gorgeously written, artistically cohesive, i absolutely loved the snark and play between the characters and it did a phenomenal job of creating its own little world. but. great googly moogly 832 mb???? i cannot fuck a new hole into my ancient laptops storage to make room for this one like i do other favorites, but i would if i could. i guess all things are fleeting. thank you so much for sharing,
HAHA thank you so much and yeah the file size is insane, this was after converting all the gifs so webp because previously I couldn't even upload to itch bc 1GB file limit but the kicker is that the biggest problem is just the final act's 2 wibbling water animations that previously were 1GB combined.
the issue is that water animations in anything are astoundingly enormous! I'm not sure of the technical details but the engine I used (Tuesday js) has rare animated image support, and the animated bg has to be a image file and not a movie file because the text boxes can't be superimposed upon a movie file like they can upon an image file.
tl;dr the 2 animated bgs of heartbreak and wibbling at the end singlehandedly bloated the file because I wanted to make them wet meow and wet ouppy
THE IMPACT IS IMPRESSIVE!! but I'm also thinking about trying to release the web build zip? I... think you can just extract n open the index file??? but I'm not sure it'll make a difference in terms of storage size. or self-hosting the web build? I have no idea...my files too fucken fat.
if it helps (?) I'm trying to do some remaining optimization edits and upload a playthrough video you could keep in a browser bookmark or archive since it's kinetic anyway.
(I definitely feel the same way of wanting to save your fave games on an ancient grandpa laptop... however this one too fucken fat!!)
anyway, thanks much!! 🙏
omg you are so ok! i was not upset, i commented to let you know i loved it and the filesize made me laugh. i left out the part that ive been solving the space issue by putting as much crap as possible on cd's (found a spindle of like 100 of them for a couple bucks and became insane recently). this has an added bonus of being able to hand games and music i like to friends, but they have a 700mb cap, which is when i noticed the file size. in my head since ive been like hmm maybe i could figure out a way to split the last act off onto a disc 2. this is of course not a solution for anyone without these specific parameters, and not a problem most people will have in 2026. i dont think anyone who isnt like literally in the process of breaking an archive into 700mb chunks is gonna be too twisted, and now that ive made some room theres plenty of room for it now to be occasionally rediscovered in the future. thank you again for sharing and for the correspondence ✨