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This page contains a rough roadmap of future features for Thrive. | This page contains a rough roadmap of '''future''' features for Thrive. For already complete features and done releases you can read the releases page on our [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/releases Github], | ||
We have a kanban board for concrete issues short(ish) term planning: https://github.com/orgs/Revolutionary-Games/projects/2 | We have a kanban board for concrete issues short(ish) term planning: https://github.com/orgs/Revolutionary-Games/projects/2 | ||
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==== 0.6.x (the combat and part upgrades updates) ==== | ==== 0.6.x (the combat and part upgrades updates) ==== | ||
* | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3936 Endosymbiosis lite] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3548 Ingested Matter amount can be NaN] (likely no longer the case, needs review) | |||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3548 Ingested Matter amount can be NaN] ( | |||
* Toxin system customization and rework | * Toxin system customization and rework | ||
* Implement new damage effects to better convey cell is being harmed | * Implement new damage effects to better convey cell is being harmed | ||
* [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/multicellular-stage-the-beginning/383/23 Finish Binding Agents (Need additional benefits for colonies, bugfixing) | * [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/multicellular-stage-the-beginning/383/23 Finish Binding Agents (Need additional benefits for colonies, bugfixing)] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3386 Microbe editor: Deleting hex plays the hex placement sound] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3386 Microbe editor: Deleting hex plays the hex placement sound] | ||
* | * Potential knockback for offensive pili (this item can probably be removed with the cooldown being added now) | ||
* Try to fix [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/918 Pilus should block being engulfed more often] | * Try to fix [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/918 Pilus should block being engulfed more often] | ||
* [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/organism-stamina-mechanics/757 Implement Stamina system and speed boosting] | * [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/organism-stamina-mechanics/757 Implement Stamina system and speed boosting] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1339 Make cell chunks emit more compounds] (related to combat and scavenging balancing) | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1339 Make cell chunks emit more compounds] (related to combat and scavenging balancing) | ||
* General combat balancing | * General combat balancing | ||
* [https:// | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3895 Enable day/night cycle by default] | ||
* Feature to allow swapping to a related species on extinction (selectable only in easy mode) | * Feature to allow swapping to a related species on extinction (selectable only in easy mode) | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3565 Microbe engulf storage full tutorial should have an end trigger] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3565 Microbe engulf storage full tutorial should have an end trigger] | ||
==== 0.7.x (the graph updates) ==== | ==== 0.7.x (the graph updates) ==== | ||
* [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/informing-players-and-the-thrivepedia/772 | * [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/informing-players-and-the-thrivepedia/772 Expand the Thriveopedia to provide in-depth gameplay information] (partially done, our wiki now needs more content to include in there) | ||
* Present option for migrating player species without the player moving themselves | * Present option for migrating player species without the player moving themselves | ||
* Rework player starting compounds to allow for more flexibility (we probably should show this in the editor and let the player pick as long as the total amount is below some threshold). | * Rework player starting compounds to allow for more flexibility (we probably should show this in the editor and let the player pick as long as the total amount is below some threshold). | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/192 Make organelles able to turn off] with [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1991 Add button in the process panel to pause a process] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/192 Make organelles able to turn off] with [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1991 Add button in the process panel to pause a process] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3147 Auto-evo prediction panel and extra info don't react to language change] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3147 Auto-evo prediction panel and extra info don't react to language change] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3135 Timeline history cleaning logic has a bug] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3135 Timeline history cleaning logic has a bug] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3086 Timeline should not claim the player is extinct if rescued by external effects] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3086 Timeline should not claim the player is extinct if rescued by external effects] | ||
* | * Rework auto-evo report to be much more graphical, also auto-evo prediction. Should solve: [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3152 Add some way to view preview images of species in the report tab] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3156 Create a cache that is stored on disk for PhotoStudio] (for better reworked auto-evo report performance), and also an in-memory cache: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/4579 | |||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3156 Create a cache that is stored on disk for PhotoStudio] (for better reworked auto-evo report performance) | |||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1451 Add alternative ATP balance mode based on what source of ATP organelles use] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1451 Add alternative ATP balance mode based on what source of ATP organelles use] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1622 Add a way for the player to control organelle split order] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1622 Add a way for