[casual_games] Market Penetration of Flash 7?

[Austin Haas]

If anything, your game will run better on PC!  We use OSX and Linux 
also, but we keep a PC (necessary evil) to test.

A couple things to watch out for:

If you do your animations on a Mac, then they might run faster than 
you'd expect. Where I worked we always had the latest Macs, and whenever 
an animator would deliver files, they would check it out on PC, and 
ALWAYS say that it was running too fast. Macs generally run at least 3+ 
frames per second slower than PC. I've heard this will be fixed for 
Flash 8 on OSX, but I don't know for sure.

If you test on Linux, sometimes sound effects create problems. After a 
sound plays your movie might "hiccup." Button clicks might not hit their 
target, or not register at all. I have to switch the sounds off until I 
am ready to test on PC.

Otherwise, I have never seen any other issue of cross-compatibility.

-austin


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.
>