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I've had a lot of feedback about the recent graphical changes to Cherry Chaser. One of the first one star reviews that I received after the update was titled "New Graphics Suck!". Another said that "they look like they were drawn on the back of a beer mat and scanned by a ZX81". This and the accompanying one star rating felt a bit harsh.
I understand that there are a number of players who prefer the old style graphics and I can see some charm in the more amateurish "retro style" graphics. A few have asked to have the old graphics available in the game as a selectable alternative. I will try to explain my position why I won't be providing this option.
Although the old graphics had charm, they were also inhibiting the number of downloads of the game. Since improving the quality of the graphics the number of downloads has improved significantly. They particularly make a difference on tablet devices where the old graphics did not look good at all.
Unfortunately including the old graphics as a skin is not easy or desirable for a couple of reasons.
The first reason is that Cherry Chaser was not programmed in a fashion that made skinning very easy. I wrote it when I was learning programming on Android and its subsequent success came quite unexpectedly. I did not design it as well as I would now and changing the layout is difficult. Including a second skin in the game would take a lot of work for not a lot of benefit.
The second reason is that I try to keep the download and memory footprint of Cherry Chaser as small as possible. Graphics take up a lot of space and including an alternate set of graphics would increase the memory footprint of the game more than I would find comfortable.
If you are one of those people that prefer the old version of the game let me know and I will send you a link where you can download the old version.
I understand that there are a number of players who prefer the old style graphics and I can see some charm in the more amateurish "retro style" graphics. A few have asked to have the old graphics available in the game as a selectable alternative. I will try to explain my position why I won't be providing this option.
Although the old graphics had charm, they were also inhibiting the number of downloads of the game. Since improving the quality of the graphics the number of downloads has improved significantly. They particularly make a difference on tablet devices where the old graphics did not look good at all.
Unfortunately including the old graphics as a skin is not easy or desirable for a couple of reasons.
The first reason is that Cherry Chaser was not programmed in a fashion that made skinning very easy. I wrote it when I was learning programming on Android and its subsequent success came quite unexpectedly. I did not design it as well as I would now and changing the layout is difficult. Including a second skin in the game would take a lot of work for not a lot of benefit.
The second reason is that I try to keep the download and memory footprint of Cherry Chaser as small as possible. Graphics take up a lot of space and including an alternate set of graphics would increase the memory footprint of the game more than I would find comfortable.
If you are one of those people that prefer the old version of the game let me know and I will send you a link where you can download the old version.
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