Was the file size limit a problem?

[BeyondCloister]

As we approach the dying hours of OMG, I was wondering how many developers did find the 20 MB file size limit a problem in the end.

[dfmoore]

There's always more that you want to add... and it did get a little tight.. but really, the core goodness of a game can usually be expressed in <20 (well, <40, compressed in half!)

cheers, and good luck to everyone ( =

[willThimbleby]

Masses and masses of room to spare. Tracktor Beam is about 1.5Mb compressed. I actually killed the music because it made the compressed file eight times the size, and I wasn't convinced by the track. I'm still looking for music if anyone has any good ideas.

[MattDiamond]

I used Unity and added 3 (short) Ogg Vorbis music tracks, and the compressed dmg still only came to about 9 meg. So no complaints here.

(If I'd had a real artist helping me we could have added a few more meg pretty easily, so I'm glad the old 10 MB limit was raised.)

[OneSadCookie]

even at its largest, Outnumbered with 6MB of music and a 1.3MB (universal) binary never broke 11MB. By compressing the music better and stripping the executable I was able to get the size down even further (it's now 7MB total).

So, 10MB would have felt a little tight, but would have worked out OK. 20MB was no restriction at all.

[Oblivion]

Still don't know how could you fill all those MBs, mine is currently 100Kbytes and contains some duplicate code :)

[Shunter]

I had to put my music in .wav format because I couldn't get it in ogg :( (using BlitzMax) So I could only fir one song in. Other than that, it was all fine

[aarku]

I had to put my music in .wav format because I couldn't get it in ogg :( (using BlitzMax) So I could only fir one song in. Other than that, it was all fine
Did you ask anyone for help with that? I know there are some BlitzMax entries that use ogg music, and I'm sure the authors and other people on the forum would have been willing to help.

-Jon

[Carlos Camacho]

Glad to see we made the right decision with the 20MB limit (also goo for the bandwidth ;) )

Cheers,

[Shunter]

Did you ask anyone for help with that?

No, I had a friend on it so I thought I would be ok ;) But as it turns out I guess I should have :(

[Najdorf]

Argh, I placed second as of minimum filesize (750 k), beaten by Evol's second entry >:(

[Leisure Suit Lurie]

Did you ask anyone for help with that? I know there are some BlitzMax entries that use ogg music, and I'm sure the authors and other people on the forum would have been willing to help.

-Jon

My entry uses ogg (courtesy of aarku.) Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net) can convert to and from ogg for you.

Actually, the music is half the filesize, and I only got up to 5 MBs. When voting starts, I think I'll pad it with 15MBs of invisible files. :p

[Shunter]

Hey, thanks
No need no trust in anybody else any more :p

[aarku]

Hey, thanks
No need no trust in anybody else any more :p

The issue was just converting it to the ogg format? Check out this page, then: http://www.vorbis.com/software/#macosx . I thought you were having trouble playing an ogg from within BlitzMax, my mistake.

[BeyondCloister]

It would be interesting to compare comments in this thread with the thread discussing the size limit before the contest started.

[whogben]

I expect Escort Wing to grow to around 16 mb during the voting period :D

[BeyondCloister]

I have just spent the last hour downloading all the entries.

It is interesting to note that out of the 36 games only 5 would have run into problems if the file size limit had been left at 10 MB. This hints that there was a lot of fuss over nothing during the file size debate ;)

[whogben]

Sounds similar to a doctor saying: "I went through all this trouble washing my hands before surgery, but only 5 in 36 patients would have been infected if I hadn't! What a waste of my effort."