IosonoNeon - New Programmer

iosononeon · June 18, 2024, 7:22pm

Hello everyone! My name is Phil also known as IosonoNeon, and i am excited to introduce myself i’ve recently decided to delve into game development and have been involved in several projects. Notably i’ve worked on this fan project before it got discontinued by Microsoft (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtJ5QYJ7rXo&ab_channel=DeFacto) and additionally i am/was an active participant in the closed beta for s&box (gmod’s sequel). I’ve been passionate about biology ever since I was a kid discovering Thrive thanks to the all not so mighty youTube algorithm during my Spore fanatic days which just fueled my interest further.As I am new to this community, i am not yet familiar with the specific tasks and responsibilities so i would greatly appreciate some directions overall. Thank you for your kidness and considerations, i’ll do my best to help you out, have a nice day you beautiful people :]

Gamedungeon · June 18, 2024, 7:31pm

Hello! It is always nice to have a new programmers. As far as what to do, while stuff has varying priorities (Release Roadmap - Thrive Developer Wiki), for the most part this is a list of things that need to be done Issues · Revolutionary-Games/Thrive · GitHub and any help completing them is appreciated. For anything beyond that ask on the discord and someone can point you in the right direction.

I would recommend picking something simple as a way to learn the codebase.

hhyyrylainen · June 19, 2024, 8:10am

Welcome. Glad to have you onboard.

I sent you the onboarding checklist already, but here are some more links.

If you haven’t managed to get Thrive compiling yet, that should be the first step. Here are the instructions for how to do that:

github.com

Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/blob/master/doc/setup_instructions.md

What's this?
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These are the setup instructions for working with and compiling Thrive.

Important Note: If you run into any trouble with the setup process, please
bring them up [on the forums](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/c/dev-help),
or if you are a team member you can ask on the development discord or open a github issue.

If you are a team member you can ask for help on the [Private
Developer
Forums](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/c/programming/14)

You can also join and ask on our [community
discord](https://discordapp.com/invite/FZxDQ4H) please use the
#modding or #development channels for that, depending on why you are trying to compile the game
(to make a mod, or to contribute to the development).

Thank you!

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Feel free to ask fro help if you get stuck on some step.

Then you can pick some issue to start with, here’s the easy issues: Issues · Revolutionary-Games/Thrive · GitHub

I can recommend something more specific if you can’t find anything that catches your eye.

Titan · June 19, 2024, 5:13pm

Hello there and welcome to the team!

After setting up the development evnrionment as @hhyyrylainen mentioned, it’s best to start familiarising yourself with the codebase by picking up some issues labelled „easy” and „good first issue” to get started. We’re always here to help if your have any questions.

C009 · June 20, 2024, 2:01pm

Hello
Game is using ECS (entity component system) so for example in many places in the code entity (say, microbe) has component (for example Health) and there are systems managing it. It’s useful thing to keep in mind as it simplifies managing these things from completely different script during runtime.