- Hotfix 1.7.6 - 20 August 2026
This was meant to be a small patch-job, fixing up a missing spank-bank trigger (first time you play Molly's Ballet Socks scene), and fixing the payout box on selling gems not updating correctly. Of course Molly wouldn't let me do this for free, so there's also a new sexy Email from her with her render-tax; it unlocks after you play through her Ballet Socks scene. Full changelog here: 1.7.6 New sext from Molly after completing the Ballet Socks event (Day 81+) Fixed an issue where selling gems always reported $500, regardless of what you offered Fixed an issue with ultra-wide monitors scaling the convo UI strangely Fixed an issue where Molly's Ballet Socks update doesn't generate a spank-bank entry the first time you play 1.7.5b Fixed a bug where Katie could get stuck talking about whisky
- Molly Studio Edition - 18 July 2026
This is update 1.7.5. It wasn't meant to be. 1.7.4 fixes up various spankbank issues (they were added late, and without enough testing). As part of doing that I ended up doing a clean playthrough from scratch, something I hadn't done in a LONG time. Which was of course Molly's excuse to sneak in for a little bit of T&A. There's a new email (triggered day 81+ if you've bought her the new elsewhere outfit), which then leads to meeting up with her in the dance studio on campus.I don't often do repeatable scenes, I find I can make them more character-centric if I do one-offs, but here Molly again made her wishes clear. So from that point on you're free to visit her in the studio if you want a repeat show. Somehow fitting, for an update that started as a spankbank related fix.And with that out of my hair (if not out of Molly's) I can get back to working on Wings of Empire. Act V is almost do…
- Hotfix 1.7.3c - 23 April 2026
This is a quick hotfix, mostly centered on cleaning up some lingering issues from the translation pass (the game now supports Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish and Portugese). It also adds back streamer mode (which fades to dark during NSFW scenes). To activate it, use the debug menu (Ctrl+J) and add the flag STREAMER_MODE. Full list: 1.7.3c - Fixed up some places where localization code would override correct text - Fixed incorrect fonts on french localization in UI elements - Fixed incorrect face used in a convo with Chloe - Fixed Aura values on cards that have it not parsing correctly - Fixed applied Lightning not parsing correctly - Typo pass 1.7.3b - Added streamer flags to stop story-based nudity/topless scenes to show
- Wings of Empire launches! - 17 April 2026
If you've enjoyed Love of Magic you might like Wings of Empire, my new game. A space opera set in a world where the Roman Empire never fell, but ascended the stars. You were a Centurion in the Imperial Legion until losing your leg during combat. Unwilling to retire you retrained as a fighter pilot, and as the long Pax Imperia comes to an end you board the INS Aquila, sailing into the Dark. I've loved Space Operas for a long time; from Honor Harrington to Battlestar Galactica, from Starship Troopers to Legends of the Galactic Heroes. In Wings of Empire I'm hoping to bring the same feeling of grand strategy and personal connections, star-spanning politics and individual heroics to life. We'll see how it goes :) As always, if you want to chat about my games, discuss everything from Camelot politics to Legion tactics, come chill over on Discord: https://discord.gg/j86JdHg
- Hotfix 1.7.2i - 6 October 2025
This hotfix fixes a security issue in Unity, that made doing a new build recommended. I also took the opportunity to clean up various localization issues, making new cards for Elsewhere and various little quality of life fixes. If you own Book 2 and Book 3 you'll see similar updates there, though they're far larger because they involve formally pushing NG+ mode to the default branch. As always, thanks for playing, reporting and supporting the game!
