Steam Next Fest has begun!

Steam Next Fest has begun! It's a week-long event hosted by Steam celebrating game demos, and the demo for Mari's Magical Deliveries is taking part in it!

We recently updated the demo for the Fall in Love Festival, so give it a try if you haven't already.

Our other otome game Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon is also part of the Steam Next Fest. Give its demo a try if you haven't already!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3072470/Crimson_Waves_on_the_Emerald_Sea_Amaranthine_Moon?snr=1_2108_9__2107

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Happy September! This month I've been working on a brand new demo build for Mari's Magical Deliveries, as the old one was lacking in a lot of the features and artwork for the final game.

This new demo showcases the new character artwork, various GUI improvements, and most importantly...

...the delivery mechanics! They're finally able to be seen in the demo. While the current demo doesn't allow you to customize which packages you want to take, the full game will allow you to pick and choose which to deliver - and in turn, which love interests you'll want to spend time with.

The map system also got an overhaul to be more readable.

Thank you everyone whochecked out the demo beforehand!

Next week we'll be in the Fall in Love Romance Visual Novel Festival, a festival dedicated to romance-themed visual novels! Be sure to check it out when it starts on September 24th~

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August has been a busy monththe Kickstarter for Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon is nearing the end and weve made a lot of progress across different games. Today I wanted to show some of that for Maris Magical Deliveries, a game jam proof of concept that were finishing this year.

Make Deliveries to Fall in Love

In Maris Magical Deliveries, you play as Mari, a college aged witch. The previous key arts all had Mari somewhat obscured, looking over the town, but the new key art shows her fully.

The plot revolves around Mari helping her fathers delivery business. He now has a brand new sprite, to better match the rest of the cast.

Youll get to pick which deliveries you make, with 3 of the return customers being her love interests. The delivery screen is almost done and this is what it looks like, with new character and icon artworks.

Meet Lots of Side Characters

Alongside delivering packages to potential love interests, theres a lot of side characters for Mari to meet as well! We showed off a few of the side characters in the previous May devlog on the game, so heres a couple more that have recently been worked on.

Theres still a couple more side characters to meet in the game, which well show off at a later date once theyre ready to be shown.

Be sure to wishlist the game here on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3563380/Maris_Magical_Deliveries

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Maris Magical Deliveries was a game demo released a couple of years ago for Ludum Dare, being a point-and-click otome game about a witch moving back home and reconnecting with 3 old friends. Since then, the game has been worked on in the background, with a new demo coming outnext week!


This new demo will including some GUI improvements as well as new art, like the brand new character art for Castor, one of the three love interests. More character art improvements will be in the full release!


There will also be a whole cast of side characters in the full game, such as these lovely girls, Kairina and Almyra! Kairina (left) is a part-time magician at the carnival while Almyra (right) is a vampire. Mari will make deliveries to the side characters, befriend them, and see how their lives intertwine with her love interests.


The full game will also have a delivery system, where you start off the day by picking which packages you want to deliver yourself (with Maris father delivering the rest) and spending time with love interests that way. Ill be able to share more info on this system down the line, but the base mechanics are currently almost done.

Writing for the full game is also being worked on, with some new scenes already drafted. The full game will be centered on individual scenes that progress overall plot points, with each of the love interests having different overall narratives from each other and depending on which packages you deliver (i.e. who you talk to).

A release date for the full game hasnt been decided yet, as Asphodelium will be our next release (June) with Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon being after that (late 2025), so were estimating late 2025 or early 2026.

If you want to support development, please give the game a wishlist on Steam! Every wishlist helps us out greatly.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3563380/Maris_Magical_Deliveries/
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