Hey Portians,

We hope you’re all enjoying the festive period as we approach 2018 and the release of My Time At Portia on Early Access! (We’re rather excited!)

Today’s update is a request for your support on My Time At Portia’s release day this January as we help mark the occasion with the use of Thunderclap, a social media tool that we hope to use to spread the word that the gates of Portia are open and all are welcome.


To share more insight with those not familiar with Thunderclap, it allows a single message to be mass-shared across social networks at one, crucial time – empowering you to create action and attention like never before. It’s free, costs nothing to use and all you need is an existing Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr page!


We can't wait for gamers to experience the enchanting world of Portia next year and you can help make the Early Access launch truly special by spreading the word about My Time At Portia even further. The more people that play the game, the better we’ll be able to support you all!

Join the My Time At Portia Thunderclap

Thank you for your support,

Pathea Games & Team17

Hey Portians,

We hope you’re all enjoying the festive period as we approach 2018 and the release of My Time At Portia on Early Access! (We’re rather excited!)

Today’s update is a request for your support on My Time At Portia’s release day this January as we help mark the occasion with the use of Thunderclap, a social media tool that we hope to use to spread the word that the gates of Portia are open and all are welcome.


To share more insight with those not familiar with Thunderclap, it allows a single message to be mass-shared across social networks at one, crucial time – empowering you to create action and attention like never before. It’s free, costs nothing to use and all you need is an existing Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr page!


We can't wait for gamers to experience the enchanting world of Portia next year and you can help make the Early Access launch truly special by spreading the word about My Time At Portia even further. The more people that play the game, the better we’ll be able to support you all!

Join the My Time At Portia Thunderclap

Thank you for your support,

Pathea Games & Team17

Today we're very excited to share with you that My Time at Portia will launch on Steam Early Access January 23rd 2018!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quIhfjC-jpA

Getting to this point wouldn't have been possible without the incredible support from you, the community - the Kickstarter Backers, Wishlisters, Demo/Alpha Players and forum users.

Thank you, we can't wait for the gates of Portia to formally open and to share this adventure with you.


Many of you have already had a taste of what's to come in My Time at Portia, but for those who are yet to play, get ready to...

• Build your Workshop:Build your Pa’s derelict workshop into the best in Portia! Gather resources and craft your way into the hearts of the local community, as you work through daily commissions and villager requests
  
  
• Run your own Farm: Grow and nurture your own crops and convert the empty woodland surrounding your home into a quaint little farm! My Time at Portia offers an innovative approach to farming, allowing you to take advantage of planter boxes and semi-automatic irrigation systems
  
  
• Get creative: Make your house a home! Apply your personal touch with an exciting range of craftable furniture, decorations and room upgrades
  
  
• Join the community: Become a part of Portia’s extraordinary community! Filled with a vibrant cast of unforgettable faces all with exciting stories to share, energetic personalities and individual behaviours. Make sure you take the time to get to know them all – who knows, maybe romance could be in the air?
  
  
• Explore and Battle: Delve deep into the ancient ruins and dungeons of Portia. Mine for resources and uncover what lurks beneath the seemingly peaceful land. It’s dangerous to go unprepared… Make sure you’re equipped to face fearsome monsters and deadly bosses that stand between you and the secrets of Portia
  
  
• & More: There’s lots more additions planned for My Time at Portia while it’s in Early Access, join now and help craft not only your workshop but the game too!

For those of you yet to play My Time at Portia you can download the free demo HERE.

Don't forget to add us to your Steam Wishlist!


Join the conversation beyond Steam:

• Like us on Facebook
  
• Follow us on Twitter
  
• Join us for a chat on Discord

We hope you're as excited as we are for January 23rd! We'd love to hear what you think in the comments section below and over on the forums.

Today we're very excited to share with you that My Time at Portia will launch on Steam Early Access January 23rd 2018!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quIhfjC-jpA

Getting to this point wouldn't have been possible without the incredible support from you, the community - the Kickstarter Backers, Wishlisters, Demo/Alpha Players and forum users.

Thank you, we can't wait for the gates of Portia to formally open and to share this adventure with you.


