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Action bars, macros, game hints, embedded items for character bios, and much more!

The latest update to the game has added many new features meant to make the game easier to play, and making it easier for new players to understand what they can do and how.
Action bars and macros are two new powerful tools that allow players to customize their UI and create advanced interactions tailored to their specific playstyle.
Text formatting has also been improved and players are now able to embed items in their character bios and link items in chat.

Learn more about macros

Color support for character bios!

Backers with colored usernames can now decorate their character bios and roleplay details with the username colors available to them using the new [color] formatting syntax! In addition, backers have received a larger character limit for bios

Learn more about text formatting

1.0.3 Prepatch!

The latest update has improved the graphical user interface, added numerous quality-of-life improvements, text formatting support, and majorly improved speech impediment algorithms!

Read more about the update and text formatting on Discord

March backers receive a permanent character slot bonus

This month all backers Students and up will receive a permanent character slot on their Patreon or SubscribeStar account, and some of you may already have made good use of your extra character slot!

Learn more on Patreon

You can now wishlist Battle Mages: Erotica on Steam!

Battle Mages now has a Steam page! The game will continue to be a mobile-friendly browser game as well, so players can continue to enjoy it on the platforms they use now. Please consider adding the game to your wishlist to help the game build momentum on Steam.

We are now on SubscribeStar and Bluesky!

We now have a SubscribeStar page! If Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube, and Paypal among other sites have shown us anything over the years, it's that relying on any one platform is dangerous, in particular if you're an adult creator, so if you have a SubscribeStar account and don't like using Patreon, I hope you will consider becoming one of the game's first backers on the new platform, and you will get all the same rewards in-game and on Discord as Patreon backers do.

I am doing my utmost to make sure backers on both sides are treated equally, so anyone who supports the game on SubscribeStar will receive a bonus permanent stash tab for the rest of January, similar to the one Patreon backers receive.

And if you have a Bluesky account, please consider following me (NSFW) and Battle Mages (SFW) ❤️

Learn more on SubscribeStar

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

I hope you are all having a great last week of December and are having a great time with the latest update!

As a special Yule gift for backers this year, all backers Student and up will receive a permanent stash tab on their Patreon account for the rest of December and January.

This reward is similar to the cheeseburger in the game's webshop. Funding for the game is important for the game's development and the new webshop offers players a new way to support the game by tipping me a cheeseburger, sandwich, or bento box. In return they will get a food item in-game, which they can use to gain its benefits or trade with other players

Read more on Patreon

1.0.2 Prepatch!

The latest update is the most ambitious to date, with almost 200 new scenes, numerous sex toys added to the game, new spells, massive UI upgrades, hidden server restart, and many more changes and improvements you can read about on the game's Discord server!

Read more about the update on Discord

1.0.1 Prepatch!

Four new item sets have been added to the game and players are now able to trade items with vendors and other players! This includes through the new item market, where players can list items for purchase by other players through the website. All players have also received an account-wide stash for additional storage and moving items between characters on the same account.

Read more about the update on Discord

1.0.0 Prepatch!

This update meant having to dig deep into the foundation of the game and rewiring things that lead to the rewiring of other things in a long chain of ultimately unthreading everything I've been doing since I first started developing the game, and the good thing about this is that aside from a few hiccups in how things were reconnected, the game is in a fantastic state now, void of any bad decisions in the past! This also marks the end of the update-drought, and once I'm done hunting bugs I expect another update with more content already this month. In the meantime, please enjoy the many updated graphics for talismans, dyes, charms, candies, beads, soap, and more!

Read more about the update on Discord

New Teacher Sprites and Combat Overhaul!

With this update the game has received a major overhaul to PvP combat, in order to make the game more balanced and engaging for players! Spells can now be regenerated during encounters and the spell stat has been made viable for competitive combat; combat has been made faster and recovering from combat has been made easier; Mind health now acts as a shield that protects body health, in order to make it easier to invest into health stats; Lust, a new type of health and status has been introduced to the game.
Furthermore, all teachers have gotten a visual upgrade and the Ward now has a background, meaning there are no more missing backgrounds in the game!

Read more about the update on Discord

Inanimate Transformations are finally here!

Players who have the inanimate tag enabled are now able to turn each other into inanimate forms! How this works, is that a player will be able to transform another downed player into an item at the end of an encounter. What forms are available will be determined by the traits and nature of the target, meaning you have to consider how you transform your opponent in order to get the item you want!

Read more about Inanimate Transformations on Discord

Update 0.22.0 is now LIVE

Happy Halloween every! —and please enjoy these new items for the year's most scary holiday!

Update 0.21.0 is now LIVE

This is a very naughty update, introducing not only the first sex toys to the game (of a particularly anal nature) but also a line of dom-themed clothes for players to enjoy!

