VN Ren'Py Left Hand Magic [Build 22P] [Novus]

[NovusPeregrine]

Well, first I was trying the threesome, but when it seemed to not work I tried solo, and when it still happened I stopped and asked.

But I was told it still works, so I presumed I was okay and moved on with the solo story and finished the current content without issue. I've yet to try another route, but only 'cause I've been pretty busy, had a lot of fun.

Ah. The threesome routes each have specific hidden requirements, as they are both supposed to be harder to unlock. I know I've posted the exact requirements elsewhere in the thread before. But, off the top of my head:

Arianna/Trix Hidden Requirement: You must say 'no' to giving Talia a blowjob during the prologue. Signaling to her that you're not a sub, causing her in turn to bring you in on her plans to seduce Arianna (A Switch route, essentially).

Trix/Revina Hidden Requirement: You must have discovered that Revina has Trix's chastity belt key during the Prologue. This means passing up the chance to see the handful of extra images of Revina.

After that you have to do equal amounts of time with the two girls (2 days each with either Trix x Revina or Talia x Arianna) during the first week. For Trix/Revina you also need at least 5 sub points, for Talia/Arianna you have to have at least 3 dom points. It's meant to be harder, so getting the right combination means fiddling with the points available during the Prologue, as well as hitting the hidden requirements.

If you get everything right, on Day 5 of Week 1, there will be an extra option for whichever route you unlocked.

 

[Elhemeer]

Ah. The threesome routes each have specific hidden requirements, as they are both supposed to be harder to unlock. I know I've posted the exact requirements elsewhere in the thread before. But, off the top of my head:

Arianna/Trix Hidden Requirement: You must say 'no' to giving Talia a blowjob during the prologue. Signaling to her that you're not a sub, causing her in turn to bring you in on her plans to seduce Arianna (A Switch route, essentially).

Trix/Revina Hidden Requirement: You must have discovered that Revina has Trix's chastity belt key during the Prologue. This means passing up the chance to see the handful of extra images of Revina.

After that you have to do equal amounts of time with the two girls (2 days each with either Trix x Revina or Talia x Arianna) during the first week. For Trix/Revina you also need at least 5 sub points, for Talia/Arianna you have to have at least 3 dom points. It's meant to be harder, so getting the right combination means fiddling with the points available during the Prologue, as well as hitting the hidden requirements.

If you get everything right, on Day 5 of Week 1, there will be an extra option for whichever route you unlocked.

Cool ... I wouldn't have got the T/R route then (I only saw Trix twice that first week when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do).

I had figured out the two pairs by the time I'd restarted intending to do the Trix solo ... although I was a bit bummed when I realized a Trix/Arianna wasn't possible ^_^.

 

[NovusPeregrine]

Cool ... I wouldn't have got the T/R route then (I only saw Trix twice that first week when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do).

I had figured out the two pairs by the time I'd restarted intending to do the Trix solo ... although I was a bit bummed when I realized a Trix/Arianna wasn't possible ^_^.

I can understand that . I had to draw the line somewhere, though. The game is already ludicrously ambitious for a solo developer with just six routes (and a seventh planned harem route). As it is, I'm over 2.5 years into development, and probably have at least six months more needed to finish it finally. Admittedly, the first 20 months or so of that I was also working on another game, but even so the total development time just for Left Hand Magic will probably be around 2 years. Adding more routes to account for the other possible combinations would have extended that another year, at minimum.

 

[NovusPeregrine]

It's that time again! Another Left Hand Magic build is out!

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! Build 22 wrapped up Trix's Week 6 weekday content, and got started on Revina's Week 6 content. More exact details in the release notes. For now, links! Have fun!


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Release Notes for Build 21:

This Build focused on the Arianna/Talia Threesome, and Trix Solo routes. There are 11 new animations, covering five in-game days worth of content. Included are:

-Week 6 Days 3,4, and 5 for the Arianna/Talia Threesome Route

-Alternate Futa vs Strapon scene for Arianna/Talia Week 6, Day 5.

-Week 6 Days 1 & 2 for Trix's Solo Route

-Major compression fix of Build 20 images -_-.

-Numerous bug and typo fixes

-Updated Gallery Content

-Updated Credits

-Songs for the Karaoke Scene provided by SirPumpernickel using Suno. Used with his permission.


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Build 22 Release Notes:

This build focused on Week 6 content for Trix and Revina's solo routes.

• Trix's route now has content for Week 6, Days 3, 4, and 5
• Revina's Route now has content for Week 6, Days 1 & 2
• The Masturbation Scene in the Intro has been revised with a higher quality version of the same animations.
• The Gallery has been Updated
• The Credits have been Updated
• Various Bug Fixes and Typo Corrections have been implemented

 

[M.Alice]

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[NovusPeregrine]

Just another reminder, while I know some uploaders have an obsession with providing additional compression, I highly recommended you don't use those versions for this game. I already compress to webp/webm before uploading, meaning the people providing compressions are providing compressions of an already highly compressed format. The quality drop off when you do that is significant.

 

[Merlin-Magic]

Just another reminder, while I know some uploaders have an obsession with providing compressed, I highly recommended you don't use those versions for this game. I already compress to webp/webm before uploading, meaning the people providing compressions are providing compressions of an already highly compressed format. The quality drop off when you do that is significant.