Many of you have already had a taste of what's to come in My Time at Portia, but for those who are yet to play, get ready to...

• Build your Workshop:Build your Pa’s derelict workshop into the best in Portia! Gather resources and craft your way into the hearts of the local community, as you work through daily commissions and villager requests
  
  
• Run your own Farm: Grow and nurture your own crops and convert the empty woodland surrounding your home into a quaint little farm! My Time at Portia offers an innovative approach to farming, allowing you to take advantage of planter boxes and semi-automatic irrigation systems
  
  
• Get creative: Make your house a home! Apply your personal touch with an exciting range of craftable furniture, decorations and room upgrades
  
  
• Join the community: Become a part of Portia’s extraordinary community! Filled with a vibrant cast of unforgettable faces all with exciting stories to share, energetic personalities and individual behaviours. Make sure you take the time to get to know them all – who knows, maybe romance could be in the air?
  
  
• Explore and Battle: Delve deep into the ancient ruins and dungeons of Portia. Mine for resources and uncover what lurks beneath the seemingly peaceful land. It’s dangerous to go unprepared… Make sure you’re equipped to face fearsome monsters and deadly bosses that stand between you and the secrets of Portia
  
  
• & More: There’s lots more additions planned for My Time at Portia while it’s in Early Access, join now and help craft not only your workshop but the game too!

For those of you yet to play My Time at Portia you can download the free demo HERE.

Don't forget to add us to your Steam Wishlist!


Join the conversation beyond Steam:

• Like us on Facebook
  
• Follow us on Twitter
  
• Join us for a chat on Discord

We hope you're as excited as we are for January 23rd! We'd love to hear what you think in the comments section below and over on the forums.

Hey Portians!
Today we’d like to share some details with you about one of the new systems we’ve been working on...The jealousy system!
Right now, as some of you might know, it’s possible to date more than one person at the same time in Portia. We’ve since decided we’d like to give dating in Portia more depth, so we’ve started to work a jealousy system into the game.


When you share your feelings with someone and he/she accepts it, you’ll enter into a romantic relationship with that person. You’ll hang out and spend quality time together, as you’d expect! However, if you’re out with one partner and another one of your dates get to see you dating someone else…well…there’ll be trouble as jealousy erupts!






So what’s the result of all this? Well firstly it’ll interrupt your date as the jealous individual storms over to you. Then you’ll be confronted and things will start to get embarrassing for you.

Following on from that initial encounter your relationships with these two NPCs will be negatively impacted and you won’t be able to perform daily talks with them (regular mission conversation will not be affected). You’ll need to spend seven days of jealousy time with them to atone for your behavior. If you want to speed up the healing process, rather than spend seven days atoning, you’ll have the option to complete some tasks for them or gift them some presents.






Even If you’re married, you’ll still have the option to date someone else at the same time, but be warned, if you stray into infidelity you’ll be punished; your marriage will turn into an ‘Unfortunate Marriage’! Your relationship will suffer, your spouse will move to live somewhere else and you’ll stop getting benefits from them. We’re also considering adding a divorce feature, which we’ll share more about in the future…

We’re not encouraging players to cheat, we are however giving players the freedom to do as they please when it comes to forming bonds in My Time at Portia, you’ll just need to consider the consequences of your actions.

One extreme example of this is if you’re in a relationship with a large portion of the town and they all come to confront you when you’re on a date, that’s going to cause quite the spectacle…You should probably start running too.


The jealousy system is still a work in progress, with most features being released when version 4.0 launches, however Kickstarter Backers should keep an eye out for early additions of the jealousy system in version 3.5 as we’re hoping to get this new feature working as soon as possible.

As always we’d love to hear what you think of the jealousy update, so leave a comment here on Steam, send us a tweet to @MyTimeatPortia, hang out in the official Discord or drop us an email to admin@pathea.net!

Hey Portians!
Today we’d like to share some details with you about one of the new systems we’ve been working on...The jealousy system!
Right now, as some of you might know, it’s possible to date more than one person at the same time in Portia. We’ve since decided we’d like to give dating in Portia more depth, so we’ve started to work a jealousy system into the game.


