Despite the intensive work on the third episode, today’s main news is about updates to Episodes 1 and 2.
Most of the changes are fairly small, but over time a lot of them piled up. We had been gradually working on them for quite a while, and now we’ve finally rolled everything out.
— Improved several backgrounds. Most likely nobody will even notice.
— Added new character sprites. Mostly new poses and variations for existing scenes.
— Added new sprite animations. For example, drunk Lida now actually sways around.
— Added camera animation in some scenes to better emphasize important moments.
— Added smoke animations in several scenes. For example, above the shawarma stand and during the party scenes.
— Slightly redesigned the smartphone interface.
— Updated Ryzhik.
— Added new choice button backgrounds so they fit the overall visual style better.
— Reworked the beginning of Episode 2 and made the character switching more obvious, so players can better understand when they start playing as Lyoha.