Love of Magic Book 2: The War News

Act XIII: Air & Darkness is now complete, and available on the Beta branch of Book 2. This is the 2nd out of 5 (or possibly 6) Acts in Book 3, and opens with the player arriving in Kyoto. Expect epic, fun and erotic times, exploring Akane's homeland. Adds another 20 days of primary storyline, lots of side content and returns some options from Book 2 that were missing in the opening act of Book 3.


The main theme for Act XIII is of course Mab, the Queen of Air & Darkness. Spend some time with this mysterious and volatile character, and explore the origins of the Fae.


Finally, it advances the main storyline by 20 days. Go on a date with Emily, flirt with Katie and cozy up with your Chosen.


With that done it's time to start work on Act XIII+. Act+ updates are a 'world expansion' sprint, focused on adding side quests and optional content. Act XIII+ will focus on the King's Dragon, adding content that can be played across much of Book 3. Friends will visit, good times will be had, and Jenny's Book 3 Questline (You Raise Me Up) will be completed.

A reminder that there are 3 build branches for this game:

Default: Just Book 2, for people who prefer to play just the complete game.
Beta: Which contains the latest complete Book 3 content as well (In this case Act XIII).
Development: Which contains the bleeding edge content (bugs and all), as I develop it.

As always, hope you like it. If you want to do beta testing I totally recommend joining the Discord ( https://discord.gg/NQrQrht)

The development process is reasonably continuous on my part. Every time I have new content I will push it to the [DEVELOPMENT] branch. Keep in mind that because it's where I test stuff (with the help of the wonderful volunteers on Discord), it frequently has bugs.

Once I've ironed out all the bugs, and completed a chunk of content, I'll promote the game to the [BETA] branch. Beta branch's reasonably well tested, and I promise to do my utmost not to break savegames by forgetting to set flags, etc. It'll update every 6-8 weeks (for the big story Acts) and 4-6 weeks (for the smaller World Expansion Act+'es).

Once the full Book 3 is done, I'll create a new App for it, and it goes on sale on its own. I don't know if this is the best way of doing it (perhaps I should have made it an early access thing, instead?), but I like having players involved in the continuous testing, and watching you guys enjoy yourself is key to my own motivation. If that means I lose out on sales, so be it.

Act XII+ is focused on rebuilding the player's sandbox. It adds new story content to the World Map in Elsewhere, adds new content to Edinburgh, and implements a bunch of fixes and tweaks.

The biggest chunk of new content is connected to Jenny, the barrista in Edinburgh. In the same way that Black Rose was the biggest side-quest in Book 1, and Collared was the biggest side-quest in Book 2, it's looking like You Raise Me Up, Jenny's Book 3 side-quest, will be the biggest chunk of optional content in Book 3. That kicks off in this update, though there's still lot left to do.

If you want to test on Development branch I totally recommend joining the game's wonderful Discord community (https://discord.gg/NQrQrht), where bugs are reported and squashed, typos are found, and people discuss the carrying capacity of African vs European swallows while listening to great music.

As always, hope you guys enjoy it, let me know in the comments!

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.