When you share your feelings with someone and he/she accepts it, you’ll enter into a romantic relationship with that person. You’ll hang out and spend quality time together, as you’d expect! However, if you’re out with one partner and another one of your dates get to see you dating someone else…well…there’ll be trouble as jealousy erupts!






So what’s the result of all this? Well firstly it’ll interrupt your date as the jealous individual storms over to you. Then you’ll be confronted and things will start to get embarrassing for you.

Following on from that initial encounter your relationships with these two NPCs will be negatively impacted and you won’t be able to perform daily talks with them (regular mission conversation will not be affected). You’ll need to spend seven days of jealousy time with them to atone for your behavior. If you want to speed up the healing process, rather than spend seven days atoning, you’ll have the option to complete some tasks for them or gift them some presents.






Even If you’re married, you’ll still have the option to date someone else at the same time, but be warned, if you stray into infidelity you’ll be punished; your marriage will turn into an ‘Unfortunate Marriage’! Your relationship will suffer, your spouse will move to live somewhere else and you’ll stop getting benefits from them. We’re also considering adding a divorce feature, which we’ll share more about in the future…

We’re not encouraging players to cheat, we are however giving players the freedom to do as they please when it comes to forming bonds in My Time at Portia, you’ll just need to consider the consequences of your actions.

One extreme example of this is if you’re in a relationship with a large portion of the town and they all come to confront you when you’re on a date, that’s going to cause quite the spectacle…You should probably start running too.


The jealousy system is still a work in progress, with most features being released when version 4.0 launches, however Kickstarter Backers should keep an eye out for early additions of the jealousy system in version 3.5 as we’re hoping to get this new feature working as soon as possible.

As always we’d love to hear what you think of the jealousy update, so leave a comment here on Steam, send us a tweet to @MyTimeatPortia, hang out in the official Discord or drop us an email to admin@pathea.net!

We’re back to share with you the latest update on My Time at Portia’s development as well some more information on a couple of new features our eligible Kickstarter backers will be able to make use of in our Alpha 3.5 update.


Kickstarter Backers that have played the latest version will have noticed that the save system in the game has been changed! We’ve removed the original save system which was sorted by time and replaced it with one sorted by characters following the Alpha 3.5 update.

In previous versions of My Time at Portia players were able to have up to 24 save files at the same time. However, we’ve noticed that a lot of our players share the game with their families. This means the chances are that they’ll have multiple characters using up save slots on one account. What’s more, an auto-save will be created every day in-game. These factors led us to the conclusion that 24 save spaces is not quite enough for these multiple characters with multiple auto saves every day.



Moving into version 3.5 the save system has been changed into one sorted by different characters. Now players can save up to 100 characters, and each character can have 6 saves. We feel this will make the auto saves as well as saving/loading the game easier to manage.




Those of you playing on a Kickstarter, non-demo build probably noticed that we’ve been putting a lot of chairs in Portia town, which until now had little purpose. We heard you loud and clear when you fed back that you wanted to be able to interact with these chairs, so we’ve changed things up a bit…
We’d always planned for players to be able to interact with the various items found in Portia, we just weren’t planning on putting this feature live in the Alpha version of My Time at Portia. But thanks to community feedback we’ve started to add this function into the game since update 3.5 and going forward we’ll continue to build upon this feature.

The added player interaction with the chairs isn’t just for show, they bring a benefit to the player character! Sitting on a chair will now restores one stamina every five seconds! What’s more, if the chair looks like a luxury one with a fancy appearance then it will restore even more stamina. Keep in mind though, this isn’t the most efficient way to restore your stamina. There are better ways, but we’ll let you discover those yourself for now…





The changes to saved games and the addition of usable chairs are just two of many new features we’ve added in version 3.5. Some of the mechanics for these new additions, such as the maximum number of save files for each character, or the stamina the players can get restored every second, can be changed in the later game update. So if you have any feedback or suggestions on either of these we’d love you hear from you! You’re welcome to leave us a message about it here on Steam, via our Twitter @MyTimeatPortia or email us via admin@pathea.net.

