Patch tomorrow (Patreon)

Just stopping by to say I've just arrived home. I'll play through the entire game from the start a couple times, picking all possible choices - the purpose is to see all possible dialogue and narration at least once so I could place them. If I don't, the default placement of the speech bubbles will be somewhere offscreen which is not good. So I'll play it a couple times, make a few adjustments, etc. I'll also test out all the variables and other game elements I've added(there's a few of them) to see if nothing breaks the game....

Once that's done, I'll batch compress all images. Uncompressed for this patch alone is 10gb...so it's not really realistic not to compress. I wont compress it too much unlike the previous patch, I have an app that's quite good and quick. I'll try to keep it under 2GB for the patreon version. I'll also try to compress it as much as the previous patch for the itch.io version..

To give you a better picture

All images in Prologue+Chapter 1

uncompressed ~8GB (png)

compressed to ~500mb (webp)

What Im aiming is a bit higher quality when compressed

Chapter 2: Uncompressed ~10GB(png)

Compressed to ~1GB to  1.5GB (webp) - it would be extremely hard to tell the uncompressed and compressed versions apart, whereas the Chapter1 compressed version is very different from the uncompressed, I might release a better quality for that at a later date.

This way the total size for the game would be about 2+GB. I'll compress it further for itch - the same as the compression for Chapter 1. But I'll give the option to be able to download the bigger version at a later date for non patrons.

Anyway, I'll be back in a few hours with the patch for Gold patrons. I'll make it available for Silver and Bronze in 5 days instead of 7......See you.