Post by Dethmunk in Title screen graphics

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That's fair comment. Given the size of these games I doubt we're looking at huge Gigabytes of file here though (are we?). I wouldn't worry about it too much. Unless you've just created a monster of an adventure, in which case that sounds very interesting. ;-) For instance my adventure which is almost done weights in at a merge 1.78mb (its got a fair number of locations, masses of scenery objects and items and text and a new font and loading screen), which would take all of 5 seconds to download if that. ;-)

edit: Having said that I realise people have differing download rates, I have a whopping 196 mb/s download, while others have just 2 mb/s but even then this should take only seconds to download.

Adventuron5 years ago

Even though adventuron is technically 1.5mb, Html in modern browsers is now served gzipped, which means the engine compressed is about 370k. In addition, return visits are cached so no download, and JavaScript is only compiled the first visit them the compiled version is reloaded from the cache too. Should be quick even on slow mobile connections.

Dethmunk5 years ago

Very cool. Either way we shouldn't worry too much about memory size. Unless its some super descriptive adventure with a large number of locations and tons of high resolution graphics. ;)

Garry Francis5 years ago

And the editor seems to get really slow when you have lots of assets. Or is that just my imagination?

Adventuron5 years ago

The editor gets slower with more assets, but you really need a lot to make it properly slow these days ( I sped it up by a factor of 20x recently). I can optimize it a lot more, but like I said in the jam notes, I'm aiming not to add a lot of features at this point in time. You really don't need a lot of assets in a text only jam.

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