Love Sucks: Night Two News

[p]We've upgraded the game from 720p to 1440p. We originally built 720 for Newgrounds and for file size but now we're more focussed on Steam (our game is too big for Newgrounds now) we no longer have that limitation. 720p by todays standards is small, and really doesn't do Aila's art justice when made full screen on the most common screen resolutions. We knew that if we wanted the game to look its best, we would need to increase the resolution, and we couldn't do that for N3 without doing it for N1 and N2 as well, because they all use the same project file. While we had some doubts on if looks would improve with a larger size, we will tell you that really, really it has. Aila's artwork has sharp improvements and lets you see the smallest details she put in.[/p][p][/p][p] With this, nearly every animation in the game had to be converted as well, as well as a few new animations put in. There aren't any inclusions of new scenes, but while sorting through Aila's artwork, we found variations that have been there for years and she never told us about. So there are some new pictures and improvements. No major changes, but now the game looks much better on larger screens. [/p][p][/p][p]Doubling the resolution meant having to re-save all of the games assets from all our previous work, redo some math, and in some cases, remake some kitbashed assets. This was pretty tedious task, but was ultimately necessary and worth it for the game going forward. For today, that means that Love Sucks Night One and Two look better than ever. Enjoy![/p][p][/p][p] Old saves should still work. If they do not please let us know asap on our Discord.[/p][p][/p][p]Some Improvements:[/p][p]- Background on the Nursing scene![/p][p]- Light effect improvements on the nursing scene![/p][p]- Theo's eyes move around during the mirror scene![/p][p]- Some Naomi and Theo interaction pictures after the fight![/p][p]- Anna's hair piece is behind the picture as intended in D&D![/p][p]- Fixed chase at the kissing booth![/p][p]- Some spelling errors![/p][p]- New minor animation tweaks![/p][p]- Inclusion of more new Naomi faces! She's got a mad face now if you'll believe it![/p]

[p]Shortest patch notes ever this time :D[/p]

• [p]We fucked up an animation that breaks the game. Whoops, sorry.[/p]
• [p]We un-fucked it![/p]

[p][/p][p]That's it for now! Thank you as always for everything you guys do to support Love Sucks.[/p]

I'm clicking the button! I don't know how long it takes them to go into effect, but Steam's documentation makes it sound like it should be instant.

It's been a real blast doing all of this. Finding out we're eligible to do this made us really proud, and truly thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the engagement, reviews, downloads, and everything else that let us do this!

Just for a reminder from our last post, here's what we've got!

• 5 Steam trading cards!
  
  • Collect them all and turn them in on Steam for a nice badge! Or just sell the cards!
• 6 profile badges!
  
  • There are five levels of badges, each with a different badge. Collect the foil badge to become an Honorary Nimrod, yippie!
• 9 chat emoticons!
  
  • Do people use these? Well, you'll have 'em!
• 12 profile backgrounds!
  
  • These were a huge pain in the ass to get approved! Do what you want with them! Collect them, set them as your background, print them out, and mail them to all your friends, the choice is yours.

Now, go out there and collect! Send me a screenshot on Discord if you earn the foil badge, I'd love to see the collection of all the things! I'll even give the first person a copy of the art book :D

It's taken way longer than it should have to get this going. We've had the cards and the content for a while, but getting through Steam's approval process took a while! We had to make a bunch of changes because the art was simply too spicy.

But it looks like we're finally going to be good to launch this time, and Night Two's community items will arrive on Wednesday!

So what are we gonna have?

• 5 Steam trading cards!
  
  • Collect them all and turn them in on Steam for a nice badge! Or just sell the cards!
• 6 profile badges!
  
  • There are five levels of badges, each with a different badge. Collect the foil badge to become an Honorary Nimrod, yippie!
• 9 chat emoticons!
  
  • Do people use these? Well, you'll have 'em!
• 12 profile backgrounds!
  
  • These were a huge pain in the ass to get approved! Do what you want with them! Collect them, set them as your background, print them out, and mail them to all your friends, the choice is yours.

From today, up until all this stuff goes live, I'll post three of the backgrounds each day, just on Patreon, too!

I don't know if it's as exciting to you as it is to us, but getting trading cards feels like a big deal, and we're very happy about it. Also, since these are launching after the release of the game, anyone who WOULD have gotten trading cards should automatically just get them immediately, yay!

-Fixed a lot of spelling errors
-Added Night Three wishlisting link to main page
-Added a bit of content we didn't get in before. Two additional pictures of the girls offering drinks at the end of the party

Thank you everyone for a lovely launch week!