Widescreen support?

[Tralan]

Does this have proper widescreen support or is it streched? I have a feeling from the trailer that it is streched. When will devs get with the times?


Also STEAM CARDS.


Edit: Bought it anyway because it's so cheap and I want to support these sorts of games on Steam. Seriously though, widescreen monitors have been the standard for many years now. There is no reason not to support it except lazyness. Same goes for things like Borderless Windowed/Fullscreen, but that's another whole thread worth of complaining for another time.


Edit2: The game is pillarboxed, not streched. Still bad, not as terrible.

[Zodai]

RPG Maker doesn't actually support widescreen. It's more an engine issue than anything else.

[Hanako]

It's not an RPG Maker game. It is, however, five years old.

If Spiky ever does make a sequel I'm sure it would have better widescreen support (but I'll let him speak to that!) They're definitely the standard now.

[76561198083519567]

As Hanako says, *this* game is old enough that 4:3 monitors were still rather common.

Future *new* games we work on are likely to be widescreen or variable aspect ratio - probably variable, since there's no single standard aspect ratio that covers all widescreen modes and, while I'm fine with letterbox/pillarbox, I hate stretched/squashed video.

The next game we're working on (Black Closet) is widescreen and will probably wind up with the same general sort of variable aspect ratio support we have in Magical Diary.

After that, the next one (working title: Spaaaace) is currently 800x600 fixed-resolution, actually, though I'm aware that I'll need to use a much lower resolution if I want it to work on a lot of recent hardware. :)

(Trolling aside, it'll be resizable - that bit's just not in yet.)

[jimmydorry]

It would be nice if there was at least a way to maximise without stretching

[Hanako]

Whether or not it stretches depends on how your video card and monitor handle resizing really small things, iirc?