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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Spore. *Snicker*