If you’re playing the demo version of My Time at Portia and would like to see some of the new updates in action be sure to watch Portian LadyShelab’s latest YouTube video where she covers some of the new content in update 3.5!

Don't forget to add My Time at Portia to your Steam Wishlist and be first off the boat when My Time at Portia launches into Early Access in 2018.

See you in Portia!

We’re back to share with you the latest update on My Time at Portia’s development as well some more information on a couple of new features our eligible Kickstarter backers will be able to make use of in our Alpha 3.5 update.


Kickstarter Backers that have played the latest version will have noticed that the save system in the game has been changed! We’ve removed the original save system which was sorted by time and replaced it with one sorted by characters following the Alpha 3.5 update.

In previous versions of My Time at Portia players were able to have up to 24 save files at the same time. However, we’ve noticed that a lot of our players share the game with their families. This means the chances are that they’ll have multiple characters using up save slots on one account. What’s more, an auto-save will be created every day in-game. These factors led us to the conclusion that 24 save spaces is not quite enough for these multiple characters with multiple auto saves every day.



Moving into version 3.5 the save system has been changed into one sorted by different characters. Now players can save up to 100 characters, and each character can have 6 saves. We feel this will make the auto saves as well as saving/loading the game easier to manage.




Those of you playing on a Kickstarter, non-demo build probably noticed that we’ve been putting a lot of chairs in Portia town, which until now had little purpose. We heard you loud and clear when you fed back that you wanted to be able to interact with these chairs, so we’ve changed things up a bit…
We’d always planned for players to be able to interact with the various items found in Portia, we just weren’t planning on putting this feature live in the Alpha version of My Time at Portia. But thanks to community feedback we’ve started to add this function into the game since update 3.5 and going forward we’ll continue to build upon this feature.

The added player interaction with the chairs isn’t just for show, they bring a benefit to the player character! Sitting on a chair will now restores one stamina every five seconds! What’s more, if the chair looks like a luxury one with a fancy appearance then it will restore even more stamina. Keep in mind though, this isn’t the most efficient way to restore your stamina. There are better ways, but we’ll let you discover those yourself for now…





The changes to saved games and the addition of usable chairs are just two of many new features we’ve added in version 3.5. Some of the mechanics for these new additions, such as the maximum number of save files for each character, or the stamina the players can get restored every second, can be changed in the later game update. So if you have any feedback or suggestions on either of these we’d love you hear from you! You’re welcome to leave us a message about it here on Steam, via our Twitter @MyTimeatPortia or email us via admin@pathea.net.

If you’re playing the demo version of My Time at Portia and would like to see some of the new updates in action be sure to watch Portian LadyShelab’s latest YouTube video where she covers some of the new content in update 3.5!

Don't forget to add My Time at Portia to your Steam Wishlist and be first off the boat when My Time at Portia launches into Early Access in 2018.

See you in Portia!

This is just a small update of 3.53.

Changelist:

Added the new output - the ring from the fishing, and the ring will trigger a new mission.
Added the fence and the tips before the hazardous dungeon go alive.
Fixed the crash bug when load the save files with the fish tank.
Fixed the initialization error of fish tank data.
Fixed the bug while playing with the controller.
Fixed the crash bug while continue the game without choosing one existed hairstyle.
Fixed the recount bug when get the new material after you got the full inventory.
Edited the scripts in English and Chinese.
Fixed the crash bug when place the cooking set indoor and then load the save files.
Fixed the crash bug when trees re-grow.

This is just a small update of 3.53.

Changelist:

Added the new output - the ring from the fishing, and the ring will trigger a new mission.
Added the fence and the tips before the hazardous dungeon go alive.
Fixed the crash bug when load the save files with the fish tank.
Fixed the initialization error of fish tank data.
Fixed the bug while playing with the controller.
Fixed the crash bug while continue the game without choosing one existed hairstyle.
Fixed the recount bug when get the new material after you got the full inventory.
Edited the scripts in English and Chinese.
Fixed the crash bug when place the cooking set indoor and then load the save files.
Fixed the crash bug when trees re-grow.