A couple of minor grammar nits (and thanks for not having any major ones):
"Give in" is a phrasal verb, in which the word "in" completely changes the meaning of "give". So it should be "gave in to", not "gave into" (unless you're placing a gift inside something). Same with "giving in" (two places) for the same reason.
If you "run into the office," it might hurt a lot . I'd suggest that you "run to the office" instead, if you're far away, or perhaps "run inside the office" if you're in the parking lot. 😁
The phrase "penetrate into" is redundant (delete "into").
I haven't tried any of Lockhart's games yet. I am super turned off by incest and loli scenarios. Based on that, which games would folks recommend and which to avoid?
Avalon by Lockheart, may be something you are looking for. But I warn you up front, that story may put you out, and into the real world more than you may be ready for. But again, I do not know you, your age, or any of Your background, but since you have found this site, and this novel by Lockheart, you have some lust and pleasure to seek out. I can write about Avalon, but what about you check out my comment there, and you get some more information about what I mean.
Next for me is your turned off statement, and I totally understand those feelings, and the written form of it, that again not put you into the lewd area. I am and adult man, with children and lived one life with my ex wife. In the story telling, by the artist, every character in his games are of 18+ age! With that, and the mindset, means they're can, and should take their own decision, baste on their perspective.
The word incest, is somewhat twisted in terms of what it means to you, to me, to maybe a different meaning to everyone. The big difference goes to what your society put people into classes, boxes, and thereafter force down a set of rules, regulations, bans, do and do-not, this list goes on so I stop here. Where I am raised, come from, and live, the words meaning are abuse of children under 18, 16 years old, and the absolute majority are without the ability or power to stop it from happening, bye the youngest involved.
I am a little thoughtful about if I shall post this or not, but I decide to do so.
Lockheart and his novel, present some of the most family secrets that are silenced, by the family, and sometimes part of the public community. That «treatment» destroys good peoples, and too many times let real bad ones go free, due to unbelievable causes. Too much money, community power are some of those.
Enough from me, I recommend Avalon, by I have to ware you, you may be hooked on the art from Lockheart, as I am now.
Thanks for the tip about Avalon, I will try it out!
Regarding my loli and incest comments. Certainly anything suggesting underage or non-consensual is revolting to me. It's as arousing as a car crash. A lot of AVNs on itch seem to regard the EULA as a challenge, and clearly just tiptoe along that line to tell the same story regardless. For example "landlord" stories - I.e. main character is clearly having an incestual relationship with legal-aged sister/mom/niece/stepchild/aunt, but within the story they're called "landlord" and "tenant" despite that making no sense in the context. Likewise female characters that look like and act like children, but are introduced as 18 regardless. All of which is gross to me. There could have been a great accompanying story, but I just wouldn't be able to make it through it. For me this would be like watching the porno remake of Schindler's List.
If you are looking for AVN's that avoid a lot of the AVN tropes like those, then Our Red String and Opportunity: A Sugar Baby Story are a great place to start. There's also Paradise Inc, Rise Of The White Flower, Price of Freedom, The Last Sovereign (also one of the 2 best RPGM games I've played), Starship Inanna, Out of Touch! and Rogschard too.
Unbelievable! Your chapter 4 are just UNBELIVABLE!
I thought the previous ones was amazing, but those are now down some tiers, or let me be honest here, the rating scale has now more tiers, if that make any sense. You blow the bar, this time.
I am honoured to be able to enjoy your art, Thank you, Lockheart, Thank You
Just finished Chapter 4, what a stonking update! Tons of content and some good ol' story twists! You are a craftsman, Sir! Can wait for "Over the Moon" in 2026! :)
I buy all your games, two novels behind you, and an obvious high IQ is what tells me a game is going to be good. All I ask is please have some girls with pubic hair, a little a lot, stubble, whatever. All bald is not immersive. You haven't let me down so far - thank you, Sir!
Yeah I don't mind them having a landing strip at least. Maybe the third daughter Moon, I mean all their names are what hippie parents would named their kids, you'd think they at least have some hairy bush. But alas this is 2023 so you gotta go with the trend I guess.
Been single all my life. Slept with about 70 women from 1990 to 2020. In the beginning, they were all hairy to some degree or other, but toward the end of 2010 and onward, there were more "baldies", but never more than about 30%. On that basis, as least 3 girls should have hair!
love your games ive played penny for your thoughts, a petal among thorns and Amob looking forward to the next installment of amob. i forget the oldest daughters name for amob and apat but id love to see you make a game that takes care of her unless you decide to include her later in amob and i plan on playing avalon as well.
Thank you for the kind words, SalCalGus! I'm happy to hear you're enjoying The Rose Garden Trilogy. There will be a third game in development after A Moment of Bliss that will focus on Moon, the eldest ward. I appreciate your support! Let me know what you think of Avalon after you finish.
thanks for the heads up Lockhart definitely looking forward to and I will let you know as soon as I complete it but can’t imagine it being a bad game as all the titles I’ve played of yours so far have been top notch especially on the story that’s my main thing with these types of games I get invested in the characters
Love your work I've played all of them can't wait for the next installment of A Moment of Bliss. Also I would love to see some action involving Jinx is that a possibility?
Penny's story will come around again when I can find the right fit for Penny in this current market. Until then, we won't see much from Jinx unfortunately. I always hate to disappoint fans, but I simply have too much on my plate right now. I adore Penny and her story so I will definitely return to it in the future.
