[casual_games] Market Penetration of Flash 7?

[Hal Barwood]

Hello, casual guys:

In my experience both Mac and Windows machines do pretty well with Flash 
Player 7 (don't go for anything earlier, is my advice).  That's not a 
big deal, but the subtly different way Mac and Windows treat color & 
grey scales is noticeable, so watch out:  if you develop on a Mac, the 
95% of your audience that will play on Windows will see more contrast 
and darker colors (roughly speaking).

Hal

Morbus Iff wrote:
>> You might not touch a Win machine but 93% of your market will. Unless of
>> course you weren't planning on selling the game in which case you can
> 
> 
> Yeah, that I have no doubt over - when the time comes, I'll do some 
> testing on a Win32 OS (I've got Windows XP running through VPC on OS X), 
> but I'm not going to worry about it now (from what I've seen on seven 
> different OS X/Linux machines running varying versions of 7 and 8, there 
> are no differences, so I can't imagine [famous last words] why it'd be 
> too entirely different on a Flash 7/8 on Win32). But, no, I'm not 
> planning on selling the game, per se - users will be able to micropay 
> (literally - 25 cents a pop) their way through additional game content 
> (or, play once a day for a few years to get it trickled out to them via 
> dedication), but that'll be entirely optional.
>