Howdy there Portal Walkers! I’ve been busy for the past few weeks adding new features at a furious pace! The first two Gathering Skills, Fishing and Mining, have been added and have been a really fun addition to the game so far. There’s not much you can do at the moment except gather a whole bunch of fish and ore, but the leader boards that I put up on my Twitch game development live stream have added a whole new dimension to this early testing phase of building the game! The other day I was hanging out by Seaside Village and four or five players were competing for the available fishing spots, to the point that some of them were getting in fights and killing each other! Working as intended.
I also managed to add an item storage vault to the banks in the game, all without giving up and deciding to sell my computer to live forever in a remote shack in the Australian outback! With all the fish and ore players were stocking up on, they needed more room to store their stuff, and do I not give the people what they want? So feel free to make some space in your bag, because a ton of new items will be coming soon!
I’m currently working on bringing Crafting Skills to Portal Walker, starting with the Cooking crafting skill, pretty much because it will have the least amount of recipes at the start (the only thing to cook right now are fish), which made it the ideal candidate for the first system to build the core crafting system around. I think it’s going to take me at least a few more days than I had originally anticipated to get Cooking ready and have players gathering around the fire for the biggest fish fry Portal Walker has ever seen, but I can guarantee it will be worth it! The new crafting system is going to be EPIC!
Other than that, being back on Twitch has been a blast! Old viewers returned at a surprising and heartwarming pace, and new viewers have been trickling in at record pace! Twitch viewers are starting to pitch in here and there, which is awesome! Portal Walker fishing fanatic HydralisQue has started to put together a Portal Walker Wiki page, so if you know your stuff you can head over there to help out and add to the wiki, and new players can pop over to the wiki if they need help finding something. Way to go! I’ve also been trying to be a little more active on the official Portal Walker Twitter and Facebook pages, and particularly plan on using Twitter as the primary place users can check for the latest updates regarding Portal Walker when I’m not streaming or available in game. One day I’ll display the latest news somewhere inside the game, but for now Twitter is the easiest thing for me to update at any time, from anywhere.
Speaking of which, I’m taking the next day or two off to go fishing. In real life. I’ll try and get some work done on the game during the downtime, specifically I plan on grabbing a new pen and notebook before I head up to the lake. I think it’ll be a good opportunity to get a bunch of my ideas down on paper, as well as come up with some new ones. Try not to break the server until I get back! And big time thanks to all the awesome people that have been playing Portal Walker and supporting my Twitch stream! You guys make it all worth it! <3