Love of Magic News

This is a small hotfix to update a couple of spankbank/memory issues people were having, and clean up the puppeteering for Katie's MMA fight.

Apart from that, my next game, Morningstar: Book of the Fallen, is going live at the end of the month! Give it a wishlist here if you haven't yet, it helps so much on launch.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396740/Morningstar_Book_of_the_Fallen/

Build notes:
1.6.9e
- Fixed two Katie spankbanks (MMA and Flawless fire gem)
- Fixed an issue where some memories aren't triggering correctly
- Fixed an issue with video thumbnails when there were two videos with the same name
- Fixed up puppeteering for the Katie MMA fight

1.6.9d
- Fixed up memories (accessed from settings)

This hotfix fixes various smaller issues with the NG+ build:
- Fixed Memories not working correctly
- Fixed some achivements not correctly firing in NG+
- Fixed Steamdeck callback on entering text
- Fixed some continuity errors (people showing up in incorrect clothes, etc)
- Fixed drinking in grassmarket showing up during day-time.

This is mainly a hotfix dedicated to SteamDeck, which gets several smaller updates. In addition there are updates to Text-To-Speech on PC and Mac.

This update pushes the New Game+ mode to default branch (where 85% of players are). Hopefully the weeks of testing has smoked out any remaining issues; if not, let me know and I'll stomp on the bugs :)

For those discovering New Game+ for the first time, this is my love-letter to the Persona series; if you start a new game in book 1 after completing book 3 you'll have the option to start a New Game+. It starts with additional cash, higher stats, and all your gems from book 3, but more importantly it also adds in new events and changes the dialog in subtle ways based on decisions you made throughout the 3 books.

Apart from that it also updates the game to Book 3's engine, with things like rollback, improved graphics, more music, and several additional events (Kath, Jenny, Olivia and Nimue all get new questlines).

As always, enjoy... and thanks for helping complete this project.

One of the main influences for Love of Magic was of course Persona 4 and 5. I loved the way it combines a sandbox with a constantly progressing calendar, the themes of balancing a normal life against a supernatural destiny, even some of the character archetypes.

One feature that all the Persona games share is the idea of a New Game+ mode, where you can start a new game with the end of content save, and experience a subtly different game, and maybe even a ‘true’ ending.



With that in mind I set out to create a New Game+ mode for Love of Magic; you can find lots of hints for it, especially in Book 3 (but occasionally also in book 1 and 2). The way it works is that it takes your end of Book 3 save (called Act16.sav3) and begins a new game with it. You’ll start with higher stats (15/15/15) and more cash (£10,000), as well as all your existing gems.

The game also remembers a number of the actions you committed throughout the game, and occasionally reacts to them. A lot of dialogs change in subtle (and not so subtle) ways, especially those related to your core group of characters.



The game also adds in several new NG+ only events, with Fae showing up at the Crowley, and some of the more unique characters of Book 2/3 returning to engage with the player.



I also decided to add some fan-service. The Kult of Kath’s long been asking for an event with everyone’s favorite werelynx, and this time I finally agreed. Diana’s got a new book for you… make sure you read it before Kath becomes your barmaid on day 112 onwards. There’s also new questlines for Jenny, Olivia and The Morrigan.



Finally I ported all of it to Book 3’s version of the engine, which adds a number of quality of life improvements, including rollback, video backgrounds, a gallery for replaying erotic scenes, gamepad support and hundreds of other little tweaks.



Some of the new content is only accessible if you’ve got a final Book 3 save (called act16.sav3), while most of the new side-events (like Kath, Jenny and Olivia) can be played either from a new save, or a NG+ save. It’s now live on Beta and Development branch… once I’ve ensured it doesn’t break anything terrible I’ll shift it onto the default branch.

And with that, I'm back to working on my next game, Morningstar: Book of the Fallen, an Urban Fantasy set in New York, inspired by movies like Highlander, Rocky, John Wick and The Crow. Give it a wishlist here, or try out the free demo!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396740/Morningstar_Book_of_the_Fallen/