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I'm happy to announce that despite some setbacks (illness being a prominent one), I did manage to get v0.9 done on time. So here it is:
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This update focuses on improving what's already there instead of adding new content. I was in a bit of a rush during the development of v0.1 last year, which meant that some images where not even close to the graphical quality that I'd like them to be. I have wanted to fix that for a while now because the images that are of a somewhat poor quality are encountered early in the game (some even right from the start) and I felt that they would make a very poor first impression on new players.
So in what areas have the images improved and how many have been replaced? The grand total came to 64 images (I doubled the amount of new images that v0.9 would have received if I had added new content to it, which I felt was a fair compromise), most of which are from the afore mentioned v0.1 of the game. All of them have had the noise in the image reduced significantly, which will immediately make a big improvement. But a lot of them have also had slight tweaks to their lighting and some have had their entire lighting setup redone from stretch. With the lighting tweaks I focused on those images that had areas that were too bright or too dark or where the contrast was poor.
Here is a brief overview of what images were replaced:
- 20 images of the introduction of the game where Madam Irene hires you
- 13 images related to training activities such as the sauna, skinny dipping and the gym
- 2 images from Roxanne's storyline
- 1 image for Shirley's storyline
- 28 images related to jobs such as the freedom pool, the pizzeria, the reception and the high wave beach hut
There are still a lot of images that I would like to replace, so I will probably do another of these updates sometime in the future. But that probably won't be for a while, as I'd like to get back to finishing up Roxanne's and Shirley's storylines now.
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