Good luck friend
Iāll be away for a bit, back on Slack Sunday or Monday. Well done everyone, things are really positive at the moment!
Iām going to make a conscious effort not to be involved with things until Monday, because I have a lot of work to do and I donāt want to let myself get distracted. See you all again then.
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Iāll be away without any internet for ten days starting tomorrow, so I wonāt be able to reply to anything.
Hopefully things have happened when I return.
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Welp, the day where I have to abandon the closeness Iāve had with this project is finally upon me. Tomorrow I start university, and while I canāt say for sure, I think the time I have available to work on Thrive will be drastically cut. Iāll still be around, but I wonāt be doing anything crazy like writing GDDs or revamping GUIs or organising releases for quite some time I fear.
Honestly my interest in the project has waned over the past year anyway. The seemingly endless cycle of promise then silence then sudden bursts then nothing has worn me down quite a bit. I still want to see the project succeed, but my faith in that happening was at an all-time low.
Althoughā¦seeing @NickTheNickās enthusiasm for reorganising stuff in the past month has rekindled some of that. I hope it actually works and isnāt more organisational hot air (which Iāve been responsible for more than most I will admit).
And then this video and its sequel turned up in my YouTube recommendations, and they reminded me why we do this. I want to see people having fun experiencing a thing nobody thought could be made. All this time focusing on Thrive the project I lost sight of Thrive the game.
So Iāll still be around but Iāll mainly stick to the sidelines from now on. I always wanted to get to a point where I could shrink my role in the project back to just being a composer, which the frequent content vacuums have prevented as my need to keep things going has taken over. Sadly the project isnāt self-sufficient yet, which is why itās annoying to reach this point and have to ignore it in favour of other things. Iām sure it can be though. And for me personally, maybe some time away can give me back the interest I once had.
Please keep going everyone. Everything can be worth it in the end.
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Oliveriver, everything you have done has been awesome, youāve put a huge amount of effort in and it really shows. At any point in the future itāll be great to see you around more frequently again.
Good luck with university! Have a great time. If thereās anything I can do for you let me know.
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Iāve been out of action for this past week because of projects at work, but now Iām back and Iāve got a lot of time on my hands.
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Been pretty jam packed these past two weeks with work and family visiting, but both of those will end this weekend so Iāll have a lot more time after that to respond to slack and the dev forums, work on github and the wiki, and write up the next mini update.
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I know there is no obligation to contribute but I still feel sorry for my recent lack of time investment in Thrive. Iāll finish high school in about two months and Iāve got finals coming up, so I didnāt have a lot of time lately and wonāt have much to spare in the upcoming weeks either. But after that I should have plenty of time to invest.
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Donāt worry about it, life has to come first. Thrive will be here when you have more time. Good luck with the finals.
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I REFUSE TO LET THRIVE DIE! THRIVE MUST PREVAIL! Basically you can count me in for the long run even if Iām overrun with college (about to happen until December) but that does not mean I am leaving. Only my own death can take me from this.
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Leaving on a trip for a few weeks, but when Iām back Iāll see what else I can tackle now that organelle tooltips are mostly done!
I will be going on vacation for the beginning of september.
I wonāt be able to do the progress update for Aug 30th and sep 6th (Maybe even the 13th). I can say something in the intro to the one before thst we wonāt have one for s couple of weeks, or someone else can try and get it out in my absence.
Iām also on vacation until about the 5th of september. Iām reading the discord now and then, but I donāt have my iPad with me, so I wonāt be able to do concept art or anything like that.
Unfortunately after getting back from my trip I was jampacked with 3 graduate exams in one summer. Now that thatās all done Iām back and will spend a few days catching up.
Iāve also been sitting on some ideas for how to tackle Auto-Evo for a while, and I finally finished up enough to post the intro and start the series, so if youāre interested you can check that out here.
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Welcome back! Also I liked your post on auto-evo, Iām excited to see where it goes.
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Hey guys back from an extended absence, Iām going to spend the next week or two trying to catch up on what I missed!
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Reviving this thread because why not?
Iām going to be very busy until the end of May. I would like to stay away from Thrive as much as possible in that time to stop myself getting distracted. Iāll check in on things but doubt Iāll be involved in any discussions.
After that though, Iāll be free and ready to get to some programming work.
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Posting here because although I communicated this on discord like 20 days ago on discord, I think it would be good organizational practice to use and continue using this thread for the future.
Iām going to be moving around a lot until atleast early July, so I wonāt have as much time to commit to Thrive. Iāll still be able to chime in on design in short bits and keep up with the discussion, but I probably canāt reliably test small tweaks and offer feedback on GitHub. I will make sure to make it a more consistent habit after this period of time.
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After being unexpectedly away for 2 weeks, I can say I will expectedly be away for 2 weeks again from late July to early August. Iāll try to work out a few things next week.
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