Athenian Rhapsody News

My favorite Rhapsodogs!!! In this update, I adjusted the game's balance based on your feedback, fixed some small quirks with our first event, and even added some more rewards for it. Check it out!!!

• Adjusted the way player's defenses scale as they level up - this way players won't feel less powerful as they gain EXP due to healing items becoming less useful in the higher levels... I'm asking for feedback on this change!!! I'd like to balance the game as much as possible.
  
• Added two new armors you can receive from Dynamo depending on which way you decide to end the battle... That's three different armors total!
  
• Fixed an issue where you could crash the Dynamo battle during the wire pulling minigame
  
• Fixed the joystick not working during Dynamo's minigame on Mobile
  
• Adjusted the depth of the items you carry during the restaurant scene
  
• Fixed Asmongold not returning to your party when leaving the Event halfway through
  
• Fixed some inconsistencies with certain postmarks/badges when stacked
  
• Added mobile accessibility options in the form of button placement/opacity
  

I am still working on getting SteamDeck achievements working - sorry it's taken so long, as a solodev sometimes it takes me a while, especially when I can't figure out the root cause yet. Though there is no known issue, I suspect it may be a GameMaker runtime issue, I am going to be testing this out to see if that's why as nothing in my code currently indicates that this would be an issue. Sorry!

Thanks guy! Keep playing, I have some more awesome add-ons coming soon!!!

Let me know if I broke anything!

Dogs. This is an epic moment in Athenian Rhapsody history!

In collaboration with the OTK Games Expo, Athenian Rhapsody unveils its first Event!!! Travel alongside Asmongold and friends to take on a new epic boss... Learn a little bit more about the world of Athens and its history - but for now, you may have more questions than answers after playing. Luckily, more events are planned and they will get bigger and bigger!!!

Thank you so much for the OTK team for making this possible - The developer of Athenian Rhapsody is also appearing in-person during the showcase, which you can find here below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uTdsnqf29s

[h2]What's an Event?[/h2]

Events in Athenian Rhapsody are a special form of DLC which allows players to access new places midway in their story to discover new characters, equip new armors and gear, battle with new followers, and deck out their Rhapsodies with exclusive accolades.

[h2]How do I access Events in Athenian Rhapsody?[/h2]

To access an Event Rhapsody, all you have to do is connect to the online system and select the option to check for Events. You will obtain a special type of Rhapsody when an Event is active! This Event will run for the entirety of June, so anytime you log in this month you can obtain it - get it before it's gone! Once you have the Event Rhapsody, you will always be able to access the content it unlocks.

If you have an Event Rhapsody in your collection, you may access it by speaking to Thu- I mean Captain Goober in Primo, on his sick motorboat.

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy this little bit of extra content delivered in a cool, unique way that I hope is special to you guys. If it seems like you like the content of this one and the system, I'm going to create larger and bigger add-ons to this game and even introduce new types of Rhapsodies for you to stack with your existing ones and obtain. This is the first step into something that could be amazing!

[h2]Hey, one more thing![/h2]

If you have any difficulty with receiving the event, worry not as we have plenty of time to solve any issues so that everyone can receive it. This is super ambitious for my team and I, and we would appreciate all of the help and feedback we can get!

With this event being our first, we hope to refine the system so that we can do more and more in the future. Thank you!

Hey dogs - I will break this update down into two sections

[h2]Community Items (woop yeaaaa)[/h2]

You can now collect Trading Cards, Backgrounds, and Emotes from Athenian Rhapsody!!!!

I will be implementing animated assets too as well in the near future, so be on the lookout for those. I hope you guys go crazy collecting all of the trading cards, all 16 followers + some of your other favorite faces from Athens. It'll probably be easier collecting all of these than it is finding all of the special milk fairies across Athens!

[h2]Update 96.242 (aw boring paperwork taxes blagjh)[/h2]

This is a small update that fixes that strange save file bug some of you have experienced when the save comes up as "Cornball". Let me know if I broke anything!!!

It also fixes a small issue you'd have when experiencing events where checking your mailbox with an event in your storage will crash the game, though your mailbox still would work correctly. This also occurs when going to the main menu. I'm stating this because while it is fixed on PC, it will exist on other platforms but will be patched out likely mid-June, but luckily it's not too bad.

