Reduced game size! (Patreon)

Hello, honourable people!

I love Saturday mornings!

I get up early usually. And while my family is sleeping, I turn on the PC and work on the game without any pressure.

This morning I made my coffee and decided to continue coding. However, before that, I wanted to spend some five minutes to look what can I do with the game size.

As you know, some time ago, I made my compression of the game. I changed the picture format from jpg to webp. But it caused two things I did not like. 1st this conversion affected the quality of images. I know some say my renders are mediocre. But still, I hate decreasing the quality of pictures. 2nd, as images were different formats, it could cause issues with the code and the older versions incompatible with the update patches. So I abandoned the compression and stuck to releasing update patches instead.

But this did not solve the problem for new players. The size of the complete game was enormous. So without having any expectations, I decided to see what I could do. And yes! I found out that for a long time, I have had a tool that allows me to decrease the size of images by 2-3 times without compromising the quality and changing the file format! So now, instead of 7GB of the full-size game, I have 3GB with the same quality! There are some benefits of being partially unemployed :) The rush in life can sometimes make you blind.

In case you wish to download the small-size game, here it is:

Update v1.1 (448MB for use with the complete set of the previous versions)

WIN full v1.1 (3GB)

MAC full v1.1 (3GB)

I know it is still pretty much, but you need to download it just once. In future, you would need just the little update patches.

And I am thinking of adding a new start/bridge to the next update for those who wish to change their choices but do not want to replay the game. It would also unlock the scene gallery.

P.S. The image above is from the new navigation events.

Regards,

Nemiegs