Love of Magic Book 2: The War News

I love sharing the game development process as I made it; I started out making adult games in an episodic format (releasing each Act as it's complete), and I wanted to continue doing that when making the game for Steam.

There are now 3 distinct Branches of the game:
- Default branch is just Book 2
- Beta branch has each complete Act or Act+ as I've finished it and tested it
- Development branch is where I develop the game, and where I share the very latest updates.

With version 0.1.0 the first Book 3 Act is complete, and moves onto the Beta branch. This is the complete Act XII: For the Want of a Nail, taking the player from day 194 to day 213 in-game.



With that done, the next step is to work on Act XII+. This will be a "world expansion" update; for each Act (which mainly focuses on driving the main story forward), I'll also do an Act+ that focuses on expanding the sandbox, adding side-quests and optional content.

Act XII+ will focus on Elsewhere, adding new characters and stories there, and perhaps catching up with some old friends. The Act+ expansions are usually a little faster to make, so I'm hoping to complete it in ~4-6 weeks, after which I can focus on Act XIII: Air & Darkness.

Thanks for the support, and hope you're all enjoying your time with MC, Emily, Katie and the Chosen, as the final book in the Love of Magic trilogy begins.

What's new?
- Various typos and spellchecking pass (thanks to all the testers on Discord for those!)
- Fixed an issue where loading a Game+ from Book 1 would give an incorrect save dialog
- You can now use the Keypad keys for controlling dialog, allies and cards.

What's changed?

This is primarily a spellchecking and typo pass build, fixing up a bunch of small issues, correcting incorrect images used in certain locations, and in general tightening up the language. A huge thanks to the various testers that helped report bugs, typos and logic issues.

This hotfix is mostly fixing small issues; typos, incorrect character dressing in some scenarios, and one of the card back unlocks not triggering correctly.

Balancing wise I also changed it so Kingdom Events no longer take time to trigger/debrief, which hopefully helps with the early book feeling too full. I also tweaked Toxic Shock to be even worse :)


1.0.8b
- Fixed the Lancaster cardback not triggering (Triggers after Katie's whisky bottle side-quest)
- Fixed the second Bella cardback triggering (day 194)
- Toxic shock base poison reduced (300->200). After doubling it now doesn't clear poison stack applied

1.0.8
- Typo fixes
- Kingdom Events no longer takes up a timeslot
- Fixed a bug where having left the Black Rose questline half-done in Book 1 could soft-lock the Coffeshop in book 2
- Toxic shock gets an upgrade, and now triggers the poison, after doubling it
- Doubled max number of savegames to 512
- Fixed a bug when copying wallpapers out to pictures folder

Normally I let bug-fixes build up for a while before I do an update, but this one's pretty important. A data error on my side caused Day 167 of Book 2 (the first new day of Act X) to not trigger. Since it's a pretty major scene, I decided to rush a hotfix for it.

If you're already past it, and want to see what it was, you can use Load from Day (167) to just view that specific sequence; it doesn't set any flags or do other things that would mess up your game logic.

Apart from that I dd a quick typo pass based on feedback.

1.0.6
- Fixed a bug where the two timeline events for day 167 wasn't triggering correctly
- Typos and spellcheck pass