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Return of the Tentacle

Sequel to the Point&Click-Adventure "Day of the Tentacle" · By catmic, pepper-mint-audio

file size

A topic by insomniac_lemon created Jul 22, 2018 Views: 1,461 Replies: 7
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Why is this 1 GB? I'm having trouble downloading... which is partially the fault of my connection, but it's also an issue with the server as well (particularly because the download goes into 'forbidden' status blocking download resumption, and because I cannot use a download manager--like jdownloader--to download this game from itch because of the download being behind javascript).

I'm not sure if it's uncompressed audio or if all of the art is HD bitmaps (rather than vector or upscaled+filtered pixel art) but a smaller file size would be nice. If the issue is that you're using bitmaps and you can't change that, GPU compression might be a possible solution.

Developer(+1)

Hi insomniac_lemon ! It's one GB because there are several thousand lines recorded in two languages, 4k backgrounds and a very complex set of music files  mimicking the way iMuse works but for wave files. Everything is compressed a lot and all the character animations actually are vector graphics. Also, there are some video files in FullHD. Smaller sizes would decrease the quality considerably.

It could be an issue with the itch server. However, most people reported download times from 2-10 minutes, which we think is quite good.

Maybe you should try getting the game via the itch.io application, which should be able to resume broken downloads

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How much of the size is from the voice lines? If it is a significant size, perhaps doing a seperate download for each language would make sense.

I get that doubling the amount of downloads would be a bit messy... if your setup allows separate data and executables (like Godot and I believe Unity do... also ren'py if you count that) perhaps you could do multiplatform downloads (the executables in the zip would have their platform in the name), so you'd have 2 downloads (English and German, I'm assuming) instead of the current 4 (that cover both languages but are per-platform).

Also I don't know if it applies to your speech files (forgive me if it doesn't), but the Opus codec seems interesting for decent sound (particularly voice, not sure about music) at low cost.

I'm not sure how much of your art is touched up or redone/new, but some areas have that wobbly look like you used an upscale as a base (similar to how the official "remaster" did). Using in-game filtering or or going full vector would likely also be more scalable, particularly if you're not fully saturating the detail of 4K anyways (but you could still get smoothness+sharpness out of it). Yeah, probably too late now even it something like that was an option, but I've always preferred scalable/dynamic formats particularly for their value.

Developer(+1)

Unfortunately, seperate content builds are not feaseable with our current project setup. Yes, we love the opus codec, but it is not supported by Unity. The art has been entirely created by our artist from scratch without any upscaling filters applied to preexisting art.

Concerning your connection issues, you really should give the itch.io app or another download manager a try because it will allow you to resume incomplete downloads. We think this is the best way to deal with these kind of issues. On top of that, you will get automatic updates if you use the itch app.

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Wow insomniac_lemon

It is year 2018. and you are bitchin about file size of 1GB?
That is all you have to say about this game? File size?
People are terrible...

By the way good job guys!

"That is all you have to say about this game?" Yes, because I haven't been able to download it. It is current year, but I live in a somewhat rural part of the US so I only have 1 choice of ISP for wired broadband, so price and reliability leaves much to be desired especially compared to other countries... no fiber for me.

I'm sure it is great, but it's also 10x larger than the original. I've played the original, and I don't think the graphics or audio was completely unbearable. However, modern technology and techniques mean much more can be done with much less. So that's all I was saying.

Developer
By the way good job guys!

Thank you so much!

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Thanks for this game, I look forward to playing it!

Can you please also set up a torrent file for faster download?
Thanks!