"Split" the ZIP files for WIN/MAC games?

A topic by fintopiccante created Apr 30, 2017 Views: 465 Replies: 7

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Hello everybody, and sorry for the "stupid" (maybe?) question!

The rules of the jam say that the developers who want to create a WIN/MAC game must upload the files in a single ZIP, but we are currently making a game that is quite heavy (we use a lot of images, videos and so on...): it would be perfect if we could simply divide the executables in two different ZIPs with the same game!
Is this a sort of "infringement" of the rules?
Thank you very much in advance!!! :D

MD CyberBatSubmitted7 years ago

i think they mean have the game itelf in a single zip. you can do both in one if you want but id recommend having a win one and a mac one.

fintopiccanteSubmitted7 years ago(+1)

PERFECT!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR REPLY! :D

Melancholy MarionetteSubmitted7 years ago

See, this worries me, because mine is almost 800MB for Windows and it will be uploaded as a single ZIP file to MEGA and Google Drive and linked on the page... but I can't directly upload it to itch.io because of the 500MB limit T_T I'm confuzzled!

MD CyberBatSubmitted7 years ago (1 edit)

did you make sure to optimize your assets. it sounds to me like you used uncompressed images and sounds for everything.

Melancholy MarionetteSubmitted7 years ago

I wouldn't know tbh, I'm not all that savvy! T_T haha. I used WEBM and OGV for videos, OGG for BGMs and SFX.... It is just a demo for a really big project though so it's not like I could just stop working on it and leave it in a weird state where a random route was only half finished or something T_T

MD CyberBatSubmitted7 years ago

Oh I didnt know you used videos in yours, not much can be done about that.

Melancholy MarionetteSubmitted7 years ago(+1)

I see, I probably should've made a special version without video stuff then >.< I'm a complete noob haha,it wouldn't have surprised me if you'd told me I'd got it all terribly wrong! Haha.

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"Split" the ZIP files for WIN/MAC games?