SIZE PROBLEMS

Asymptoteell

I am currently making a game that I am, at best, one tenth of the way through, but my size already says 85.6 MB. What should I do?

gyroscope

Asymptoteell said:
I am currently making a game that I am, at best, one tenth of the way through, but my size already says 85.6 MB. What should I do?

Scream!

Seriously, that's totally crazy for one tenth. There's a post recently about deleting screenshots, that'll help a bit. (Posted recently in the last day or two, sure you'll find it). Make all sounds mono where possible, 128kbps ogg; see if you can get away with 8bit PNGs wherever possible (especially if they are not many colours +no transparency); can't think of anything else at the moment but I'm sure other forum members will chime in. Is your game the War and Peace of the gaming world? ;-)

Asymptoteell

So far just an intro (about 3 minutes) and a few minutes worth of gameplay.

gyroscope

I'm wondering if your intro contains animation sequences. Perhaps try cutting the fps if yours is a bit high; it can be surprising how low a rate you can get away with, especially if you're using flat colour graphics; that would save a lot.

Asymptoteell

I do have several animations with several hundred pictures. I'll try changing the fps.

gyroscope

Hope it helps, Asymptoteell. Another thought I had: 3 minutes seems an incredibly long time for a game intro. I can't remember seeing that long for intros or cutscenes even on major Playstation games! Maybe the intro can be edited, made to be a bit sharper, snappier and still get the story across? You could lose more than half of it that way, I'm certain.

Asymptoteell

Good idea

JohnPapiomitis

i agree with gyro. The cutscenes in black ops and halo reach unless your reaching a major point arent even longer then 2 and a half minutes. And that is extremely large. Does it even run on the device?

Asymptoteell

I'm putting it into the viewer and the breakdown keeps changing, but most is always in the Other category. What does that mean?