Hello!

Before I talk about what I did in this update, I'll preface this by saying that this was a purely technical update! Cool as it would have been for me to release more days this early in development, I am unfortunately not capable of such feats.

That being said, the technical change that came with this update was (at least in my opinion), pretty significant - by changing some of the file formats used to store images and sound effects, I was able to shrink Solstice Eve's file size from ~300 megabytes to ~80 megabytes! At the end of the day this mostly affects web players, but this should make the game much quicker to download for everyone.

Beyond that, I do have a question I'd like to raise for everyone reading this - would people prefer I release quicker, but smaller builds, or longer builds? Since build 1 was going to be peoples' first introduction to the story, I wanted to ensure that it functioned as a cohesive narrative on its own, and that it ended with a satisfying plot development between Cantor and Darwin - I'm now wondering whether I should ensure that future builds also end on similarly satisfying / "big" moments, or if I should focus more on keeping the story going without there being too long of a break between releases  - especially since I fear that updates that are over 10k words might be a bit too overwhelming for players.

With that in mind, I'd like to hear what others have to say - so if you've got opinions on the matter, feel free to share them in the comments of this post!