Visit the Steam store page for either Magical Diary: Wolf Hall or Magical Diary: Horse Hall and select the 'Magical Diary Collection BUNDLE' offer - you can buy both games together or, if you already own one, you can pick up the other at a discount.

The game has been updated to a new version, which fixes a number of small bugs and adds some new spell responses as well as a new solution for exam 2. The most obvious is a fix for the Blind spell, which was not wearing off correctly at the end of its duration previously.

For more information on all the changes visit the changelog thread here.

Please post feedback and bug reports on the discussion forums so Spiky can see them! (Comments after announcements are harder to search for.)

If you DO encounter problems, please let us know right away so we can look into them! Instructions for switching back to an older version if necessary are posted in the forum thread.

Thanks, and hope you're enjoying the Summer Sale! (This game, along with the rest of our catalog, can be found on discount in our collection:

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

We've just put out another patch on the main branch (so it should be updating by default for players). This includes a lot of bugfixes, typoes, and a few new lines of dialog, but the major difference that people are likely to notice is the removal of the "Dismiss" button from the dungeon textbox.

To give a vague technical explanation, the 'Dismiss' button was designed to hide the textbox immediately, including if you'd rolled way back in the text to look at previous events, where the 'Next' button was designed to move forward to the next line of text/code. This meant that it was possible to Dismiss the textbox even if there was new feedback text you hadn't read yet (because it was on the next page!) and also that Dismissing the textbox would not immediately trigger the next event. Since the 'Dismiss' button was so convenient, most people clicked it all the time - missing some text and ending up with dungeon screens that looked 'stuck' briefly until they clicked a second time to trigger what was actually supposed to happen Next.

Basically, using Next instead should lead to a smoother dungeon gameplay experience for everyone, but it may be briefly confusing for current players because the button you're used to clicking on isn't there anymore. Click Next!

This may be adjusted further as we see how it plays out.

For more information on what's been added to the game recently, check out the Changelog thread on the discussion forums: https://steamcommunity.com/app/974910/discussions/0/4052614347228391098/

Please let us know if you run into any difficulties. You can always check what version of the game you're currently running by looking at the lower left-hand corner of the game title screen.

Cards have now been enabled and should be dropping - considering the length of the game those of you who've been playing already will probably get all your cards at once.

As well as cards featuring the main route characters, we have an emoticon set featuring badges for the six different halls.



For those who have been asking about the lyrics to the song that plays over the credits, I've asked our musician to add them to the video description of the song on youtube, so you can find those by going through below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64-s_jnKaxE

We're giving away sets of stickers featuring the cast of the game in chibi format:



These are physical sticker sheets which will be mailed out anywhere in the world to winners.

To enter, retweet this message announcing the game and the contest!

Entries accepted until midnight (GMT) on February 23rd (Sunday).


The sticker characters are:
Professor Potsdam
Professor Grabiner
Barbara Solmoro
Damien Ramsey
Ellen Middleton
Luke Phifer
Manuel Arias
Minnie Cochran
Raven Darkstar
Suki Sato
William Danson

Almost a year after the kickstarter completed, we are now available on Steam, with a 15% discount for launch week!



We are also running a twitter giveaway contest for a set of cute chibi stickers from the kickstarter merchandise. For details and to enter, please go to:
https://twitter.com/diary_magical/status/1229496330902482945

This is a big and complicated game and there are guaranteed to be more updates in the future (we will be adding a bonus endgame dungeon later!) We hope you enjoy exploring our magical school!

In preparation for launch, we have updated the demo version of the game to use the latest code, including new options for the character creation screen, some added interface hints, and the bonus wand for Horse Hall players.



If you've previously played the demo, you don't need to play it again! The additions are small and really just to improve the experience for newcomers.

Professor Potsdam reporting in to let you know that we have been cleared for Steam launch and are planning to unveil the full game on Monday, February 17!

For those who haven't been following in the beta, this is a pretty huge adventure. Over 400,000 words (the equivalent of SEVERAL books, though you won't see them all in a single runthrough.) Eight first-person-dungeon challenges, and an array of practice dungeons to prepare for them. Five major pursuable-character routes (three female, two male). Seven side character routes (five female, two male). Adjustable PC personality traits that will change your dialog as you go. Different clubs you can join, or not, as you choose. There's SO MUCH to see and do, and we are looking forward to letting you all loose inside it!

(The old Kickstarter demo will be updated at some point as well, I'll post another announcement when that happens.)

A big thank-you to anyone who came by the Magical Diary: Wolf Hall table at this year's AdventureX conference in the British Library!

I hope you enjoyed what you got to play of the game and scored a cute chibi sticker of your favorite character in the process.

This game is actively in development!

The Kickstarter was successful. The in-progress game is available to people who backed at beta-access level or above. More content is being patched in as it is written.

We do not intend to do an Early Access period on Steam. The game will be available here when it is complete.

In the meantime, if you are interested in following the updates as new content is released, you can find the developer log on itch.io here:

https://hanakogames.itch.io/magical-diary-wolf-hall/devlog