Release Roadmap

This page contains a rough roadmap of future features for Thrive.

We have a kanban board for concrete issues short(ish) term planning: https://github.com/orgs/Revolutionary-Games/projects/2

Roadmap

0.x Releases

These are releases towards more fleshed out microbe stage.

1.x Releases

Microbe stage is "finished" focus moves to multicellular.

Feature Backlog

This is a rough list of features that are planned, suggested or have been discussed in the past and haven't been rejected. Note that none of the listed features are not guaranteed to be implemented, as this list does not include the official plans of Revolutionary Studios, only potential features.

Main Features

These features are considered but still may not be implemented

• Introduce DonGororo's Report Menu concept (at least partly done?)
• Behavior Editor
• Upgraded/Remodeled Patch Map (procedural generation?)
• Planet Generation and Customization
• Patch terrain generation and differentiation
• Achievements
• Thermoplasts
• Radiotrophs
• Allow player to play any species occupied patch upon death/reproduction
• Present option for migrating player species without the player moving themselves
• Kick player out of patch when local population reaches zero
• Limit to number of cells engulfed at once
• Rename predatory pili to a more neutral term
• Improve cell AI
• Implement new damage effects to better convey cell is being harmed
• Improve water currents functionality and visibility
• Auto-Evo non-player species splitting
• Cilia
• Radar in the form of chemoreception part
• Marine snow (already in the game, but a bit broken after change to Godot)
• Implement in-game encyclopedia
• Finish Binding Agents (Need additional benefits for colonies, bugfixing)
• Implement day/night cycle in the cell stage to help balance photosynthesis
• Implement percentile damage resistance from prokaryotic sources to eukaryotes
• Rework cell rotation to be physics based
• Implement Stamina system and speed boosting
• Implement upgrades/specialization system
• Implement part unlocking mechanic

Debatable Features

These features need debating (or major design work) before being moved to the list of main features for implementing

• Damage delay or knockback for offensive pili
• Addition of seperate forms of a cell for lifecycle stages or interchangable "modes"
• Gene Transfer
• Compound Toxicity
• Endosymbiosis
• Patch addition or rebalance
• Implement diffusion of compounds and gasses between patches
• Add hydrogenase
• Bioluminescence
• Environmental events
• Mobility altering gas vacuoles
• Launcher for mac (proper support, and investigate if we can do code signed builds or not)
• Improved microbe backgrounds
• Toxin system customization and rework
• Rework player starting compounds to allow for more flexibility