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Full UI Upscaling, Part 1: History and Theory

By Kyzrati | Published: January 2, 2024

A long time in coming, but here we go! This marks the beginning of what will be the most significant undertaking in Cogmind’s UI development history: making everything bigger. Not just the map, for which zooming was recently implemented as a toggleable option, but all the text as well. This will be fun since I […]

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