the player to control organelle split order] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1632 Show the resource organelles use for ATP generation in ATP bar tooltips] and [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2068 Add tool in editor to explore ATP / compound balances without all resources]. | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1632 Show the resource organelles use for ATP generation in ATP bar tooltips] and [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2068 Add tool in editor to explore ATP / compound balances without all resources]. | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2771 Make extinct in patch auto-evo result say split off] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2771 Make extinct in patch auto-evo result say split off] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2958 Make auto-evo not claim a species is extinct if external effects rescue it] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2958 Make auto-evo not claim a species is extinct if external effects rescue it] | ||
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* Food chain editor tab | * Food chain editor tab | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1979 Add the full process panel to the editor] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1979 Add the full process panel to the editor] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2767 Add best organelle suggestion shown in the editor] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2767 Add best organelle suggestion shown in the editor] | ||
==== 0.8.x (world and auto-evo updates) ==== | ==== 0.8.x (world and auto-evo updates) ==== | ||
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* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1682 Move away from using percentages in the patch conditions] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1682 Move away from using percentages in the patch conditions] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2448 Marine snow (chunks) spawn density should depend on existing species] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2448 Marine snow (chunks) spawn density should depend on existing species] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3556 Patches that link regions together should be more obvious] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3556 Patches that link regions together should be more obvious] | ||
* [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/radiotrophy/631 Radiotrophs]. Issue: [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2357 Add radioactivity as an energy source] | * [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/radiotrophy/631 Radiotrophs]. Issue: [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2357 Add radioactivity as an energy source] | ||
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* Environmental events | * Environmental events | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3685 Replace all Godot prints in auto-evo with storing events] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3685 Replace all Godot prints in auto-evo with storing events] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2306 Make organelle storage amounts in tooltips use localization] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2306 Make organelle storage amounts in tooltips use localization] | ||
* Improve water currents functionality and visibility | * Improve water currents functionality and visibility | ||
* Improved microbe backgrounds | * Improved microbe backgrounds | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2450 Make biome light properties actually affect the graphics] (might get done with the day/night system) | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2450 Make biome light properties actually affect the graphics] (might get done with the day/night system) | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2869 Make player species members dying or reproducing on screen affect the population] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2869 Make player species members dying or reproducing on screen affect the population] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2918 Factor movement into Compound Food Source] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2918 Factor movement into Compound Food Source] | ||
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* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2307 Add a separate sound effect for binding mode] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2307 Add a separate sound effect for binding mode] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3561 Review how game difficulty settings death penalty works in terms of the coefficient and constants] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3561 Review how game difficulty settings death penalty works in terms of the coefficient and constants] | ||
* [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/organelles-mutations/477/28 Thermoplasts] ([https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3496 full implementation], basic is done) | * [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/organelles-mutations/477/28 Thermoplasts] ([https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3496 full implementation], basic is done) | ||
* Expanded tutorials for the microbe stage + hand holding mode selectable as an option that enables even more aggressive tutorials. Add tutorials like [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2091 Add a tutorial on death when using multiple ATP production types | * Expanded tutorials for the microbe stage + hand holding mode selectable as an option that enables even more aggressive tutorials. Add tutorials like [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2091 Add a tutorial on death when using multiple ATP production types], [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2975 Add a tutorial for taking ATP damage in engulf mode], [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2979 Add a tutorial about loading a save if the player dies too much] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3426 Create a different cutscene for when starting in the warm pond] and probably for panspermia | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3426 Create a different cutscene for when starting in the warm pond] and probably for panspermia | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1659 Split ToolTipManager.tscn to multiple files] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1659 Split ToolTipManager.tscn to multiple files] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1748 Make membrane meshes properly 3D] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1748 Make membrane meshes properly 3D] | ||