- Love of Magic Localization - 16 September 2025
Love of Magic's a big game; the full trilogy has ~650k words (about the same as Lord of the Rings + Silmarillion). There's been several attempts at localizing it, but each fan-translation has crashed against the sheer amount of text. It remains common requested feature, though; the English isn't always the easiest, and some people struggle with it. Machine translation has come a long way, with LLMs like ChatGPT and Grok jumping generations ahead of old machine translation systems. I decided to have a go at it.Several weeks later, and regretting my life choices, it's finally done. One of the things that made it more complex than expected was that I decided to localize all the UI and ingame (non-dialog) text. Stuff like events, card descriptions, kingdom events, etc. There's a LOT of text scattered around in little corners of the game, and hunting down (most of) it was a pain.Now, the fir…
- Hotfix 1.6.12f - 20 March 2025
This is a tiny bug-fix; the system will now recognize end of game saves generated both from the original game (which had an extension of .sav3) and the New Game+ version (which has an extension of .ng3). This means you can finish a normal game in Book 3 and use that save in Book 1 without any manual file renaming shenanigans. Sorry it took a bit of time to finish, been AFK for a while. Enjoy :)
- New Game+ Complete - 4 March 2025
One of the key inspirations for Love of Magic was Persona 4 Golden, a timeless RPG from Atlus. You can even encounter MC and Dylan discussing it in the coffee-shop, the mix of a regular calendar with optional sandbox events, a 'normal' world and a magical world you can explore and hunt in, and even some early character inspirations. One thing I wanted to play with was the idea of a New Game+ mode. Starting with a finished save from Book 3, bringing you back to book 1, and starting you anew in a world that changes in various small ways. You'll begin a new game with all your Gems from the end of book 3, more cash and higher starting stats; more importantly a lot of dialog changes in little ways, and new events open up. The *big* chunk of new content is related to defeating Hel in Book 3; that opens up a new Book 2 questline called What Was Promised, leading to the 'true' ending. Apart fro…
- Quick Patch - 11 November 2024
A user reported that Steam Achievements weren't firing on Steam side, due to the Steam SDK being disabled. This update fixes that; if you have achievements that haven't yet triggered on Steam, entering the Achievements UI (from Settings) should flush any that are local only. In other news; Morningstar: Book of the Fallen is now LIVE! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396740/Morningstar_Book_of_the_Fallen/ Some of the same souls return in a very different universe, reborn together to once again fight for justice.
- Morningstar Launch Sale - 2 November 2024
Love of Magic and Morningstar could be considered sister projects; some of the same souls destined to be reincarnated together. After 2 years it's finally done, and so I'm doing a sale on Love of Magic to celebrate. Morningstar draws inspiration from 80s and 90s Action movies; touch stones were movies like Rocky, The Crow and Highlander. You play as a young MMA fighter, preparing for the comeback fight of his life, but your life takes a dramatic change the day you meet an Angel. This is very much an Urban Fantasy story; set in the dark alleys of New York, with a protagonist that's a little more worn and less innocent than Love of Magic's character. Will you find redemption through Love, or will you walk the lonely Path of Shadows? Unlike Love of Magic there's 4 distinct endings, and two main Love Interests (Emily and Katie). Personally it's been really rewarding to get justice for Katie…
- Hotfix 1.6.12 - 27 October 2024
This is a small hotfix bug-release. It fixes a soft-crash from enabling Text To Speech, fixes some achievements that didn't fire properly with the NG+ Codebase, and fixes various small logic issues. In other news, my next game (Morningstar: Book of the Fallen) is almost done, and launching on 11/11. A story with some of the same souls in a very different world, where a young MMA fighter meets an Angel, and discovers a plan to destroy NYC. Check it out here, and give it a wishlist if you can! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396740/Morningstar_Book_of_the_Fallen/ Full patch notes: 1.6.12 - Fixed a possible bug where if you turned down the flawless fire-gem it wouldn't be offered again - Fixed up slot locations in combat 1.6.11g - Fixed a possible crash-bug caused by TTS being enabled 1.6.11f - Rebalanced sound for Akane and Molly songs - Typos and small fixes 1.6.11e - Fixed the timel…
- Hotfix 1.6.11f - 27 July 2024
