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Under Your Spell: A Magical Journey Awaits!

Step into the enchanting world of Tír na nÓg, the most prestigious magic school in Ireland! For five years, you’ve navigated the halls without achieving academic or athletic stardom—and you’ve yet to find that special someone. But everything changes when your childhood friend Eric proposes a daring plan: use an ancient spell to attract the girlfriends you’ve always dreamed of.

However, be warned—ancient magic is as powerful as it is fickle. While the spell may grant you a girlfriend, it comes with a catch: you must honor your part of the bargain. With the spell subtly influencing this year's school events, it’s up to you to seize the opportunity!


"Under Your Spell" is an immersive text-based magic school and dating simulator, drawing inspiration from beloved games like True Love 95 and Persona 4. As the protagonist, you'll juggle the challenges of school life while navigating the complexities of romance and participating in the highly anticipated "Cup of Cathal"

What Awaits You:

  • Attend classes and use your free time wisely to develop your skills.
  • Work part-time to earn pocket money and acquire useful items.
  • Discover and master extracurricular spells that will give you an edge.
  • Learn, train, explore, and meet captivating girls who may just steal your


What’s Already in the Game:

  • 6 of the Main Girls: Each with unique plotlines developed up to the midpoint.
  • Engaging Narrative: Dive into an intriguing storyline that keeps you on your toes.
  • First Three Months of School: Experience the excitement and challenges of the beginning of the academic year.
  • Stunning Artwork: Enjoy fully hand-drawn visuals and character sprites that bring the world to life.
  • Two Part-Time Jobs: Balance work and study as you earn your keep.
  • Two Extracurricular Spells: Enhance your magical prowess and prepare for the unexpected.
  • Random Events & Supporting Characters: Fill your days with vibrant interactions and surprises.
  • Background placeholders: backgrounds that will do the job for now, but will be changed later.



What’s Coming Soon:

  • 11 Unique Girls: Each with their own captivating plotline to explore.
  • Extended School Year: Experience eight months filled with unique seasonal events.
  • Five Part-Time Jobs: Diversify your work experience and income sources.
  • Six Additional Extracurricular Spells: Expand your magical repertoire.
  • Collectible Trading Card System: Find and collect cards with unique artworks.
  • Artwork Gallery: Unlock and view beautiful artwork as you progress.
  • Dressing Room: Play with looks that you have unlocked for the girls.


Are you ready to embrace the magic, romance, and adventure that awaits in Under Your Spell? Your journey begins now!

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Does this game have any erotic or pornographic scenes? Or is it just a romance novel? 

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Right now it has a couple of ecchi and one erotic scene. More will come in the future updates. Though the game does focus more on romance

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I must say, for a demo this game is decent. Not personally my cup of tea(between the only saving from your bedroom and general lack of lewd/suggestive scenes so far)but it's well made. My question however is, is there any current or planned lewd content for violet, or the Egyptian champion?

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Yep, both Violet and Bassant will both have lewd content eventually

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On the calendar, full moons are noted on it. Why? Does the spell that Eric performed onto the MC will have an effect dependent on the phase of the Moon? Or is it part of some feature for the future?

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It is not connected to the spell. But it both already have in-game effects (you can experiment and explore to find them), and it will get more uses in the future updates.

For 'What's Coming Soon', it's mentioned that a collectiable trading card system will be added. May I please get further elaboration on what it'd involve?

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Nothing too big. Just a gallery of cards with artworks that you can find in the various parts of the game. Buy in stores, get during certain events, etc. 

When the Main Character has a high enough knowledge stat, and aren't tired, they score around the top 3 (5??) for the exams. The Main Character is stated to be just below Percival, meaning he is either first place or second place. My question is, who is the remaining person in the top three? Or rather, which character makes the most sense? Elisabeth is stated to be one of the smartest and most ambitious characters, with her aspiring to head to Athens. While Violet, in every interaction she's in is either with a book, reading a book, or has just finished a book to grab another one. Possibly implying she's very smart/knows a lot. Meaning out of the evidence in game, it'd be either one. 

So just wondering.

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You got it a bit wrong. You are either third OR just below Percy (i.e. second). Percy is the top scorer in your year. Elizabeth is a year ahead of you, and Violet is a year below, so their positions are not taken into account.

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I love the game! However, there is one gripe about it that I have: The requirements to do well at certain things are way too high. For example, even with 58 knowledge, ignoring all my other stats, will not net me a good score at the exams, and I'm unsure how I'm supposed to do well at the challenges! Other than that, I really do love this game and hope to play the full version eventually!

