need to be manually saved, sound effects and ambience now have different volume sliders, F1 now opens help menu, balance tweaks (especially to photosynthesis), reproduction bars now tur white individually, increased population maximum, pressing PRT SCR now also takes a screenshot (before only F12 took one), improved AI think time from 2.3 to 0.3 seconds.
0.5.3: menu: added translations, added key rebinding, added custom username for saves, added button to open screenshot files, loading screens now have random tips.
microbe editor: no longer possible to make cells with disconnected hexes, wall type membranes now prevent a cell from engulfing, membrane tooltips are now relative to selected membrane, added panning camera, re-added forward arrow, improved saving/loading, fixed bugs.
microbe stage: added processes panel, mutation now can’t make disconnected hexes, absorbing non-useful compounds is now blocked, chunks have more accurate hitboxes, improved saving/loading, fixed many bugs.
0.5.3.1: menu: updated translations.
microbe editor: organelles can now be moved, the MP bar flashes red when changing membranes without enough MP.
microbe stage: fixed bug where AI was unable to act as a predator, balancing changes, toxins now despawn after a few minutes, player cell now shows up in mouse hover panel.
0.5.4: menu: loading now shows a random image.
microbe editor: renamed appearance tab into “membrane” tab, cell membrane is now shown on membrane tab, reduced organelle move cost to 5 MP, moving organelles placed in current editor session is now free, cell is only shown when on cell editor tab, tooltips now react to different languages, fixed bugs.
microbe stage: added binding agents (form colonies with cells), improved AI (AI will get tired of chasing the same prey long enough), fixed AI cells unable to fire toxins, fixed glucose reduction not working, updated to godot 3.3.2, fullscreen is now default, improved compound cloud visuals, balance tweaks to storage, toxins, pilus etc., tweaked mutation algorithm to make bigger cells, cytoplasm now has a corpse chunk model, rigidity now affects membrane wiggle, fixed bugs.
0.5.5: menu: improved translations.
microbe stage: added ability hotbar, new iron chunk look, improved membrane visuals, AI run and tumble behaviours has been improved, improved AI (fixed spinning instead of engulfing chunks), processes can now run at fractional speed, changed rendering mode to multithreaded in godot, auto-evo now models different energy sources better, microbe ambiance track can now repeat, fixed colony bugs.
0.5.6: menu: added mod loader, added credits.
microbe editor: added behaviour tab, added auto-evo player population prediction panel, moving to any patch is now possible in freebuild with a single step.
microbe stage: improved auto-evo (can now cause species to split, tries to fill empty patches with split or migrated species, affects the player population), toxins can now be fired with less than the required amount (deal less damage), fixed colony physics issues, mouse hover panel now only shows roughly how much compounds there are (instead of exact values), balance changes, AI tweaks (toxin shooting, running away), extinction screen now has buttons to load or exit to menu, updated to godot 3.3.4, quitting now has a confirmation popup, added more tutorial, added a extinction music track, toxins no longer phase through chunks, GUI tweaks, fixed AI being able to evolve an organelle that can only be able to be placed one multiple times, stopped AI from entering engulf when having membrane which doesn’t allow it.
Another note: i can’t launch 0.5.0, 0.5.1 and 0.5.1.1, so those changelogs may not be entirely accurate.
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