Escape from Pleasure Planet
Our next game is now available - The Beat
Thank you to all of the fans of Escape from Pleasure Planet, your support made the new game happen!
Escape from Pleasure Planet v1.9.3
A new version of Escape from Pleasure Planet is now live. It contains several balance and stability fixes. It also fixes a really bad game breaking bad for some players involving monitors on the prison planet.
- add: Doug gives new hint on Panoptica quest
- add: lots of scripts for out-of-order sign later in game
- add: more tips when player stuck in queue of destruction quest
- add: rework crashed ship quest to make it slightly easier
- add: more scripts for final sequence
- add: log button to title screen to provide better support
- add: easier to exit non-core generated pods
- change: new build process for linux and windows to improve support
- change: streamline various conversations when revisiting them
- change: improved logging
- change: improved walkthrough generation
- change: streamline conversations in final sequence
- change: rework boner portrait
- fix: game breaking bug in monitor quest on prison planet on some computers
- fix: name display issue when name is empty string
- fix: a few portrait fixes for MIS-TRISS and Brutus' ship
Gay Game Survey
Trading Cards now dropping
Today we published a set of trading cards for the Steam edition of Escape from Pleasure Planet. The set of eight cards use beautiful behind-the-scenes production artwork from the game and contain extra information about the characters and worlds in the game.
There are also five badges, including a special "Gayest Gamer of All Time" foil badge, as well as emoticons like ":gayspacecommunism:" and special profile backgrounds that you can unlock.
If you have already been playing the game, you should retroactively receive some cards.
It was fun to put these together and we hope you enjoy them.
Read more about Steam trading cards: https://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards/faq
Escape from Pleasure Planet v1.6 - "Hawking"
Escape from Pleasure Planet is a gay sci-fi adventure game from the writer of the award-winning Miss Fisher and the Deathly Maze game and with character art by comic book legend Joe Phillips.
1.6 - Hawking - changelog
- add look and interact scripts for monorail shuttle
- add sfx for shuttle
- add interact script on butterfly in astatue
- add conversation with crashed ship in astatue
- add ability for player to interact with tourists in foyer
- add new music to queue of destruction sequence
- add lights to transmat control
- add better hint on blood in queue of destruction
- add shadow to Bazzarella in queue of destruction
- add ding sfx when entering queue of destruction
- add shadow to table in queue of destruction
- add achievement for trying to take bag
- add extra scripts when carrying empty perfume bottle
- add new sfx to transmat
- add more interact and look scripts for jigsaw puzzle combinations
- add interact and look script for transmat laser
- add extra tips to loading screen messages
- add mouse restriction when inventory open
- add sfx and music to pyglet-based sound mixer (experimental)
- change queue text in minor ways
- change puzzle grid so that fades in and out when box opened and closed
- change statue pleasure planet dialogue to hopefully be funnier
- change transmat so player is asked if they want to activate it
- change to give player choice of what to do with astronaut 2
- change to swap butterfly look and interact scripts
- change queue lab door to interactive while there is a queue
- change Bazzarella luggage gag to only play once
- change pyglet to 1.3.1
- fix a bunch of portrait issues when Tycho in fountain
- fix mouse events in mouse exclusive mode on Windows (pyglet 1.3.1)
- fix to respect keyboard layout on macOS (pyglet 1.3.1)
Escape from Pleasure Planet v1.5 - "Taika Waititi"
New features include better support for dual monitors, distance scaling and a new button in the inventory for inspecting items.
Balance changes include a nerf to the care bear puzzle in the sky pod, additional scripts in the opening crash site scene and making the tmat quest clearer in some circumstances.
Keeping true to the science fiction genre, Escape from Pleasure Planet tackles sensitive contemporary issues such government oppression of gay people, the cruelty of conversion therapy, and the benefits and negatives of same sex marriage on gay culture.
<*>add look button to inventory to inspect items
<*>add setting to allow player to set default screen in multi-screen setups
<*>add z-scaling to scenes
<*>add Dream Daddy joke to loading screen
<*>add extra interact scripts in lab
<*>add extra interact scripts at crash site
<*>add ESC hotkey to menu
<*>add subtle distance scaling to walk area at crash site
<*>change care bear puzzle to make dramatically easier
<*>change tmat quest to make logic stronger and have better clues
<*>change various edits to text to tighten up sections and make a few jokes land better
<*>change menu items only interactive is interactive flag is set
<*>change scene loading for faster loads
<*>change pyglet to 1.3.0 official
<*>change cleanerbot story to advance after exiting sky pod
<*>fix achievement when scanning ship multiple times
<*>fix portrait of Tycho where he would sometimes wear older costume
<*>fix to improve pathplanning
<*>fix pathplanning for default action
<*>fix missing rumble sfx
<*>fix decorative mask scripts undressed portraits
<*>fix portraits when in fountain
<*>fix to mouse coordinates in full screen mode on dual monitors
<*>fix scene loading to correctly handle portals
Escape from Pleasure Planet v1.4 - "Cunliffe"
It fixes some major issues that players have reported and should make the game buttery smooth for most people now.
