Morningstar: Book of the Fallen is now live on Itch.io.
Any Patreons who wants to claim a key can do it by clicking on this link. Let me know if it works okay :)
I also hear that some people prefer to download the game directly, rather than through Steam. As such I've updated the 2023-07-08 06:12:54 +0000 UTC
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Renpy style rollback has been by far the most requested functionality in Love of Magic, but it's a complex and multi-headed beast, especially 'true' rollback (undoing all actions associated with the state, like stats being added, flags set, conversations consumed, or complex script actions triggered).
I built one for Morningstar (with some limitations; there are script functions where the system basically stops rollback, because there's no clean way to undo the state), but that require...
Morningstar's what I'll be working on once Love of Magic is done, but as I got into the characters and the world, I decided to plough forward and finish the first Act. With that done, I'll return to Love of Magic, and finish up Act XVI: Eternal Sunshine, the final act of Love of Magic.
Morningstar's a darker, grittier world; a young MMA fighter encounters an Angel on day, and his life goes sideways afterwards, fast. Some of the same souls return, and they're joined by a cast of new cha...
Download links for Love of Magic, Morningstar: Book of the Fallen and Wings of Empire.
The best way to play is really on Steam, and I give any Patreons that want a free Steam Key to all three books. Having said that, I know that many people don't want to have adult games associated with their Steam account, so I also make it available as a direct download. Here are the latest download links; let me know if any of the mirrors are dead. I'll try to keep this updated as I push new public b...
2023-06-29 02:17:51 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the lessons from helping make Paradise Lust was how nice a cellphone was as a story telling device. The player has his PC, of course, but making sure players actually open the PC at the right time, and don't chose to ignore it, became a bit of a pain, especially once he moved to Camelot.
In Morningstar there's no anti-magic field at work, so I just gave the player a cellphone; it seemed to fit the character better than a PC.
Here's a quick look at how the phone works, and...
I'm now done with Act XV+, which collects a bunch of optional side-events playable across Acts XI-XV. Content wise it's been a grab-bag of smaller tasks that help fill in the world.
The biggest single event is a back-fill event going back to Day 210 (all the way back in Act XI); Molly's birthday. I'm happy with how it ended up :)
There's a bunch of smaller side-events, caused by me p...
Someone posted a copy of the classic Show Girls poster on Discord, and I couldn't help but be curious if I could recreate it.
This isn't actually the first time Molly re-enacts old movies; I made this little signature as a homage to Flashdance.
And there's of course this seque...
2023-06-13 10:24:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I haven't been updating the page enough recently, so I figured I'd sit down and talk a little about progress, plans and milestones.
Love of Magic
I finally had a chance this weekend to sit down and play Love of Book 3 from scratch. It might surprise some of you, but as a dev it's rare to have the chance to play the game as a player. I had an enjoyable time, but it also highlights that there's a fair chunk of work left. Let's break it down in terms of tas...
2023-06-12 07:15:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Many of you know that my day job also involves making games; I spent 20+ years working as a programmer in the games industry before I started making adult games as a hobby.
At some point I approached my co-workers, showed them Love of Magic, and suggested we should be looking at making adult games together. The first game from our little team became Paradise Lust, and I'm super proud that the team's finally completed it... it's out today on Steam.
2023-05-24 04:38:32 +0000 UTC
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The Seven Realms is a fantasy, story-driven adult visual novel created by a couple known as SeptCloudGames.
You play as the vampire prince maintaining order in the Realm of Terran (Earth). You unexpectedly meet a girl called Leyala, which begins a chain of events that will lead them across all seven realms.
In their recent updates, SeptCloud ha...
2023-05-12 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Where MC in Love of Magic's very much a PC player, Morningstar's MC is much more of a smartphone kind of guy. As such I'm building my support content and optional side content into his phone; apps for renaming characters, checking up on details, receiving messages, etc.
I'm right now working on the web browser interface; like in Love of Magic it'll be used to tell side stories and give information about the world; I decided to make it a little richer and cleaner for Morningstar, with t...
Act XV: The Return is now done; I'm uploading the release candidate to Steam now, and will update the direct download links once it's gotten a day or two of proper testing.
With that done, there's only one Act left of Love of Magic, Act XVI: Eternal Summer.
So... what's next?
The first, and obvious thing, is of course Morningstar.
2023-04-22 07:58:33 +0000 UTC
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I was hoping to formally announce Morningstar alongside the Act XV update, so I spent some time over the last couple of days setting up the Steam page, doing a trailer, etc.
Submitted to Valve, we'll see what they think in ~48 hrs.
With that done, time to return to Love of Magic, and finish up the last few stories of Act XV.
With Act XV's grand finale finally complete, I'm taking a couple of days to recharge creatively before finishing up the last few straggling events in Act XV; as such I figured it was time to take a closer look at Morningstar's Titter App.
This is still in development, of course, but I'm having fun with it; the idea being that it's an optional chunk of content you can engage with for more back-stories about the various girls, without it being mandatory or expository.
Once I'm do...
I took a two week deep dive into Morningstar, and got to know the characters a little better. Some of them I knew coming in, and some ambushed me, dragged me into a ditch and screwed me senseless. Here's a quick look at the state of the build.
The main story's done up to day 7; that's about half of what's planned for Act I of Morningstar, and I'm really happy with how it's shaping up. About half t...