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So happy to hear that you are enjoying the game! It is ok to not be able to do everything. We are still tweaking things, but it is our vision that a player should not be good at everything, especially at the very beginning =)

Ah, that actually makes a lot of sense! I'll be sure to keep that in mind then, thank you!

Going for the lucky and strategist nets you nine knowledge at the start, while focusing on magic history and brewing adds to your knowlege, while also you can blitz on just studying for the entire demo, or for most of it, with being mid 80s - low 90s being achievablefrom what I've seen.

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Why was Ireland chosen as the country where the game takes place in? Any specific reason?

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Well, we needed the school to be located in the British isles for the British-style school system to make sense. But that was a relatively minor thing. What was not a minor thing, was that we wanted our school to make sense in-universe. With how many myths and magical legends go around the world - a lot of things from wizard world seeps in into the normie world. Distorted as it may be. A school with hundreds of students? Standing for hundreds of years? There has got to be at least some myths and legends about it. And it had to be something relatively major. Somebody got to have noticed. Some rumors got to have slipped past the charms. So, "Tir na nOg" was the perfect candidate. Children disappearing for some reason and returning back after several years? They must've been spirited away by fairies. Some normies vaguely remembering getting lost in a place full of magic called "Tir na nOg", etc. It just fits. And the fact that "Tir na nOg" translates to the "Land of Young/Youth", which is a very fitting description for a school, was just a cherry on top. So Ireland was just a perfect fit no matter how many times you slice it.

Shortly after the Trial of the Mind was completed, just doing normal studying and such. Got "An exception has occurred." saying "While running game code: ScriptError: could not find label 'tutor_job_find'. Couldn't send screenshot here apparently, but that's what it said. Unable to continue playing at this moment. There was also a moment when studying in the library and helping the girl there moving a big book. Right before going to move the book it also gave a similar error.

Thank you for reporting. Both of these issues will be fixed in the next update.

That would be fantastic. Otherwise I enjoyed the game.

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How many spells are there currently? So far, I've discovered 'Animal Form' (iirc that is the name), and teleportation.

To which, I think I may've discovered a bug, I'm not the most certain. While I was playing through from a fresh start, while studying, or maybe after beastology, the game said animal form was learnt, but when I went to practise spells, the game then talked about teleportation. Not sure if I may've missed a line or two, but I just thought I should note it.

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Oh, yeah, found it. Fixed it. The text actually talks about teleportation when you practice animal form. That's just text issue though.

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Forgot to answer your original question. Only two spells so far. I am planning on adding two more in the near future

When more spells are added, will some be mutually exclusive? Where you can only learn a certain amount of them?

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No, you can always learn all of them. Of course, the more you learn, the harder it becomes to master all of them.

Is there any set idea for how much the game will cost once it is fully finished?

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Honestly, I have no idea, since I have not explored the market yet. I would think that somewhere between 10 and 20 dollars. To be fair, I am also still contemplating the idea of having the game itself be free if we will have enough funding from Patreon and the like, and just have paid accessories like soundtrack, artbook and maybe DLCs (if we get that far)

Who composed the soundtrack? Is ever bit of it original?

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It is a completely original soundtrack. Written by this awesome guy https://www.patreon.com/FxxxKuro

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I might be looking into it way too deeply, but how far was the effects of the spell that Eric casted onto the Main Character at the start? The game does repeatedly discuss love spells/potions. Where Eric states that due to the spell, it is why various events have changed, where a student lost something, to the Main Character even becoming the school's Champion. Does that at all imply that the psychology of the students was affected. In capacity? I'd assume not. As Elisabeth states that one of the Professors "compliments" the main character, yet sees them as lost potential. So seemingly that might be evidence that it didn't really effect anything else. Only the circumstances of what has happened to aid the Main Character. Another interesting thing to note is that seemingly, the spell casted by Eric also made some sort of ward around the Main Character, where other similar spells cannot affect him. (Tho' the demo ended right after, so not sure there if there may've been additional dialogue I missed out on.)
It does of course raise some interesting implications and questions. My main one being:

Will the love spell casted by Eric be further explored? Or is its purpose to act as a plot device to get the plot flowing and stopping right there?

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It will be explored a bit more in a couple of story threads, but not very deeply. The bottom line is, that the spell does not affect any person or the events in particular, it just helps the MC by slightly rearranging the situation around him to help him get his act together and giving him more opportunities to capitalize on. And also, in a way, you as a player act as a proxy for the spell. Helping him achieve things he would not normally be able to.

