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Day 28, there a lot of things added to the game. One is not ready yet. But I'm gonna talk about brand new struggle that quickly eliminated, but waste almost if not more than an hour of my time (also plus some few things) 

Here's the gif, low in quality, but still understandable. 


I'm gonna explaining the quick scene.

1. Redesigned UI on the upper left

2. New technically enemy, it shoots bullet to left and right whenever it detects the player, it can detect as far as the room. 

3. Remember that stairs that didn't work out? It because it is technically a slope, and look closely and you see a slope at the floor, so what happen? It because the player slides on it, its not really what I want, I tried a solution it doesn't work. Turns out there is a obvious solution, stop_on_slope = true (yes, it is real :| )

Now that's done, let's talk about that thing shall we, though this not really important, so you can skip it and done reading. 

Now the gif might looks bad, or even unwatchable for some, but I have no choice :(

You see, itch io can only hold images with the size of only 3 MB max, this includes GIF and MP4. So I convert the mp4 to gif which can be smaller, simple enough right? Yes, but... 

My usual converter usually reduce the mp4 to a gif below the limit  but now not only the gif increase the size above the limit, but the gif is now double the size of the mp4 (12 MB for a short 6 MB video) which is small but with limit of 3 MB, the size is like infinity and beyond.

And oh boy it confuse me effectively. I try convert with the other one, but it still doubles. Reduce the length of the video, reduce it a tiny tiny bit. I finally gave up and search a new one and thankfully I found one that not only can convert but can cut the video much more easier.

But the gif is barely above 3 MB, so I need to reduce quality and cut the footage a little. And now we're here, with a 2.9 MB gif, with the length of 7 or 6 seconds (yes, that short), that is the phewest phew I ever have. 

I want to thank that converter so much (not sponsor), or else I post this tomorrow. And I think it because of bad internet that cause it to double. 

Now that's all people, goodbye and see you tomorrow (Great, Now I have bad feelings that the size will be triple)