Concept video with first prototype microbe stage

Wait, the prototype here doesn't have this menu nor the Thrive logo in the beggining... Is this the prototype with the AI?

Theusfilipe wrote:

Wait, the prototype here doesn't have this menu nor the Thrive logo in the beggining... Is this the prototype with the AI?

No, I just glued the two videos

We should really attempt to merge the two codebases... They're unfortunately two separate projects written by me and keen respectively.

roadkillguy wrote:

We should really attempt to merge the two codebases... They're unfortunately two separate projects written by me and keen respectively.

I'd be quite happy if you guys did that.
Also, anything you'd like to report on your work?

Merging them shouldn't be anything hard, the architecture I used is not that different from yours and I still have that SFML ported version of your base.

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Also, anything you'd like to report on your work?

Nothing interesting from me.

~sciocont wrote:

Also, anything you'd like to report on your work?

I'm better than ever at c++?

roadkillguy wrote:

~sciocont wrote:

Also, anything you'd like to report on your work?

I'm better than ever at c++?

I love you more than ever, then.

Sounds like something big is going to happen for....The Microbial Phase! As I and I believe a few others call it, this all sounds like good news, especially if Sciocont says he loves someone it's got to be great news!
I will ask my twin brother how to upload videos to Youtube, since I honestly have not done such thing a long time, just incase there is any need to do so, for this topic, or any other topic, maybe once we want to get the word out how it's going so far "but even with this great news, I doubt now, dare I say." Maybe once we have some AI in, Doggit could add the music to the new AI cell prototype, and I could post a video, or someone else could and probably would share it on the wiki, since I cannot get there because I have never actually been to our wiki, and my computer gets messed up sometimes whenever I got to wikipedia.
sorry for the long message, just very happy right now.

Remember, we're keeping this under lock and key for a while. no one outside of these forums should see the prototype at this stage.

Actually I said, I doubt that we would share it now, probably later, so I meant once we have the Microbial Phase, at a graphical, level: as good as we can get, so far, at a fun level: Really fun, at a scientific level: very scientific level: VERY scientific, like we want to be, and finally: at a playablility level: not too many glitches, after all, we will release the game in each phase, one by one, so with each new stage there will be even more glitches.
at a good version, just not quite finished, like a beta version I meant.

~sciocont wrote:

Remember, we're keeping this under lock and key for a while. no one outside of these forums should see the prototype at this stage.

Yes i know this video is private

So, what now?

I'm no programmer, but it looks great! Just need to give those circils minds of their own and your finished.

(This codebase + AI and everythign else) * epic visuals / Ogre engine = Epic microbe stage

other than better graphics, and AI, I doubt we'll need antything else.
Really though, graphics are a very serious thing to me, just saying.

MeowMan1 wrote:

other than better graphics, and AI, I doubt we'll need antything else.
Really though, graphics are a very serious thing to me, just saying.

True, however remember the microbe current concept - we also still need assimilation, proto-cells, cell features (walls, vacuoles, etc), environmental hazards (pH, temperature), natural obstacles, and a GUI. Oh, and to include all the proto-cells & cell features we'll need to program in multicellular (i.e. the rest of the game).

But good graphics are important.

Very true.
Sorry, but what is Gui, I kinda forgot, and google's not workin' for me right now, so I can't look it up, right now

MeowMan1 wrote:

Very true.
Sorry, but what is Gui, I kinda forgot, and google's not workin' for me right now, so I can't look it up, right now

Graphical User Interface. Google wasn't working?

Will someone please inform me how we will represent assimilation with a single sprite?

I know right, out of all things, google just stopped workin'....
anyways, how are the other microbes going to attack You?
Do cell's have "dare I say Weapons", at all, I remembered that from the spore beta, but this isn't spore, so how will other cells attck You?

roadkillguy wrote:

MeowMan1 wrote:

Very true.
Sorry, but what is Gui, I kinda forgot, and google's not workin' for me right now, so I can't look it up, right now

Graphical User Interface. Google wasn't working?

Will someone please inform me how we will represent assimilation with a single sprite?

Shiiii-
Ideally we were going to release this 3D so I didn't htink much of this problem. I'm really not an expert on anything 2d, but just to go out on a limb I'd say that, for nutrients, we move the consumed sprite onto a lower layer and paste a "vescicle" sprite over it inside of the cell that absorbed it until the nutrient dissolves (by lowering its transparency to 0 and then being deleted). For things that get assimilated, once they get into the vescicle, we open up the cell editor to show then what they've gained and let the player decide how to fit it into the cell.
If that wasn't useful, perhaps we can learn more from other games- I'm sure someone has done something of the sort before. Meanwhile, here's the wikipedia page for phagocytosis, the phenomena we're trying to replicate.

sounds interesting, I'll try to read that, but my computer, again is going a lil' nuts here

Are we planning on absorbing other cells?

I think so, also sounds fun.

roadkillguy wrote:

Are we planning on absorbing other cells?

We will be absorbing the protocells as part of endosymbiosis. Other cells will be absorbed as well, but probably broken up first.