Keeping true to the science fiction genre, Escape from Pleasure Planet tackles sensitive contemporary issues such government oppression of gay people, the cruelty of conversion therapy, and the benefits and negatives of same sex marriage on gay culture.
This release is dedicated to a friend of ours, Jim Cunliffe, who is unwell at the moment.
Escape from Pleasure Planet v1.4
- Fix major problem where game would slow down after many speech boxes
- Procedurally generated worlds no longer crash game on windows
- Fix joypad input bounding box on scaled game windows
- add missing art and animation for achievements
- fix interact bug on entering Sebastian's pod
- fix bug with Brutus text repeating when entering foyer
- force load on eyeball assets to fix "missing MIS-TRISS" issue in foyer
- various spelling and grammar fixes
- xian child script fixes
- pronoun fixes for Ludwig
- QNB options in later sequence a bit clearer
- add tips to game load screen
- fix menus to make compatible with older savegames
- add a few backwards compatible fixes for older savegames
- update CycleText to handle animated text better
- pyglet updated to v1.3.0rc1
- add editor option to config
- numpy pulled in correctly on windows build
- unschedule animated text events correctly
- allow Collection to be unsorted, Collection.add can take a list of items (for The Beat)
- add Text.align which can be set to LEFT (default), CENTER, RIGHT
Escape from Pleasure Planet v1.3 - Accessibility Release
New features include a high contrast mode, subtitles, story mode, and ability to switch off events that require fast action. This release also adds more sound effects and text updates.
Keeping true to the science fiction genre, Escape from Pleasure Planet tackles sensitive topical issues such the Russian government’s oppression of gay people, the cruelty of conversion therapy, and the benefits and negatives of same sex marriage on gay culture.
Escape from Pleasure Planet v1.3 - Accessibility Release
Underwear mod now available
From the forums comes this news:
In homage to the original game My Ex-Boyfriend the Space Tyrant, you can now download an (unofficial - ed) Tycho underwear mod, head on over to Nexus Mods to find it;
Tighty Whitey Tycho by ribeena
It's not a full graphic set (chat heads, bridge and some other graphics have not been repainted), but should be enough for your pervey inner self.
Note: this is an install and it works, and uninstall to stop it mod
Enjoy ladies, gentlemen and all other identities,
Alex
Escape from Pleasure Planet v1.2 - codename "Valentine"
Keeping true to the science fiction genre, Escape from Pleasure Planet tackles sensitive topical issues such the Russian government’s oppression of gay people, the problems of conversion therapy, and the benefits and negatives of same sex marriage on gay culture.
Escape from Pleasure Planet v1.2 - "Valentine"
- add: alternate ending that unlocks once a year around Valentine's Day
- add: additional scripts in Faith pod
- add: new names for items in Chip's locker
- add: additional scripts on Elysium when Tycho is bathing
- add: additional scripts on Panoptica
- add: configuration utility (currently requires python installed)
- add: additional scripts in later scene
- add: i18n - basic locale support for translations in data/locale
- add: scale up game window in non fullscreen mode if requested
- add: font adjust available using F5 and F6 keys
- add: new camera zoom function (used in alternative ending)
- add: mod support -- load montage files from mod directory
- add: pyglet mixer stub alternative to pygame mixer
- change: save directory is now game independent
- change: updated MIS-TRISS art
- change: updated Boner art
- change: new coords load into ship terminal immediately
- change: make menu creation immediate for away missions
- change: pause game for a few seconds when using butterfly on bluebells
- change: universe seed changes each new game
- change: bicorder exit no longer allowed in later scene
- change: build includes source code in-place instead of source/
- change: fonts loaded at runtime to allow multi-language support
- fix: menu offset was incorrect when starting new game
- fix: star field correctly scales when window scaled
- fix: show menu after return from Eden pod
- fix: bicorder no longer changes when holding butterfly
- fix: stop butterflies being attracted to Tycho if he is in brook
- fix: Chip's locker quest works when using both left and right room combinations
- fix: bicorder allows exit in non-core pods after character exit
- fix: added missing melted sorbet files