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* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/672 Reimplement the context dependent hints system] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/672 Reimplement the context dependent hints system] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1864 Make proper short tips for the microbe stage and the editor] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1864 Make proper short tips for the microbe stage and the editor] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1701 Make clouds look like they did in 0.3.4] (if can be done with reasonable effort, or at least [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3619 visibility should be improved]) Related issue: [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2286 Increase perlin noise texture size or get UV scaling math right] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/1701 Make clouds look like they did in 0.3.4] (if can be done with reasonable effort, or at least [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3619 visibility should be improved]) Related issue: [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2286 Increase perlin noise texture size or get UV scaling math right] | ||
* | * Improve game performance ''if'' required. The ECS refactor in 0.6.4 improved the game performance a ton. | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/ | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3273 Fix lag spikes from organelle duplication in very large cells] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/4344 Add an automatic suggestion to run a benchmark before starting the game for the first time] | |||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2586 Improve the process panel display] | * [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2586 Improve the process panel display] | ||
* [https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/4554 Intercellular matrix graphics] | |||
* "Final" microbe game balancing | * "Final" microbe game balancing | ||
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Multicellular stage is "finished" focus moves to aware. | Multicellular stage is "finished" focus moves to aware. | ||
=== 3.x Releases === | |||
Aware stage is "finished" focus moves to awakening stage. | |||
== Feature Backlog == | == Feature Backlog == | ||
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==== Planned ==== | ==== Planned ==== | ||
These features are intended to be in the game eventually. | These features are intended to be in the game eventually. | ||
* | * [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/multiplayer/962 Multiplayer] | ||
* [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/size-osmoregulation/1043 Non-linear size / osmoregulation cost for cells (and matching gameplay with auto-evo energy cost)] | |||
==== Accessory ==== | ==== Accessory ==== | ||
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* Official Mac support. Once there's enough [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/demand-for-official-mac-osx-support/911 demand] (potentially we should do code signed builds) | * Official Mac support. Once there's enough [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/demand-for-official-mac-osx-support/911 demand] (potentially we should do code signed builds) | ||
* Reworking the spawn system to using an encounter / sector model ([https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/pull/2913 old pull request]) | * Reworking the spawn system to using an encounter / sector model ([https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/pull/2913 old pull request]) | ||
* [https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/surface-area-volume-and-ratios/978 Organelle adjacency bonus / bonus from being at the cell edge] |
Latest revision as of 20:28, 24 February 2024
This page contains a rough roadmap of future features for Thrive. For already complete features and done releases you can read the releases page on our Github,
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. This roadmap was discussed here.
0.6.x (the combat and part upgrades updates)
- Endosymbiosis lite
- Ingested Matter amount can be NaN (likely no longer the case, needs review)
- Toxin system customization and rework
- Implement new damage effects to better convey cell is being harmed
- Finish Binding Agents (Need additional benefits for colonies, bugfixing)
- Microbe editor: Deleting hex plays the hex placement sound
- Potential knockback for offensive pili (this item can probably be removed with the cooldown being added now)
- Try to fix Pilus should block being engulfed more often
- Implement Stamina system and speed boosting
- Make cell chunks emit more compounds (related to combat and scavenging balancing)
- General combat balancing
- Enable day/night cycle by default
- Feature to allow swapping to a related species on extinction (selectable only in easy mode)
- Microbe engulf storage full tutorial should have an end trigger
0.7.x (the graph updates)
- Expand the Thriveopedia to provide in-depth gameplay information (partially done, our wiki now needs more content to include in there)
- Present option for migrating player species without the player moving themselves
- Rework player starting compounds to allow for more flexibility (we probably should show this in the editor and let the player pick as long as the total amount is below some threshold).
- Make organelles able to turn off with Add button in the process panel to pause a process
- Auto-evo prediction panel and extra info don't react to language change
- Timeline history cleaning logic has a bug
- Timeline should not claim the player is extinct if rescued by external effects
- Rework auto-evo report to be much more graphical, also auto-evo prediction. Should solve: Add some way to view preview images of species in the report tab
- Create a cache that is stored on disk for PhotoStudio (for better reworked auto-evo report performance), and also an in-memory cache: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/4579
- Add alternative ATP balance mode based on what source of ATP organelles use
- Add a way for the player to control organelle split order
- Show the resource organelles use for ATP generation in ATP bar tooltips and Add tool in editor to explore ATP / compound balances without all resources.