Thanks guys! Go collect some stuff!!!

You dogs? You're a special kind of dog. You've got that RHAPSO-POWER!!!

Anyways, thanks for bearing with me - here's what's new in the next round of patches, balances, and updates:

• Updated Steam Extension - what this means is I've updated the way GameMaker connects to Steam, and I'm hoping this resolves the issue of SteamDeck not unlocking achievements. If a deck player could report if this is true or not, it'd be super helpful!!! Thank you guys!
  
• Aerosol's Meditation skill wasn't working with a full inventory
  
• Fantasma had several dialogue opportunities where she wouldn't say anything
  
• Can still talk to the MilkMan after he [REDACTED]
  
• Spider Boss doing pretend invisible vampire damage to player
  
• BUFFED SCRUT'NHAUS'R!!! Icy Shield now costs 30 instead of 60 and has an extra hit
  
• After battle Richard was spawning some unlucky Cornballs OOB
  
• Added a fail-safe for players getting stuck on the Lore/Story cutscenes in Olympus and in The Cathedral, mostly for Xbox players
  
• Added a FAST-FALL INDICATOR to platforming sections since many players did not know this was a functionality and in turn got blasted by Goobo
  
• Other tiny, minor little wittle fixes
  
• Chill Mode indicator did not work, instead it showed the player as defeating the Burgizzalard
  

Thanks guys for all of your help with making the game airtight! We are going to be building for console on this current version as well with all of the fixes since launch. Please let me know if I broke anything!!! Lol

Keep showing me your epic Rhapsodies, too!

Hello you dastardly dogs. You dastardly Rhapsodogs. Who I love very much.

Thank you for playing and enjoying Athenian Rhapsody! I can see through my epic wizard powers that you are all making, stacking, and trading many Rhapsodies! Yippee!!! You've also helped me find some bugs, and in this update I aim to fix many! Please look through them!

And if I messed anything up, PLEASE LET ME KNOW I did that last time and you guys did, and I patched it

• 3 Stacked Badge shows up as the middle stacked Rhapsody's Badge twice
  
• Forgot to add Dr.Illness to the epilogue, uh, I mean... He was just really hard to find. Made him easier to find.
  
• Horatio's battle basketball minigame should stop not registering shots, if this is not the case check that you're on 0.96.23 and then let me know!
  
• Tundra Badge Guy Goes Away, for real this time (he tricked me last time)
  
• Giga Franklin was showing up as befriended in stacked lullaby Rhapsodies
  
• Richard chase audio cutting out after player death
  
• Inconsistencies with Nylons BURST information
  
• Removed Johnson's mustache
  
• If you play a normal game up to the Fantasy RPG, quit the game in the middle of it, and without closing the game or anything, play the entire game in Lullaby up to the Fantasy RPG Quest section again, without closing the game, you will get softlocked. You could fix this by closing and opening the game, and I don't know how many people realistically can encounter this, but it's fixed now.
  
• Crabmeat crash when fighting the Burgizzalard. I should honestly have just added his logic in for being a follower but that takes some artwork manpower and I want to fix bugs for you guys first. Maybe soon...
  
• Activating Chill Mode Marker (very tiny, shows up in the Narration, please use Chill Mode instead of complaining online about difficulty its a hard game there's no shame in it I literally use Chill Mode just to enjoy the game sometimes so I don't have to lock in) shows up as you defeating The Burgizzalard instead. If you used Chill Mode, take advantage of this exploit and flex!
  
• Please use Chill Mode instead of complaining online I literally made Chill Mode the one thing in the game that doesn't make fun of you for a reason so that you use it
  
• Made Cornball's IBS activate your system's smell emitters
  
• Please use Chill Mode
  
• Dying with Swim Gear as Female Cornball crash
  
• Removed Herobrine
  
• Use Chill Mode do not complain online - Thunder Goober
  
• Swimming not working with D-Pad
  
• Fixed The Hero not fighting you if you kill Scrut'nhaus'r
  
• Added Johnson's mustache
  

I'm still working on the Steam Deck achievements thing - I think its a Linux issue, and there aren't really many people I know to ask about this in terms of GameMaker but I'm workin' on it and will have it resolved soon!!!

Thanks guys!