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Home for the Chosen: Dojo

Each of the rooms of the expanded Kings Dragon will have a few events with the Chosen (and occasionally other guest characters). For the Dojo I needed at least one with Bella.

This is obviou...

A Home for the Chosen

One of the big tasks for Act VII (and the whole of Book 2) is the Home for the Chosen Questline. It starts on the last day of Book 1, when the Chosen ask you what expansion building you want to bui...

Happy Lunar New Year

Tonight marks the end of the Year of the Rat; let's hope the Year of the Ox will bring us all prosperity, health and happiness. As well as a lot of hard work :)

Wallpaper Engine

I obviously really enjoy making wallpaper, sigs and other small side-projects; I feel it let's me practice getting better, I like how it lets me be creative in a different way, and I love seeing pe...

Character Creation Timelapse

I got a question in the Dakimakura thread on how characters are set up in Daz. I needed a couple of new character anyways for the end of Act VII, so I decided to record myself creating him and time...

Dakimakura Mk II

The winners of the Dakimakura poll last month was Emily and Bella. Bella's still rendering (you wouldn't believe how long 4k x 8k takes to render), but Emily's done.

I think this is my fa...

4K Wallpaper

I've been too immersed in tech for a while, and as such haven't done any wallpapers recently. This one just popped out at me; it's a scene from the big Act VII cutscene that I thought looked good e...

Testing out WebGL

At the very start of Love of Magic I set it up to run on WebGL (so, playing embedded in the browser). I quickly abandoned that idea as I spent every free hour building more content. With Book 1 com...

Elsewhere World Map

The biggest technical task for Book 2 is putting together the Elsewhere World map. It's a place that will have encounters, serve as the joint between the various locations, host hunting grounds whi...

Steam Community Assets

I really enjoy making little community assets as I go, and a month ago I decided to spend a lazy Saturday morning (which is usually my "go do something new" time) to create what's called 2021-01-18 06:04:17 +0000 UTC View Post

4K wallpaper: The Redheads of the Clan

I set the PC to do some over-night rendering; this time for the 4 redheads of the Clan. Kathy on the left. Fia, who you meet in Act VII. Katie, and finally Bella.

The background is a stock ...

T-shirts

One of the discord regulars was talking about wanting Emily's t-shirt for his girlfriend, and another user asked if he could get a copy if it was being made. As these things do, things escalated. 2021-01-09 05:06:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Book 1 : 1.0.7b (Final)

With the Steam release has come a bunch of "final" fixes, all the little things that needed fixing once you can no longer kick the can down the road. It's not the most glamorous part of game develo...

Dakimakura

A while ago I put together a Dakimakura template for fun. These are Japanese st...

Merry Xmas

And a joyful New Year to everyone!

Book 2 Teaser

With writing for Book 2 now going on, I wanted to do a little teaser video. I sat down last night, cracked open a bottle of wine and spent a little time setting it up.

It touches on some of...

Faces of Emily

I often get asked about the facial animation for characters; I thought I'd go through and show how it's set up. Emily's by far the most expressive character; side-characters usually have 3, major c...

Live on Steam

And we're live on Steam!

If you've got a Steam key, and have played ...

Book 1 : The Crown

And the final release candidate is here. Thanks to the Discord team that's been bug-fixing, looking for typos, balance testing the updated gems, and finding continuity bugs. This market the (hopefu...

Book 2

While we're waiting for Steam to do it's thing, I've started forking the codebase and looking at the coding tasks that goes into that. As systems come online I'll talk more about what is involved, ...

Approved for Steam Release

And after a quick bit of neutering the Steam build is ready for release. The Game of Friends had to go for the Steam build, unfortunately; Steam considered them ingame advertising. With that went o...

Last Game of Friends of Book 1 : Heavy Five

I've been a scifi nerd since I first stumbled across an old copy of the Foundation saga in my mother's bookshelf at 10. Since then I read everything scifi I could, exhausting first the bookshelf, t...

0.6.22b

It wouldn't be a public release without the odd warts. There's one specific one (Overwriting Savegame causes the UI to become unresponsive) that's bad enough I'm rolling out a patched version. I to...

Onwards... to War

This little video was inspired by PandaMan's spirited #jenny4chosen campaign. While Jenny ultimately lost, I wanted to revisit the moment with Jenny in the Arena, recruiting for MC. Pandaman was ki...

Act VI Story complete

And with 0.6.20 we're *finally* at the end of Day 115, or December 31st 2019, in-game.

I've got bugs to fix, typos to rewrite, quests to clean up clean up, and a cleaner end-of-content trans...

New Game of Friends: Lucky Paradox

I've been chatting with Stawer from Lucky Paradox for a while, and decided to do a fun little shout-out to him. It started with a plan to do another game-within-the-game, but as we chatted it kinda...

Welcome to Camelot

With my small detour to Camelot complete, we're back to Edinburgh for the finale of Book 1. I wanted to give you guys a quick look into what the setup for Camelot itself is, and some of my plans fo...

The King's Dragon

The big task of Act VI is having to build Camelot. I needed to do that for Book 2 *anyways*, but I decided to frontload it so the players can see some of the surrounding areas as well.

This ...

Playing with Fire

As I continue to write Act VI (it's on day 104 now, with 11 days left of the main timeline), I decided to play with VFX a little. This is Katie hitting the Power threshold; I actually really love t...

When life gives you lemons

I was going to set up an over-night render of a cutscene for Day 104. However, I forgot to change the resolution on the camera (the last thing I used it for was a 4k hero shot), and so it was tryin...