- Make extinct in patch auto-evo result say split off
- Make auto-evo not claim a species is extinct if external effects rescue it
- Implement someplace that shows the used energy sources per species
- Compound production + Implement diffusion of compounds and gasses between patches (dynamic gas compounds is at least a part of this)
- Add hydrogenase
- Food chain editor tab
- Add the full process panel to the editor
- Add best organelle suggestion shown in the editor
0.8.x (world and auto-evo updates)
- Planet Generation and Customization
- Move away from using percentages in the patch conditions
- Marine snow (chunks) spawn density should depend on existing species
- Patches that link regions together should be more obvious
- Radiotrophs. Issue: Add radioactivity as an energy source
- Change patch map generator to not need to abandon regions
- Compound Toxicity and Environmental tolerance
- Patch terrain generation and differentiation
- Environmental events
- Replace all Godot prints in auto-evo with storing events
- Make organelle storage amounts in tooltips use localization
- Improve water currents functionality and visibility
- Improved microbe backgrounds
- Make biome light properties actually affect the graphics (might get done with the day/night system)
- Make player species members dying or reproducing on screen affect the population
- Factor movement into Compound Food Source
- Increase player auto-evo strength to 80% once the algorithm feels good
- Auto-evo does not change its prediction upon patch change
- Auto-evo needs to update prediction upon rigidity and behaviour change
- Rework the crude extinction system into something proper
- Review chunk food source balancing
- Investigate auto-evo generated species that immediately starve to death
- Add some benefit in auto-evo calculation from chemoreceptor
- Make some auto-evo calculations be affected by organelle upgrades
- Make auto-evo take lysosomes (new digestion) into account
0.9.x (finishing things off updates)
- Bioluminescence
- Achievements. Issue: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/2665 (also for Steam)
- Reworking the spawn system (only if necessary). Related issues: Add per spawner caps for entities, Make cloud spawns less random and more time based, Rework spawn system to be encounter based. Likely obsolete issue: Investigate a way to parametrize the bias for spawning in front of player
- Add a separate sound effect for binding mode
- Review how game difficulty settings death penalty works in terms of the coefficient and constants
- Thermoplasts (full implementation, basic is done)
- Expanded tutorials for the microbe stage + hand holding mode selectable as an option that enables even more aggressive tutorials. Add tutorials like Add a tutorial on death when using multiple ATP production types, Add a tutorial for taking ATP damage in engulf mode, Add a tutorial about loading a save if the player dies too much
- Create a different cutscene for when starting in the warm pond and probably for panspermia
- Split ToolTipManager.tscn to multiple files
- Make membrane meshes properly 3D
- Make a nice cell division animation
- Reimplement the context dependent hints system
- Make proper short tips for the microbe stage and the editor
- Make clouds look like they did in 0.3.4 (if can be done with reasonable effort, or at least visibility should be improved) Related issue: Increase perlin noise texture size or get UV scaling math right
- Improve game performance if required. The ECS refactor in 0.6.4 improved the game performance a ton.
- Fix lag spikes from organelle duplication in very large cells
- Add an automatic suggestion to run a benchmark before starting the game for the first time
- Improve the process panel display
- Intercellular matrix graphics
- "Final" microbe game balancing
1.x Releases
Microbe stage is "finished" focus moves to multicellular.
1.0.0
- Microbe stage is finished
- We should have at least the early multicellular no longer marked as a prototype by this time
2.x Releases
Multicellular stage is "finished" focus moves to aware.
3.x Releases
Aware stage is "finished" focus moves to awakening stage.
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.
Once we have many planned features for different stages this list should be split to be by stage.
Main Features
These features are considered but still may not be implemented. They are divided into three categories of increasing relevance.
High Priority
These features are in demand for implementation when possible.
- Nothing currently
Planned
These features are intended to be in the game eventually.
- Multiplayer
- Non-linear size / osmoregulation cost for cells (and matching gameplay with auto-evo energy cost)
Accessory
These features are deemed unessential to the game, but desirable.
- Nothing currently
Debatable Features
These features need debating (or major design work) before being moved to the list of main features for implementing
- Addition of seperate forms of a cell for lifecycle stages or interchangable "modes"
- Gene Transfer
- Endosymbiosis (full)
- Patch addition or rebalance
- Mobility altering gas vacuoles
- Official Mac support. Once there's enough demand (potentially we should do code signed builds)
- Reworking the spawn system to using an encounter / sector model (old pull request)
- Organelle adjacency bonus / bonus from being at the cell edge