Hey Portal Wanderers!

We've got great news for your ears — the Portal Fantasy: Original Soundtrack is Now Available!
Take the music of Pyli with you wherever you go!
Featuring 38 beautifully composed tracks by Ostinarium, this is the first time these tracks are available in their full length and highest quality. And 3 of them are bonuses not even present in the game. Enjoy 2 hours of music anywhere.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3637600/Portal_Fantasy_Original_Soundtrack/


And to celebrate this release and the fact that we are part of Steam's Creature Collector Fest, we’ve got some beastly bundle deals to celebrate:

For the duration of the event, you can grab Portal Fantasy and the newly released soundtrack together at half the price!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/52030/Creature_Collector_Fest/


Looking for a more laid-back vibe after some porble battles? We’ve teamed up with the wonderful folks behind Galactic Getaway to offer a special bundle for fans of cozy collecting. Check them out

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/53522/Cozy_Collector/



And finally, we have started sending the codes for the blue cat familiar to those who had enrolled in our newsletter. If you haven't received yours yet it will arrive in the next few days.

More surprises are on the horizon — but for now, enjoy the tunes, explore those bundles, and give your new blue cat a pat from us.

See you in Pyli!
– The Portal Fantasy Team

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Thank you for reading this development diary for Portal Fantasy. We will keep them until the game is finished, and if you are interested, please add the game to your wishlist on STEAM!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2464460/Portal_Fantasy

Between bank holidays, a couple of Spring colds in the team, this update took a bit longer.

But it is a meaty one. In fact, so meaty that we ended up fusing 2 releases in one.


Version 1.0.12 / 1.0.13


- Fixed some situations where crafted shovels would not work as planned
- Issue fixed with the dragon cave where players could get stuck in a loop.
- Majesty 2 and Majesty 3 Steam achievements should trigger now if they didn't work for you in the past (if you start the game, they will appear)


- Fable chest can no longer give recipes for majesty stones, but will give majesty stones instead
- Fixed merchant in Under City, where, in some cases, purchases were not possible
- Fixed issue with recipe access in Springbloom
- Fixed a scenario where, after Silent Woods, Rudder conversation would not trigger the next quests immediately.
- Fixed Animkiig NPC animation not playing
- Fixed the hermit quest gate not opening after the end of the quest at Clear Water Crater, unless the game was restarted for some players
- Added extra support for NPC appear effect, which should remove the possibility of NPCS not spawning when they should.
- Fix for Dread Form and Eldritch Nightmate battle icons
- Majesty stones made Tier 3 treasure drop rather than Tier 4


- Improved some colliders in several maps to allow better passage and more fluid movement
- Improved Springbloom puzzle system since there was a chance players could lock themselves out after a specific set of actions.
- The End Game message has been rewritten to avoid confusion
- Updating default icon for gear effects
- Official controller input icons for Steam Deck
- Adding placeholders for status in-battle status effects + tooltips (working on the final ones as fast as possible, but wanted to give you guys something there already)
- Added some improvements that should support more controller models (do let us know in the Steam forums if this affects you still)


- The Portal maps now highlight when you unlock a new map inside a biome
- Redeem codes have been removed from the main menu, to avoid a situation where players would redeem the codes before starting a new game, and items would be lost (and caused some issues with players with keyboards? )

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There are some issues we are still investigating and solving as soon as possible

- In the Steam Deck, due to the increase of font in some areas the font overflows
- Reports of lag in some battles
- Player reports of battles freezing after a certain point (we are investigating what item , skill, porble is causing it)

If you have anything else we haven't spotted, please reach out to us in the Steam forum or just add Haron as friend (they live in Steam now)
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/profiles/76561199527335829/

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Thanks for the support, and we will carry on trying to make Portal Fantasy the best game we can make.
Found something weird in the game? Please report it in the Steam discussion group, and we will try and sort it as fast as possible.

Hey there. As you noticed we got slowed down this week. Unfortunately the blackout that affected some parts of Europe affected many of us.

But we are back and ready for more improvements.

Apart from fixes this version includes an improvement requested by some Steam Deck users. We increaced the font size there. Hopefully this will help you all and avoid any eye strain. Let us know what you think if you are using one.

We are still working on other QOLs like Steam cloud save and will keep you posted when those come out


Here is the full list for version 1.0.11



- The Golden Gorge cave merchant finally sells shovels as intended. (Sorry, they thought they were just supposed to show how pretty they were.)

