Love of Magic News

This is a small bug-fix release that solves some achievements not triggering correctly in the new NG+ code. A big thanks to the players who went chevron hunting and found the bugs for me.

In other news, I'm now starting New Game+ mode for Book 2, with the first release going up on the NGPlus branch last night. It'll be some time until that's 100% stable, but it's good to have gotten started on it. As with Book 1's NG+ mode, it'll allow you to continue a NG+ save from Book 1, tweak dialog, add in new scenes, improve graphics in some of the worst offending scenes and add in new NG+ exclusive scenes to find.

I'm also nearing the end of Morningstar, with the penultimate Act going live last week (yes, it's been a busy few weeks for me :D ). Check it out, and give it a wishlist if it looks interesting.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396740/Morningstar_Book_of_the_Fallen/

Some of the same characters, in a brand new universe. A little grittier and closer to the ground than Love of Magic, it takes inspiration from 80s/90s action movies like The Crow, Highlander, Rocky and John Wick. A young MMA fighters life is forever changed the day he meets an Angel.

The nice thing about pushing the game to the default branch is that lots of people get to test. The downside is that lots of people test :)

I *think* (he says, hopefully) that this is the last of the achievement bugs. As a bonus, it also adds Jenny's last Spankbank entry.

1.6.11c
- Fixed Act VI achievment not triggering
- (Actually) Fixed Toxic Environment not triggering
- Fixed Diamond in the rough not triggering
- Fixed Jenny's Black Rose 3 spankbank not triggering

Small bugfix for reported issues on achievements not triggering:
Fixed Going Nova (250+ fire applied)
Fixed Untoucable (player having 1500+ shields)

This is a quick Achievements focused hotfix:
- Fixed the Streamer tab on MC's PC being disabled, which meant you couldn't unlock "Voices in my Head" achievement.
- Fixed Toxic Environment not triggering
- Added a button to the Achievements UI to verify that all achievements unlocked locally are also unlocked on Steam.

Thanks to everyone who helped report issues, let me know if there's anything else!

With version 1.6.10f, I think I'm mostly done with Book 1 of Love of Magic; far enough that I can start on Book 2's New Game+ mode, at least. I spent the weekend setting it up, and porting the codebase to the NG+ codebase (with all the new gems, rollback and other nice quality of life updates). Hopefully it should start updating it over the next couple of weeks.

This update has a number of little bug-fixes, typos solved, and lots of updates to make it play better on Steamdeck.

Apart from that I've been hard at work on Morningstar: Book of the Fallen; give it a wishlist if you can, it really helps on launch.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396740/Morningstar_Book_of_the_Fallen/

It's a different world with some of the same souls; and a chance for me to repay my sins to Katie.



It's got multiple endings, different romances and a grittier world inspired by The Crow, Rocky, Highlander and John Wick. And match 3 combat; Katie would approve.


I hope to be done with that sometime in the fall; currently I'm optimistically saying end of September; currently finishing up Act 5 (of 6).



For those of you curious how to activate New Game+; start Book 1 after finishing Book 3, and you'll get an option to start a new game with all your gems, higher starting stats, and a story that's slightly different. Lots of dialog got rewritten, new events added, and (if you defeated Hel in Book 3) a new Questline has opened.

Hope you enjoy it, and thanks for all the support over the years!