Update 0.20.4 is now LIVE

This update is one of the biggest in the game's lifetime, adding a new skill with an associated class and spell school, the ability to change other player's clothing, support for multiple characters, a collection of the spells, traits, and many other things you have discovered while playing, a background for the library location, a few new items, and many more additions and changes!

Added summer clothes to the game!

Six new summer-themed items have been added to the game, which will be available during the summer months June, July, and August, whether it's in-game time or according to the real-life calendar, giving you plenty of opportunities to grab a bikini or swimming trunks before heading to the beach or pool!

Update 0.19 is now LIVE

You can now write a brief description for your account and detailed bios for your characters and share them with players in-game or with the world wide web, if you allow it! Character bios also come with a special feature where you can allow other players to submit revisions for your bio and history entries with highlighted changes to help keep track of changes between roleplaying sessions!

See Tinon's Profile

Update 0.18 is now LIVE

The Bone Charm has been added to the game, a powerful item that is used to afflict items with harmful effects! Beware when you pick up strange clothes scattered throughout campus, as these may have been hexed by other students! In the next update, we will look at making the conjuration school of magic available to players so you can conjure hexes directly onto your opponents!

Update 0.17 is now LIVE

You can now look for players to roleplay with using the latest Looking for Roleplay feautre! Similar to Looking for Group in other games, this feature provides players with an intuitive way to find other players with common interests to play. The game has also seen a massive overhaul to how in-game time progresses. For instance, you no longer have to wait for the turn update to change location, attend a class, or regenerate health and actions!

Happy New Year!

Thank you for another fantastic year! I am humbled by the support and interest the game has received in the past year, and I hope to live up to your expectations in the next! I have a number of ideas for improving the game and expect we'll see inanimate forms, trading, fortune cards, support for multiple characters, and more in the new year! —Happy New Year everyone!

Update 0.16 is now LIVE

Yule has returned to the academy and Hilda has prepared a number of new tricks that she will teach students that bring her holiday decorations. One is a number of new collars and other bondage wears and another is to inflict new varieties of speech impediments! This update also introduces a new backer-exclusive feature that allows item sprites to be displayed in the item's actual color!

Update 0.15 is now LIVE

A new faculty member has joined the academy: Please welcome Svanhildr, or Hilda for short! She's the faculty nurse and for Halloween, she's dressed up in a sexy outfit! Seek her out if you need help with spell effects you can't treat yourself! The update also introduces 7 new items that are only available over the weekend or whenever it's Halloween in-game!

Update 0.14 is now LIVE

The game has been expanded with a staggering 40 new items to discover around campus, including a French maid outfit and a cheerleader uniform! The update also includes a massive overhaul to PvP combat; the largest change to combat since the game was released!

Update 0.13 is now LIVE

The latest update has introduced three new polymorph spells to the game together with three other similar spells that allow you to give characters mythical traits, such as halos and demon wings! A matchmaking system has also been implemented, which pairs players according to their interests and power, and prevents players from running into players on their ignore list. This is sure to make player encounters more enjoyable!

A Modern Fantasy Visual Novel, where your choices shape the personality of your character!

The artist who drew the player avatars, Lacey, Chloe, and Merrill for Battle Mage Royal has launched a Kickstarter for a Roleplay Visual Novel today. She has been pinnacle in the early formation of BMR and I hope you will take a look at their Kickstarter and support and/or share it. It's quite a lot more share-friendly than Battle Mage Royal is!

You can find the Kickstarter here!

If you're still suffering from overflowing cups, someone in the arboretum may be willing to help you out!

The latest content update is now live, introducing a new NPC encounter to the game, new clothes, an overhauled inventory system and improved controls among many other improvements to the game that makes playing it and RP much more intuitive!

Cups are overflowing at the academy, and it's spreading!

Aren't breasts lovely? They are soft, bouncy, curvy, and with the latest update they can also be creamy and bountiful! What comes around, goes around, and what goes around the school is sure to make students a lot more productive! You can read the full update on our Discord server.

Speech impediments and new clothes

The latest update overhauls speech impediments and introduces a variety of new ways to impair people's ability to speak! It also introduces new clothes, colors, and better ways to dye clothes in a particular color.

Content patch 0.9 has been released!

Meet up with friends around the campus and even in the dormitory, try out the first mind alteration spell that allows you to change the name of characters, take advantage of the new second wind system that makes it easier to invest in health and action stats, customize your experience with the new game settings menu and enable the roleplaying tag to let other players know that you are interested!

Yule is here!

The new Yule seasonal event is now live! During this event, you will be able to find gifts while you explore that can have special holiday-themed contents. The event comes with new outfits, spells, and traits that will be available until the 30th of December, after which the event will return next year and every time the in-game calendar is between December 1st and December 30th. Happy holidays everyone!

