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Left Hand Magic - Build 8 - Patron Release
🕑 Added 2023-03-31 13:34:00 +0000 UTC*Drum Roll*
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Ta-da! I present to you, an on time Left Hand Magic release! Admittedly, the android version isn't going to be up until later, but even it should be up well before midnight. I will drop a warning for $10 patrons though...I changed enough stuff that I need to massively overhaul the Guide. It won't be out until sometime on the 1st. Honestly, the thing was kinda cumbersome and in need of an overhaul/restructure anyway...
Moving onto talking about the actual build. I'm afraid I do have some bad news up front. Specifically, Old Saves are Extremely unlikely to work properly. Seriously, a side-effect of the voting for me to do early game overhauls/modifications/additions means that too much data changed in the early game. You might be able to get some of the content (like Arianna's 4th Week 4 scene) to work on an old save. But I'd highly recommend simply starting a new game. It sucks, I know, but in this case there was just nothing I could do about it.
That said. There's quite a lot in this build. The core content consists of 8 entirely new scenes. Five of those are Week 4 scenes, the other three are embedded in the routes to add extra places for Dom or Sub points. On that topic, I called that all 'core content,' because I made several other small additions with the same goal. There are now some new places where there additional Dom/Sub points available, with a few of them even having a new render or three based on what you do.
The Dom/Sub system isn't entirely fixed with this. I need to add some alternative scene content to the Week 2 scenes of Trix and Revina, for example. Currently, those two have some bastardized new versions for characters that don't fit the personality profile for them how they existed. The scenes are too backstory-critical to be removed, the information in them needs to be there even in the Threesome Routes. Ultimately, I'll be creating some alternate events for them to make those two scenes a little less...underwhelming then they now are. Note that they remain exactly how they were before for people following one of their Solo Routes. It's really only relevant when you're going down the Threesome path with them.
I also need to add another scene somewhere to Revina's route. As well as possibly adjust one or two more scenes here or there. I made a solid start on the overhauls needed to properly integrate the expanded Threesome Routes I've made for the game. But everything isn't quite smoothed out yet. Note that the changes also make it somewhat harder to achieve certain routes. If you go too far down the Threesome Route for Rev/Trix, you'll no longer have access to Trix's solo route, for example. It flat out didn't make sense for you to have access to both, since their content is sort of diametrically opposed.
On the plus side, I did fix some old issues. Like a few things to do with the Gallery. Enough rambling though. You can check the release notes for at least a bit more detail on what is in the build. For now...links! Note that I'm now releasing a compressed version as well. I might actually be switching entirely to it in the future. The game is only maybe 40% complete at this point...and 4gb if I only use video compression. The new, compressed version also compressed the majority of the pngs into the webp format, for a major size reduction (down to just over 1gb instead of 4gb).
Note: Fair warning. The compressed version has barely been tested. It might have some issues from the batch compression I did. Please report them if you find any.
Windows/Linux Uncompressed Build
Mac Uncompressed Build
Windows/Linux Compressed Version
Mac Compressed Version
Android
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Build 8 Release Notes
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Build 8 consists of eight new full scenes, plus a number of minor additions scattered throughout the game. A total of ten new animations were added within the eight new primary scenes. The general breakdown is as follows:
- Arianna's solo route got it's 4th and final weekday scene for Week 4
- Trix's solo route got all four of it's weekday scenes for Week 4
- A major extension was added to Arianna's Week 1 event, effectively a whole additional scene.
- The Talia/Arianna route gained a trigger for an additional animated Talia scene.
- Trix's Route gained an alternate scene in Week 3, if you don't have Trix's Chastity Belt Key.
- In a variety of places, extra choices/renders were added to increase the number of Dom/Sub points available.
- Additional Dom/Sub points were added to scenes that should have had them but didn't.
- Some route requirements were changed to make certain routes mutually exclusive.
- Gallery Overhauls to add a Page 2 to galleries that need it...as well as finally making it so you don't get kicked directly back to the main menu instead of the Gallery when trying to navigate the Gallery page. Note: Some of the new 'extra' scenes are out of order at the moment. I ran out of time/energy. It will take several hours of effort to put them where in the Gallery they should be, so I put that off for a future build.
-Typo and Bug fixes. Credits updated.
