Blur or small? (Patreon)
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When we started working on FET we chose a resolution of 1000 x 720 Even back then that was very limited. However, we were planning for four books and had no real idea how big that would make the game so we were very conservative when picking a resolution. When drawing I try not to draw too small because very little of it remains when I have to resize the original files to 1000x720.
If you play FET in a window, and render at it's native resolution, it's images are generally sharp but very small. I usual play in a slightly enlarged window. But this makes the graphics slightly blurry. Full screen is very blurry.
I always figured I couldn't do anything about this "past sin" and we were stuck with it. However, I've come up with a trick yesterday to use larger resolution characters within our limited native resolution of 1000 x 720. This means the blurriness would be gone even if you go full screen and use 1920×1080 pixels.
This is something I'd have to add manually for each scene and is not a quick fix. Old scenes would still be blurry, but I can start using my "hack" for scenes you haven't seen yet. And perhaps if I ever have the time, older scenes as well.
It would make scenes slightly more difficult for me to create and take me a bit more time. And the file sizes would grow. I estimate a scene worth about 2 Mb in data would become twice that amount. also it will still show big fat black bars on the side of the screen if you go full screen(that's here to stay no matter what).
Besides that... there might be something I'm missing right now which could become a problem. But still... there's quite a striking difference if you play the game in full screen. In windowed mode it would look the same as it is now.
Here's a quick example of a full screen depiction. Left Opal is using my new thingamajiggum and the right Opal is how she' d look without my "trick" at full screen. You might have to look at it yourself on full screen to see the difference. I'll add it in the attachments,maybe that way it'll be easier to see, but you can right mouse click on the pic below, choose view image and click once again to enlarge it.
Despite the disadvantages, I'm leaning towards starting to convert the unseen scenes into their higher res equivalents, but I'm still not entirely certain so I'd like some feedback from you guys to help me decide. I'm adding a poll below. Of course if you have something to say which the poll doesn't cover, go right for it.