2023-03-31 02:06:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I've pushed Act XIV+ to beta, and it's now officially done. Links to the non-steam version's also been updated (for both Book 3 and the new Book 1 content), for those of you who prefer not using Steam.
This is a rather steamy update, with new sex scenes for Molly, Chloe and a giant replayable sequence with Akane. I also added a new scene with Sarah, a new book to read, and a couple of old frien...
2023-02-22 07:55:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I finished another small update to Book 1; it adds 4 new animations for Molly, one new one for Chloe and a new small event (Email day 80+).
It's likely the last update I do for Book 1 until Book 3's done; I'll be busy animating and rendering for *that* for the foreseeable future.
Speaking of Book 3, Act XIV+ is now done. It's for final testing; I'll likely push out a final build to Beta branch on Wednesday, but all content is in. It got... rather sex heavy, I'm afraid. New sex...
Okay, this was a fun little rabbit hole to pursue. This started it's life with me asking MollyBot to write a sexy script.
MollyBot is a Discord chatbot based on the Davinci-3 dataset (better known as ChatGPT), though without any of the weird objections to sex, or mayhem. She's been given a rough set of information about how Molly in Love of Magic talks, and she knows that she's a blond sorc...
2023-02-11 05:48:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been playing with Blender Simulations for various Book 3 sequences, and got this idea for making an updated day 100 animation.
I do a shot breakdown (Daz, Blender, After Effects), and talk a little about how things were put together.
Hope you like it; it's up on the beta/developer branch on Steam now.
I decided to put my new 3090 graphics card to good use, and went back to do a small update to Act I of Love of Magic, adding in 5 new animations and doing a typo pass, fixing some long-lingering bug, and giving it a coat of polish.
This likely isn't the *last* time I tinker with Book 1; the plan is that, once I'm done with Book 3, I'll go back and add a Game+ playthrough (where you load the end of Book 3 save, and start with extra cash/gems, all the characters names, and unlocks new ev...
May 2023 be happy, healthy and prosperous for you all.
Also, remembering what rabbits are *really* known for, it should be a good year for adult games.
(Apart from that, I'm also updating the non-steam links for Act XIV now, for those of you who prefer that option).
I know I said it'd take a week or two for the next Act to be complete, but I ended up getting dragged along. It's not often the story does that, so... I decided to go with the flow. Act XIV is now content complete on the development branch. I'll push it to Beta branch, and do a set of non-steam mirrors, once I see that nothing else is wrong.
With that the stage is set for the pivotal Act of Book 3, The Return.
But first, it's Act XIV+ time, which returns to Edinburgh, to r...
I had a couple of characters I wanted to bring along for Morningstar, and for Day 2 you meet the third of them, Katie (the rest currently are Bella, Emily, Chloe, Molly, and probably fan favorites Kath and Snowdrop joining as side-characters).
This is the opening sequence of Day 2, when MC gets to meet Katie for the first time (and do the obligatory naming), followed by a bit of introduction to the gym (which is where your free training activities for strength and intelligence will ha...
As Love of Magic gets closer to finishing, I've been toying around with concepts for what the *next* game will be. I mainly love SciFi & Fantasy, so that's where I've been looking for inspiration. After a bunch of sketches and several prototypes I think I'm finally where I'm happy with the direction, and so I put together the first day of the game.
Morningstar is an Urban fantasy RPG, set i...
2023-01-01 07:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post
And with that, I'm opening a beer and starting the Xmas celebrations. It's been an eventful day, with some interesting news to share.
The first thing is I finally went ahead and pulled the trigger on a RTX 3090 graphics card. When I did my last update cycle the graphics cards were incredibly expensive, and I settled for an RTX 3070. In retrospect that's been a mistake; it has even less VRAM than my old 1080Ti (8GB instead of 10GB), and while it's fast when it wants to, it would run out ...
2022-12-24 09:42:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm doing an AMA with Zdravko, one of the founders of the new Adult games site, Grown-Ups, on Saturday 17th December, 23:00 HKT/16:00 CET/10:00 EST, on the LoM Discord.
Curious about them, and what they hope to bring to the NSFW community? Come join us:
2022-12-16 05:12:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The Dark Elsewhere paths first show up in Act III, and is used for the less hospitable parts of the world.
I always imagined Elsewhere as constantly shifting and drifting, the paths moving, and the world subtly shifting as reality bends to the magic and chaos. So I set out to try to replicate it.
The first step was to play with AI. I used MidJourney to generate 4 different versions insp...
2022-12-12 01:50:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been bugging me that I don't have a good image of Camelot itself, leaving me to represent it with a map. Since I spent part of the day playing with AI tools, I decided to see if I could fix that.
(Option #1)
The version above was done using Midjourney, with this prompt:
huge medieval city n... 2022-12-07 08:30:52 +0000 UTC View Post
For those of you who prefer not to use Steam, here's the latest update (0.2.31b) of Book 3.
Win32: GOFILE - MEGA - MIXDROP - PIXELDRAIN -2022-11-21 05:46:27 +0000 UTC
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And with that, Act XIII+ is done. Mostly centered around the King's Dragon, and the people who live and love there, it's also taken a couple of detours. Expect more fun encounters with Olivia and Jenny, an update to the You Raise Me Up storyline, Emily's new Dressed in White questline and lots of fun little interstitial and optional events that can be played across much of book 3.
It's live on the Steam Development branch today; I'll hopefully complete it tomorrow or Monday.