thrivegame

Build of the day for 13.1.2023

Added 2023-01-13 15:54:10 +0000 UTC

This week we got a pretty big change to the auto-evo exploring tool done (first screenshot). You can now run multiple worlds in a row and see statistics for all of them. On top of that you can even export the data as csv for analysis in external software. The other big thing that was finished is the improved GUI navigation with a controller I did. That turned out to be quite difficult and time consuming but I did get it eventually done. I did not have nearly enough energy to make all parts of the game usable with a controller yet. I opened issues for every problem I still noticed and ended up with over 30.

So full controller support is still ways off, but I'm going to anyway implement controller button rebinding. I included some screenshots of the in-progress work showing how I went from just text, to showing the correct controller icons (which depends on what controller you have plugged in). As a bonus I made the mouse inputs also use icons. There's quite a bit of work in getting GUI focus navigation working between the input rebinding buttons and the rest of the options menu nicely. Hopefully I'll finish that next week and can move onto a few "house keeping" tasks I have before tackling the cilia attraction mechanic.

Also many more fossilisation buttons PR may finally get finished next week which aims to make it easier to fossilise interesting species.

In this build:

- Added new auto-evo exploring tool features (exporting data,

running multiple worlds in a row + others)

- The evolutionary tree is now in the game for freebuild worlds

- Much more of the game GUI is now usable with a controller or the

keyboard

- Implemented controller navigation of tabbed GUI interfaces

- Fixed a bug where left and right keys didn't work for GUI focus

control

- GUI button focus visuals where they look bad should now be fixed

- Added controller button icons from Xelu