Portia Plays · Portias Publishing LLC
Developer posts and news about this game.
The clearest thing people told us about the demo was that there was too much on screen too early. A station console, a tape deck, a puzzle shelf and a panel of systems, all at once, before you had lit anything. So the demo has been rebuilt around the first hour. THE DEMO, UPDATED
Two days after the big one, a patch. Most of it came from watching people play the last build. Mac players: please try again If you played the demo on a Mac through Steam this past week, it ran at about 20 frames per second, and that was our bug, not your machine. The Steam overl
First demo update since August 20, and it is a big one. Here is everything that changed. The opening The game now opens on a Portia Plays studio card, then the title emerges out of black over a living star field. Any click or key skips ahead. First-time players skip the card and
The demo is live You can play Stellar Nursery right now, free, on this page. The demo runs from a dead solar system through the first Reignite, which is somewhere around two hours depending on how much you poke at things. Everything past that point is in the full game, and the de
Idle games have a reputation, and we understood it going in. Numbers go up, you close the tab. We built one anyway, because the part we actually wanted to make was the part nobody expects to find. Here is a full accounting of one of those layers: the 122 ways you can change how S
Someone asked whether the "Deep Invest" button next to a quick action was just a bigger version of the same thing. It is not. Every deep action in the Nurture console opens its own real minigame, and until now the only way to know that was to click one yourself. So here are all f
Every panel in Stellar Nursery is custom. No UI framework, no template. This is a close look at the console. The tape deck is a real tape deck. A cassette with its own handwritten label, spinning reels, a live VU meter, EQ bars, and bass and treble knobs that answer when you turn