#game: my time at evershine

[myz-wykkyd]

I've continued to practice my pixel art and recently also decided to take a crack at doing a simple animation of my baby girl Rosalie. I'm extremely happy with how she turned out.<33

[sandrockers]

Just bringing this here so everyone can be in the know!

[theharlotofferelden]

Harassment within the My Time At Sandrock Community (and Pathea’s enabling of which)

For those who aren’t a part of the Pathea server or any related fan server, it’s a rather well known fact that Pathea is weirdly inconsistent about enforcing the rules with their server. I say “weirdly” not because it’s beyond understanding, but because the reasons I’ve been given are so utterly bizarre that they wouldn’t even be in the realm of something I would assume just based on my personal experiences with poor moderation.

As someone who has been a part of several Ye Olde Internet forums, I’ve had my share of bad mod experiences. When the issues weren’t the mods themselves, it was mods overextending themselves when the forum got too large (which usually happened when the forum was a part of a more “official” entity that didn’t want to hire more mods). The lack of mod oversight would often lead to extensive user harassment, as not having enough mods meant some folks just fell through the cracks.

Neither of these, to my knowledge, are the issues with Pathea’s server, but rather with the culture they’ve allowed to propagate in their community. I’ve spoken with a number of people who have confirmed that the real reasons they are neglectful is because of the relationship they have with certain users, namely the fear of “controversy” or “bad PR” from said users.

This has lead to a toxic environment within Pathea’s own server as they’re reluctant to ban certain users that have been targeting others within the community. And although the people being targeted aren’t all queer creators, a lot of them are.

This might not be anything new to folks in the know, but I figured I would talk about this on Tumblr because I haven’t seen anyone mention it yet. I also feel compelled to speak out on a related issue as Pathea’s issues with regulating their server extends to the enabling of user harassment across their socials.

One of my friends, Snowy, is being targeted by a user popular within the Pathea server. This person has been harassing them on Tumblr — starting earlier this year and persisting throughout — up until Snowy turned off anons. These are the receipts that Snowy posted to the Eufala Outback as proof that this has been going on for the last several months:

We all know who is doing this but are reluctant to name them, because they have somehow convinced a number of people close to them that Snowy is the one harassing them. And they’ve been working at this for a long time to where Snowy has repeatedly found themselves quietly blocked by folks they thought they were friends with.

More specifically, before anons were turned off, this situation was escalated by a person Snowy trusted with the knowledge of who this person was, thinking they were trustworthy enough to speak with them about the harassment they’ve been dealing with for several months. Instead, this person turned around and told the person who’s been harassing them about what they said, and then proceeded to spread lies that Snowy was the one harassing the person who’s been sending them anon hate.

Interestingly, being tangentially involved in all of this resulted in me being removed (and I think, banned considering I can no longer find the sever when I search for it on Discord) from a fan server I signal boosted a while back. I genuinely do not know what was told to the people in charge of this server, but seeing as they were unwilling to speak with Snowy to corroborate the story, and decided my mere association with them was enough to have me removed from the server, I don’t feel I’m being unfair by saying they’re complicit in the harassment of Snowy.

In any case, this has escalated further to where now these people recently got Snowy suspended as mod of Pathea’s official subreddits. The reasons being that the mods were receiving multiple complaints from different users claiming — without any evidence, mind you — that Snowy was harassing people.

When Snowy tried to appeal the ban by showing the Pathea mods that it was actually them that was the target of harassment, they responded that they wouldn’t repeal the decision because “they didn’t want controversy,” and, in Snowy’s own words, “Pathea didn’t even want to read my receipts.”

I’m making this post because I feel that this will not end here. I feel that logically the next step these people will take is to get Snowy banned from the official subreddit as well as the Pathea server. They have already made it a point to ostracize them from a number of people within the community, and Pathea being complicit in this makes me doubt that they’re willing to prevent that from happening. And so my only recourse is to make a post about it on Tumblr to make people more aware of this is going on.

To the folks who are involved: I think you should reconsider what you’ve heard regarding this matter. I’ve spoken to a few friends who are not a part of the MTAS fandom, and they all agree this is probably the worst case of harassment we’ve seen in a long time. The person spearheading this is literally employing DARVO tactics to mislead those around them while simultaneously making them complicit in the harassment of my friend. And all over a (harmless) fictional ship from a video game (that happens to be of a gay couple. I mention the ship being gay because that seems relevant to the reason for the harassment.).

