Nah, I've seen way too many fantasy stories screw up that way. Mom and Dad are basically gods... where do you grow as a character from there?
As Morningstar gets closer to done, the next one looks like it'll be Scifi / Space Opera.
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After I wrote the instructions, Apple added an additional Quarantine Flag to the process of downloading apps from non-apple websites.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253714860?sortBy=rank
I'll update the installation instructions to include that information, thx.
Love of Magic makes impregnation a pretty major thing; the two of them conceive in Act 4, and a large chunk of the rest of the story deals with the fact that they are expecting their daughter, becoming parents, wanting to create a better world for their daughter, etc. There's some pregnant sex, etc, but it's not really a purely sexual thing, it's very much a central issue in the book.
Morningstar isn't planning any (on camera) pregnancy content.
Yeah, Lin is a smarter, less head over heels Jenny :)
She wasn't actually meant to be a speaking character; like the other two gym girls she never got a talking head initially. But as I was rendering her I totally loved her look, and she convinced me to write her as a character of her own.
Snowdrop's quest-line's actually really good; it's probably my favorite so far. It starts off mindlessly enough, but it turns a little darker halfway through.
Yeah, I was considering scaling the price over time (so $5 when it's just Act 1, $10 when it's act 1 + 2, $15 when the game is complete), but it's hard to explain to the players. The game will grown, with 5 acts planned for the book; those are of course included in the price.
There's a lot of optional content (far more than you can consume by day 16), so you can load the end of act save, and keep going. Both Lin and Snowdrop have quite long questlines.
Itch.io is about 5% of the size of Steam, so obviously getting tons of negative reviews there hurt more.
One aspect of this is that itch.io has good Patreon integration; I offer Steam keys to Patreons for testing, but a lot of people don't want adult games in their steam library (in case friends or family can spot them being a perv). They usually don't have the same issues with itch.io, so giving them an itch.io key is an option.
Another aspect is that Steam treasures wishlists a lot; it uses them to determine if you're a "real game" at launch, and if you have sufficient (~5-10K) at launch, they give you a ton of visibility. Love of Magic Book 1 had 6K wishlists at launch, which translated into 2 million 'views' (times Steam showed the game to players that might be interested). As such, waiting until you're ready on Steam makes a lot of sense.
The last aspect is... I always do itch.io releases first :) I started doing adult games as a hobby, and putting up an itch.io page was how I shared my game with the first players. That worked well, and I like to repeat things that work well :)
Yes. The plan is Early Access on Steam once I'm done with Love of Magic. I'm writing the final act now, hoping to be complete in September.
You can give it a wishlist here, if you want:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396740/Morningstar_Book_of_the_Fallen/
That's weird; send me the auto-saves, I'll have a look.
You can send them to: droidproductions@protonmail.com
You can find the saves here. Best solution is to just zip up the entire folder and attach it to something like gofiles or mega
PC: %USERPROFILE%/AppData/LocalLow/Droid Productions/Love of Magic
Mac:
Saves: ~/Library/Application Support/Droid Productions/Love of Magic
Player.log: ~/Library/Logs/Droid Productions/Love of Magic/Player.log
Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Droid Productions/Love of Magic
Android's gone above the 2GB limit, so they'd just crash on load. The last ones that were below 2GB are still available, but to get book 2 and 3 onto Android will take a major chunk of work.
There are some different solutions that might help fix it; some devs do multiple 'bootstrapping' apps (so download app 1.1, that copies its assets, download app 1.2, that copies its assets, then download the actual app, and it continues to use the data). That's... obviously confusing to the player and not ideal.
The industry wide solution is downloading assets from a server, but hosting ~10 GB worth of data for each player is obviously not cheap. On Itch.io they'll host my actual app, but they won't host raw data like that.
TL;DR: It's a work in progress... I'm hoping to get back to it when I'm done with Book 3.
Well, good to know it's not a problem on the build side.
Have you tried using Itch.io's app? https://itch.io/app
It might help fix the issues you're having, and again it supports auto-updating, so only what's changed gets affected.
I don't actually generate the ZIP file on Itch.io side; I use something called the itch.io Butler (https://itch.io/docs/butler/) which then does the upload in a delta-patch manner, similar to Steam's contentuploader.
It IS strange that it's only a problem on Itch.io, though. Let me poke the itch.io team, and see if they've got any suggestions. What's the error message?
Itch.io has several downloads; book 1, 2, and 3 are different downloads. You can download them straight from here.
These are the compete versions of Book 1 and 2, and the first Act and Act+ of Book 3 (the rest of Book 3 will be uploaded here as it's getting done). I wouldn't worry TOO much about the version number on Book 1; the steam build got some steam specific fixes after release (dealing with steam specific issues, like achievements); it was content complete at 1.0, and if anything was actually broken I'd upload another build here.
The three books on Steam will eventually be three different products. Because I like to share as I develop, I put Book 2 on the Beta branch of Book 1, so everyone who has a Book 1 steam key also has a Book 2 steam key. I'm doing the same on Book 3, so it currently exists on Book 2's Steam Beta (as well as a standalone download here). To play Book 2 on your Steam Key, just opt into the Beta branch, and it's there and complete.
I'm still not 100% sure what the final solution there is... Steam's pretty strict about selling the game on other platforms for less than what it's sold for on Steam (to the point of terminating your account); if I give away both Book 1 and Book 2 steam keys for $15 I'm basically undercutting them by 50%, not something they'll take with any kind of good grace if they find out. I don't want to raise the price to $30, and it's kinda late in the day to do it as 3 different products.
I know most users don't care, and honestly if I hadn't given away a Steam key it would be a none-issue, so maybe the solution is to remove that. You still have access to books 1-3 here on Itch.io, so maybe that's the 'most fair' option. As always, it's fun trying to balance this between platforms, especially if your personal goal is to have everyone share stuff as soon as possible.