Demo ver 1.8 is now live! (Patreon)

Hi everyone! Hope you've been staying safe and healthy, and a blessed Ramadan to all celebrating.

I'm happy to report that the demo has been updated on cogdemos. It comes in at just under 23k words, and all of its contents is essentially brand new (there's one segment towards the end which mirrors one in the old demo, but even then it's heavily modified). This turn of the story takes a bit of a slower pace after the one-two punch of Reglaire and Aulain, with the focus once more drawn to Thulrum. There's a new character introduced in this demo which will have a significant role for the remainder of AMR, though it's also possible (but quite difficult!) to miss them. You'll most definitely know it when you encounter them.

Also introduced in this update is the refined romance system for Book 2. One of the biggest things I wanted to overhaul in the new demo was the way in which Book 1's romances interacted with Book 2's, i.e. how the mage might still carry a torch for Leon/Ilya, as such complicating any intention they may have to pursue of Eli/Yu/F's romances. I also wanted to make it possible for the mage to nurse a crush on the new ROs and add tension to the romance routes that way. Happy to report that both are quite robustly addressed in the new demo, and with such lateral breadth that the scene in question quite literally covers almost half the update.

In the future when another scene of its kind occurs, I'll aim for a higher wordcount goal overall so as not to sacrifice overall plot progress. Still, I'm very happy with how this segment turned out, and I hope you'll feel the same :D

Included as well in this update is a slew of bug fixes. Notable among them, mages who opt to use an alias should now find that the variable behaves properly, i.e. the likes of Eli and Tahlia will now refer to them with their real names.

Click here to play Demo ver 1.8!

The new update uses the same link as the old one (and since the title can't be changed on cogdemos, it's incorrectly titled as the January update). The reason for this is because I don't know yet whether saves can translate across builds the way it did on dashingdon. Further, saves on cogdemos can apparently be quite finicky, and so I'm trying to reduce any variables which might break them. If you nevertheless encounter a problem with the save system, please let me know and I'll look into it ASAP.

Monthly features and Arcanist art rewards will be uploaded shortly after this post goes up. I will be back later today to address any questions and note possible bug reports. I've especially built up a considerable backlog in the bug reports channel of the discord, and that will be a top priority in the early days of March (thank you to everyone who contributed there! And I apologize that it's taken me so long).

Tangentially related, but I also really want to push out a public demo release early this month. Please wish me luck! x)

That about wraps it up for this update post. As always, thank you for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn!