Lockbox Update

Wait, what's that? You can now store your bag in your lockbox for safe-keeping from all those griefers?

Unwrapping Joy: A Township Tale's Christmas 2023 Update is Here!

Update 0.1.5 is out

Update 0.1.5 introduces a new seasonal experience, fixes quality-of-life issues and enhances climbing!

Tavern Update - Servers Page

Hi everyone! We've rolled out a large update to the Tavern website. https://tavern.townshiptale.com/servers This update allows for you to view and manage servers from any browser. Thank you to all our supporters who helped test and provide feedback over the past few weeks.

The Tale of Balsakaen

Long ago, the stars twinkled and told a tale yet to come. A tale of despair for the present and hidden promise for the future. Such was written the fate of this little group of mountain dwellers. Yet steadfast they were in their ways, trusting in their own grandeur.

Coming Up, Climbing!

Hello everyone! Joel here! It’s been a while since I’ve done a blog post. I’m one of the founders here at Alta, and stoked to be the one bringing you todays amazing news. In two weeks time, your adventures in A Township Tale will be taken to new heights! We’re adding a large tower near the edge of the map, within which you can unlock the ability to climb anywhere in the world.

Alta Logs #11: Let's Talk Social Tablet!

Since the Social Tablet is a brand new feature, I’d like to introduce everyone to what is possible with it, and open the floor for feedback.

Alta Logs #9: Q&A Session 2

Good day, Townsfolk, and Happy Friday! In this Log, we are diving a little deeper into the production process on Tower, and what kind of work we have been putting in to get us to where we are currently. I've written up a few key questions that ya'll might be interested in getting some more information on, and some Alta folks from Design, Art, and Tech have taken the time to give some insight.

Alta Logs #7: Intros - Production

Now that y’all are familiar with our new Designers, I thought I would introduce some of the folks that keep things on track around here: our <b>Production team</b>! The newest members of the crew are <b>Katie, Nik, and Facundo</b>– and each of them manage different departments here at Alta: Engineering, Art, and Executive, respectively. Please give them a warm welcome– and without further ado…

Alta Logs #5: Q&A Session 1

Good day, Townsfolk, and we hope you’re well! I’m happy to report that development is continuing on Tower, and we are making progress. In the meantime, we’ve taken a look at all of the questions you asked in the last blog survey and whittled them down into a Q&A session. There’s responses from a few folks on the team here at Alta, including myself, Boramy, Sol, and James. We hope that the answers to these questions will provide insight into what’s happening here at the studio, as well as who we all are!

Alta Logs #3: To New Heights!

Boramy, our Creative Director, has given me some great insight into what he’s been working on. As we continue the Tower’s development, I’m happy to bring some exciting news regarding changes and updates to the Tower’s design, coming to both PC and Quest. There've been a lot of new design choices made with your feedback and experiences in mind, and they hopefully will produce a more inclusive and fun adventure. We can’t wait for everyone to be able to give climbing a try, and you might find a reward for doing so…

Alta Logs #1: Meet Cayde!

Hi everyone, and Happy New Year! First things first, let me introduce myself. My name is Cayde (they/he), and I recently joined as Alta’s Community Manager near the end of last year. Since then, I’ve been hearing a lot of feedback from the community about proactive communication, and we are listening! This blog, and the upcoming content alongside it, are meant to effectively communicate to you all: what’s going on at Alta, upcoming events, new releases, and introduce some of our team a little more. We are going into an exciting year in 2022 for Alta and *A Township Tale*, and we can’t wait to share with you what’s in store!

Quest - Post Early Access Update

So today has been a little bumpy to say the least. We know some of you have been having issues with the game, and we’re doing our best to fix things as fast as possible for you. Alta is a very small team, and we’ve been completely swamped the last eight hours, but we are working through all of your issues as fast as we can.

ATT On Oculus Quest!

Hey everyone! I hope you're enjoying the new website! This marks a new dawn for us here at Alta, especially since we've just announced **A Township Tale is coming to Quest!**

An Optimization Tale

Hey there, Victor here. For the past few updates we have slowed down the works on new content and prioritised the much needed Performance Optimisation. But what does that mean? What are we actually doing? I'd like to share a bit of what I learned with this project and discuss some of the optimisation techniques delivered in our recent updates.

2019 Sneak Peek

Wow wow wee wow, would you look at that? Another year goes by! Last year, we had another blog post that looked as to what changed with the game since our first public appearance ages ago. Now, we have so much more to celebrate, thanks to you! Here are some fun stats! You've become masters of the game, clocking in a total of 11,800+ hours of game time.

Quick Look: Lock Boxes

Eyy, what's going on. Holy Racoons, it's me again. Today I figured I'd go in deep about the lockboxes in our game. Their interaction is actually so simple, press and hold over this area, and then we trigger or move some objects. But because everything in the game uses physical actions, we actually never had this option to play with.

Durability is Back, Back Again

Hello, I'm doing alright, thanks. We want to start talking about updates a little more, so here is a bit of insight as to what the changes in the game mean for the grand scope of things. Usually that's somewhat described in our blogs as they follow features and videos, but here we're going to be a bit more direct.

It's All About The Hands

Hello everybody, it’s me again. I guess I’m writing most of the blogs. One of the fun challenges we have is coming up with ways to describe the game’s core. And in some very baseline sort of way, this video describes it.

Quick Look: Books and Pages

What is reading in A Township Tale all about? Well, it's not quite reading since there are no words. It's more like a cryptic picture book, that takes a bit of connecting two and two. And that's the best part.

Streaming a Physical World

This week we'll be releasing an update (0.0.5.0) where we've really started to address some issues around low FPS and lag problems, so I thought I might write a bit more of a technical blog post than usual to talk about one of the problems that we face. I will do more of these posts in the future if many of you enjoy it.

Quick Look: Woodcutting

Hello everybody, we're back today with a video showcasing some woodcutting fun! From now on, most of our blogs will be supported with a video, and to kick things off we're going into some fun details and try some random challenges with Timo.

A Township Tale - 2017 Recap

Hello everyone, Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Or happy Christmas and merry holidays...or holidays Christmas and merry happies. But that’s NOT what this post is about. Instead, we look at what this last year has meant for us, starting from right where we began.

A Township Tale The Game

Often we are asked what the game’s end goals are, and I guess they haven’t been explained very thoroughly. So here, we'll go into a deep dive into what drives you as a player in A Township Tale. We design this game to accommodate various play-styles, so there are what we’ll call peaceful and adventure oriented goals.

Deeper in the Caves

One of my personal favorite real life experiences is to go caving. Growing up, exploring caves in the jungle was so much fun. We’d go in with a torchlight, and look at the stalactites, the dips and crevasses in every cavern. We’d have to watch our footing, sometimes we’d need to crawl through openings and taking my face out of bat dropping-infested water, I’d be psyched to see where this path took us.

The Games Within The Game

People play games... Many types of games came up across history and every nation has their own traditional games. So we should definitely expect townsfolk in A Township Tale to play their own games as well!

Creating the Virtual You

Virtual Reality is hands down the most immersive experience a gamer can have, so it seems obvious to make an RPG, spending most of your time as the character you’ve created.

Then, There Was Fire!

A Township Tale at it's core is an RPG survival game. With an open-world, a day/night cycle, and a variety of dark and bright locations we need an easy lighting system.

The Journey So Far

Almost a year ago, we began working on A Township Tale. Boramy and I started playing some Virtual Reality games, and experimented around within our own project.