A small update, but hopefully a fun one: We've made some modifications to the online yearbook to improve the ability to easily share your characters on social media.

First off, we've added new link options for tumblr and mastodon, so that if you have accounts on those sites you can more easily auto-generate a link by clicking on the appropriate icon.

Second, we've tinkered with the page code to get it to create a more logical "preview" option on sites with link-previewing. The easy post options should now be able to correctly load character names and thumbnails for display. An example:



Both Magical Diary games are on discount this week, so this is a great time to share your characters with your friends and encourage them to join the madness!

Save 65% on Magical Diary: Horse Hall in the Steam Summer Sale Event:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/211340/Magical_Diary_Horse_Hall/

or save by purchasing it together with the companion Magical Diary: Wolf Hall in this bundle offer:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15611/Magical_Diary_Collection/

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Other recent releases:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1586960/Cute_Bite/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1743080/Night_Cascades/

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Our full library:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/2671/Hanako_Games_Collection/

Update notes:

Fixed a crash if you tried to cast spells while inside a square where Darkness had been cast.

Some changes to the way text is handled inside the dungeon. The textbox wraps differently if you're in widescreen mode, where it's no longer covered by the minimap. If text overflows the dungeon box, it now pushes itself up instead of down (to avoid text going off the screen and becoming unreadable.)

If you encounter any problems please report on the discussion thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/211340/discussions/0/3422185980119906214/

The end of 2021 is approaching! I hope you've all had at least a few good things happen to you this year, despite the struggles we've all faced. To celebrate the season, some bonus artwork featuring Corrinna from Magical Diary and the little vampire Buttercup from Cute Bite, decorating a tree together:



Artwork by crownxdoll

If you'd like to see more of Corrinna, she has a side route available in Magical Diary: Wolf Hall - and remember, there's a bonus discount option for buying the other Magical Diary game if you already own one!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15611/Magical_Diary_Collection/

As for Buttercup, you can find her along with all the rest of our catalog on sale until January 5, 2022

Happy Holidays!

Update notes:

Fixed a bug in the Valentines Planning diary entry (the entry was incorrectly formatted, and so would crash if you tried to read it.). The fix also works with old saves. I haven't seen any other reports of unreadable diary entries, but if there are any the fix may fix them as well.

Improved behaviour when switching between compact and widescreen modes - previously some of the UI would be messed up until you quit and restarted the game, now the buttons go to the right place immediately.

If you encounter any problems please report on the discussion thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/211340/discussions/0/3057364785111029618/

(Art of Barbara Solmoro from Snake Hall courtesy of Mitsou Parker)

Happy New Year! Here's to 2021 being better for everyone than 2020 was for most of us.

Today is the last day of the Steam Sale - have you picked up everything you wanted?

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/2671/Hanako_Games_Collection/

Damien wishes you a happy and safe holiday... after all, he needs to keep you around for later...


(Art by https://www.deviantart.com/pepper-n-bento )

Since Horse Hall came out many years ago, we're not really eligible for the Steam Awards. Wolf Hall, on the other hand, would definitely appreciate your support!

We've set up a bundle containing the two Magical Diary games, to make it easier to get both games if you already own one. (If there are future Magical Diary titles, they will be added to the same bundle.)

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15611/Magical_Diary_Collection/

As previously announced, we have now updated this game to run on a newer version of the Ren'Py engine. This was a big overhaul, and while we believe we have sorted out most problems by now, please do report any strange behavior that you encounter!

Old savegames should load and play without difficulties in the new build. However, you may need to reset your visual preferences (widescreen, etc) as some of the way this works was changed too drastically to carry over the old settings.

More information available in this discussion topic. Please post any bugs and questions there, so that we can more easily find and resolve them!

Now that this is hopefully working smoothly we can get back to planning the next update for Wolf Hall!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/974910/Magical_Diary_Wolf_Hall/

A major update is currently available for testing on the beta branch (to access it, right click the game in your steam library and select Properties, then tab over to Betas, then select the 'beta' option. No password is needed.)

This is a big update involving changing the underlying code engine, which affects the way the game behaves in many many little ways. We've fixed a lot of bugs already, but if you have the time and inclination to test, please have a look and let us know if you run into any weird behavior.

More information about the update in this discussion thread - please post bugs THERE and not HERE so we don't miss your feedback!

The update does not add new story content, just a lot of bug fixes and a link to because many players haven't yet noticed there's a second game out!