Ideal Size(MB) for Game for iPhone and iPad

TimeTime Member Posts: 113
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What is the largest GameSalad can handle in terms of size? I'm going to have a lot of animations in my game and was just wondering so I could change things up and adjust it. For both the iPad and iPhone!

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  • MeaningfulGamesMeaningfulGames Member, PRO Posts: 171
    Animation in gamesalad is just a set of pngs, and gamesalad file sizes really just come from pngs. I'd say about 50MB before GS starts lagging out for me. You should check out GS's own creation "Be the Spark!" it has some pretty cool effects in there, a very professional and well done game.
  • zzap64zzap64 Member Posts: 405
    My app is 165meg with resolution independence, it was initially slow between scene transitions then I reduced it to one scene and it works fine. There are many other factors that contribute to speed tho.
  • IsabelleKIsabelleK Member, Sous Chef Posts: 2,807
    edited November 2012
    Most of my best selling games are above 300 MB, so I think the size of game is not important :)
  • The_Gamesalad_GuruThe_Gamesalad_Guru Member Posts: 9,922
    I think the download limit for an iPhone over a cell connection is 50mb if your game is bigger than that it needs to be downloaded via wifi. iPad I wouldn't be so concerned as most are usually wifi connected.

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  • famekraftsfamekrafts Member, BASIC Posts: 834
    My iPad game is going over 100 mb, mainly because of backgrounds with retina resolution even after optimising with imageoptim.
  • TimeTime Member Posts: 113
    Thanks guys! @FryingBaconStudios, not exactly what I meant but thanks for the information, it was much needed!
  • ApexApex Member, PRO Posts: 56
    The size of animation of my background is 40 MB. And I will have 3 another different background animations. Is it OK ??
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