I have finished writing File 06!

What I worked on since the last update:

• Finished writing File 06

• Created 2 music tracks

• Designed 3 characters

Well, it took a little longer than I thought, but I finished writing File 06, which means that The Canada Files is now fully written. I can finally move on to the other parts of the process, which are still difficult but not nearly as much of a struggle to get myself to do. I'm pretty excited about it— it's a dark and dramatic finale. I hope it won't take too long to complete, since there are a ton of backgrounds, CGs, music... but at the same time, knowing it's the final File is very motivating.

Until next time!

— LockedOn.

Hey everyone!

We’re excited to announce that Steam Workshop support is officially coming to Lust’s Cupid soon, and we hope in the next 14 days! 🎉

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we needed a bit more time to finish it up, but we hope you will love the end product!

With the Workshop, you’ll be able to:
✨ Create and share custom content with other players.
💞 Download community-made additions to enhance your experience.
🎨 Experiment with your own ideas and bring new life to the game!

We can’t wait to see what our creative fans come up with! The Workshop is all about giving you the tools to shape Lust’s Cupid your way. 💘

Thanks for your continued support and passion. You’re what keeps Lust’s Cupid thriving!

💖 The Dinotonte Team

Guests! We've seen some questions and uncertainties from players regarding existing accounts, and being able to play via Steam with those accounts.

You can find out how to do this in the Hotel Hideaway support section.

See you in the Hotel!

it's been 1 year and 10 months since my last update and it's likely that many considered this game yet another vaporware. At some point that was almost true because the development has been on hold since June 2024, but things are different now!

I restarted the development at the beginning of October and things are moving forward fast and steady, also a lot has changed since my last update, so let me show you what's going on.

If you used to follow my dev logs you might remember that this game was a RTS called Virtueror, but that's no more.

After a lot of thinking and planning I decided to turn this game into a Turn-Based Strategy game which also comes with a new name: VIRTUALORD.

The main reason behind the change of genre is that my vision for this game (ex.: RPG elements, slow pace action, limited amount of units you can control, etc...) suits better a TBS than a RTS.

Another reason is that I was afraid that a polished RTS would take me forever to make and it wouldn't be good enough for most gamers anyway. I am a solo developer with very limited resources after all!

The name change is mostly because I wanted to break with the past, but also because many complained that "Virtueror" was hard/weird to pronounce and I think that's fair.

Obviously things changed and evolved a lot since last dev log and I am happy to announce that Virtualord just hit version 0.3.0 which is also the first alpha build.

In the meantime let me show you the main new features of this upcoming release:

This obviously is the biggest change for this release as it transforms the game a lot.

As you might expect, each unit/structure has a certain amount of energy that can spend every turn, but on top of that there's a team energy that stops all your actions when exhausted.

Both energies are recharged at the beginning of each new turn, but only the team one is fully recharged, whereas units and structures recharge their energy based on their attributes and level.

Now every map has multiple primary and secondary goals that are listed in a dialog accessible from your base.

When you complete a goal you can collect its rewards that depend on the current map and the difficulty level.

Once you complete all primary goals, you can decide if you want to leave the current map with an immediate win or if you want to keep playing to complete all secondary ones too.

In my opinion, this is a big improvement over the old design based on a single goal.

A game tutorial is already fully implemented, even if it doesn't cover all aspects of gameplay and it doesn't have dedicated maps yet. This will change in the future, but what's in place now is already enough to teach you all the basic concepts you need to play Virtualord.

There are 4 new structures that extend and support a richer gameplay.

1) Trading post:

this is going to be your marketplace where you can buy and sell resources using a dedicated dialog.

Buy/sell prices are dynamic as they depend on actual resources of the map you're playing.

2) Barracks:

barracks allow you create all soldier units.

3) Hospital:

this structure can heal nearby units, but it can also create medics, a special unit that can heal others.

4) Research center:

in the future this structure will allow you to generate research points and to access the tech tree.

I put a lot of work in this release and listing all changes and new features would take too long here, but these are some notable ones:

• A new panel becomes visible when you select one of your units or structures. It shows you its current status and some basic stats and it allows to open a dialog that shows all sort of stats and attributes.

• Units and structures gain experience while doing something, this will allow to upgrade them in the future.

• The AI is fully adapted to the new turn system and it can also perform new actions like building structures, collecting objects and shooting trees.

There's also a lot of UI improvements and bug fixes as usual.

Last, but not least, I am happy to announce that the first alpha build of Virtualord will be available in a few days.

To take part in the alpha testing simply join the Discord server of the game. There you will get access to a Windows and a Linux build from the 3rd of November until the end of the month.

People who will take part in alpha testing and will provide useful feedback will be rewarded with a Discord role and a mention in the game credits.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1607580/Virtualord_The_Virtual_Conqueror/

Hello again,

the updates keep coming. :D

• Fixed a mysterious bug where you could miss the text message when combining two items correctly when it still displayed "You can't use these items together" from a previous combination

• Fixed a terrifying bug where the interaction wheel was displayed through a room transition allowing for illegal interactions

• Fixed a spooky ghost-hotspot in the barn

• Added some more haunting reaction texts and minor hints

• Fixed several undead typos

• Fixed a bug where you could escape the barn room before opening the collar

Happy Halloween!

The Book "Scary Stories for the Harvest Festival", 7th Story.

N’Galu’s life is filled to excess with vileness and filth. And it’s not about his army at all. It’s no surprise that he once wanted to behold something beautiful. It’s terrifying even to imagine what exactly the overlord considers as such. It is kept in an exquisite box, whose spider-lock, how they say, may not only refuse to open, but also pounce at you.

• Phantomouse Costume Box

• Plague Horse

• Steps of Pumpkin Madness

• Box with Vampire costume “Fata Morgana"

• Purple Philosopher’s Stone x2

• Crystal Key

• Red Philosopher’s Stone x2

• Warehouse Ticket x4

• Riker's Tonic x4

• Large Trading Spot (36 h.) x4

• Purification Potion x5

• Life-giving Magic Potion x8

• Eltanite x6

• Fish Fat x12

• Rune of Preservation x3

• Black Philosopher’s Stone x3

• Thirum's Nectar x10

• "Energy Dust" Bag x11

• Veronica's Ticket x26

• Maiden’s Ticket x20

• Tor Toise’s Sealing Wax

• Quick Doe's Warehouse Bag

• Scroll of Experience 100% x6

• Arconite Sealing Wax x3

• Four-Leaf Clover x6

• Mad Bumblebuzz Wings x100

You can also receive:

• Seal of Horror

• Creepy Pumpkin

• Blood Resonator

• Blood Essence x10

• N’Galu’s Secrets Box x300

• Mad Bumblebuzz Wings x200

• Box of Excellent Elixirs x4

• Crystal Key x2

• Phantomouse Costume Box

• N’Galu’s Secrets Box x100

• Mad Bumblebuzz Wings x100

• Box of Excellent Elixirs x2

• Crystal Key

• N’Galu’s Secrets Box x50

• Mad Bumblebuzz Wings x50

• Box of Excellent Elixirs

Small N’Galu's Secrets Pack

• N’Galu’s Secrets Box x30

• Mad Bumblebuzz Wings x25

Keep track of the promotional period on Royal Quest Online social media and in the in-game store!

Happy shopping!

*— Account Bound

Have you seen what Fire Roy alchemized? Under the blessing's influence, the chances of successfully improving equipment with Black, White, Red and Purple Philosopher's stones are increased.

The promotion will last until November 11th!

Have fun shopping!