Love all of your work as its truely amazing but damn why did you sour it by adding the whole premise of blackmail in a moment of bliss. I really liked nixie but its been ruined by the fact it wasn't fate but situational abuse that brought things to were they are and its made it harder to enjoy her character knowing whats been revealed
@Lockheart I believe ragajaga69 is talking about the character that threatens to reveal to the world that the Mc is sleeping with his wards if he doesn’t help with AI
Oh, yeah, she's a terrible witch. Our protagonist handled that situation like a champ though. There's got to be some drama, or it isn't a Lockheart work.
that is true it was pretty good too cause I’ve also gotten invested into the AI because of the way you put her story which is both awesome and interesting
Hello. First of all I want to congratulate you for all of your incredible work. Your games have a real quality of writing. I finished APAT which I loved and here is my question. I still hesitate to take this sequel because I played by making Petal my real biological daughter. Could I find this same relationship with her in this sequel?
Hey Polza, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed A Petal Among Thorns! Petal is absolutely darling, I had a lot of fun working with her. You can change the relationship titles of the characters in the sequel. Thanks for playing!
Yeah choosing them to be the daughter's makes more sense. I guess that's how you intended the story to go. Making them roommates, MC guardian or Land lord etc.. wouldn't make any sense to the story. I can see why you have to have options, figures it's taboo and credit card companies wouldn't kindly accept payments for these kinds of visual novels. Hence why Steam are now strict on games like these.
You have an interesting story in the makings but for me there is WAY TOO MUCH Domination going on. Also why wasn't this kink included in the set tags?!?!? What's next? Full BDSM? NTR? It would've been better to drop a few hints in either the tags or description rather than have someone pay for it and get hit with it like that. I'm fully aware that there are people who are into things like this but also at the same time there are those who are not. All I'm saying is let people know before hand is all. You really do have an interesting story going but it hard to fully enjoy it when rushing through certain parts due to content. Please don't get me wrong here, I'm not asking to change the story or anything, just the description or tags.
Hey i habe yet to play this one so i don't know whats there tbh,but to expect i clearly seen tags of Dom, BDSM,pet play,spanking and such as future and current tags,so why outrageous over it? When it was clearly mentioned in above,you are acting like there aren't tags of it,well NTR tag isnt so that could be a thing to get angry over if there is any in avn
i just finished a petal among thorns. looking forward to this but at the moment im broke so i will be subscribing to your patreon soon so i can enjoy this as much as petal and Avalon.
The file downloads, no issue there. Start to stage the application and I'm asked if I want to install an update. I answer yes, the installation proceeds for a few more seconds and then I get the message, "app not installed". I've made sure everything is on internal storage. I've deleted the update and downloaded again. I have installed an update to another game with no issue.
That last update was quite substantial. I was surprised! April is a long way away with the predicament you left my MC in! Have a happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year!
It's out, it's fixed. You have to redownload it, but it's been out for a while now. You can see on the download page it's 'A Moment of Bliss Chapter 3 - FIXED'.
just got through the latest thing in the story - holy cow that ending left me wondering what's going to happen next in chapter 4 sheeeesh. Great work as always
Just finished the latest update and wanted to say thanks, I love this story. I have loved all your stories! Thank you and I cant wait for more! Also, I hope we get more Penny for Your Thoughts someday.
Just finished Bliss and this story always puts a smile on my face. I loved seeing a lot of Petal in this chapter. She is a doll. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the hope of seeing "A Penny for Your Thoughts" sometime soon. You are a fine writer Lockheart.
Super cool game I've also played all the other games I also think the connections between the games are great, because you always read something that you've seen in another game before, like the Pridwyn company.
I've now played the 3rd chapter and I was super happy that Penny was there again and that you learned more about her background story and it explains a few things in the other games super cool Penny is one of my favorite charterers. I hope that her story will continue to be written at some point
Aww, that's so nice of you to say. It seems Penny does have some real fans out there. I'll have to do something with her again soon. Thank you, Citrics!
AVNs confuse me. A regular finished indie game is 1.0+. You can have an AVN, like your's, that is now 3.0.1 and is not finished! Not picking on you, because I have seen an ANV called 0.8.0 that was a finished game, have no idea why the dev didn't make it 1.0! As much as the sex part, I think AVNs have a small market share because people just don't know what their getting! I.e. and AVN was marked 0.2.0 and was on sale on Itch.io for $3. Luckily I looked at the comments first, because everyone was complaining the game version was just 20 minutes long!
The android version is giving errors for messages that you receive. You cab keep going in the story without the messages until you get the message from Nixie. At this point the error stops you from proceeding.
If you follow me on itch.io, you'll get a notification when I do a developer log which will inform you of when the new updates drop. You can also join my Discord where I keep everyone up to date with my current progress. Thank you for your support, Doctor!
If I purchase the game right will I also get access to future releases? Or am I purchasing the current version only? I've bought A Petal Among Thorns and Avalon, and I love the work and want to support artists while they work rather than after, but I also don't want to have to buy the game twice...
I used to charge for releases, but I've stopped doing that and instead charge a discounted price for the full game which you'll be able to play as it releases. So if you purchase A Moment of Bliss today, you'll get it for less than what it will cost after it's complete and you will receive the updates as they release. Though each release includes all previous releases, so you'll be downloading the current Chapter plus all previous Chapters. I don't cut them into parts.
Hi, the third story of this trilogy, what is it called? Is it out yet and where can i find it? thanks. I enjoy your writing style keep those stories coming.
This story is not yet concluded. I'll be releasing Chapter 3 in December. When A Moment of Bliss is complete, I'll be working on the last game in the series tentatively titled Over the Moon. A Moment of Bliss should be complete around summer of next year.
Hey there! Just wanted to make a comment regarding the tagging of this game. Considering the intentions demonstrated, you should clearly use the Lesbian Tag and not just the Threesome Tag. It's quite different and very important for people that need to know the content before getting too involved with the story. Already too late for me, but this might help others.
A lesbian tag implies that there are women in the story that are only interested in other women. This is not the case for any of the love interests in the game. All sexual activity happens within the harem, and only with the MC present at this point. There could be an argument made for a subcategory for harem where the women don't interact with each other. Perhaps it would be called a Selfish Harem, where the women are only allowed to sexually interact with the MC but never with each other? In my stories, it's always going to be an Open Harem, where everyone is invested emotionally and sexually in each other.
