Love of Magic is going up on Sale today, at 35% off. You can get a copy here:
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Which raises the question, of course... why bother telling a Pirate forum that the game is on discount? I mean, you all know where to download it for free, right? (if not, go check out the first post in this thread). There's a couple of reasons, I guess...
Love of Magic started its life here on F95; the very first version (Act I, back in December 2019) was released in this thread, without any real thought given to monetization or sales. It had no Patreon attached, no Steam launch planned... I was just making the game because I wanted to learn and explore, and posted it here because this was where I found my own adult games, and I knew there was a community that loved these games here. So most of my early Discord community came from here, when I finally did get around to setting up a Patreon somewhere after Act II launched, most of the early supporters came from here.
One surprising lesson for me, as a developer, is how many 'pirates' are perfectly happy to support a game they like. Quite a few users from here have told me (in the threads, on Discord or on DM) that they'd been burned by Patreon games stringing them along for years, but they were happy to buy the game on Steam once it was done. Despite having already played it here. So that's really heartwarming.
In addition, you get access to Beta releases on the Steam, if you're okay with the occasional glitch as new content comes online. I'm working my way through the Act IX+ release this time, and so far it's been the raunchiest stuff I've done in a while. Which is fine; it's an adult game, and the characters deserve a chance to chill and have fun from time to time.
If you *have* gotten the game on Steam, one thing that's super useful is to leave a review. Adult games get relatively few reviews compared to normie games (people seem to be shy about telling their friends they like porn games, which is silly), so every review counts for a lot. Relative to sales, I think adult games get ~5% of the reviews a non-adult game gets, so every vote counts.
If you have Book 1, Book 2 shows up on the Beta Branch. I've got no great love for Early Access, but I wanted to give Steam players the same opportunity to play along as I make the game, then release the finished Book 2 the same way I did Book 1, as a standalone product. No idea if that's a good commercial decision, but it does allow me to keep the community on Steam happy and engaged, which has a lot of value to me. If you want to help that game have its best launch, give it a wishlist, so Steam's algorithm gives it a boost at launch!
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