I’m liking the look of this, but I have a question. Is there any body modification in the game? Like expansion or whatnot?   It’s obviously not necessary of you don’t want to include that, I just think that even a bit of a small spell that just changes the models could be a nice addition. Nothing that would really affect the story. Something like this just tends to fit so well with most magic games like this. 

Planning to play this soon, thanks. 

I can't press continue on the Choose your language screen.

I am afraid I would need more info than that to help you, because no one has encountered this issue before. What system are you on? A screenshot would help too

I really like the way the game is, but I don't understand which free time options to choose for each girl to appear

Great to hear that you are enjoying the game! Just explore and take your time. You'll find them. If you are completely lost and need some hints, Divination can help a bit

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I played the game demo and it's awesome!

Elizabeth IS THE BEST! (From the nerd who has drunk the love elixir:P)

I'm really super in love with this game, good tableaux plus exquisite graphics, I have a feeling it can be a masterpiece, can't wait to experience more!

It would be nice to see the exact numerical requirements on the options, but if you guys are hiding it on purpose, forget I said anything.

I love this game so much, I wish I could do something to help you guys, like Chineseize the game. Unfortunately, if I help you guys make the game's Chinese text (even if it's unpaid with love), I'll probably still face jail time, which is a shame.

But maybe I can do some coaching on your Chinese skills, or help check if the Chinese translation is smooth and fluent, which is not directly related to making the game, but just a friendly international exchange, right?

If you guys are motivated to add Chinese to your work, please let me know, I'd be happy to help out out of love for this work!

BTW, found a bug where the game reports an error when Elizabeth asks you to help her get something from the Potions teacher's cabinet if you choose to pick herbs by luck.

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Thank you for both high praise and the bug report! I will look into it 👍

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Игра очень понравилась, хоть и  демоверсия. Есть ли вообще полная версия или она ещё в разработке?

Всё ещё в разработке. Максимум есть ранний доступ на Бусти и Патреоне.

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при игре на андроид после некоторого времени возникает исключение, из за которого не получается играть дальше, это вообще возможно исправить или ждать следующего обновления?

Да, я думал, что этот баг не попал в публичную версию. Сегодня пересоберу билд и пререзалью.

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Спасибо, лучший

I played the game and it's really fun.

I didn't manage any significant progress by the time the demo ended and I can't find any information about how and when to interact with the girls.

Are the events with the girls random orbdo they follow a time pattern?

Also, how to interact with them on purpose?

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You can't interact with them unprompted, it's all scripted events for now. It seems to be tied to stat totals for the most part, say you want to get to know Elizabeth or Violet better, you'd have to upgrade Knowledge like mad and choose to study in your free time.

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So ive collected the best beginnings so far and its like 


1) warrior family+ smart


2) cunning leader + lucky


3) lucky strategist 


4) lucky merchant 


If anyone knows any better built at the start tell me please, Bc wrote all of the stats at the beginning and then analyzed them and stuff and cane up with this I recommend picking (2) Bc the stats are like 


1= (5,8,7,8,5,100,137)


2=(7,6,6,6,8,100,137)


3= (5,9,6,6,7,100,137)


4= (8,6,8,6,5,100,137)


The stats numbers refer to (first to last)


Appeal: charm 


Knowledge : effect on spellcasting 


Imagination: creativity and the ability to solve problems in an unorthodox way


Prowess: strength, agility, courage of using your powers 


SP: raw magic power and ability to cast strong spells 


St: stamina 


That's it

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♫♫ I put a spell on you, because you're mine! ♫♫

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Love what y'all have put together so far, here's hoping Shady 2 feels better soon, can't wait to see what comes next.

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Thank you! Glad you are enjoying the game 😁

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Sorry if that sounded a bit callous, her health comes first obviously. Just too damn excited I guess, game's scratching an itch I didn't know was there 'til now.

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No, don't worry, we understood your sentiment 😊 

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I seem to be a few missing files on the android version. The great hall and the town so far. Is this common or an installation error?

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No, that's ok. They are missing for everyone. We only finished adding all of the placeholder backgrounds in the Patreon version 

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I made an account just to comment.

I love how solid it looks despite it being in beta, I do also plan to support this on Patreon when possible.

I think that this game might possibly be one of the better of its genre that I've played, the story, for what is implied and said wasn't to rushed, NSFW things don't just happen instantly, it feels like there'd be a build-up. While for the events that randomly happen when you do things in your free-time are something unique which I think is really good, while the system for stats, despite it being a tad confusing is also quite nice since you can pick and choose.

