Would doing the sounds in .ogg format help at all? It may save up more space as well.
Trenton Matthews T Man TV! Why watch it, if you can "listen" to it! Web site: http://tman.net.ms Windows Live/MSN: <a href="http://tman.net.ms/msnim:[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a> Skype: <a href="skype:tmantv?add">Ad me to your Skype contacts!</a> By Phone: 303-872-7536 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:58 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Fw: mods for your games > Hi Jim, > Yes, the size issue is an issue for any game developer. I have about a > gig of space and a couple of gigs of bandwidth, and that is one of the > reasons I have decided to cut down the size of STFC 2.0 and Montezuma's > Revenge. Both games started out as 30 MB monsters, but now I am going to > shrink them to 20 MB or less. > One of the ways I did this was by adding Sapi and pulling out all of the > prerecorded speech files. The second is rather than going 44100 all the > way I am converting the effects to 22500 so that it has a smaller > footprint, saves space, and actually my load times have improved as well. > As far as pleasing everyone. You are right there. We can't please > everyone, but we can please ourselves and those around us who enjoy the > games as they are. > > Jim Kitchen wrote: >> Hi Thomas, >> >> Yeah people do give me lots of very good ideas for new features in games >> etc and I do implement many of them, but I do like to stick to my >> original plan for the game that I came up with and I do try to put out a >> good game. Of course no matter what you do, you can not ever please >> everyone. Of course I know that I do not use the highest quality sound >> files in my games. But you know I have 25 free windows games on my site. >> Say each one of them was 30 meg. That would be seven and a half Gig. >> There is no way that I could afford that kind of space and band width. >> You must know what that is like after you ran out of band width last >> month and they shut down your site. Truthfully it is frustrating when >> people expect or offer me huge high quality sound files and don't >> understand the fact that I can not afford that kind of cost to give out >> games for free and then just want to change what I have worked so hard to >> put out. I have to say though that I get lots and lots and lots of >> compliments and thanks for them as well. So it is all worth it to me. >> >> BFN >> >> Jim >> >> The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size >> bucket. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.kitchensinc.net >> (440) 286-6920 >> Chardon Ohio USA >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.14/1001 - Release Date: > 9/11/2007 1:37 PM > > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
