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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 obviously a very long video, so I thought I'd do a breakdown.The first part is animation; it's actually using...
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 build first for the King's Dragon. It doesn't really matter that much which one you selected on Ho...
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 people using the results.Someone was asking why there wasn't any Wallpaper Engine versions. Which...
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 timelapse it at 5x. Character creation is definitely the easiest part of DAZ; posing, lighting, dForce and ...
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 favorite outfit of Emily's; it also looks nice and soft and cuddlable. If anyone actually makes one,...
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 enough in isolation that it was worth re-rendering it at 4k.Someone's made Emily... most...
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 complete, and after chatting with a bunch of other devs, I decided to return to that idea. WebGL has some ...
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 which replace the basement in the Crowley and in general grow over the next 5-6 acts. I wanted to do i...
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 Steam Community assets.There's multiple different types of these: It starts with trading cardsThe...
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 photo from the Quirang coastline, on the Isle of Skye, about 4 hours drive from Bellanoch.
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.So I made a print on demand shirt shop as a fun Saturday morning task.https://loveofmagic.myshopify.c...
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 development, but it needed doing.With 1.0.7b, I'm hopefully able to turn my energies towards ...
Dakimakura
A while ago I put together a Dakimakura template for fun. These are Japanese style giant 'body pillows'; you can provide your own prints to placed like this and they'll send you a pillow your wife or girlfriend may or may not have objections to. The actual image is 8000x4000 pixels (exac...
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 the themes of the next book, and some of the systems I need to build.First of all, the Kingdom management syst...
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 characters 5-8; Emily has 14. Each expression is made up of 4 images; the base layer, blink ...
Live on Steam
And we're live on Steam!If you've got a Steam key, and have played the game there, one thing that's hugely helpful is to leave a review... people playing and enjoying the game has a massive impact on Valve displaying the game to other players, and everyone's much more likely to try o...
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 (hopefully) final build submitted to Steam.So... what's new?Well, first of all the Achievements. Steam...
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, and maybe even letting you guys have fun with helping add kingdom events, name regions ...
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 one of the achievements (Gamer : play all games on the PC). That leaves us with 55 achievements in the s...
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, then the local library, and eventually even the local gamer bookstore.I've really enjoyed ta...
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 took the opportunity to make a bunch of other small fixes in the process... hopefully not...
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 kind enough to lend me the assets, so here we are.Today marks the final build of the main storyline o...
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 transition to do before it hits public, but the story of Love of Magic, Book 1 : The Crown is now playable f...
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 grew. Stawer's a huge fan over the top anime, so we decided to have two of our martial arts re...
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 for Book 2.
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 is a shot-breakdown of the background for one of Camelot's key locations, The King's Dragon. It serves ...
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 the colors of her hair here.So when's the next public release? I've got 5 more events for th...
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 trying to do 60 frames of animation at 4k. Needless to say, 7 hours later, when I woke up, it had gotten to ...
