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Post by Oliveriver on Feb 29, 2016 18:16:43 GMT
For some reason, I decided to write an article about Thrive. You can read it here. Part history lesson, part commentary, and part (hopefully) persuasive argument, it's a presentation of my findings while digging into Thrive's history and an analysis of why it's survived so long. I hope you enjoy it and learn something about this mad venture.
(Totally not unwarranted self-promotion...nope, not at all...)EDIT: Wow, the first time I actually have any traffic on my website and the server decides to go belly-up. It's been slow for a while bit right now it isn't even loading. |
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Post by Atrox on Feb 29, 2016 20:29:31 GMT
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Post by StealthStyleL on Feb 29, 2016 20:41:53 GMT
Indeed. It's very interesting to read the history of Thrive. I hope it's an inspiration to others.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2016 4:21:56 GMT
I love how thrive is like a species in the game spore or what rev team is trying to make. Spore the original had broken off into another species called Evolutions! After a certain event some of this species died off, but a different type has branched off escaping the event and surviving.
I cannot wait until "Thrive", well, umm, thrives. :)
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Post by evolution4weαk on Mar 1, 2016 16:02:10 GMT
WAIT THERE A REDDIT PAGE!
ps: If Found You From IndieDB
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Post by Skyguy98 on Mar 1, 2016 16:03:09 GMT
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Post by evolution4weαk on Mar 1, 2016 16:04:28 GMT
I Learn Something New Every day
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Post by evolution4weαk on Mar 1, 2016 16:05:59 GMT
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Post by Oliveriver on Mar 1, 2016 18:58:58 GMT
Thanks everyone! At the risk of seeking too much attention, I might post this to the subreddit too seeing as it's had a good reception here. evolution4weαk I don't seem to see anything new there. At any rate, it's probably not a good idea to go shouting about it to him, it doesn't reflect well on us. It'd be much better if it blows up all over the internet one day and he's stunned to find it's a game he thought would never make any progress. But hey, that's all hope and speculation...  |
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Post by evolution4weαk on Mar 1, 2016 19:02:04 GMT
Thanks everyone! At the risk of seeking too much attention, I might post this to the subreddit too seeing as it's had a good reception here. evolution4weαk I don't seem to see anything new there. At any rate, it's probably not a good idea to go shouting about it to him, it doesn't reflect well on us. It'd be much better if it blows up all over the internet one day and he's stunned to find it's a game he thought would never make any progress. But hey, that's all hope and speculation... Ok, I deleted it |
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Post by Narotiza on Mar 2, 2016 2:47:19 GMT
Really inspiring!
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Post by The Uteen on Mar 5, 2016 23:58:15 GMT
Do we still have a list of these people? They deserve an honorable mention in the credits. ~sciocont was one of them… And as much as we like to criticise him, Sven made the post that was the inspiration for this whole idea, and set up the forums. Was Poisson around back then? I think Noitulove might have been. And there were others, some of whom never made it to the Thrive era. I wonder if the forums are still accessible via The Wayback Machine. We'd probably need to hunt around in the old forums for a link to the older forums, then search them for the link to the Evolutions! forums. Providing the context of Spore is helpful. Released in 2008… It's nearly 8 years old now. There could be people talking on these forums who were born after that game was released. Makes me feel old. That's… One way to put it.  Is it just me, or does this sentence seem to contradict itself? All we ever seemed to do was talk about concepts. But we were really commited to those concepts, the idea of a game which always seemed on the verge of becoming a reality. Just a few more developers… A few more prototypes. Then we'll have something to show for our dedication. Sounds familiar. Looks like I was just around for this. My… failed attempt to continue to check in a bit less regularly… was a month after. Maybe all those people coming in calling the game vapourware (legitimately, at the time) got to me… I have great respect for everyone who stuck with Thrive through that time. All the progress in the past year is really promising. Anyone looking at those devblogs would see a game actually being made. Anyone looking through the new development forums now would see that we actually have knowledgeable, dedicated people actively working to make Thrive a reality. Anyone trying the recent versions of the game would see that we have actually made something worth playing. Good work, to all of you. Thank you all for making Thrive a reality. And thanks, Oliveriver, for the article. Hopefully the most interesting parts of Thrive's history are still to come. |
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Post by Oliveriver on Mar 6, 2016 12:11:26 GMT
We have the members listing on the old forum, but not anything from before then. There are a couple of people who deserve a mention from the Evolutions! days (Sven, ParadoxJuice, Benjee, Inca) but we don't have a list of them. Yeah...I didn't want to go into the breakoff too much because we don't know much about it. You may not know about this, but we did see Sven return recently. He seemed angry. forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/83323.pagedavoonline.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4544&p=23607#p23464I meant it as in people spent a lot of time and energy thinking about the advanced, often unnecessary features of later stages when they didn't have the basics in place first. For instance, coming up with increasingly convoluted ways to create underwater civs when evolution, the main feature of the game, was still hugely unfinished. |
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Post by The_Wayward_Admiral on Mar 6, 2016 14:48:34 GMT
Oliveriver I take it his (Sven's) jimmies are still a bit rustled. I had meant to comment on how awesome the article is, but there's not much I can add 
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Post by Oliveriver on Mar 6, 2016 15:08:44 GMT
Thanks! It turns out he also posted this thread around the time he returned. Luckily a friendly detective stepped in to get the story straight. |
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Post by The_Wayward_Admiral on Mar 6, 2016 15:18:01 GMT
I understand his frustration, but I hesitate to be comfortable with his manner of coping with it.
At any rate, the detective was excellent, and would that there were more internet users of his ilk.
Edit: And I certainly don't wish to derail your thread/engage in negativity accentuation.
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Post by The Uteen on Mar 7, 2016 0:01:55 GMT
I meant it as in people spent a lot of time and energy thinking about the advanced, often unnecessary features of later stages when they didn't have the basics in place first. For instance, coming up with increasingly convoluted ways to create underwater civs when evolution, the main feature of the game, was still hugely unfinished. Fair enough. I've moved the discussion of Sven, and Thrive's history, over to its own thread. |
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Post by lowry on Mar 7, 2016 0:26:36 GMT
Please beat me with a massive stick if I'm wrong [ or out of sadistic pleasure  ] but couldn't we use articles like this to persuade companies / third parties into backing or even mentioning thrive? Just a thought. I'll just await that stick... That lovely stick....... Stick. |
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Post by Poisson on Mar 7, 2016 1:28:10 GMT
Do we still have a list of these people? They deserve an honorable mention in the credits. ~sciocont was one of them… And as much as we like to criticise him, Sven made the post that was the inspiration for this whole idea, and set up the forums. Was Poisson around back then? I think Noitulove might have been. And there were others, some of whom never made it to the Thrive era. I was around, as was Noitulove. I remember RedStarSound as well was a big figure back in those days. |
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] but couldn't we use articles like this to persuade companies / third parties into backing or even mentioning thrive?