Upcoming Yule event

Happy 1st of December! I've finished working out all the most interfering bugs and errors in the game, and will now start to work on an ingame event for the holidays. Meanwhile, I would like to thank everyone who have played the game for your time and your help. Without you, the game would've never gotten this far, and I am grateful. The event will be themed around the holidays and giving, and I expect it will be out around mid December.

A party is coming to the academy and the theme is School Girls!

The next update is set to launch this weekend, where it will introduce a number of new pieces of clothing to the game, loosely themed around school girl uniforms! There will also be some classy new clothes for the boys, and of cause, a bunch of new spells as well. The most anticipated of these I expect to be ways of turning students into love dolls, both of both a real doll and blow-up doll variety.

Primary and secondary enchants

The patch will introduce a slightly more complex system for enchantments where magical properties are divided into primary and secondary properties, with a slot for each on equipment items. The power of each property will be reduced as to not inflate the power on items, and all existing enchanted items will have a random property of the same tier assigned to its empty slot on release. The crafting recipes have also seen a change that will allow for the use of different currencies for different situations. For instance, you will be able to use Blood Moons to reroll the magical properties of an Occult item, while ensuring one property. Splitting magical properties into different pools has also made crafting specific properties cheaper.

Content patch 0.6.0 Live

The latest update is the most ambitious to date, introducing a new teacher, a new course, two new classes, and numerous other things to discover! New spells have been added that allow you to change the magical properties of items more predictably, and give yourself or other students animal traits.

What can you expect to see from the game this summer?

The next update will introduce a new teacher and course to the school that will allow you more control over how you change your equipment, but at the cost of more materials. The update will also introduce a number of new spells and related character qualities to the game for players to discover in addition to enchantment recipes. Finally, I have made many improvements to the server and game client code to hopefully fix all persistent errors that have existed since the release of the game! The update is set to be released mid July, until then I wish everyone a great summer!

Content patch 0.5.0 Live

A total of 36 enchantments, 21 color varieties, and 21 accessory varieties have been added for customizing your wardrobe. The update also introduces 10 new items to discover, stackable items, and an overhaul to the loot system. See the full update notes on our Discord server.

Chromatic Dye

The next content patch will introduce a new item that can be used to change the color of your equipment. There is a total of 21 possible colors and some of them are more rare than others, such as the special Invisible color. For now it is simply a cosmetic thing for roleplaying, but in the future it is planned to influence NPC reactions.

Stacking items

Been working on making some items stackable for the next content patch, seeing as it will introduce even more fun items to the game, and players should be able to carry several at a time without it taking up all their inventory space.

Content patch 0.4.0 Live

The new update brings four new backgrounds by Ink to the game together with three new item types and ten now items split between them. The update also adds new spells and qualities to the game. See the full update notes on our Discord server.

New items coming with 0.4.0

I have been working on some new item types for the game. These wrapped candies will reveal a random candy when unwrapped. I wonder if they are okay to eat?

Content patch 0.2.2 is now live!

The latest content patch is now live! With this patch you will be able to withdraw and recarnate characters, PvP combat has received a large overhaul, you can engage in sex with other players, and much more! You can see the full patch notes on our Discord server.

Upcoming content

Today I ironed out the last bits of changes to the game required for the new combat system. With the upcoming patch you will be able to have sex with a defeated opponent, and to finish it up I will be writing some enticing sex acts for you to engage in. Sap Body and Sap Mind have also been changed to no longer require a spell action to make it much easier for players to defeat each other. The image shows a sketch for the arboretum location.

Not so fast!

With the next update escaping an opponent will require an action and will no longer be instant! The time it takes to flee is influenced by your character's dexterity, and will take between 5 to 20 seconds. This change is the first step towards implementing a deeper and more exciting combat system!

Servers are now stable!

After a gallon of coffee and too little sleep, I have finally managed to iron out most bugs, and all critical bugs known to me. The servers seem to be stable, and players should see their characters getting stuck a lot less. Thank you everyone who reported on issues, it is very appreciated and helped a lot! And thank you everyone for being patient.

Alpha release on TF Games Site

The incredible amount of traffic coming from TF Games Site is causing some hiccups on the backend, and I am doing everything in my power to resolve these problems with the least amount of downtime possible. I hope the game is still enjoyable, if a little unstable!

Please join the discussion here!

Items are here, accompanied by backgrounds for the dorm room!

After the better part of a month I have managed to finish up the minimal system required to roll out items for the game! Characters have been cleared so everyone can make new ones that enroll at the school clothed, rather than naked. There are no good ways to obtain new items yet, so don't go and throw away what you got, unless you insist on being naked!

