Please use this form to request Side Story prompts and/or to submit Patron Tweets for the month of April! If we hit $600, this is also where requests for the Snapchat Stories should go. :)
2021-04-03 17:55:30 +0000 UTC View PostPlease select any number of characters whose portraits you'd like me to commission! The results of this poll will determine the order in which all 7 of the remaining cast members get their portraits.
2021-04-03 17:42:25 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Saturday! As always, I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy.
This has been an interesting week! Not a lot of words added to the core game since the 2.5 ver. Demo's release last Monday, since I've been spending most of it planning and storyboarding the upcoming arc. Wordcount is up +2k since the Monday release, though you can expect it to be at least tripled or quadrupled in the upcoming weeks.
I've been playing around with the chapter's pacing and narrative structures, ...
2021-04-03 17:38:51 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back for the second edition of the Patreon Roadmap! Here's what you can expect to be coming this April.
All patrons - The next demo for A Mage Reborn is scheduled for release in Late April. As was the case with the March demo, I'm not yet comfortable giving out a fixed date. But as progress is made that date will gradually become clearer, and I'll let you know once I have a definite handle on it. Until then, progress report days are on ...
2021-04-03 17:13:54 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Sorry this took a while to put out, but beta signups for March 2021 Patrons are now open :)
Beta testers will gain access to new updates roughly 3-5 days before it is released to patrons; in exchange, I ask that useful feedback be submitted back to me, so that the game is polished when it makes its public debut! Directions below for those interested.
Feedback I am looking for, in descending order of priority (though all of them are important!):
... 2021-04-01 11:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! A quick review of the goals/plans I laid on the Roadmap earlier this month.
1. I bungled the release quite a bit, but the Patreon Demo was uploaded on March 29th! It now correctly directs you to the new scene, and has a functional save feature. Thanks for your patience with me, everyone. I'll try to make sure this doesn't become a repeat occurrence....
2021-03-31 13:47:40 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, Leon's full-body portrait is here! He's in his post-timeskip getup, brandishing the holy sword safeguarded by the de Param family.
Ilya is up next, and then we'll hold a new round of polls come April!
2021-03-30 06:46:45 +0000 UTC View PostAs in, it ended at the same place Demo 2.0 did, because I forgot to edit out the bit in the previous build that took you to the Temporary End screen after the exoneration. Not something Quicktest could catch, unfortunately.
The game will now take you to Scene Seven (post-resurrection arc). You were all really nice about this...I would've burned me at the stake. 😔
The save function is now also functional!
2021-03-29 19:10:30 +0000 UTC View PostI nearly missed the deadline (it's 11.59 PM here in Indonesia) because I underestimated how banged-up my code would be once I get into testing, haha. But here it is, in the nick of time!
Save files will most likely be broken, sorry in advance. But since this is mostly a polishing update, there's a bunch of new content in the pre-resurrection arc (including the magical codex and spell history list!). I hope that makes restarting a bit more bearable. :)
The new story conten...
2021-03-29 16:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostHello and happy weekend once again! Hope you're all staying safe and healthy.
Happy to announce that I've managed to lock down a date for the upcoming demo release: March 29th, or two days from now. There's still a bit more writing to knock out the way, and some testing to do on top of that--but I've been making good progress recently, and I'm confident I can release Demo 2.5 in that timeframe.
Let's run through the Planned Features section I outlined at ...
2021-03-26 20:35:40 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone's kind of losing their minds over Eli's gold chain over on tumblr, so I thought I'd disclose its backstory 😂 This scene is still pretty far in the future; it probably won't make the next build.
I received the final version of M!Eli's full-body concept art today! I don't know about you, but I am...looking respectfully. 😂
Sidenote here that Eli's outfit is aesthetically disjointed from the rest of the cast members. There's a story reason for this! Just saying that for everyone else, you can expect less modern, more stereotypically RPG clothing.
As per the poll results, Leon is coming up next! So stay on the lookout for that :)
2021-03-25 10:22:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Magical Codex has been fully coded and implemented into the game's in-development build, and will officially be a part of the Demo 2.5!
I often have to gloss over the details of how the spell works and what it looks like for the sake of prose/brevity, and that can often leave some room for confusion or unsatisfied curiosity. The Magical Codex gives players an overview of all the AMR universe's branches of magic, as well as an explanation of every single spell they've casted on their...
2021-03-23 13:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostIt took hours of scouring through code that I'd somehow churned out but am unable to make head or tail of, but I've finally completed the current version of the AMR Official Guide! The Guide details all major stat checks in the game, and should be helpful to those trying to maximize their prestige.
You can find the link to the guide here:
http://bit.ly/AMROfficialGuide
Furthermore, I've also re...
2021-03-23 13:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis scene is still subject to changes and rewrites (particularly in the dialogue department), but is otherwise a safe bet to make it to the actual game!
2021-03-20 15:40:06 +0000 UTC
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Happy Saturday! Hope everyone's weekend is going great, and that you're all staying healthy and safe. :)
Happy to report that progress on the next update is coming along steadily! I spent the better part of the week hunting down typos and bugs (always the most challenging part for me), and around this time yesterday I uploaded the final version of the 2.0 build. Coincidentally, yesterday marks the game's first month anniversary, and was also the day we hit 5k clicks on the COG Forum lin...
2021-03-20 11:36:44 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much! As promised, I'll now pass on my translations jobs and start working on stories to upload here on Patreon!
I'll be sending a Google Form to Arcanists via private chat that can be used for submitting ideas, and some 3-4 days from now the poll for which story we end up doing should go up.
Furthermore, since the character artist working on the portraits right now charges well below my expectations, I will also be adding two new features to Patreon, starting in Apri...
2021-03-18 12:11:15 +0000 UTC View PostI've been in contact with an artist who's willing to draw character art for the game, but they're rather busy and so can only do a few characters at a time. Please select any number of the cast members whose portraits you wish to see completed first. The top three will be our first batch of portraits to commission.
2021-03-16 12:53:10 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! A little update with regard to what's in the works for the Patreon this month.
All patrons - The next demo for A Mage Reborn will be out sometime in late March--I'm not comfortable giving out a fixed date yet, but I'll definitely keep you posted once I have it. Until then, progress report days are on Saturdays (GMT +7, which is the timezone I'm in).
Progress reports will give, at minimum, an update on the wordcount and one or...
2021-03-16 08:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostThank you for your support. It truly means a lot to me.
As a means of expressing my gratitude, early patrons (read: those that subscribed before April 1st) will be privy to a Patreon-exclusive short story raffle. As is the case with the public one, winners are entitled to an A Mage Reborn short story (500-1000 words) written by me, with prompts and characters as decided by you. The amount of winners will be proportional to the number of early patrons, and the raffle's results w...
2021-03-14 13:38:13 +0000 UTC View Post