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V03.5R update

Hearts on Parole
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Android

Hello everyone! So this might be a bit long winded, but there are major changes a foot, so it's warranted. Firstly, I ran a poll in both my patreon and discord to judge if I should render everything in a higher resolution which unfortunately causes a slower update, or if I should keep the same resolution and have a faster update. Pretty ubiquitously, the higher resolution won. Personally, I think this is the way to go for a number of reasons, mainly being the flexibility it provides. I can easily render at 4k now, and while I know most folk don't have a 4k monitor, it's a lot easier to take away pixels than it is to add them. This means what I could do in the future is drop different quality builds of the game for people with different monitors and capabilties. Secondly, and as you're about to see, there have been some major updates and changes to the cast. Some are pretty drastic and were necessary, and everyone has been updated to a higher quality shader profile which in studio will allow for better renders. All of this combined means every single render has to be redone. Will it take time? Yes. Will it be a big pay off? Yes. Naturally the cast will some get some touch ups along the way, but nothing to this degree. I appreciate your patience and hope you enjoy what's to come. Stay strapped and have a cheeki breeki day- Magnum

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