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- The sign inside the Acorn Village town hall now shows the intended text
- Fixed the unreachable recipe behind the pink tree in Silent Woods
- Stella now shows her portrait when speaking in Silent Woods as intended
- Fixed some situations where wild porbles would spawn with some health missing


- Several collisions in different maps have been improved to allow a better passage and movement in those areas.

- Larger font for the Steam Deck to help with a more comfortable play and to alleviate a bit for anyone with some minor eyesight issues

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Thanks for the support, and we will carry on trying to make Portal Fantasy the best game we can make.
Found something weird in the game? Please report it in the Steam discussion group, and we will try and sort it as fast as possible.

Never has a detour taken so long. This is the 3rd fix to the same quest, but from recent reports, it finally seems we covered all potential paths that could lead to blockages there.

Also in this update we tracked down why some naughty wisps were still causing damage even while they were blue.

As usual, on Sunday the team takes the time off, so no update tomorrow.

We want to do some QOLs next week based on some feedback we got from you and the way you guys play the game, so keep an eye out for those

Here is the full list

Version 1.0.10


- Introduced yet another fix for yet another scenario of the Detour quest (never has a detour taken so much more time)


- Colliders in wrong spot for flipped objectswhich was the case of some trees in Storm Coast (sorry folks no more hugging the trees there)
- Fix wisps sometimes causing damage after idling in friendly mode
- Fixed a certain secret passage to the Under City that was not working under certain circumstances


- One Step Ahead passive's Initial momentum boost was optimized
- Several platforms puzzles and collisions have been improved to allow a more fluid feel
- Various quest fixes for potential play routes that could cause blocks or weird behaviours

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Thanks for the support, and we will carry on trying to make Portal Fantasy the best game we can make.
Found something weird in the game? Please report it in the Steam discussion group, and we will try and sort it as fast as possible.

Another back to back update versions. Just take this opportunity to say it's your reports and that allow us to tackle the issues as fast as we can


Here is the full list

Version 1.0.8 & 1.0.9



- 3rd Catacomb Boss boss battle, where it would not play the animation in some cases
- Detour Quest update, where if the player avoided fighting Yves it could mess up the quest
- Shaman dialogue now plays correctly for all players, allowing the quest to progress.


- Image fixes for some porbles that were displaying incorrectly in some areas
- Image fixes in some passives
- Bug fixed where moving platforms would not re-activate after using the settings menu, forcing another menu to be opened to solve it
- Crystal Shovel treasure(s) fixed
- Distwirl Plain moving platform fixes
- Fabled chests giving you actual majesty stones and not majesty stone recipes (upsy, if you got affected by this, reach out to Haron )


- Some passive icons were resized for better looks
- Improvements in some porbles animations' alignments
- Update to the low FPS detection logic so that it does not count when the game is inactive.

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Thanks for the support, and we will carry on trying to make Portal Fantasy the best game we can make.
Found something weird in the game? Please report it in the Steam discussion group, and we will try and sort it as fast as possible.

Ok lots of stuff in this one so we will just go straight into the full list

Version 1.0.7


- The Grim Spiral quest not finishing in certain conditions has now been fixed
- Dustwhirl plain platform fix to avoid a frozen platform under certain conditions
- 3rd Dungeon puzzles reset on exit to avoid specific situations where the player would get locked out
- Solved an issue where, under certain conditions, Axolil could cause battles to crash


- Fixed Lambast passive icon
- Aqua cove shows its name on the portal map
- Underwater Porble on Storm Keep is no longer inaccessible due to the colliders
- Sturdy hat no longer glitches (sorry, no hat for you, Backrooms)
- Various level design collision and problematic tiles tweaks across many maps
- Fabled Chest content fix to give out majesty stones ( and not it's recipes)


- NPCS will stop moving when any player menu is open
- Improved in-battle feedback when Lambast is in effect
- Improved description for gears that grant Reflect
- Masked Man on Golden Gorge now gives you a shovel for his quest step in case you don't have one
- The merchant in Golden Gorge cave now also sells a shovel
- All varieties of shovels have been revisited to avoid situations where they don't work

- A low FPS message displays in Battles when detected
- New prizes on the wheel of fortune (fortune's sway)
- Black market seller shops are now available
- Bigger inventory for the Dream Merchant shop

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Thanks for the support, and we will carry on trying to make Portal Fantasy the best game we can make.
Found something weird in the game? Please report it in the Steam discussion group, and we will try and sort it as fast as possible.