I understand where you are coming from, but to be frank I've never seen it interpreted that way. From what I see in 99% of games/stories, the Lesbian tag isn't for exclusively Lesbian relations, but rather to indicate there are F+F sexual encounters or relationships. Selfish Harem has a bit of a mean connotation to it.
You make absolutely amazing games, your renders are great and the concepts seem really cool. It's too bad we can't have it both ways with content filters (I understand its too much work for you, specially if you work alone), but I guess that's just a me problem. I was the one that foolishly got invested in a story that would hurt me. When I played A Petal Among Thorns I did get my spidey-senses warning me Bliss was going to hurt me, playing up to the first real conversation with her in AMoB just confirmed it.
Edit: "with the MC present at this point", this does imply there will be without him, no?
I'll preface this by saying that I realize most people don't care about this, it might just be me because of my personal things, but I have seen other people agree with me in a few threads and other games (not a lot though, I admit).
It's definetely not that bad for most people, it's just that the idea that Bliss is going after the Mom and is romantically interested in other girls kinda puts the MC in a complete sideline, he's just "another piece of meat", specially considering it seems she made a move on the Mom first (which makes it seem she's more interested in girls and more interested in the Mom).
And if Petal or Rose and the MC are so in love with each other, the idea of Bliss coming and seducing Petal or Rose to make her less focused on the MC disturbs me.
Some games do this really well, making the threesomes just a stimulant for the relationship and a nice experiment, but the moment the girls start loving each other it makes me fell like the MC is just an extra. How could Petal say all those things about the MC but then love someone else? Would she say the same things to them? The thought makes me distressed.
I realize this makes me sound COMPLETELY off the rails or something, I'm sorry for trying to have this. It's just that these games are a fantasy and it seems the fantasy of having girls only in love with you is really rare, almost all Harem games tend to be Open Harems (or at least the really good ones, like yours, with good renders and good writing).
Edit: A good thought exercise to have - imagine if Bliss was a guy. Wouldn't everyone in the comments be throwing a tantrum crying "NTR! NTR!"?
You don't have to apologize for your interests. These games are fantasy, specifically designed to accommodate unique interests. However, I didn't write any of the characters as you're describing them. Bliss hasn't expressed that much interest in Rose, or anyone else except for Chester. So much so that she's seducing Nixie into a relationship with Chester because she wants him to have unrelenting pleasure and affection. Petal is the same way. Petal's main motivation is pleasing Chester, because she herself derives a lot of pleasure from making him happy. All of the characters are devoted to the main character, but that doesn't mean there isn't friendship and love between the girls.
I understand what you're saying though. I've heard it a few times now. It doesn't feel like Chester is focused on enough, and a few people have voiced this concern. This story is set for how it's going to be. Everything revolves around Chester, but he's not always involved with everything that's going on. I felt this was one of his strengths. He has the maturity to know when to step away from situations to let them breathe. When Bliss interacts with Nixie in the pool, he's letting them have some time together. He doesn't need to be in the spotlight at all times. And that's a robust and independent attribute.
Again though, a lot of people feel the same way. Chester is growing and becoming a more dominant person. He's starting to take control of his own destiny more and more. Right now, a lot of things are happening to him and not because of him. That will change over the course of the story as he develops more as a character. You gotta give that time though.
I've never been able to get my head round people wanting to have every girl in a game at his beck and call in games but don't dare let any other character have sex with someone else or dare say that they love someone else. People can love more that one person simultaneously and have a sexual relationship built on love and not just lust with more than one person at a time. It's like the people that want every girl in a game to be a virgin as if women don't like to have sex and should be pure as the driven snow and never touched by anyone even themselves. Just my tuppence worth. Hell I've saw people wanting mother's to be virgins in games and have had a baby through artificial insemination. It's crazy how distressed people get about these things.
I'm pretty sure there's a mother in Radiant that is a virgin. I mean, it's fantasy. Men want to plow land that's never been tainted before. I don't want too much realism in my games. I play them to escape from reality.
Although, I honestly think if it was Petal's harem, that'd be super hot. Unfortunately not many players in this market would agree. To each his own. :-)
I get the fantasy aspect, I really do. I love your games and I like the virgin fantasy thing too, I think most vn players do but was just meaning about some who think a woman should be tossed aside if she isn't one in game or that an MC should be able to have a harem with countless women but the women shouldn't even be allowed to look at anyone else even with the MCs permission and perhaps I'm being about of a hypocrite but I thought Brooke's story was really wholesome and cute in radiant. I was in no way having a go at your game in any way whatsoever, I actually hoped come the end of over the moon there'd be a lot of free love within the whole family dynamic between all family members and even a few side characters to boot along the lines of perhaps a mid-life crisis but this is your story to tell and I'll be happy with whatever happens. I was just trying to give a couple examples that people seem to get really bent out of shape about if a game doesn't go exactly how they want it to especially on some of the more toxic fandoms. It's just when some people have a go at a vn developer because they aren't pleased they put something in their story or didn't specifically warn them about a specific scene or didn't have a tag they believe that should have been there even though it shouldn't be there and they proceed to bring down parts of a game, it just doesn't sit well with me. Sorry if I caused you any trouble.
Just like real Life, harem's aren't meant to divide & Segregate People into Sexual boxes, but to get a bunch of friends Living & screwing together, without Worrying about hurting People's Feelings. Everyone fucks, whoever they want. Keep up the Sexy Work, @Lockheart
I agree! A wholesome, open-relationship household is going to be much healthier for everyone rather than the girls only being allowed to interact sexually with the MC. Gotta spread the love!
heyo! how's it going? i hope you're doing well, i have an issue. I noticed that i wanted to play APOT but for some reason it doesn't show up in my purchased games even though I know for a fact I've purchased it (that game is how I discovered your work) any help is appreciated.
