Howdy!

Some people have called me a perfectionist before. I strongly disagree, there's many, many, many errors and shortcomings in both my works and life that I don't perfect due to my own limits. But that's what a perfectionist would say, wouldn't it?

Anyway, the thing that bugged me about KTTD the most was how terrible the web version was. Often, images and sounds would have a strong delay. It's really infuriating considering most people won't download the game (which I can't blame them for, even I'm too lazy to boot my local copy when I show KTTD my friends), especially mobile users who can’t even play the original YTTD. It’s not that bad, sure, but I couldn’t stop wondering why none of my attempts at fixing it had worked so far.

Patch 0.3 addresses this issue. I go into more details in separate post, but the short version is that I created a plugin to preload most image assets before they are needed. This means that if you have a good internet connection (and the host server likes you), there should be no more wrong images loaded.

However, this system also still has its flaws. Slow internet connections will continue to struggle playing the game, especially at the very last section where a lot of character sprites are loaded. Also, audio files still aren’t preloaded, so they continue to have a guarantee to lag if they haven’t been used before. I could cry all day.

This version also comes with other small text changes that aren’t really worth mentioning. And, finally, you can use the keyboard to enter numbers into the number input field. How cool is that? I can’t believe this isn’t a base feature of MZ.

And…that’s about it. Oh yeah, and the dot no longer plays the text sound. Be ready for some really uncomfortable, ambience-inducing moments of quiet 😊