What's on the horizon?

The game is now ready for its alpha release, though I am postponing the release in favor of having more content ready for it. In the meantime, I am working on an item system for the game that will make the base for exploration and more interesting spells. This system probably won't be ready for the alpha release, but it is coming along nicely!

Skills are here together with two classes to attend

Players can now attend Mind Alteration and Transfiguration classes to learn the first skill in each class. Classes are held during morning and afternoon hours Monday to Friday in-game. The character database was cleared together with rolling out this update, so people can make new characters if they want. This will probably be the last time I do this, and I expect to implement a better way of retiring characters in the near future. A new contributor section has also been added to the website home page. Please see the section if you are interested in helping the development of the game.

Skills are coming to Battle Mage

Over the holidays I set up a new testing environment, so that the live version of the game would remain more stable going forward. On the test server I have finished implementing a system for handling player skills, which are permanent traits that are earned by attending classes, and unlike qualities, skills are hidden to other players. Skills will be rolled out together with two initial courses and a bunch of system improvements.

Happy Holidays!

Today I opened a discussion thread for the game at TF Games Site. Please join the discussion, and thank you for your interest in the game!

Discussion Thread

Fixing up the codebase

I have been back for a while now, fixing some mistakes in the way some server-site game logic was implemented that makes expanding on game content difficult. I hope to have more and better story content out soon, but right now I am just happy to be back on the project!

Vacation and upcoming content

There will be a longer wait for the next content update, as I've been using my vacation together with friends and family, and I expect to use more time on jobs. When I have the time, I will author some classroom scenarios for the game, which will introduce teachers into the game world.

Graphical assets by inksGirls

Spells can now cause long lasting effects on their victims, and thanks to inksGirls we have some great graphics for the current character qualities. Players are now able to inspect their own and other's characters, where they can see their stats and qualities, among other things.

Voice chat is now enabled at all times, so you can see what your character says with different voice commands without having to be in a location with another player. Your character's nature, stats, and some qualities affect how they talk.

Check out inksGirls on DeviantArt

Combat and spell casting taking form

Spells are coming to the game, giving life to combat and character customization. The basics are in place, allowing players to weaken their own and other's body and mind. Spells, body, and mind will replenish while in your room. More advanced and flavorful effects are being worked on.

Finished writing first prologues

Yesterday I finished writing the two first prologues for the game. One is a tutorial prologue which every player will get on their first character. The other is a short prologue players will get if their character doesn't have any particular background. When fortune cards are implemented, there will be some which change your character's prologue.

The tutorial prologue has been started for all existing characters, so everyone can have a chance to experience it. The prologue will start playing the next time you enter the game.

Feel Like a Gift

Yesterday I re-released my old game, Feel Like a Gift, on this domain. This has resulted in a lot of traffic to this site, and new accounts to be created for Battle Mage Royal. Thank you! Please bear in mind that the game is in early alpha, and was not meant for public release yet. A lot of features and content is missing, and the game may be broken at times due to continuous development on the live site.

An error which caused email confirmation to fail has been fixed. I am sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Link to the game

Social menu and messages

The social menu has been implemented. With this menu players can manage friends and ignored users. Through this menu players can also keep track of characters they have recently encountered. Players can also communicate through private messages now, so you can keep in touch with friends and acquaintances in the game.

Local chat

Players who occupy the same location are now able to communicate. There is a local chat window where the two players can send messages to each other. In addition to the local chat, players can also speak in-game through their character. Players select what their character says from a list of options. The options available and how their character speaks it is affected by the character's nature, qualities, and stats.

Realtime multiplayer

Over the last couple of months I've been setting up the app that will be handling player interactions within the game. Previously the game used a completely turn based system, but that has been changed to a realtime architecture where players receive feedback immediately. The most basic interactions are now in place, allowing players to move around the campus, attend classes, and explore locations. It is also possible for players to encounter one another while moving around campus.

Hiatus and improved website design

Because I've been finishing my studies, found a job at a game development company, and my private life took a full 360 degree turn from a bad break up to a new relationship, the project has been mostly on hold during the past year. But now I am back and I have given the website a new and improved look!

Players can now interact with the game world

Finished implementing and testing actions today. Players can now properly queue actions which will be computed at the end of each turn, and the response feedback will be given accordingly. Player's are now also able to move around in the game!

Character assets

A friend of mine has donated 10 character appearances for the game! With them players can now select a gender and nature for their character in the game.

Logo and new yearbook design

I finished a logo for the game today! The logo is the one you can see in the website banner, and the badge behind the text is also used in other places of the website, and as an ornament for the new yearbook cover.

Happy Holidays!

I recently acquired this domain and have started sending out links to a few people. I just want to thank every who reads this text for their interest and feedback!