The Exile of Aphrodisia (2023) news & patch notes

Quality of Life Updates: - Players can now use the right and left arrow keys on the keyboard to click on the previous/next arrow buttons. - Players can now control game speed via keyboard. Press alpha 0 or keypad 0 to pause, 1 for 1x speed, 2 for 2x speed, 3 for 4x speed, and 4 for 8x speed. - Hitting the return key when the save panel is up now functions the same as having pressed the Save button with the mouse. - Added new gameplay setting to automatically sell all trade goods upon arriving at a landmark with an item shop. This includes any transformed party members who have become a trade good. Mod Support Updates: - Added in mod / 3rd part content support for most game content, including encounters, afflictions, player transformations, cursed artifacts, instincts kick in, player and party member epilogues, new items, foods, new artwork, and more. -- By default the mods folder can be found at AppData\LocalLow\Blue Fairy Media LLC\The Exile of Aphrodisia (2023)\mods . The game will create this directory if it does not exist. Paste in folders with mod files to load them into the game on startup. -- When at least one mod has been added, a button will appear at the top-right of the title page that says "mods". Click on this to see a list of modded-in content and the ability to run validation checks to ensure data is well-structured. -- For an example mod template, join our Discord server and look in the #mod-support channel. You can join our Discord by clicking on this link: https://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?https://discord.gg/ZwKH4Vt Bugfixes: - The Settings panel should now no longer be un-openable when playing on a 1366x768 resolution monitor. The game should initially open at the smallest supported resolution until the user manually changes it. - Bugfix for censored mode text only not applying correctly Dev / cheat command bugfixes: - Move to snow / desert / jungle commands should now load the map correctly Other: - Audio sliders now use consistent slider styling - The Rescue from the Ritual text replaces digigrade with unguligrade. Thanks to Shigari for pointing this out!

beta V1.0.3 (Feb 23, 2023) Modding / third party content is now supported for most features of the game on the beta branch. Modding is NOT available for: - Landmark definitions, as the trail is hardcoded as Unity tilemaps. Adding in new landmarks does not make sense. - NPCs. Support for NPCs will likely be added later if there is demand--NPCs only serve to deliver lore and have no ingame effects. - Censored variants of graphics for when censored mode is on with Graphics+Text. Probably coming later. When at least one mod is detected, a small blue "mods" button will appear at the top-right of the title screen when the game first launches. You can click on that button to open up and view a list of mod directories that have been discovered. At the bottom, there is a "Validate" button that will do some basic data validation, doing things like checking to make sure various ids match up. We recommend you click Validate for feedback before distributing, or when you've just added in new mods. Validation may take several seconds to perform. When starting a new game, or when loading a save game file, Exile 2023 will automatically iterate through the mods folder and add their contents into memory. Be aware that all encounters are pre-rolled when a game begins and are stored in a list in the save file. This means that new encounters added mid-run will never trigger naturally (but can be triggered from the dev "Encounter List" panel when the requirements are met. Removing mods mid-game has a high chance of breaking a save game file. Doing so is not recommended. If any save game files are important to you, it is safest to back up them before installing mods. NOTE: The mods folder has officially moved out of StreamingAssets! By default the mod folder will now appear in AppData\LocalLow\Blue Fairy Media LLC\The Exile of Aphrodisia (2023) . The game will automatically create this folder if it is missing. If you run into problems modding, have general questions, or want to download our sample/template mod, the best way to reach us is on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/ZwKH4Vt We are aiming to push mod support into the main branch tomorrow, February 24, to allow us more time to perform testing and enhance validation.

The beta branch now contains support for 3rd party content for cursed artifacts, player transformations, instincts kick in events, player epilogues, and scavenging events! This means we are reaching ever closer to a 1.0.3 release on the main branch will will allow for dropping in fan-made content. If you are opted into the beta branch, you should download these additions automatically. Our next focus will be working on adding some basic documentation and sample content to help authors start learning how the data structure works, conventions, what certain json properties mean, etc. Be aware that the mods directory will eventually move out out StreamingAssets and into the same directory where save game files are kept: AppData\LocalLow\Blue Fairy Media LLC\The Exile of Aphrodisia (2023)\ . See our previous post https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2068480/view/3655270915445104688 for some more context.

We are currently working on adding in support for 3rd party encounters, afflictions, fates, items, and foods. If you opt into the beta branch, you will now see a new directory in StreamingAssets called mods. The plan is to allow users to paste in folders (such as the current sampleMod) into this directory, and as well as the data is all well-formed, it will be loaded into the game on startup by iterating through each mod folder and parsing in all the json files. We're still relatively early in this process, but if anyone wants to start picking around or reading through the help files in it that we're working on, now's a good chance to start! Be aware that the mods directory will eventually move out out StreamingAssets and into the same directory where save game files are kept: AppData\LocalLow\Blue Fairy Media LLC\The Exile of Aphrodisia (2023)\ . Also be aware that we currently have no support yet for player forms / transformations / epilogues, cursed artifacts, scavenging events, instincts kick in events, or NPCs. Item graphics are also not yet supported. We will work on supporting these in later updates. As always, back up your games before you opt into beta or try to mess around with modding. Stay tuned for more!

New features: - Added trail log lifetime slider in the Gameplay settings panel. By default the lifetime remains at 10 seconds, but now players can set it between 2-60 seconds, or forever by sliding all the way to the right. Trail logs can still be dismissed manually by clicking on them individually or the red X to the top-left. - Encounters now display their associated theme tags when one or more are associated with it. -- The theme tags panel can be dismissed. -- Note that theme tags are applied to the encounter as the whole, even if that transformation theme can be averted by player choice or a random roll outcome -- Many encounters may be missing theme tags that should have--if you think an encounter should have a tag applied, or think we should introduce more tags altogether, please let us know! - Dev / cheat mode can now be turned on or off in the Gameplay settings panel. Always save your game before using these as it is possible to put the game into a bad state with dev commands. Bugfixes - Whatcherdoonheer? Idunwantwhatchersellin! scavenging event should now actually give spools of linen - Sick of All These Snakes staff of serpents change morale effect fixed - A Rash Pursuit scavenging event change health and morale effects fixed - Very Poor and Poor apothecary experimental treatment missing members added in - Freecamera controls are now no longer engaged when the save panel is open and the player is typing in a custom save file name - Freecamera controls are now no longer engaged when the menu panel is open Other: - Of Beautiful Butterflies and Mysterious Moths now has the Feral Animal theme tag - Updated crystal vase cursed artifact artwork - Parties are now assigned a guid (globally unique identifier). This has no effect in the game currently, but may be used in future updates for a possible high score / seen endings page. - Graphics settings panel style updated to be consistent

Bugfixes - Fixed spelling of "fliratious" to "flirtatious" in party member perks - Fixed tooltip text for the zoom out button - NPC text should now swap in $PC_...$ variables correctly - So-So experimental treatment at apothecary should load in a second party member correctly - Misc other minor spelling/grammar corrections