Great! I'm expecting a release in December. I should be able to finish up the scenes I'm working on now this month. Then I'll only have a two or three more scenes after. There's one scene that is going to take some serious time among the last three though.
I purchased the game on 06-22-2022 06:55:58 for $7.99 + $1.40 VAT, which was 6 weeks ago, so I could not have got Chapter 2 part 2 as Chapter 2 part 2 was released 13 days ago according to this page, yet
when I download it and use the last save there is no extra content, it says the game has ended, just like with my original download!
So I am totally confused. why is my 2.21 version not doing anything more than my old 2.11? I tried installing it over the original installation folder, and I tried putting it in it's own folder, and both were the same. Either version is ending when I lay on the sofa and find out about the experiments from Suzi, with Rose and Suzi talking in the bedroom.
Ah, not an update but a fix. Thanks. So any idea of next update then? After finishing Petal Among Thorns, it's frustrating not to complete the follow-up story!
I'm having issues with getting past the bliss and nixie at the pool scene. It always crashes and I can't move on with the story. I'm on Android and can't figure it out, any suggestions?
Mr lockheart the 2 update is really mind-blowing. The imagination you have is really awesome .great work man.make sure don't finish the game fast.and make lots of romatic scenes and reduce the sex scean that will be great.and waiting for next update.
These errors have been fixed with the latest release. If you Unren the game, you will break it. Unfortunately the decipher that it uses misinterprets several if / then statements.
The interesting thing is, I downloaded the latest version from here. I got this exception during chapter 2. Hopefully I don't have this problem when chapter 3 comes out.
I just played the newest release, and I have to say that the work is some Quality stuff - I wish we could choose who to romance and who to not, but I'm pretty sure there's a reason for your choices. *spoilers* With that said I did not expect a certain person to have the same desires as the father. Once again, good work here.
Hey Lockheart, Just played this lastest release, I've enjoyed your previous games immensely, you definitely have talent for avn. I hope this doesn't come off as rude, I just wanted to put some feedback. Forcing the harem and making all the girls okay with open relationships and taking away any player choice feels wrong. I would have loved to decide who I wanted to romance and have them be solely focused on the player. anyways that's just my two cents. you're making quality work, I just feel it falls flat when being forced into these fetishes.
I completely agree that girls should be optional and up to the player to decide if they want to pursue them. Make that many paths as a single developer is incredibly ambitious, and I couldn't get releases out at a reasonable speed if I did that. I've made the difficult decision to make the game more of a story on rails so that I can get the story I want to tell out at a reasonable release interval.
If I had all the money and resources I needed, I'd definitely flesh out multiple paths for a more player friendly experience. Hopefully one day I'll be at that point. Thanks for playing, fladfisk. I appreciate your support.
While I agree with you and it takes way too much work, it is incredibly distressing the idea of the girls getting romantically involved with other people. I can get over a quick threesome and be done with it but, after playing Petal Among Thorns and getting so invested in the characters, it broke my heart when I realized Bliss was actually after Rose instead of the MC. It's incredibly distressing, so much so that I quit playing the game.
Please tag your games better so players like me know they shouldn't play the game, you could've spared me some heartbreak.
Just played through the latest update (Chapter 2 part 2) -- and I completely agree, I wouldn't have wanted to exclude Nixie anyway. I read the "Walk it Back" log entry, and because I didn't get 2.2 instantly, I don't know what twist you undid -- something related to Westermark Effect? -- but I want to see more of Rose in the game, and surely wouldn't have any objection to see Petal, Bliss, Rose and/or Moon together in various ways, with or without Nixie or MC (or Chuck and/or Wendy, for that matter).
just wanted to let you know, you are extremely talented. i actually have all of your novels and i will definently continue to support you and your work. your stories are great and worth the wait. keep up the great work and i wish the best. look forward to your future endeavors.
I sincerely appreciate the praise, and the support. Thank you! There should be an update out for Bliss either tomorrow or the next day. Be sure to stop by the Discord if you'd like to interact with a community of like-minded individuals. Thanks again.
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It will include the future versions.
A couple of minor grammar nits (and thanks for not having any major ones):
I haven't tried any of Lockhart's games yet. I am super turned off by incest and loli scenarios. Based on that, which games would folks recommend and which to avoid?
Avalon by Lockheart, may be something you are looking for. But I warn you up front, that story may put you out, and into the real world more than you may be ready for. But again, I do not know you, your age, or any of Your background, but since you have found this site, and this novel by Lockheart, you have some lust and pleasure to seek out. I can write about Avalon, but what about you check out my comment there, and you get some more information about what I mean.
Next for me is your turned off statement, and I totally understand those feelings, and the written form of it, that again not put you into the lewd area. I am and adult man, with children and lived one life with my ex wife. In the story telling, by the artist, every character in his games are of 18+ age! With that, and the mindset, means they're can, and should take their own decision, baste on their perspective.
The word incest, is somewhat twisted in terms of what it means to you, to me, to maybe a different meaning to everyone. The big difference goes to what your society put people into classes, boxes, and thereafter force down a set of rules, regulations, bans, do and do-not, this list goes on so I stop here. Where I am raised, come from, and live, the words meaning are abuse of children under 18, 16 years old, and the absolute majority are without the ability or power to stop it from happening, bye the youngest involved.
I am a little thoughtful about if I shall post this or not, but I decide to do so.
Lockheart and his novel, present some of the most family secrets that are silenced, by the family, and sometimes part of the public community. That «treatment» destroys good peoples, and too many times let real bad ones go free, due to unbelievable causes. Too much money, community power are some of those.
Enough from me, I recommend Avalon, by I have to ware you, you may be hooked on the art from Lockheart, as I am now.
Thanks for the tip about Avalon, I will try it out!
