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Help Me Decide, Fans!

I want my novels which will now all be Renpy to look as professional as possible.  Mars and I worked to copy over the Twine look as best we could, but since I won't be making the HTML versions any more, I am thinking, personally, that I want to mimic SB:C's look.

To explain before you decide/vote - In my HTML novels, it always irked me that I have such lovely 4k renders, but cannot even use the 1080 version of them.  I have to shrink everything down for Twine.  With SB:C, I felt liberated to see all my art the way I wanted to for years.  Also, Twine has a certain interface, and that was basically it- left menu, smaller art to the right, words at the bottom right.  Now, however, I can freely use the entire screen.

So, while I will be the one to make the decision, you folks that have been around for years know that I always listen to and respect the feedback of fans and investors.  Take a look at all three versions and then vote if you are an investor or talk to me here and tell me your opinion if you are a fan.  Thank you!


Option 1 - So, in this version version, the left menu (outside of a Mission/Monster Hunt) will be gone during the story bits.  The choices will slide off the screen with little tabs and when rolled over slide out.  I like this design I came up with because it is clean and it allows for full high def graphics like SB:C.

Option 2 - Mars suggested a middle ground of sorts where as you can see in the second picture, the left menu is still there, but the picture will go across all the space.  This will allow for slightly higher resolution, but not to the level of SB:C.  The left menu, to me, without it being in an HTML game anymore, takes up a lot of space that I think could be used for art, but this is an option.

Option 3 - Leave it like you see in the third pic, which is how it is now.  Similar to the HTML, but I feel personally that it is cluttered.  On my Twine versions, as you recall, you had a lot of space on the screen.  But, I could keep this way here, if it's the way folks like it.  It does me still using the lower resolution graphics for the art, however.

Ok, so if you are an investor-GO VOTE NOW at https://www.patreon.com/posts/65191958 for the version you like best.  And if you are a fan and not an investor, share your thoughts with me here.

Help Me Decide, Fans! Help Me Decide, Fans! Help Me Decide, Fans!

Comments

Well just to keep you and everyone else informed at the moment, option one is at 82% with option 3 being at only 4% of the votes. So it appears that the vast majority are going to want full screen 1080 pictures. Now, I should add that going forward I would just render everything always in a rectangle to begin with, but yes the older original pictures that are square will probably have to just be cut down, but I'll make sure to do as good a job as possible of course.

Anaximanes Entertainment™

I like the full picture in Option 3. But I will be happy with whatever you go with.

Richard L Oswalt


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