Comments on: Download Size http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/ Phil Steinmeyer's rumblings on the game biz, programming, and life Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:23:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: anime game download http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-166828 anime game download Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:07:28 +0000 http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-166828 <strong>anime game download...</strong> Sounds interesting but not for every one.... anime game download…

Sounds interesting but not for every one….

]]> By: ac http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-842 ac Wed, 03 May 2006 19:43:41 +0000 http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-842 (the few days work includes learning and research) A tracker pro would do it in no time obviously. (the few days work includes learning and research)

A tracker pro would do it in no time obviously.

]]> By: ac http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-840 ac Wed, 03 May 2006 19:41:16 +0000 http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-840 Seems my comment was eaten somehow. Summary: Best size/quality/effort compromise is to do the song as usual, chop the invidual tracks repeated parts into samples and embed a tracker type sample playback engine to play these. With minimal effort you'll get 1/2 size and with few days work a 1/10 size of ogg is within reach. I don't have a name of free embeddable tracker engine on hand right now but fifteen minutes at wikipedia will certainly yield few. Seems my comment was eaten somehow.

Summary:

Best size/quality/effort compromise is to do the song as usual, chop the invidual tracks repeated parts into samples and embed a tracker type sample playback engine to play these.

With minimal effort you’ll get 1/2 size and with few days work a 1/10 size of ogg is within reach.

I don’t have a name of free embeddable tracker engine on hand right now but fifteen minutes at wikipedia will certainly yield few.

]]> By: ac http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-839 ac Wed, 03 May 2006 19:38:06 +0000 http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-839 For music there are many ways (though slightly more involved) to achieve For music there are many ways (though slightly more involved) to achieve

]]> By: Phil Steinmeyer http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-834 Phil Steinmeyer Wed, 03 May 2006 15:04:35 +0000 http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-834 Broadband users can more easily 'graze'. With 3-10 new casual games per week, they can download most or all of them, and get their gaming thrills from the 60 minute trial of each - that's 3-10 hours of gaming a week - more than enough for some folks. Modem users can't graze so readily. At 40 Kbps (~ effective rate for a 56K modem user), it takes about half an hour to download a 10MB game. That's a lot more time spent waiting for downloads as opposed to playing, and incentivizes the modem user to buy rather than rely on 60 minute trials. Broadband users can more easily ‘graze’. With 3-10 new casual games per week, they can download most or all of them, and get their gaming thrills from the 60 minute trial of each - that’s 3-10 hours of gaming a week - more than enough for some folks.

Modem users can’t graze so readily. At 40 Kbps (~ effective rate for a 56K modem user), it takes about half an hour to download a 10MB game. That’s a lot more time spent waiting for downloads as opposed to playing, and incentivizes the modem user to buy rather than rely on 60 minute trials.

]]> By: kim pallister http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-827 kim pallister Wed, 03 May 2006 06:10:59 +0000 http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-827 >presumably because modem users don’t sample as many different games Perhaps another way of saying the same thing would be: presumably because the modem user pool has a higher percentage of people that have already made a decision to buy the game. i.e. You've culled a bunch of the 'whimsical trial' folks that you'd find on broadband. >presumably because modem users don’t sample as many different games

Perhaps another way of saying the same thing would be: presumably because the modem user pool has a higher percentage of people that have already made a decision to buy the game. i.e. You’ve culled a bunch of the ‘whimsical trial’ folks that you’d find on broadband.

]]> By: Pag http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-821 Pag Wed, 03 May 2006 00:24:57 +0000 http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/98/download-size/#comment-821 It's funny how perceptions change depending on what platform you're on. People working on consoles would scoff at the idea of making a game that takes less than a few hundred megabytes. You're working on a casual game on PC and you feel 10 megabytes is the lower limit. I'm working on mobile games and I jumped for joy when my executive producer told me we could use up to 300 KB for the game. It's all relative :) It’s funny how perceptions change depending on what platform you’re on. People working on consoles would scoff at the idea of making a game that takes less than a few hundred megabytes. You’re working on a casual game on PC and you feel 10 megabytes is the lower limit. I’m working on mobile games and I jumped for joy when my executive producer told me we could use up to 300 KB for the game. It’s all relative :)

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