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Medicine Man wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 04, 2018 12:06 pm

Shakedown: Hawaii the Retro City Rampage follow-up gets a new trailer out of PAX...

To be super clear, there are no new levels, no new characters, no new battle royale deathmatch mode. This is just a gentle remastering we did for fun.

The framework has been replaced. This is the thing that draws all the graphics onto your screen, and sends all the audio to your speakers, etc. This means the Win / Mac / Linux version should work on modern computers again without freaking out, and you can run the game on modern displays at whatever resolution you want.

Game now runs at a hi-def widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio by default. The original ran at a squarer 4:3 ratio.

Resolution of graphics is doubled. The original game ran at 800×600, and the tiny graphic files didn’t scale to huge monitors very gracefully. We used a few different high quality upscaling tools to start, and then went over each image by hand, tweaking each image further as needed. In a few lucky cases, we still had the original source files and were able to use those. But if you still really want the original flavor, there’s a setting to use the original graphics, also included with the game.

Fabulous joke about looking good in hi-def has remained unchanged.

Brought over graphical and UI improvements from releases on other platforms, like Nintendo Switch.

No more encrypted assets or save files. We hope this makes the game more open and friendly to mod.

The config.user.txt file is now located wherever your save file is stored. So no more editing that file in your Program Files folder. It has a bunch of new config vars exposed as well.

We’ll be updating the game everywhere Win / Mac / Linux versions are available in the next few days.

Sly Boots wrote: ↑

Tue May 07, 2019 10:35 pm

Collectible card game / RPG / tactical turn-based battler / choose your own adventure type game Trials of Fire just entered Early Access:



RPS liked it:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/0 ... ss-review/

Only £12 and sounds like it's right up my alley, think I'll pick this one up.

DjchunKfunK wrote: ↑

Wed May 08, 2019 3:51 pm

I might wait until it's been released.

Sly Boots wrote: ↑

Wed May 08, 2019 4:47 pm

DjchunKfunK wrote: ↑

Wed May 08, 2019 3:51 pm

I might wait until it's been released.

It's already very polished and didn't notice any bugs so far, from what I gather the EA period is mostly about adding additional content, playable characters and the like.

I mainly bought it now after getting burned by the Fell Seal price increase!