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Immortal Sins
5 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBUmKyc7XgU

Slimming down the game's size (with Opus)


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I’ve been doing some work in reducing the game’s space requirements. One of the ways I am achieving this in an upcoming update is converting the audio files from OGG Vorbis to Opus. Opus is more efficient than Vorbis in compression with minimal to almost no quality loss. So, I can have smaller audio files in the package while the audio quality is mostly preserved. That, alongside compressing other files.

At the moment, I am preparing a build that uses the new compressed files for testers. If you want to test it out and give feedback, either join my Discord ( https://discord.gg/immortalsins ), send me a Private Message or send me an email (head to http://scr.im/studioace to get my email address) with the subject line: “Immortal Sins - Tech Test Request”.

That is all for now. See you in the next post.

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