thrivegame

Build of the day for 3.2.2023

Added 2023-02-03 15:10:34 +0000 UTC

The cilia pulling feature was finally done this week. It was a collaboration between me and Kasterisk, who did the actual gameplay feature whereas I worked on the upgrades system to actually make it so that we were comfortable with including the work in the game. The second screenshot shows this.

The also good news is that with the general upgrades system it will be really easy for any other organelles to also add small upgrades like that. I plan on, once I get a good list, to open issues for adding various upgrades to the organelles. After that it'll be much more interesting to edit a microbe as there'll be upgrades to consider on top of considering adding new organelles.

Another big feature that was done is the news feed in the main menu, which I wanted to add since the launcher 2.0 release (with seamless mode people wouldn't see the news otherwise). I included some in progress screenshots of how I iteratively got the feed looking better and better (and more feature complete). Next up on my plate I'm working on getting patch notes into the game, so people coming back to the game will be able to see what's new. After that I'm a bit unsure if it is time to work on prototypes or maybe something else next (or before prototypes). I'm going to actually ask the VIP patrons again to vote on what they'd like to see next.

In this build:

- Cilia now has an upgrade to make it pull in nearby objects, which is

useful for predation

- Improved dynamic MP calculation to better handle some cases,

especially the new general organelle upgrades system

- Added our website news feed to the main menu

- Removed negative (or zero) passed time checks as Godot Engine should

have a fix in now to guard against

- Added a support in our packaging script to target the web platform,

but as expected the game is totally broken when exported that way

(someone might come along at some point in the future and make it

actually work, but we aren't promising anything regarding this)