Under Your Spell

Devlog

• Friday Devblog #22
  January 17, 2025 by Shady Characters

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  So, I have finally properly returned to working on the game last week. A lot of bugs found in the game by players did help to jolt me into consciousness. God, Ciara's storyline was buggy. The town sto... Continue reading

  
• Friday Devblog #21
  January 10, 2025 by Shady Characters

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  It feels that the last week got deleted from time and space, but I slowly crawled out of the holiday food coma and got back to development. Slowly for now, since Shady Two is still recovering and cann... Continue reading
• Version 0.2.0 Major Update
  January 07, 2025 by Shady Characters

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  It is finally here! Our first major content update is finally going public! Enjoy two new girl-storylines: Elizabeth Lewis - Dunagall's top student, and Ciara McKinley Talamdan's ray of sunshine. All... Continue reading

  
• Year's End Devblog
  December 30, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  So, the year is coming to an end, and it is as good a time as any to think back on the results of our work here. It has been almost a year since we started working on this project proper. Ten months t... Continue reading

  
• Version 0.1.11 "Musical Update"
  December 23, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Music: -Six new music tracks! New content: -New event in during Study -New small events during visits to the Prefects' Baths -Sprites added for Professor McCracken -Sprites added for Professor Mooney... Continue reading

  
• Friday Devblog #19
  December 20, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  I am going to be frank with all of you, I was dead sure that this devblog was due tomorrow. That just shows how fast this past week flew by. Like it wasn't even there. In the aftermath of the major up... Continue reading

  
• Friday Devblog #18
  December 13, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Since this week is the Major Update week, I don't really want to go into technical details in this blog entry, so instead I would like to talk about the world-building for a bit. I am a bit of a world... Continue reading

  
• Ilias: Legends of Alcyon by OzeCat
  December 10, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Ilias: Legends of Alcyon by OzeCat | PATREON | BOOSTY | | DISCORD | TWITTER | ВК | TELEGRAM | | REDDIT | SUBSCRIBESTAR | SITE | Hey, wizards! We want to introduce you to the project of our friends -... Continue reading

  
• Version 0.1.10 changelog
  December 09, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Changes in v. 0.1.10: New sprites: -Added sprites for Thorgny and Bassant for all their respective events Fixes: -Fixed Meave not actually taking the money if you pay her -Fixed the stat deterioration... Continue reading
• Friday Devblog #17
  December 06, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Since the major update is just a week away that's what I wanted to talk to you all about. Not just the update, but general troubles that I faced when coming up with the update strategy for the game. P... Continue reading

  
• Friday Devblog #16
  November 29, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  I am not good at writing prose. Maybe some of you have noticed that. Maybe you didn't. But I am. So, with this sudden revelation, some of you might be eager to ask: "Why the hell did you decide to mak... Continue reading

  
• Version 0.1.9 changelog
  November 25, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Changes in v. 0.1.9: New content: -Added artwork for fairy queen Maeve event -Added artwork for Gwen's third event -Added two new items to the town store -Added tooltips for main stats -You can now ge... Continue reading
• Friday Devblog #15
  November 22, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Still being out of town and out of my usual element, I almost forgot to write this weeks blog entry too. By only just "almost". So here I am, ready to share the news on the game development. The most... Continue reading
• Friday Devblog #14
  November 08, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  I have been doing these for a few months now, so I start wondering what you as our followers expect from these blogs. Development progress updates? Creator updates? Insights on the process of game dev... Continue reading

  
• Friday Devblog #13
  November 01, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  This week flew by like it never even was there. I could swear to you that it feels like it was only yesterday that I was writing the previous devblog, and now I am already here doing another one of th... Continue reading

  
• Version 0.1.8 changelog
  October 28, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Changes in v. 0.1.8b: New content: -Added events for learning Teleportation and Animal Form spell -Added an event queen fairy (Explore) -You can now train your extracurricular spells during Spell Prac... Continue reading
• Friday Devblog #12
  October 25, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  It is time for another devblog already. To be honest, I a have been is a bit of a writers slump the last couple of weeks, so the progress on the writing was slower than I hoped it would be. I was plan... Continue reading

  
• Friday Devblog #11
  October 18, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  This one was a slower week, and I don't really have anything specific to talk about, so I will tell you about some progress that we made. I was mostly focusing on the smoothing out some of the rougher... Continue reading

  
• Version 0.1.7 changelog "Earing and Spending"
  October 14, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  We have finally added the Store to the town where you can spend your hard-earned money for items that will help you on your quest! New Feature: - Added Shopping to the town, you can now buy some items... Continue reading
• Friday Devblog #10
  October 11, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Shady Character One here for another Friday devblog! You know what? Balancing a game is hard (not 'normal' or 'easy'). You really need to maneuver between it not being too easy and not having people d... Continue reading
• Friday Devblog #9
  October 04, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  #devblog

  Hey, Wizards! Shady Character One here! This is not me on the picture above. That's Maeve, the fairy queen. We do think that she will be our mascot character from now on. Not sure how that will work o... Continue reading

  
• Version 0.1.6 changelog
  September 30, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  New content: - The Trial of Mind finished - Added a new event during Enchantment class - Added artwork to broom-racing event - Added artwork for Lily's introduction scene in House Talamhdan - Added sp... Continue reading
• Friday Devblog #8
  September 27, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Most of things that I was doing this last week was connected with the last more or less major mechanic in the game, the extracurricular spells. You will be able to find, buy or learn those during your... Continue reading

  
• Friday Devblog #7
  September 20, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  A LOT was done during this past week. First of all, let's get the the small stuff out of the way. I did some major optimizations to the code. Currently, the calendar system is by fast the most cumbers... Continue reading

  
• Version 0.1.5 changelog + Android support
  September 16, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  By popular demand, the game now supports android devices! Also, changes in this version - Added floor to stats. The stats will not fall below starting values now - Added event with cockatrice eggs hun... Continue reading
• Friday Devblog #6
  September 13, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Since Shady Two was out of town for the whole last week, I decided to turn my attention to the much requested feature - android version of the game. Thankfully, Ren'py does a lot of heavy lifting in t... Continue reading

  
• Friday Devblog #5
  September 06, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Last week was a very fun and strange one. I finally found courage to get back to interface coding after writing mostly events for a long time. A lot of people kept complaining about the lack of rollba... Continue reading
• Version 0.1.4 changelog
  September 02, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  New content: -A new random event that can trigger during Brewing class -Sprites added for Elizabeth Lewis. For now only available in the Prefect bathroom event chain... Continue reading

  
• Friday Devblog #4
  August 30, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  This time, I wanted to talk more about how the development itself is going, rather than just the specific things we have done. You know, I bet no one ever thinks about how much of your work on the gam... Continue reading

  
• Friday Devblog #3
  August 23, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Aaaaaand, it's time for another devblog! I have managed to keep this up longer than I though to be completely honest. These last few blog entries were a bit too dry if you ask me, so I will try to do... Continue reading

  
• Version 0.1.3 changelog
  August 19, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  New content: -You can now get a job at the "Raven's Wing" pub, by visiting the town starting late September. -Added backgrounds for Stadium and Dueling Classroom/Gym... Continue reading
• Friday Devblog #2
  August 16, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  Another devblog update time! I both did and did not conform to the plan I set for myself last week. I did write two events, but both of those were random ones. Though I did also rework one of the new... Continue reading

  
• Friday Devblog #1
  August 09, 2024 by Shady Characters

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  This is not the first entry to my devblog, but it is the first one that I will post here. Lately, I’ve decided to slow down the writing process a bit to allow Shady Two to catch up with the artwork... Continue reading