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17th November, 2008 at 09:37:34 -

Let's say I was making a really good game, something along the lines of The Spirit Engine and Dwarf Fortress. The data arrays seem to be taking a lot of space, about 1 MB for the heavy ones, with some others probably taking 200 KB each. If I have a lot of items for the game, it could bloat up to 100-500 MB. But due to compression, the download size will only stay about 10-40 MB.

So.. would it be fine to have a 500 MB file on your desktop if the download size isn't very big? I could make the file size smaller, but that'll hurt the save compatibility for future versions and would slightly reduce modding capability.

 
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17th November, 2008 at 09:53:11 -

I won't download a 500Mb file but I don't mind it if it takes up that much space after unzipping. I'll probably delete it within a week or two anyway.

 
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17th November, 2008 at 12:56:54 -

I don't mind any kind of file size and I've only got 250gb internal+300gb external+60gb external (but fullish) at the mo. My biggest filesize would be a H264 rip of LotR, they're all banging around the 2gb size. I don't see the problem with a 500mb file on the desktop but normally I just chuck klik games onto my 60gb external.

 
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17th November, 2008 at 20:00:44 -

Please... people on this website bitch about downloading anything over 20MB much less over 100MB. It all depends on who you're hosting with though, I mean I don't mind space being used up on my hard drive since it's not there long, but I'm not waiting an hour to download someones game. It all depends on how fast I can download it.

 
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17th November, 2008 at 20:12:34 -


Originally Posted by BrandonC
but I'm not waiting an hour to download someones game. It all depends on how fast I can download it.



Wow. I'm glad I can say, even on a 1.5mbps connection, that I'll wait any time for a good game to download. I mean I don't turn my Mac off until I go bed and downloads don't use up any memory, any CPU and doesn't affect disk performance.
Hmm.

Edit: Didn't you pirate Spore, bet that must have been a long download. http://www.create-games.com/forum_post.asp?id=229679&show=all

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17th November, 2008 at 20:27:34 -

I'm pretty sure downloads do use up resources. Yeah, negligible amounts of CPU and such but the computer does actually... do stuff.

Btw Muz i would download any file size so long as the game didn't look crap.

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17th November, 2008 at 22:13:17 -


Originally Posted by Dr. James

Originally Posted by BrandonC
but I'm not waiting an hour to download someones game. It all depends on how fast I can download it.



Wow. I'm glad I can say, even on a 1.5mbps connection, that I'll wait any time for a good game to download. I mean I don't turn my Mac off until I go bed and downloads don't use up any memory, any CPU and doesn't affect disk performance.
Hmm.

Edit: Didn't you pirate Spore, bet that must have been a long download. http://www.create-games.com/forum_post.asp?id=229679&show=all

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Spore. *Snicker*

Anyway. I wasn't talking about in general. I meant Click games. 98% of all Click games would not be worth downloading if they took any longer then an hour. Honestly. Now games from members like Shroomlock, where they have a decent track record of making quality games. Or games with high ratings, impressive descriptions, and/or interesting screenshots. Naturally those games will get a little more leniency with download times. I'm not downloading a breakout clone whose graphics were made in MSPaint, if it'll take longer then an hour. In fact, I might not give it even 5 minutes. It varies greatly, but in general, klik games don't deserve an hour.

 
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17th November, 2008 at 22:13:46 -

Under the latest Firefox on XP it does seem to dance between 0-2% CPU usage, less than the 5% usage when just doing regular web browsing.
Doesn't use any %age under Safari on my PowerBook. And since the download speed is a hell of a lot less than even IDE HDD connections it doesn't cause any drive slowdown.

 
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17th November, 2008 at 22:44:46 -


Originally Posted by BrandonC
Please... people on this website bitch about downloading anything over 20MB much less over 100MB. It all depends on who you're hosting with though, I mean I don't mind space being used up on my hard drive since it's not there long, but I'm not waiting an hour to download someones game. It all depends on how fast I can download it.



hes not talking about download size its disk usage.

"But due to compression, the download size will only stay about 10-40 MB."



 
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17th November, 2008 at 22:53:14 -

It's pretty pathetic to refuse to download a game because it takes up too much disk space.
If that is the case however, delete some damn porn!

 
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25th November, 2008 at 10:28:27 -

the bigger the better

 
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25th November, 2008 at 17:26:50 -

So long the game is good, I'd download up to 7, 8 gb.

 
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25th November, 2008 at 19:11:10 -

I usually make a point to keep my game's file sizes down. None of them have ever been more than 4mb lol

 
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