With this update, we had to make a hard decision.
Our colouring system was causing some issues in some porbles and causing errors when players tried to evolve them.
We are working on fixing it, but it will take some days to have them all working as intended. So we opted for a bit more dramatic move. You should be able to evolve all porbles that can be evolved to Majesty 3 fine. But in the cases where the dyes would cause a problem, the dyes will be removed.
To make up for this, a COMPENSATION CODE TO BE RELEASED IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS which will include enough dyes to set your porbles back to being the living canvas you always wanted.

We are also aware of some areas that are causing some issues with quest progress, and we are fixing them (many already are in test stage) and will be pushed as soon as possible, hopefully tomorrow

Here is the full list of this update log

Version 1.0.6



- Fixed an error when evolving to Majesty 3 with dyed porbles for some species that was causing errors and not allowing the evolutions. In those cases, the Porble will evolve but lose custom colours. (COMPENSATION CODE TO BE RELEASED IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS)


- Prevention of the Fusion UI from allowing you to place 1st level majesty stones when doing more advanced majesty evolutions in some altars.
- Some baddie battles with broken Porbles (black boxes) were fixed
- Image fixes in some porbles



- Moving platforms now pause when players open menus, avoiding void falls
- Cleaning of some dialogues (minor typos)

- Carry on work with the antivirus companies to fully whitelist all files in the game to prevent false risk warnings

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Thanks for the support, and we will carry on trying to make Portal Fantasy the best game we can make.
Found something weird in the game? Please report it in the Steam discussion group, and we will try and sort it as fast as possible.

2 updates back to back today

The main highlights are a major fix that should help players with Steam Deck models that had problems starting the game.
The other is the addition of the possibility of enabling v-synch if desired under the settings.
By default, it will be off as it has been to this point, but if you want, you can enable it (this will cause the game to close and has to be restarted). We will add a confirmation message in a later version, but we wanted to enable this option for all of you as fast as possible.



Here is the full list

Version 1.0.4 & 1.0.5


- Improvements for the launcher to solve issues that, in some machines (mainly some Steam Deck models), were preventing the game from starting.


- The quest "Prove Yourself" should now trigger properly and open the gate
- Fixed a small issue where, under very specific conditions, a 100% chance scroll would fail


- The letter in the intro flashback was moved to make it more obvious for the quest
- Discord button removed from the gameplay to not cover anything


- New V-Synch option in settings. By default, it is off (as it was before), but now players can enable it if so desired.


Probably no updates tomorrow, Easter Sunday, as the team does need a break to recharge from the last few days and to spend time with family and friends. Good old Haron will still be around, but the replies might take a bit longer than usual.
Monday, it will be back to business

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Thanks for the support, and we will carry on trying to make Portal Fantasy the best game we can make.
Found something weird in the game? Please report it in the Steam discussion group, and we will try and sort it as fast as possible.

Told you we would get 1.0.3 soon as well. It's currently past midnight for most of the team, but we wanted to make sure these were out as soon as possible, especially the lag situation that was affecting some of you around Silent woods and later. (caused by inventory size increase, it seems)

Here is the full list

Version 1.0.3


- Massive optimisation related to lags in the game with dialogues and inventory as the game progresses for some players


- Solved and issued where the game could sometimes detect a controller as being connected twice with some models.
- Solved issue introduced with 1.0.2 where the augments could not be altered under certain conditions
- Solved an issue where hidden triggers for quests or still locked quests would show a yellow ? with no active quest
- Solved an issue with some porbles where their shadow animation was missing, causing some graphical errors
- Revised some quests where the steps weren't triggering for some players


- The issue was solved where some looped SFX were ignoring the volume setting
- Dar in the fusion lab finally has their portrait loading in all cases as it should from the start
- Optimised some momentum gains based on player feedback
- Changed some dialogues and quest descriptions for better clarity


- McAfee has already whitelisted our affected game files, and we expect the other antivirus companies that are reporting the same false red flags to do the same soon.

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Thanks for the support, and we will carry on trying to make Portal Fantasy the best game we can make.
Found something weird in the game? Please report it in the Steam discussion group, and we will try and sort it as fast as possible.