With that said, I’m pretty much done with Pathea. I might still talk about and create fanworks for Sandrock, but I’m not playing Evershine until Pathea fixes the culture on their Discord server.

[zwei2x]

Just a head's up: Pathea confirmed the use of AI for their next game.

We confronted them on the official Discord and this was the answer, which they later edited out for PR.

The My Time At series being a series about the warnings of environment and use of machines and pollution and the danger of AI, using AI tools which have a terrible impact on nature.

I choose not to support their kickstarter, but I'm letting everyone make their decision.

I'm angry, sad, insulted.

[krerue]

drawing fanarts for a game that hasn't even been released yet.

[ms-silver]

So have you heard of My Time at Evershine, the new game currently on kickstarter by Pathea games? Well, here's my artist's interpretation of this thread I found on their discord. d=

And if you haven't, you should back the kickstarter, then you can see how accidentally hot they made their characters. d=

[menkya-and-charon]

Alaqa survivors 𓆸

Introducing Sandara’s big sister Menkya as my next oc on this blog for My Time at Evershine plus a mystery oc related to the girls 👀

[pikabelle]

Going absolutely insane over this guy who is the same bra size as the feMC and twice as tall.

I hope that when I die the cause of death will be listed as "suffocated between Ragnar from Evershine's tits when he rolled over on her during the night".

[thievinghippo]

I cannot recommend this series enough. I have loved both My Time at Portia and My Time at Sandrock. I have written over 125k worth of fanfic for this series (because I love it that much!)

This is the first time I'll be able to back one of the games on kickstarter and I am super excited about this. Look at that art! The first game was very stylized and cartoonish. The second game was still stylized but had more realistic characters

And now there's this! Look at all of these wonderful characters, waiting to meet us

I will absolutely be yelling about the kickstarter once it officially launches later this month. So do yourself a favor and follow the kickstarter and back the game if you can!

[eggiesins]

Pathea responded to/has resolved the AI use issue with My Time at Evershine. Looks like they’re only using it for detail work as the entire team is firmly against using AI to actually create assets.

Guys, they’re being transparent about the whole process, I think it’s okay if we approach this with an open mind. The modern gaming cultural landscape is toxic and absolutely ridden with companies driven solely by profit. But! Im hoping that games like Baldurs Gate 3 and My Time at Sandrock can show us that some studios are still in this for both the players and the artists behind these games.

I’m not trying to judge or argue with anyone who disagrees. If this whole thing has still left a bitter taste with you, I get it. But, hopefully, this is something that both Pathea and their fans can approach in good faith and with sincerity.

[megraen]

Hey, Mutuals.

A game developer I love is asking for support for their third game, 'MY TIME AT EVERSHINE,' I would love for you to support them as well. If you love Stardew Valley games, that's what they make!

So please check them out!

[westrnbound]

so I really enjoy the My Time series and am currently playing through Sandrock right now. They're advertising for their upcoming game : My Time at Evershine and they're updating the character models which is great and everything but not the horses

From far away you may be thinking : 'that horse isn't really that bad looking' and you'd be right to think that but let's get an up close shot...

doofiest looking horse ever.

You may think that this character might be a child due to the size difference but you would be wrong. They're just Like That.

Edit : apparently they ARE updating the horses!! I wonder if they will keep the mildly peeved looks on their faces...

[sandrockers]

Rip my guy, we never knew you 🙏🔥

[saltedherring]

No rimworld im sorry

But

T H I S IS M Y H U S B A N D

I S W E A R

He's a Commander Lefu from MTAS

And uh he's a villain...

And bad guy...

And uh...

Um...

He's appeared for like 10 min...

Well...

[sanddusted-wisteria]

Timeskip Qisteria!!

(not in the mtae style i don't need to torture myself with 2 intense style studies in a row 😂💀)

They're largely just chilling by the time MTAE comes around, enjoying married life and peacetime. A different Wis will be heading to Settlement 2 to be their governor, so while they're not involved, they're definitely watching things with a careful eye...

[arcanamythra]

avery & ragnar - my time at evershine