Official F95 thread is here:
https://f95zone.to/threads/love-of-magic-v0-1-24a-droid-productions.41188/
Overview
After finishing up
Making Movies, I decided to start a new project, called Love of Magic. Since I wanted to make a slightly longer initial release, I thought I'd set up a thread about development thoughts and updates, just to document things for myself and anyone interested. When I get closer to the actual first release, I'd love to hear from people interested in testing.
Love of Magic can best be described as Persona 5 meets Harry Potter (or at least Harry Dresden); it combines a sandbox /VN game (similar to Making Movies) with turn-based magical combat in a dungeon environment, inspired by an old mobile game,
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Art
I had a specific style in Making Movies, driven partially by choice of tools and partially by style. Since I'm building Love of Magic from a similar foundation, some of the choices remain the same. Environments remain as 2D photos (licensed from Shutterstock), rendered on a 3D quad. On top of that I render the characters, animated using
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Making Movies used Honey Select for rendering the models, and as such there was no option for a Patreon or other donations. For Love of Magic I've switched to DAZ, and thought I might try setting up a Patreon at some point. Unlike Making Movies I also decided to make the portraits animating, because obviously this wasn't enough work on its own.
Signatures
For fun I decided to create some signatures, using
Krull's
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. I'll update this as I add more
I'll keep updating this page as I work on the game, feel free to ask any questions about tech, design, or bounce ideas off me
Droid.