This is absolutely true. I spent some time testing this for another dev on multiple systems. It was found that you loose so much after compression, that it is not even worth playing the game. I wish everything came in a nearly uncompressed format. Despite having a very large byte size, the games I tested were so much better that it was like cleaning a very dirty window.

 

[Wooloomooloo]

Just another reminder, while I know some uploaders have an obsession with providing compressed, I highly recommended you don't use those versions for this game. I already compress to webp/webm before uploading, meaning the people providing compressions are providing compressions of an already highly compressed format. The quality drop off when you do that is significant.

You game devs will just never get it, do you. Looking exquisitely polished: 1% of the game experience. Looking any which damned way as long as there is something to look at at all, given it's any better than an abjectly horrible smudge: 99% of the game experience. Every single game dev does this - "look at the new, polished CGs with all these awesome dynamic lights and shadows and exquisite inking line work we spent the last year on while denying you a release - isn't it SO much better?" while all I can think of is "NOBODY, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY would have noticed or minded if you just left it as it was, but we sure would have loved a release this time last year...". So no. I don't see a problem, none whatsoever, with playing the version that downloads in half the time the original does.

 

[NovusPeregrine]

You game devs will just never get it, do you. Looking exquisitely polished: 1% of the game experience. Looking any which damned way as long as there is something to look at at all, given it's any better than an abjectly horrible smudge: 99% of the game experience. Every single game dev does this - "look at the new, polished CGs with all these awesome dynamic lights and shadows and exquisite inking line work we spent the last year on while denying you a release - isn't it SO much better?" while all I can think of is "NOBODY, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY would have noticed or minded if you just left it as it was, but we sure would have loved a release this time last year...". So no. I don't see a problem, none whatsoever, with playing the version that downloads in half the time the original does.

*blink* Dude, what the fuck are you talking about? If I was going to freak out about exquisite detail I wouldn't be compressing my game with the single best compression currently out there. The end result I deliver is already compressed with a mild quality loss over the original PNGs. But the way compression works? Compressing something already compressed does bad things without really getting you much of an advantage. If they had access to my original PNGs and choose to compress it at a higher quality loss than I use, that would be one thing. The fall off would be fairly linear. But compressing already compressed images has a much sharper quality fall off.

*Edit* Just to be clear, they really aren't squeezing much out of this. Uncompressed, the game is like 12gb+. My compression takes that down to around 2.5gb. The additional round of compression, which cuts the quality in a big way, only drops another 1gb off the file size. It's not even remotely worth the amount of fall off.

 

[NovusPeregrine]

It's that time again! Time for another release of Left Hand Magic! Build 23 was released late night on the 30th for Patrons, with Build 22 getting it's Public Release late on the 1st! Build 23 takes the last route (Revina's) through to the weekend of Week 6, and makes a start on the Week 6 events. As Week 6 is the last full week of the game, this means we're starting to close in on actual endings. A few more months will wrap up the original six routes, after which I'll be adding a New Game+ Harem Route! The end is in sight after years of development! Have fun, everyone!

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Build 23 Release Notes

Build 23 focused on finishing up Week 6. Revina got her remaining three days, while the first of the Weekend 6 content was added for Arianna and the Revina/Trix routes.

• Revina's Week 6, Days 3,4, and 5 were added
• Arianna's Event 6 was added
• The Revina/Trix Event 6 was added
• The Gallery has been updated
• Bugs, including some with Arianna's Gallery, were squished
• Lots of typo corrections in various places.
• Credits have been updated.

 

[M.Alice]

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[PickerLewd]

Uncompressed, the game is like 12gb+. My compression takes that down to around 2.5gb. The additional round of compression, which cuts the quality in a big way, only drops another 1gb off the file size. It's not even remotely worth the amount of fall off.

Hey Ma'am or Sir, I've been playing a bit and I like your game, is the raw uncompressed 12 GB version available on your Patreon? And if so, is it 4K or QHD (2K) aka 1440p?

 

[NovusPeregrine]

Hey Ma'am or Sir, I've been playing a bit and I like your game, is the raw uncompressed 12 GB version available on your Patreon? And if so, is it 4K or QHD (2K) aka 1440p?

I'm afraid not. I used to provide the uncompressed PNG/MP4 version of the game, until it got ridiculously unwieldly in size (currently, the game has over 500 animations, most of which have 3 speeds). The version I do release is 2K (2560x1440) and compressed with 90%+ preservation of image quality. There isn't actually much of a visual difference between the PNG/MP4 version and he Webp/Webm I provide. I went with the best combination of quality-to-compression I could get after fairly extensive testing. It's why it annoys me so much when people immediately and blindly compress it farther out of some sort of obsessive compulsive instinct. They aren't really gaining much, and I'm pretty sure they don't even look at the images they are compressing. The Patreon release is simply one build in advance of the public one. Well, and with the gallery enabled.

 

[PickerLewd]

The developers of many of the AAA games I own don't compress anything, and even less with the dead physical format, so I've got used to 150 GB+ downloads ... that's why the 12 GB didn't seem like much.

You are also right that the game looks very good with the compression it has, thanks for the answer .

 

[KalapKalap]

Can anyone tell me the cheat codes?