This is a small bug-fix release that solves some achievements not triggering correctly in the new NG+ code. A big thanks to the players who went chevron hunting and found the bugs for me. In other news, I'm now starting New Game+ mode for Book 2, with the first release going up on the NGPlus branch last night. It'll be some time until that's 100% stable, but it's good to have gotten started on it. As with Book 1's NG+ mode, it'll allow you to continue a NG+ save from Book 1, tweak dialog, add in new scenes, improve graphics in some of the worst offending scenes and add in new NG+ exclusive scenes to find. I'm also nearing the end of Morningstar, with the penultimate Act going live last week (yes, it's been a busy few weeks for me :D ). Check it out, and give it a wishlist if it looks interesting. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396740/Morningstar_Book_of_the_Fallen/ Some of the same…
- Hotfix 1.6.11c - 11 July 2024
The nice thing about pushing the game to the default branch is that lots of people get to test. The downside is that lots of people test :) I *think* (he says, hopefully) that this is the last of the achievement bugs. As a bonus, it also adds Jenny's last Spankbank entry. 1.6.11c - Fixed Act VI achievment not triggering - (Actually) Fixed Toxic Environment not triggering - Fixed Diamond in the rough not triggering - Fixed Jenny's Black Rose 3 spankbank not triggering
- Hotfix 1.6.11b: Cleaning up achievements - 11 July 2024
Small bugfix for reported issues on achievements not triggering: Fixed Going Nova (250+ fire applied) Fixed Untoucable (player having 1500+ shields)
- Hotfix 1.6.11 - 10 July 2024
This is a quick Achievements focused hotfix: - Fixed the Streamer tab on MC's PC being disabled, which meant you couldn't unlock "Voices in my Head" achievement. - Fixed Toxic Environment not triggering - Added a button to the Achievements UI to verify that all achievements unlocked locally are also unlocked on Steam. Thanks to everyone who helped report issues, let me know if there's anything else!
- New Game+ Updates - 8 July 2024
With version 1.6.10f, I think I'm mostly done with Book 1 of Love of Magic; far enough that I can start on Book 2's New Game+ mode, at least. I spent the weekend setting it up, and porting the codebase to the NG+ codebase (with all the new gems, rollback and other nice quality of life updates). Hopefully it should start updating it over the next couple of weeks. This update has a number of little bug-fixes, typos solved, and lots of updates to make it play better on Steamdeck. Apart from that I've been hard at work on Morningstar: Book of the Fallen; give it a wishlist if you can, it really helps on launch. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396740/Morningstar_Book_of_the_Fallen/ It's a different world with some of the same souls; and a chance for me to repay my sins to Katie. It's got multiple endings, different romances and a grittier world inspired by The Crow, Rocky, Highlander and…
- Hotfix 1.6.9e - 5 May 2024
This is a small hotfix to update a couple of spankbank/memory issues people were having, and clean up the puppeteering for Katie's MMA fight. Apart from that, my next game, Morningstar: Book of the Fallen, is going live at the end of the month! Give it a wishlist here if you haven't yet, it helps so much on launch. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396740/Morningstar_Book_of_the_Fallen/ Build notes: 1.6.9e - Fixed two Katie spankbanks (MMA and Flawless fire gem) - Fixed an issue where some memories aren't triggering correctly - Fixed an issue with video thumbnails when there were two videos with the same name - Fixed up puppeteering for the Katie MMA fight 1.6.9d - Fixed up memories (accessed from settings)
- Hotfix: 1.6.9D - 26 April 2024
This hotfix fixes various smaller issues with the NG+ build: - Fixed Memories not working correctly - Fixed some achivements not correctly firing in NG+ - Fixed Steamdeck callback on entering text - Fixed some continuity errors (people showing up in incorrect clothes, etc) - Fixed drinking in grassmarket showing up during day-time.
- Hotfix 1.6.8d - 12 April 2024
This is mainly a hotfix dedicated to SteamDeck, which gets several smaller updates. In addition there are updates to Text-To-Speech on PC and Mac.
- New Game+ - 5 April 2024
This update pushes the New Game+ mode to default branch (where 85% of players are). Hopefully the weeks of testing has smoked out any remaining issues; if not, let me know and I'll stomp on the bugs :) For those discovering New Game+ for the first time, this is my love-letter to the Persona series; if you start a new game in book 1 after completing book 3 you'll have the option to start a New Game+. It starts with additional cash, higher stats, and all your gems from book 3, but more importantly it also adds in new events and changes the dialog in subtle ways based on decisions you made throughout the 3 books. Apart from that it also updates the game to Book 3's engine, with things like rollback, improved graphics, more music, and several additional events (Kath, Jenny, Olivia and Nimue all get new questlines). As always, enjoy... and thanks for helping complete this project.