Regarding my loli and incest comments. Certainly anything suggesting underage or non-consensual is revolting to me. It's as arousing as a car crash. A lot of AVNs on itch seem to regard the EULA as a challenge, and clearly just tiptoe along that line to tell the same story regardless. For example "landlord" stories - I.e. main character is clearly having an incestual relationship with legal-aged sister/mom/niece/stepchild/aunt, but within the story they're called "landlord" and "tenant" despite that making no sense in the context. Likewise female characters that look like and act like children, but are introduced as 18 regardless. All of which is gross to me. There could have been a great accompanying story, but I just wouldn't be able to make it through it. For me this would be like watching the porno remake of Schindler's List.
If you are looking for AVN's that avoid a lot of the AVN tropes like those, then Our Red String and Opportunity: A Sugar Baby Story are a great place to start. There's also Paradise Inc, Rise Of The White Flower, Price of Freedom, The Last Sovereign (also one of the 2 best RPGM games I've played), Starship Inanna, Out of Touch! and Rogschard too.
Unbelievable! Your chapter 4 are just UNBELIVABLE!
I thought the previous ones was amazing, but those are now down some tiers, or let me be honest here, the rating scale has now more tiers, if that make any sense. You blow the bar, this time.
I am honoured to be able to enjoy your art, Thank you, Lockheart, Thank You
Glad to hear you're enjoying it. Lots more to come! Thank you for your support.
Just finished Chapter 4, what a stonking update! Tons of content and some good ol' story twists! You are a craftsman, Sir! Can wait for "Over the Moon" in 2026! :)
I buy all your games, two novels behind you, and an obvious high IQ is what tells me a game is going to be good. All I ask is please have some girls with pubic hair, a little a lot, stubble, whatever. All bald is not immersive. You haven't let me down so far - thank you, Sir!
Yeah I don't mind them having a landing strip at least. Maybe the third daughter Moon, I mean all their names are what hippie parents would named their kids, you'd think they at least have some hairy bush. But alas this is 2023 so you gotta go with the trend I guess.
Been single all my life. Slept with about 70 women from 1990 to 2020. In the beginning, they were all hairy to some degree or other, but toward the end of 2010 and onward, there were more "baldies", but never more than about 30%. On that basis, as least 3 girls should have hair!
In the Lockverse, pubic hair does not exist.
Shame....!
love your games ive played penny for your thoughts, a petal among thorns and Amob looking forward to the next installment of amob. i forget the oldest daughters name for amob and apat but id love to see you make a game that takes care of her unless you decide to include her later in amob and i plan on playing avalon as well.
Thank you for the kind words, SalCalGus! I'm happy to hear you're enjoying The Rose Garden Trilogy. There will be a third game in development after A Moment of Bliss that will focus on Moon, the eldest ward. I appreciate your support! Let me know what you think of Avalon after you finish.
thanks for the heads up Lockhart definitely looking forward to and I will let you know as soon as I complete it but can’t imagine it being a bad game as all the titles I’ve played of yours so far have been top notch especially on the story that’s my main thing with these types of games I get invested in the characters
Love your work I've played all of them can't wait for the next installment of A Moment of Bliss. Also I would love to see some action involving Jinx is that a possibility?
Thank you! I'm glad to hear you're enjoying AMoB.
Penny's story will come around again when I can find the right fit for Penny in this current market. Until then, we won't see much from Jinx unfortunately. I always hate to disappoint fans, but I simply have too much on my plate right now. I adore Penny and her story so I will definitely return to it in the future.
I appreciate all your support, mrkmh.
Love all of your work as its truely amazing but damn why did you sour it by adding the whole premise of blackmail in a moment of bliss. I really liked nixie but its been ruined by the fact it wasn't fate but situational abuse that brought things to were they are and its made it harder to enjoy her character knowing whats been revealed
Can you be more specific? What blackmail are you referring to?
@Lockheart I believe ragajaga69 is talking about the character that threatens to reveal to the world that the Mc is sleeping with his wards if he doesn’t help with AI
Oh, yeah, she's a terrible witch. Our protagonist handled that situation like a champ though. There's got to be some drama, or it isn't a Lockheart work.
that is true it was pretty good too cause I’ve also gotten invested into the AI because of the way you put her story which is both awesome and interesting
Hello. First of all I want to congratulate you for all of your incredible work. Your games have a real quality of writing. I finished APAT which I loved and here is my question. I still hesitate to take this sequel because I played by making Petal my real biological daughter. Could I find this same relationship with her in this sequel?
So far all the characters are related biologically. Petal, Bliss, and Moon are all the main protagonists daughters.
Hey Polza, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed A Petal Among Thorns! Petal is absolutely darling, I had a lot of fun working with her. You can change the relationship titles of the characters in the sequel. Thanks for playing!
Yeah choosing them to be the daughter's makes more sense. I guess that's how you intended the story to go. Making them roommates, MC guardian or Land lord etc.. wouldn't make any sense to the story. I can see why you have to have options, figures it's taboo and credit card companies wouldn't kindly accept payments for these kinds of visual novels. Hence why Steam are now strict on games like these.
Thank you for your response. Petal is amaizing and absolutely darling. Congratulation for creating this absolute wonder. I buy this one right away
You have an interesting story in the makings but for me there is WAY TOO MUCH Domination going on. Also why wasn't this kink included in the set tags?!?!? What's next? Full BDSM? NTR? It would've been better to drop a few hints in either the tags or description rather than have someone pay for it and get hit with it like that. I'm fully aware that there are people who are into things like this but also at the same time there are those who are not. All I'm saying is let people know before hand is all. You really do have an interesting story going but it hard to fully enjoy it when rushing through certain parts due to content. Please don't get me wrong here, I'm not asking to change the story or anything, just the description or tags.
Which scenes did you feel like were domination scenes?
