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The Wedding post

Okay, I know Owyn (/MC) and Emily are already married, but I've personally been looking forward to writing this sequence for a long time. She married him on the battle-field, but on Valentine's Day they finally get to have a ceremony :)

I finished off the stag party last night (it's on the Beta), now all I need to do is write the wedding. And the wedding night.

Hoping that'll be done this week, there's a bunch of little renders that needs doing, Owyn needs some new clothes, and...

Friendly shout-out: Faulty Apprentice

I love good 2D games, they remind me of the glory-days of Sierra Entertainment and Lucasarts. I spent hundreds of hours looking for love with Larry Laffer, being a pirate with Guybrush and becoming a hero in Quest for Glory.

The friendly and gorgeous graphics of Faulty Apprentice look every bit as good as my memories of the past, and with the added bonus of more erotic content than Leisure Suit Larry ever included. Hope you enjoy it!

2021-10-18 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Steam curation

So, I spent some time today setting up a Steam group/curator, because why not? I play a lot of adult games... I think every gamedev that doesn't play their competition is screwing up. And I thought to myself, why not just post some of my thoughts as I go along.

There are some caveats; my mother's advice that "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" holds extremely true when it comes to one developer reviewing other developers. If I don't like it, I just won...

The Eveningstar

Lord of the Rings is trending for obvious reasons, and I saw this image of Lady Arwen, the Eveningstar.

I really wanted to see if I could replicate the extremely heavy back-lighting, though DAZ really didn't want to play along. As a result I ended up cheating a little.

By default DAZ renders things out at PNG, with 8 bits per channel. That means that each pixel in the image has 4...

SFW Wallpapers

I was actually surprised at how many likes the SFW wallpaper got. I probably shouldn't be, this is the wallpaper I use for my own desktop:

It's not that I have any issue with porn (for somewhat obvious reasons), but for my desktop I like having something that's quite neutral, calming, and won't embarrass me if my daughter sees it :)

As such, I'm going to to try to do two SFW wallpape...

Val SFW Wallpapers

I had a request for a SFW version of the two wallpapers, so I did a quick re-render of her in the glowing armor. 

Light and Darkness

I enjoyed the Hakone no Kitsune wallpapers, so I decided I wanted to try a similar study of another girl I really like, which hasn't gotten any nude content. Val (or Valery Reine) is a Chosen of Freya, or a Valkyrie.

They're designed as Wallpapers in that they explicitly leave the left hand side (where most of us keep our icons) dark and high contrast, while still lighting up the desktop a little :) I did 16:9 (4K) and 21:9 (ultrawide) versions, since I know there's fans of both.
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Hakone no Kitsune wallpapers

I was doing a quick nude study of Kitsune, and enjoyed them enough to turn them into wallpapers (21:9 and 16:9 aspect ratios at 3440x1440 and 2560x1440 respectively).

As a small bonus; Happy Octoberfest from the girls at your favorite pub :)

Book 1 Remaster complete

It took some hardcore bug-squashing, but I think we finally got most of them, and Book 1's remaster is now ready and up. All in all I touched some 80% of all the images, re-colored, reframed and added backgrounds to them. In addition I added a number of single frame animations, and 3 big new NSFW animations to help give more life and impact to the first 3 acts of the game.

You can download the game from the following mirrors:

Win64: 2021-10-03 04:14:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Book 1 update

I know I said I wasn't going to update Book 1 any more. I was wrong.

The work I did on single-'frame' looping animations for Book 2 made me realize how many of the sequences in Book 1 could 'relatively easily' be upgraded to be cooler. Experienced project managers will feel the icy cold hand of dread at such a statement, and they'd be right. But it's done, and with the testers.

The original idea was to just take some of the key moments that involved magic, and give it a bit o...

More fun with AI

A running joke on the discord is "which actor would play the characters in an LoM movie". Well, it looks like it might be the AIs who do.

Patreon Harlequin wanted to test out this simple neural network:
https://deep-art.k8s.akvelon.net/load

To see what the girls would end up looking like. I liked the result enough that I decided to run a bunch of the main characters through the system, then give the...

Building animating frames

I wanted to add some special effects to this image, and then save a single frame to file for use in-game. But once I started playing with it, I thought it looked cool enough that I wanted to build a system for having little 2 second backgrounds like this as an alternative to static images in situations where magic is in use.

After a bit of time putting up the effects, it looks like this.
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Wallpaper links

I've made a bunch of wallpapers over the two years I've been working on this game, but I realized they're kinda scattered over a lot of different places. I decided to put them together into IMGUR albums, since those allow high-resolution versions for downloads:

Act I-III
https://imgur.com/gallery/Xm50LMO

Act IV->VI
https://imgur...

Android Beta 1 build

I'm working through the process for making the Android build work past 2GB; it'll basically involve downloading content from a server. Right now it's in the Google Cloud, but I'll likely move it somewhere else before prime time.

Here's the builds: MEGA - MIXDROP - 2021-09-07 14:40:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Act VIII+ public release

I finally finished Act VIII+ last night, and the Discord testing team has been on it since then.

I usually leapfrog development; Act VIII was a core story update (advancing the ingame calendar and building the game's core narrative), while Act+ updates expand on the world, and build new functionality. This one did a bit of both.

I ripped out a lot of the Edinburgh content when I started Book 2, and it felt empty and unloved. For Act VIII+'s update, my initial goal was to fix tha...

Release update + wallpapers

I'm close enough to release that I'm hopeful it'll be done this weekend. I had dreams of doing it *last* weekend, but I got side-tracked by the new Strategy minigame I was working on.