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Thank you so much for your comment! It really means a lot to hear that people like the game, and its specific parts 😁 We will try even harder have this game be the best it can be 💪

so I was able to do the names thing in the trial of mind, which I presume is a knowledge check (?), and after flubbing the second door a bit I loaded save (cause I'm a lil bitch, btw really not a fan of not being able to rollback or just save wherever, I think the base mechanic change from most visual novels of the day management is cool but that part is annoying for completionist/full experience, but it's whatever) and now it's not working at all, so is there a randomizer in there somewhat and stats just like influence the roll or something? oh also is divination class worthless?

There are rolls involved in the first Trial, yes. Actually, every time there is an active stat check, there's a roll. Not just in the trial.
Divination class is not worthless, even though its effects are not as easily perceived. Though it will become more useful in the future.

thanks for the answer

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I honestly feel like an idiot for downloading this game without researching it first... I spent 3 hours of my day maximizing almost everything in the game and waiting for something to happen, to get to the final day and the game bugs out. Then I come to research and discover that it's a beta 🤠👍 I wasted a lot of time, but I liked the game. 


I found the scoring system a bit confusing, as some classes seemed to give one thing but in the end it was something else (or is it just my stupidity?) I honestly don't know, I'll try to save my save for when the game updates, but that will probably hurt me and I'll have to start over from scratch, since I've already exceeded the game's limit until the bug.


Good game, I hope to see more of Violet and also that she has more reasoning about certain things, because I have 70 intelligence and the game still says the exam is difficult for me, it's sad.

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Thank you for the kind words 😁 It is actually closer to Alpha even, than to a Beta. Very early into development.

At knowledge 70, the exam should've been relatively easy for your character (unless he was also tired). So that was probably the issue

Если удалить то сохранений не будет а с каждым обновлением удалять и заново проходить желания нет

Сохранения, вроде как, на андроиде тоже можно сохранить. Но это уже лучше тогда просто погуглить. Может зависить от конкретного устройства

А как сохранить на андроид?

Как обновление скачать нажимаю скачать файл потом скачиваю и пишет что приложение конфликтует с другим пакетом как исправить

А платформа какая?

Я на телефоне игра

Тогда, возможно, нужно сначала удалить старую версию

Can you please put a accept button when we put in our names because my phone refuses to give me a accept button on my keyboard please 

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Sure thing. Will add in to the "to do" list for the upcoming updates 👍

It took some time, but the change is finally here. Hope that's what you needed

thanks 

Когда Обнова выйдет?

Мне нравится

Круто 👍

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Great game love the artwork

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Great, now I can't stop thinking about giant pookas.

Amazing. 👏

Some bugs and typos scattered around but can't wait for finished build (^^)

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Thank you! Bugs and typos are the bane of my existence "^_^

Got caught in a bit of a logic loop in game.  It kept sending me to magic class on the second day of classes.  Couldn't leave and thus needed to restart whole game.  Thought I would mention this bug...

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Magic Theory? Strange I cannot seem to find anything that would point to such a thing. Can you tell me more?

Some bg are not loading .. Is it me or anyone else faced the same problem? 

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No, it is the same for everyone. Some BGs are just not there yet. This will hopefully be remedied in the upcoming couple of updates.

Okayy

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Can't wait for more

Okay, so a spell game? I like that. Those are promising.
What's the focus? Is there Hypnosis/Mind Control or Transformation/Body Modification related content or more just set in a magic school with related shenanigans?

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The latter.

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Okay, that's fair. Thank you.
Might give it a spin in a few updates so keep up the good work!

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Violet was love at first sight, because she actually looks like a crush I had in high school! The art is seriously great, and very few typos that I noticed! It would be nice to see some characters (girls especially) with at least slightly rounder faces.

The stats side of the game could use more transparency. Can't tell easily which classes do what. Wasn't expecting to be told I needed to study way more for exams when the two stats I focused most on (after being guided to focus on only a few stats) were Knowledge and Spellpower. Also, getting hard stuck on the second door in the trial and just having to spam click any option until I truly fail was the definite low point of the demo.

Thank you for your feedback. We are still working on most of the things you mentioned. Especially stat transparency.
The First Trial is not finished yet, but once it is, losing in the first trial will just make the story go on, so that would hopefully make everything feel better. It is possible to win the first Trial, but yes, it should be difficult. And you definitely don't have to win to progress. Taking the third place is just another outcome.

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Great Game for a Demo!

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Thank you!