Hey i habe yet to play this one so i don't know whats there tbh,but to expect i clearly seen tags of Dom, BDSM,pet play,spanking and such as future and current tags,so why outrageous over it? When it was clearly mentioned in above,you are acting like there aren't tags of it,well NTR tag isnt so that could be a thing to get angry over if there is any in avn
i just finished a petal among thorns. looking forward to this but at the moment im broke so i will be subscribing to your patreon soon so i can enjoy this as much as petal and Avalon.
Just bought chapter3 Android update, the fixed version, it refuses to install.
I have had no reports of this from anyone else. Can you give me more details about the error?
The file downloads, no issue there. Start to stage the application and I'm asked if I want to install an update. I answer yes, the installation proceeds for a few more seconds and then I get the message, "app not installed". I've made sure everything is on internal storage. I've deleted the update and downloaded again. I have installed an update to another game with no issue.
The new file is not an update. It's the game in full. You don't want to update, you want to do a fresh install.
Thanks for this! My last update was 2.2.1. Is that correct?
Yes, which concluded Chapter 2. The current release is the complete Chapter 3.
That last update was quite substantial. I was surprised! April is a long way away with the predicament you left my MC in! Have a happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year!
Thank you, UK_John. So happy to hear you enjoyed it. April will be here before you know it.
Any idea when the android fix will come? I'm not trying to hurry you, I'm just curious. Thanks
It's out, it's fixed. You have to redownload it, but it's been out for a while now. You can see on the download page it's 'A Moment of Bliss Chapter 3 - FIXED'.
Thanks, I just finished it and am loving where it's going. That was an awesome end to the chapter.
I always love hearing when people enjoyed their time. Thank you for playing.
just got through the latest thing in the story - holy cow that ending left me wondering what's going to happen next in chapter 4 sheeeesh. Great work as always
Just finished the latest update and wanted to say thanks, I love this story. I have loved all your stories! Thank you and I cant wait for more! Also, I hope we get more Penny for Your Thoughts someday.
Forgot to add, I love Suzi :)
Just finished Bliss and this story always puts a smile on my face. I loved seeing a lot of Petal in this chapter. She is a doll. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the hope of seeing "A Penny for Your Thoughts" sometime soon. You are a fine writer Lockheart.
Thank you! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed your playthrough. Petal is darling, she's an absolute sweetheart. I love working with her.
Penny will return. Not soon, but she will. :-)
Super cool game I've also played all the other games I also think the connections between the games are great, because you always read something that you've seen in another game before, like the Pridwyn company.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Aww, that's so nice of you to say. It seems Penny does have some real fans out there. I'll have to do something with her again soon. Thank you, Citrics!
About the transhumanism crisis, some people playing a porn VN about incest are upset because the back story it's not as taught in the Bible...
The irony is strong here...
Unless the story with Lot and his daughters is used as the biblical excuse to enjoy daughters... - Genesis 19:30–37
Oh trust me, I know. I had my own personal tantrum over the backlash. But people want what people want. /shrug
I have 3.0.2, just downloaded Chapter 3 and it 3.0.1??? Am I wrong or are you?
There has never been a 3.X.X version of the game before. The previous build was 2.1.X, and the one before that was 2.0.X.
AVNs confuse me. A regular finished indie game is 1.0+. You can have an AVN, like your's, that is now 3.0.1 and is not finished! Not picking on you, because I have seen an ANV called 0.8.0 that was a finished game, have no idea why the dev didn't make it 1.0! As much as the sex part, I think AVNs have a small market share because people just don't know what their getting! I.e. and AVN was marked 0.2.0 and was on sale on Itch.io for $3. Luckily I looked at the comments first, because everyone was complaining the game version was just 20 minutes long!
I wish you wouldn't worry about the version number. I'll make it clear what Chapter we're on in the description. :-/
I won't with you. But I am sure you know what I am talking about! :)
The android version is giving errors for messages that you receive. You cab keep going in the story without the messages until you get the message from Nixie. At this point the error stops you from proceeding.
Just ran into the same issue
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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
TypeError: Too many arguments in call (expected from 0 to 1, got 2).
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "chapters/3 Chapter/5toldmeto.rpyc", line 62, in script call
File "phone/core.rpyc", line 92, in script call
File "phone/apps/messages/messages.rpyc", line 138, in script
File "renpy/ast.py", line 1072, in execute
File "renpy/ast.py", line 294, in apply_arguments
File "renpy/ast.py", line 250, in apply
TypeError: Too many arguments in call (expected from 0 to 1, got 2).
[/code]
Got to wait for another update. 😳 Damn life! 😨
The Android version does currently have an issue. I'm going to get a new version made up shortly and out to you all very soon. Sorry about that!
So exited
i bought your pack... thank you... Just wondering how the updates work. When there is one, do i get email or something? first purchase on itch.io
If you follow me on itch.io, you'll get a notification when I do a developer log which will inform you of when the new updates drop. You can also join my Discord where I keep everyone up to date with my current progress. Thank you for your support, Doctor!
If you go to your library, check your purchases and you can download the latest through that.
I can't wait for the next release
I'll probably be out early next week.
If I purchase the game right will I also get access to future releases? Or am I purchasing the current version only? I've bought A Petal Among Thorns and Avalon, and I love the work and want to support artists while they work rather than after, but I also don't want to have to buy the game twice...
I used to charge for releases, but I've stopped doing that and instead charge a discounted price for the full game which you'll be able to play as it releases. So if you purchase A Moment of Bliss today, you'll get it for less than what it will cost after it's complete and you will receive the updates as they release. Though each release includes all previous releases, so you'll be downloading the current Chapter plus all previous Chapters. I don't cut them into parts.
Hi, the third story of this trilogy, what is it called? Is it out yet and where can i find it? thanks. I enjoy your writing style keep those stories coming.
Hey RexRivers!
This story is not yet concluded. I'll be releasing Chapter 3 in December. When A Moment of Bliss is complete, I'll be working on the last game in the series tentatively titled Over the Moon. A Moment of Bliss should be complete around summer of next year.
Thanks for playing!
Awesome thanks i've really enjoyed what you have done so far.
Hey there! Just wanted to make a comment regarding the tagging of this game. Considering the intentions demonstrated, you should clearly use the Lesbian Tag and not just the Threesome Tag. It's quite different and very important for people that need to know the content before getting too involved with the story. Already too late for me, but this might help others.
A lesbian tag implies that there are women in the story that are only interested in other women. This is not the case for any of the love interests in the game. All sexual activity happens within the harem, and only with the MC present at this point. There could be an argument made for a subcategory for harem where the women don't interact with each other. Perhaps it would be called a Selfish Harem, where the women are only allowed to sexually interact with the MC but never with each other? In my stories, it's always going to be an Open Harem, where everyone is invested emotionally and sexually in each other.
I understand where you are coming from, but to be frank I've never seen it interpreted that way. From what I see in 99% of games/stories, the Lesbian tag isn't for exclusively Lesbian relations, but rather to indicate there are F+F sexual encounters or relationships. Selfish Harem has a bit of a mean connotation to it.
You make absolutely amazing games, your renders are great and the concepts seem really cool. It's too bad we can't have it both ways with content filters (I understand its too much work for you, specially if you work alone), but I guess that's just a me problem. I was the one that foolishly got invested in a story that would hurt me. When I played A Petal Among Thorns I did get my spidey-senses warning me Bliss was going to hurt me, playing up to the first real conversation with her in AMoB just confirmed it.
Edit: "with the MC present at this point", this does imply there will be without him, no?
I might be misunderstanding. What is it precisely that you're finding distasteful?
I'll preface this by saying that I realize most people don't care about this, it might just be me because of my personal things, but I have seen other people agree with me in a few threads and other games (not a lot though, I admit).
It's definetely not that bad for most people, it's just that the idea that Bliss is going after the Mom and is romantically interested in other girls kinda puts the MC in a complete sideline, he's just "another piece of meat", specially considering it seems she made a move on the Mom first (which makes it seem she's more interested in girls and more interested in the Mom).
And if Petal or Rose and the MC are so in love with each other, the idea of Bliss coming and seducing Petal or Rose to make her less focused on the MC disturbs me.
Some games do this really well, making the threesomes just a stimulant for the relationship and a nice experiment, but the moment the girls start loving each other it makes me fell like the MC is just an extra. How could Petal say all those things about the MC but then love someone else? Would she say the same things to them? The thought makes me distressed.
I realize this makes me sound COMPLETELY off the rails or something, I'm sorry for trying to have this. It's just that these games are a fantasy and it seems the fantasy of having girls only in love with you is really rare, almost all Harem games tend to be Open Harems (or at least the really good ones, like yours, with good renders and good writing).
Edit: A good thought exercise to have - imagine if Bliss was a guy. Wouldn't everyone in the comments be throwing a tantrum crying "NTR! NTR!"?
You don't have to apologize for your interests. These games are fantasy, specifically designed to accommodate unique interests. However, I didn't write any of the characters as you're describing them. Bliss hasn't expressed that much interest in Rose, or anyone else except for Chester. So much so that she's seducing Nixie into a relationship with Chester because she wants him to have unrelenting pleasure and affection. Petal is the same way. Petal's main motivation is pleasing Chester, because she herself derives a lot of pleasure from making him happy. All of the characters are devoted to the main character, but that doesn't mean there isn't friendship and love between the girls.
I understand what you're saying though. I've heard it a few times now. It doesn't feel like Chester is focused on enough, and a few people have voiced this concern. This story is set for how it's going to be. Everything revolves around Chester, but he's not always involved with everything that's going on. I felt this was one of his strengths. He has the maturity to know when to step away from situations to let them breathe. When Bliss interacts with Nixie in the pool, he's letting them have some time together. He doesn't need to be in the spotlight at all times. And that's a robust and independent attribute.
Again though, a lot of people feel the same way. Chester is growing and becoming a more dominant person. He's starting to take control of his own destiny more and more. Right now, a lot of things are happening to him and not because of him. That will change over the course of the story as he develops more as a character. You gotta give that time though.
I've never been able to get my head round people wanting to have every girl in a game at his beck and call in games but don't dare let any other character have sex with someone else or dare say that they love someone else. People can love more that one person simultaneously and have a sexual relationship built on love and not just lust with more than one person at a time. It's like the people that want every girl in a game to be a virgin as if women don't like to have sex and should be pure as the driven snow and never touched by anyone even themselves. Just my tuppence worth. Hell I've saw people wanting mother's to be virgins in games and have had a baby through artificial insemination. It's crazy how distressed people get about these things.
I'm pretty sure there's a mother in Radiant that is a virgin. I mean, it's fantasy. Men want to plow land that's never been tainted before. I don't want too much realism in my games. I play them to escape from reality.
Although, I honestly think if it was Petal's harem, that'd be super hot. Unfortunately not many players in this market would agree. To each his own. :-)
I get the fantasy aspect, I really do. I love your games and I like the virgin fantasy thing too, I think most vn players do but was just meaning about some who think a woman should be tossed aside if she isn't one in game or that an MC should be able to have a harem with countless women but the women shouldn't even be allowed to look at anyone else even with the MCs permission and perhaps I'm being about of a hypocrite but I thought Brooke's story was really wholesome and cute in radiant. I was in no way having a go at your game in any way whatsoever, I actually hoped come the end of over the moon there'd be a lot of free love within the whole family dynamic between all family members and even a few side characters to boot along the lines of perhaps a mid-life crisis but this is your story to tell and I'll be happy with whatever happens. I was just trying to give a couple examples that people seem to get really bent out of shape about if a game doesn't go exactly how they want it to especially on some of the more toxic fandoms. It's just when some people have a go at a vn developer because they aren't pleased they put something in their story or didn't specifically warn them about a specific scene or didn't have a tag they believe that should have been there even though it shouldn't be there and they proceed to bring down parts of a game, it just doesn't sit well with me. Sorry if I caused you any trouble.
