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Left Hand Magic - Build 5 - $5 Patron Release
🕑 Added 2022-09-01 03:42:05 +0000 UTC*Update!* APK was broken because of Renpy APK size limitations I was unaware of. It's been replaced with a new version. I had to downgrade the image quality by converting most pngs to jpgs...but that honestly probably won't be overly noticeable on an android device. And it cut the download size for the APK down to under 1 GB. Anyway, it should work on Android now. But it's had very minimal testing...
*Makes an exhausted cheering noise*
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*Slumps face-first into keyboard*
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*Drags himself back upright and slaps himself a couple of times*
Okay! Okay! I'm awake. Mostly!
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Soooo, clearly I actually managed to make the release deadline. Surprised? I am, a little. To be fair, though, there's actually a reason. Specifically, that I ended up not being able to add a feature I'd intended to sneak it. Cheats. The game has been missing cheats. And I was determined to finally get them in game this time, even if it meant releasing a few hours late.
Sadly, it wasn't to be. Though that wasn't without effort on my part. I spent 2+ hours yesterday banging my head against a cheat system implementation. What I thought was going to be easy, proved to be anything but. Even weirder, whereas there are normally helpful guides around the internet for most Renpy features if you get stuck...there's a seeming complete lack of them for what I was trying to do. In the end, I realized I had no idea how long it was going to take to solve what I thought was a simple issue. It was at that point that I cut my losses in an attempt to, instead, at least get the release out by the official deadline.
So...release out by the deadline! Yay! And, I'm pretty happy with the release itself. Ten new scenes, with 11(or 12, depending on how you count) animations spread between them. Since many of those animations are part of a 2-animation sequence, that doesn't mean every scene has animation. But 7 of the 10 actually do. And there's a decent amount of plot advancement too!
In fact, ironically, the only thing I'm unhappy about is the fact that some of the new content makes certain bits of older content look bad. Specifically, I realized during the testing phase that I need to revisit the sprites for the characters. I've progressively made the game a bit more vibrant via different lighting rigs and post processing. And the character sprites I made clear back in pre-build 1...haven't held up all that well. Something to fix in Build 6, I guess.
Anyway! Onto download links! Be aware, I didn't get a chance to test this as thoroughly as I'd have really liked. Please report any bugs/issues. Particularly with the sound/music.
Download Links:
Windows/Linux:
Mac:
Android APK
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Build 5 Release Notes:
Build 5 focuses on the weekday content for Week 3. It add 10 scenes, with a total of 12 animations spread between them.
- 3 New Scenes for Arianna's Solo Route
- 3 New Scenes for Revina's Solo Route
- 3 New Scenes for Talia's Solo Route
- 1 New Scenes for the Talia + Arianna Threesome Route
- 3 Relationship/Background dialogues each for Arianna, Revina, and Talia.
- Gallery Updates
- Credits Updates
- Lots and lots of typo corrections, including in old content
- Lowered music volume for main menu a bit and rebalanced the volume of a few other tracks as well.
- KNOWN ISSUE: Old saves from an Arianna/Talia Threesome Route play through won't be able to trigger the new Arianna/Talia Threesome route content. Sorry :-(. I had to define a new variable. If you have a Threesome route save from just before the Week 2 Threesome content, that will still work. But you need to be able to play through the Week 2 Weekday threesome encounter again.
Comments
George Lever
At least you know where to start looking to fix it?
Novus
*sweatdrop* Yeah...I may have noticed the undies clipping thing when I was testing and just hoped no one else would notice. Since I didn't have time to redo it... And, thankfully, it's ONLY the threesome route. At least this time. Now that I think about it, it will probably reoccur with the other threesome route as well, since I didn't think to preemptively fix that. Grr. It shouldn't happen with any of the others though. And it shouldn't happen going forward either, since I started putting tracking variables on every scene just in case.... *slaps self in face* ...except the Threesome scene. I think I forgot to put a tracking variable in it. Well, now I feel stupid.
George Lever
Also, Ari's underwear is clipping through her shorts in the threesome route when she's examining a wall with a marking above head height.
George Lever
It's the save compatibility issue then. Does that hold for the rest of the saves as well, or just the threesome? Everything else triggered just fine.
Novus
As always, thanks for the bug/typo reports! That skip is a potentially serious issue, since I put it in there specifically to address the issue of someone maybe not havning (or wanting) a high enough score with two people. I'll try to see what's going on there. As for the trigger, I'll be releasing the usual guide either tonight or early tomorrow. But in the meantime, the content triggers for the Week 2 threesome are: Talia Rel Score > 5 Arianna Rel Score > 5 Work with Both of them during the Week at least twice You must have already done their Week 2 threesome content. I'm guessing the last one is probably the issue? If you used an old save, it ABSOLUTELY is the issue. That's something I meant to make note of in the release notes, as I had to go back and add a variable that didn't exist to track it. So, if you're using an old threesome same, that specifically won't be compatible with the week 3 threesome content. I try really hard to avoid that sort of incompatibility, but can't always get it right :-(. Strictly speaking, if you know how to activate and use the Renpy console, you can also simply set the AriTalia2 variable equal to 1.
George Lever
Spelling error: Arianna chat after the hypnosis "Single most single strongest ...". Context error: In the BDSM club, when in New Carthage do as the *Carthaginians*. Also you can only skip once toward the end of the week if you don't have a relationship with more than one person before it dumps you out at the main menu without prompting you with the "end of content" message. Also, I appear to be lacking a trigger for the threesome content, 10 points to Talia, 16 for Arianna, 2 dom, 4 sub. Tried all combinations of talking to them 3 and 1 each, as well as 2 and 2, no trigger.
