Love of Magic - Book 1 complete.


1.0.1. Marks the final build of Love of Magic's Book 1 (The Crown). This takes care of the first 4 months of MC's rise from Newb to God, and sets the stage for the War to come. The story continues in Book 2 (The War) and completes in Book 3 (The Return). Like all good fantasy books it's a trilogy  ;)

This build adds achievements, cleans up all the known bugs, adds in some side-events, rebalances combat to make different Gem combinations more viable, fixes continuity issues and in general sets the stage for the next book. Keep your savegame; it'll be reused in Book 2 (so the various decisions you've made impact the world). If you don't have one, the opening conversation will set you up.

Some people ask why I'm making it 3 standalone books. The first reason is size; the game is already 3.2GB , and it's starting to get unwieldy to build and upload. The second reason is to make bug-testing easier: I'd hate for new features I made in Act IX to break something in Act I. This actually happened in testing 1.0.1, since rebalancing the Direct Damage gems caused the Minotaur on Day 1 to have a chance to kill the player. 

Finally, with Book 1 complete, the game will go up on Steam (at a $15 price-point). As such I'll end up making it paid here as well (and give away a free Steam key for anyone who buys it here); Steam doesn't approve of other storefronts undercutting it. I'll keep it free until it hits Steam formally. I initially thought of making it free on Steam as well, but 2020 has been a miserable year financially. As always, if you're a Patreon, let me know and I'll send you a Steam key.  

I hope you've enjoyed Book 1; it's been a blast to create. It became a lot bigger than I initially thought, I fell in love with the characters in ways I didn't expect, and I can't wait to see where they'll take me in Book 2 and ahead.

Thanks, 
Droid.

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love_of_magic_1_0_1_osx.zip 3 GB
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i have been playing this game for awhile and i love it so went ahead and bought it. i was wondering do we have to buy the other books also when they come out on here or are they included since we bought book one?

Included in the purchase. I'll upload the next chapter here once I'm done with it. 

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As far as I remember playing Droid's games, I started with Making Movies which was a HS themed game. Once  I played  Love of Magic,  and started to see the story-line, I have been sticking to Love of Magic and have seen the characters grow from simple college students to powers. Love of Magic for me always tops the list for the characterizations and the kind of gripping story-line. 

I would love to see how the precursor to "The War" will shape up in "The War"

A big thank you to the team behind the making of the game and bringing it to the point it is now.

Way to go Droid!!!

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Over the last year that I've spent playing itch.io games, I've gone over maybe 40. Out of those, there's only a handful I'd say I love and always look forward to their updates. Along with The Headmaster, Love of Magic tops that list

I'm excited and looking forward for the upcoming books. 

Keep it up, Droid! :)

Glad you like it!

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By completing this game within a reasonable span of 1 year (I think less?) you've already accomplished what most devs never did: completing their game. Cheers!

Yeah, it's been a march. Hope you enjoyed the game... now onwards to Book 2.