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Well, time to talk a little bit about the next update. Unlike the updates that have taken place so far, the next update will be a little bigger (I plan on do one of these from time to time, and this one will be the first).
But first I would like to comment on something. As I have mentioned several times here in this thread, I take the feedback I get from you players very seriously. I don't mind being criticized, and in most cases I find it extremely positive. And it's thanks to these criticisms that I'm managing to improve the content of my game little by little. So the next update will be focused on improving some points that have been discussed in the past, and which I believe will help the game quite lot over time.
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Main points of the next update:
- I'm redoing the entire GUI. I've already started on this part, and I'm currently aiming for a very clean interface. The result is being quite positive, and I believe it will make a good difference in the end.
- I plan to increase the game's resolution from 1280 x 720 to 1600 x 900. I'd like to go with 1920 x 1080, but my computer can't handle animations at that resolution, so I'll go with something in between these two resolutions (this change will be easy to do since I already have the images rendered in 900p, so I won't need to render them again).
- I'm going to remove some 'redundant' images from the game. In almost every event in the game, I rendered too many expression variations. With the game on a low resolution this wouldn't be a problem, but now that I plan to increase the resolution I will need to remove some of these images.
- The next update will have some events focused on improving the game's story. At first I just wanted to make a simple game, without much focus on the story. But I've noticed that a lot of people really like it when a game has a well-crafted story, so I plan to make some improvements in that regard.
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I'll make a few more changes, but those are the main parts of the next update. I'm just leaving this note because I like to be very clear about what I'm working on at the moment regarding the game. I think it's really important to communicate this kind of thing with the community. Anyway, I believe this update will take a little longer than the others, probably somewhere around two weeks, maybe a little longer — but nothing out of the ordinary, as I have a lot of these things already organized.
I would also like to thank everyone who played the game and posted some kind of feedback here in the thread. You guys are awesome! o/