So Emily was shortlisted to a Top Cuties in Adult Gaming feature Spicygaming is putting together. To celebrate that they're doing a little compilation featuring 30sec each of all the shortlists.
I was rendering a bunch of stills for a cinematic for day 151, when I came across one that I really felt deserved animation.
Process:
- Staff, Body and Wings were rendered as separate lay...
I should totally have made a timeline for this, so it was clear "this competition will run until XX/XX". Live and learn; it was fun, so I'll totally do it again.
Surfing Eagle was re...
I tried out this high res photo of Molly, and for fun I also decided to volunteer her for Battlenips. Can you guess where they're hiding?
As an aside, looking at her skin at 4K is actually ...
I had a very straightforward plan for writing today; it was day 142, the grand alliance meetup, and for a change I decided Emily (for valid reasons) had delegated the job of scheduling MC's day to ...
2021-06-30 13:50:38 +0000 UTC View Post
As Love of Magic keeps growing (book 2 is already almost 2GB), I need to start doing some house-cleaning to keep the memory footprint down.
The biggest part of this is the character sheets; ...
So I had this idea. In my head it was super cool, of someone capturing Katie cutting loose at the big central even in Act VIII. This is one of the clips from the video:
2021-06-10 10:08:10 +0000 UTC
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Working on the central cutscene for Act VIII. Since the act is called Red Devil there's no surprise that Katie's taking main stage here.
I had a very distinct image in my head of the scene ...
Today was a good day. I managed to do most of the writeup for a pivotal new sequence, did 20+ renders for it, and still felt like spending some time rendering on a mission to learn. I try to use th...
2021-05-29 14:24:50 +0000 UTC View Post
With the latest version of Android making moving files even harder, I finally bit the bullet and set up a web-backend to move files around. You can now move save files (I've hardcoded auto/quick sa...
2021-05-28 09:16:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I picked up Mass Effect Legendary Edition; mostly for my daughter that never had a chance to play the originals, but I spent some time playing with it myself. It as interesting to be reminded that ...
2021-05-22 14:01:22 +0000 UTC View Post
And with the work around updating Act VII+ finally done, and my new PC (hopefully) broken in, it's time to settle down and make the new characters of Act VIII. A lot of them have already been made,...
2021-05-16 13:04:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I made some 4K and 8K wallpapers to celebrate Star Wars day.
I also spent some more time working on the game; I was hoping to finish it last weekend, but I got side-tracked by an idea. Just ...
I had a request for an accessibility feature, similar to RenPy's control+V voice over. It just uses the built in TTS (Text To Speech synthesizer), so it's not a replacement for having an actual voi...
2021-04-22 08:17:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We passed a magical milestone last night, with 500 patreons. It's hard to over-emphasize how touching that is, especially in these troubling times. It's only a little over a year since the first pa...
2021-04-13 13:04:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This came from a Discord suggestion that I liked enough to implement it; as a Seer, you'd assume Akane knows a thing or two about what futures to pick. I decided to implement a reference to it into...
2021-04-12 12:34:11 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the interesting aspects of a public release is that you get lots of people telling pointing out things that it might be easy to overlook as a developer / QA team that's too close to the prod...
2021-04-02 09:52:16 +0000 UTC View Post
And with that, the first release of Book 2 is complete. Act VII is now out on S...
2021-04-01 10:45:38 +0000 UTC View Post
So a while ago I did a poll on which wallpapers you guys wanted to make. The winners was this one, and Emily with the sword. I'm still tinkering with the sword, but i think the godrays and interact...
2021-03-31 04:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostI'm on-track for a public release on Thursday. For now, here's the latest Release Candidate. I'm still searching for bugs, but this one has all known issues fixed. It makes a good release candidate...
2021-03-29 10:14:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Laura's been my favorite streamer, since she first started playing Love of Magic over a year ago on the now defunct Gooshi network. She brings a love for the story and the characters (and a gorgeou...
2021-03-29 02:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
One persistent question I've had was for repeating cutscenes.
I try to avoid them, since I feel re-telling a story cheapens it... but when Rendering Intern extraordinaire Pandaman (who's no...
My naming convention for game builds is Release.Act.Build.Emergency.
So 0.4.24 would be the 24th build of Act 4, and 0.4.24d would be a really bad day, since it's the fourth emergency build ...
One of the many literary inspirations for Love of Magic is Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. I just finished the latest book (Battle Grounds), and like Love of Magic he's gradually taking a darker turn....
2021-03-13 14:09:03 +0000 UTC View Post
With Act VII's ending finally in view (I'm writing and rendering the last 'timeline' event now), I thought I'd share something else I've been working on.
There were a couple of big new syste...
The other winner of the Dakimakura vote was Bella, here in glorious 8K resolution.
I was inspired by the old Light in the Darkness wallpaper I did, and wanted to do the same concept but on a ...
2021-03-04 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's longtime discord regular and patreon JackTheJackal's birthday, and he asked if I could do a render with Emily and the girls on the bed. So far I've got Emily, now I only need the girls ;)
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I finally finished Act VII's primary cutscene (no, this isn't it... this was a side-render I liked enough to spend some time doing VFX work on). It's the biggest one I've done since the Call of the...
2021-02-28 13:08:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I was looking through the itch.io store, when I realized I could actually hook it up to Patreon. For anyone who would prefer to download the game from itch.io instead of the mirrors, you can get yo...
2021-02-24 01:14:39 +0000 UTC View Post