Act VIII+ will be an Edinburgh centric episode, with new content for Chloe, Mom, Booker, Diana and (of course), Jenny, who ended up stealing the show. I was originally planning to do a small sequence with her, but she ended up having a whole bunch of good ideas that extended the Black Rose sequence in new...

Preview of the Battle Map sequence

I personally found the battle at the end of Act VIII a little anti-climactic (big video, then nothing). So I decided to go back and create a little sub-game for strategic level combat; it's something I'll be needing for various other sequences in Book 2 and Book 3 *anyway*, so it's probably time  well spent.

The basic idea is that our various forces are represented by little tokens; I thought briefly about having them be 3D renders, but the tokens are a lot easier to identify and ...

The Music of Love of Magic. Part 1: Alexander Nakarada

I obviously love using music to set tone in the game (if you've been playing with the game silent all this time, it might be worthwhile enabling music, since it has a lot of impact on the bigger scenes).

I was going to make a single video highlighting all the music, until I realized just how many songs there are, and how many composers. So I decided to start with one composer, Alexander Nakarada, and see how you guys like it.

Should I be doing more of these behind-the-scenes vi...

Book 2 Steam Site live

Finally got around to setting up the official Steam storefront for Love of Magic Book 2. The War is coming!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1570980/Love_of_Magic_Book_2_The_War/

As always it's super useful if you Wishlist it, since it makes a huge difference to the launch.

Book 1's Beta Branch will continue to receive all updates to Book 2, and all Patreons ...

Trailer Mk II

I wasn't totally sold on the noise / fire distortion, and by the comments others agree... so with a bit of experimentation I removed it. I like this version a lot better; what do you guys think?

First pass trailer for Book 2

With Act VIII+ almost done, I figured it was time to get started on an official trailer for book 2. I'm not 100% certain about the end result (it feels a little 'noisy' to me), though I'm 100% certain about the song.

Apart from that, I'd love feedback on the Act VIII+ sequences, on Steam beta now. I added a lot more Jenny, some more Chloe, more Booker at the university, and a fun chat with Mom. I've got one more sequence with Jenny planned, and a new book from Diana; should hopefully ...

Jenny Facials

I'm done with the first chunk of Edinburgh content, which involved rewriting the computer, and writing more Jenny content. She's been largely forgotten, poor girl, and it's time to fix that. I also took time to make some additional Chloe and Booker content

The plan for the next week or so is more Mom content, and more Diana content.

As always the content is available on the Steam beta branch; let me know if there's anyone who want a key, or need a hand to get Beta Branch activa...

Molly + Bella Cosplay

So, Aracore had an interesting idea (which I totally support). If Molly ever talked Bella into a matching cosplay session to tease Master into a threesome... what would they dress up as?

It wouldn't be act VIII+, which is focused on Edinburgh, but it'd make a fun side-story for Act IX. Ideas and suggestions welcome.

Shirtcut meme

Writing another Chloe sex scene, and as always Kath gets to play photomodel for the variations. I'm thinking of going for the Innerboob solution as our gift for Chloe... what do you guys think?

Act VIII+ poll

I haven't done one of these for a while, so I thought it would be fun to add a quick poll on what content people most want to see. Act VIII+ aims to refresh Edinburgh's content for Book 2 (it's been kinda sad and abandoned). Currently I'm looking at building content that fit across all of Book 2, though some will be gated based on other events having happened.

Let's look at the various options I'm currently considering.

2021-07-27 02:02:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Act VIII

Hopefully this is the final update for Act VIII; I had a brief scurrying around (as you can see from the rapidly growing changelog in the last 2 days) fixing little bugs, and then fixing the bugs my fixes caused. But I think (hope?) that 0.2.5b is our final candidate.

This is a main-line update, taking us from day 134-151, and advancing a number of the key themes of Book 2. It hopefully also sets up Act IX: The Army of Life properly.

With Act VIII done, I'll be shifting focus to...

Act VIII complete

And with that, Act VIII's officially done. The testers are on it, and I suspect I'll be doing 0.2.4d and possibly e tomorrow. But it's so close that I can smell it. Once it's ready it's time to move on to Act VIII+, which centers on rebuilding the Edinburgh side of the game. There'll be new content with Mom, Chloe, Diana and Jenny... and some guest appearance from other Book 1 characters.

But tonight it's time to have a glass of whisky with Katie and relax a little.

Act VIII progress

And with the big end sequence of day 151 complete the build-counter ticks from 0.1.44 to 0.2.1. I've still got a smaller day 144 event to write (it's mostly done rendering), but the end is feckin' neigh, as Katie might say.

I'm hoping I can get it all written and tested by this Friday, so that's my internal deadline. 

Valery Reine

I was doing a small render of Valery for day 151, and in doing so I removed her suit to check the pose for clipping.

Since I haven't (yet) done any sex content with Val I'd completely forgotten just how thicc I made her. She's not unfit, but she's certainly someone who doesn't skip leg-day. And I also remembered how troublesome her breasts were to get posed right.

Anyway, I thought I should share it; she looks great, and I should really make some more intricate content for her ...

Creating crowds in Blender

I'm almost done with Act VIII; I've got one final video to assemble, and then Katie's return sequence to write. We're deep in testing now, so hopefully the final build will be coming out in a week or two.

While I was making one of the clips that make up the final cutscene I thought it might be interesting for some of you to see how it's made. I'm assembling this chunk in Blender, then after it's been rendered out I'll be bringing it into After Effects for special effects, music and com...