GET INVOLVED

Welcome new user!

It appears you have decided to join in the daunting task of Thrive's development, and if so you are in the right place. Below is a list of the different teams of the Thrive project. All the work of the project is delegated between the teams. When posting your application, make sure to mention which team(s) you would like to join. Navigate through the links to see the work currently being done by each team and how you can help.


The Teams


Programming

Team Leads: crovea, moopli

The Programming Team is responsible for turning ambitious game design into working game features.

Types of work: Scripting, Engine Programming, Interface Programming, etc.

Click here to join the Programming Team

Graphics

Team Leads: ThrivingCheese

But without some nice models and textures, functioning game features are not that rewarding. The Graphics Team is here to remedy that problem.

Types of work: Modelling, animation, texturing, etc.

Click here to join the Graphics Team

Sound

Team Leads: Oliveriver

Even then, the game just won't feel right or immerse you well enough without realistic sound effects and beautiful music to pull you in, courtesy of the Sound Team.

Types of work: Sound effects, music

Click here to join the Sound Team

Marketing

Team Leads: WJacobC

Having a polished, fleshed out game is all fine and dandy, but without the Marketing Team how will people find out about it?

Click here to join the Marketing Team

Project Management

Team Leads: NickTheNick, ~sciocont

The Project Management Team is meant to ensure that a group of volunteers working from around the world keeps their efforts focused and efficient. This team is a bit more challenging to get into. Moderator status is something only given to experienced users already established in the project. However, we are looking for people who have experience in project management who can help us improve our project's structure, or people able to update/maintain the wiki.

Types of work: Updating/maintaining the wiki, moderating

Click here to join the Project Management Team (Link coming soon)

Excellent work Sciocont. I have a couple suggestions for revision.

Merge the Economics branch with the Society branch (keep it called Society). i know the Crash Course thread has Economics in the name, but it also involves a lot of work on the TE and the application of the compound system to post Society gameplay.

Include the Dropbox link for all the files we have collected as well, under programming.

Maybe a link to Doggit's youtube channel so they can hear what has been done so far.

Include this thread under Art.
https://thrivegame.canadaboard.net/t1036p60-microbe-models-images-textures#21415

Add in this thread under Society.
https://thrivegame.canadaboard.net/t1081p15-function-part-discussion#21383

That's all I can think of for now.

NickTheNick wrote:

Excellent work Sciocont. I have a couple suggestions for revision.

Merge the Economics branch with the Society branch (keep it called Society). i know the Crash Course thread has Economics in the name, but it also involves a lot of work on the TE and the application of the compound system to post Society gameplay.

Include the Dropbox link for all the files we have collected as well, under programming.

Maybe a link to Doggit's youtube channel so they can hear what has been done so far.

Include this thread under Art.
https://thrivegame.canadaboard.net/t1036p60-microbe-models-images-textures#21415

Add in this thread under Society.
https://thrivegame.canadaboard.net/t1081p15-function-part-discussion#21383

That's all I can think of for now.

It is perhaps best to put the link to my (our) youtube channel to hear the latest songs.

Oh, scio, you should add a link to the Thrive Abbreviations Dictionary thread, by Zim. We should also start updating that list with all the new jargon we've picked up.

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glad to see this excellent stuff!

I updated the OP with a link to the forum rules and etiquette page.

Hey, i remember you! You were on the IRC a few days ago. However it was 4am where i live so i was sleeping.

1) Yes, the website keeps a log of the IP a user posts from, but that info is only avaible to moderators. However, IP adresses are of little use usually. For example, my IP adress (95.19.160.126) can tell that i'm in the east side of Spain, but thats it. I'm actually about 80 Km away from the place it says.

2) There are plenty of threads you can post ideas on. They are listed right in this very thread (unless someone moves this posts to your own welcome thread). If you have a sugestion or a question you dont know where it should go, put it in the "absurdly long named thread that i can never remember the name of" thread.

[quote="Daniferrito"]Hey, i remember you! You were on the IRC a few days ago. However it was 4am where i live so i was sleeping.

I didn't know anyone would notice. :P 

One, it is an immense honour to be replied to by a Moderator on my very first post on the Website, I thought I should mention that. Two, thank you very much for noticing a Username so random that I figured that I would immediately be forgotten.

I will attempt to share my ideas, and hopefully, one of them, may be good enough to get ~sciocont to reply.

I highly doubt it, though.

Heh, no worries we are all very friendly here.

Smashing!

~sciocont wrote:

RESOURCES# - information on the engine, libraries used, setting up your dev environment etc.

This is a dead link.

I know that this has already been addressed but the link "Resources#" under the programming section is dead. could anyone fix it or send me a link with the information it contained?

I don't know what was behind that link, but if you want to get a development environment set up, have a look at the directory "mingw_setup" in the git repository. There's a readme there that should get you started. For the time being, I recommend using the "prototype" branch of the repository.

And since it's tradition for my posts to have lists, here's a short step-by-step guide for starting to work on Thrive's codebase:

1. Fork the Thrive git repository. Why? You most likely won't have write access to the main repository and pull requests from a fork are the easiest way to get your work merged back into the core.
   
2. Clone your fork.
   
3. Follow the instructions in "mingw_setup/readme.txt"
   
4. Curse Nimbal for not keeping the code documentation up-to-date
   

I'll see if I can get Dani or Seregon to help restore the thread. I'm pretty sure one of them had backed it up.

OK, I WANT IN!!!!! some how some when! i want updates constantly! pm me!

Its up to you to get involved, and to keep up to date with new releases etc. No ones gonna take responsibility to pm you.

Hello Deathtrooper here, Reporting from the Deathkorps of Krieg.

I know this game has an amazing team in all and has been showing very great progress, it still needs to get more attention. Remember the massive flood in of guests during that reddit flooding. That was great, but the problem was that it slowly stopped to the point only a few guests are showing up every day.

I was considering myself to help you guys with spreading this game out across the web. Luckily if i do, i might catch the attention of other freelance programmers, modelers (i'm a amateur modeler myself, still need practice though), and some crazy old spore fans or newcomers.

Well i was considering making a kicka** Source Filmmaker video and was going to post a link to this site at the end of the video. Seriously you guys are awesome and you need a hell of a lot more attention.

Got the pic, its suppose to be a demon head or somethin





you have to right click it to see the pic and click see in new tab

Thank you for your support, but we aren't losing heart in the project or anything. It's just that there has been a lull in activity on the forums since several big members, as well as me, have been had busy schedules recently, and the coders do their work over on GitHub. Given some time things will return to normal, and I will be having much more free time soon to contribute.