Just like real Life, harem's aren't meant to divide & Segregate People into Sexual boxes, but to get a bunch of friends Living & screwing together, without Worrying about hurting People's Feelings. Everyone fucks, whoever they want. Keep up the Sexy Work, @Lockheart
I agree! A wholesome, open-relationship household is going to be much healthier for everyone rather than the girls only being allowed to interact sexually with the MC. Gotta spread the love!
heyo! how's it going? i hope you're doing well, i have an issue. I noticed that i wanted to play APOT but for some reason it doesn't show up in my purchased games even though I know for a fact I've purchased it (that game is how I discovered your work) any help is appreciated.
It's possible that you purchased an earlier version of the game. Reach out to me on Discord and I'll get you fixed up.
wait, i just thought of something. wasnt APOT free for some time
How is the update work going on
Great! I'm expecting a release in December. I should be able to finish up the scenes I'm working on now this month. Then I'll only have a two or three more scenes after. There's one scene that is going to take some serious time among the last three though.
hello my friend the December month has arrived and I am waiting for you pleasant work ..
I'm finishing up the last scene, then it'll be off to Beta testing. We are very close to release.
I purchased the game on 06-22-2022 06:55:58 for $7.99 + $1.40 VAT, which was 6 weeks ago, so I could not have got Chapter 2 part 2 as Chapter 2 part 2 was released 13 days ago according to this page, yet
when I download it and use the last save there is no extra content, it says the game has ended, just like with my original download!
So I am totally confused. why is my 2.21 version not doing anything more than my old 2.11? I tried installing it over the original installation folder, and I tried putting it in it's own folder, and both were the same. Either version is ending when I lay on the sofa and find out about the experiments from Suzi, with Rose and Suzi talking in the bedroom.
Can you explain this to me? Thanks
Hey UK_John,
It sounds like you've reached the end of the current content. 2.2.1 is a minor fix from 2.1.1. Chapter 3 will be released in a few months.
Thank you for your support.
Ah, not an update but a fix. Thanks. So any idea of next update then? After finishing Petal Among Thorns, it's frustrating not to complete the follow-up story!
I'm having issues with getting past the bliss and nixie at the pool scene. It always crashes and I can't move on with the story. I'm on Android and can't figure it out, any suggestions?
I can more readily help you if you post a screenshot of the error on Discord. You can get to my Discord here: https://discord.gg/S6AtPA2
Mr lockheart the 2 update is really mind-blowing. The imagination you have is really awesome .great work man.make sure don't finish the game fast.and make lots of romatic scenes and reduce the sex scean that will be great.and waiting for next update.
These errors have been fixed with the latest release. If you Unren the game, you will break it. Unfortunately the decipher that it uses misinterprets several if / then statements.
The interesting thing is, I downloaded the latest version from here. I got this exception during chapter 2. Hopefully I don't have this problem when chapter 3 comes out.
You're running version 2.1.1, which is broken. 2.2.1 is the latest version with this issue fixed. Sorry for the confusion.
Makes sense, I will redownload to 2.2.1.
Is a moment of bliss completed?
No, we're only on Chapter 2 right now. I have 5 chapters planned. I'm currently working on Chapter 3.
I just played the newest release, and I have to say that the work is some Quality stuff - I wish we could choose who to romance and who to not, but I'm pretty sure there's a reason for your choices. *spoilers* With that said I did not expect a certain person to have the same desires as the father. Once again, good work here.
Hey Lockheart, Just played this lastest release, I've enjoyed your previous games immensely, you definitely have talent for avn. I hope this doesn't come off as rude, I just wanted to put some feedback.
Forcing the harem and making all the girls okay with open relationships and taking away any player choice feels wrong. I would have loved to decide who I wanted to romance and have them be solely focused on the player. anyways that's just my two cents. you're making quality work, I just feel it falls flat when being forced into these fetishes.
I completely agree that girls should be optional and up to the player to decide if they want to pursue them. Make that many paths as a single developer is incredibly ambitious, and I couldn't get releases out at a reasonable speed if I did that. I've made the difficult decision to make the game more of a story on rails so that I can get the story I want to tell out at a reasonable release interval.
If I had all the money and resources I needed, I'd definitely flesh out multiple paths for a more player friendly experience. Hopefully one day I'll be at that point. Thanks for playing, fladfisk. I appreciate your support.
While I agree with you and it takes way too much work, it is incredibly distressing the idea of the girls getting romantically involved with other people. I can get over a quick threesome and be done with it but, after playing Petal Among Thorns and getting so invested in the characters, it broke my heart when I realized Bliss was actually after Rose instead of the MC. It's incredibly distressing, so much so that I quit playing the game.
Please tag your games better so players like me know they shouldn't play the game, you could've spared me some heartbreak.
Just played through the latest update (Chapter 2 part 2) -- and I completely agree, I wouldn't have wanted to exclude Nixie anyway. I read the "Walk it Back" log entry, and because I didn't get 2.2 instantly, I don't know what twist you undid -- something related to Westermark Effect? -- but I want to see more of Rose in the game, and surely wouldn't have any objection to see Petal, Bliss, Rose and/or Moon together in various ways, with or without Nixie or MC (or Chuck and/or Wendy, for that matter).
just wanted to let you know, you are extremely talented. i actually have all of your novels and i will definently continue to support you and your work. your stories are great and worth the wait. keep up the great work and i wish the best. look forward to your future endeavors.
I sincerely appreciate the praise, and the support. Thank you! There should be an update out for Bliss either tomorrow or the next day. Be sure to stop by the Discord if you'd like to interact with a community of like-minded individuals. Thanks again.
ohh that's really great we are waiting