[casual_games] app resolution

[dan chao]

coming from the traditional games industry, that's what I'm used to.  
however, since it's so low rez, my artist just prefers to pixel push the 
exact pixels.  ultimately, he might have to fix some of the downsampled 
versions since it gets blown up so large.

on the other hand, I'm not too worried about going up to the next 
resolution because I don't plan on rereleasing.  I mean, this is the 
casual games industry, right?  hehe

Donald Bahlman wrote:

> Hey Dan,
>
> I have a suggestion that may help.  What we do is build all Art assets 
> at a higher rez than what the market is accepting.  Then archive those 
> "master" images and down sample the game images to your target size.  
> You can always release at 640x480 then add a little marketing pizzazz 
> and re-release later at 800x600.
>
> In the case of GUI's, we make two slightly different versions to 
> handle the aspect ratios.  But again, we make them about twice the 
> target size then down sample.  The reasoning here is that the quality 
> of the market will eventually increase allowing for higher rez 
> images.  You can always go down in resolution, but you can't go up 
> without creating new Art assets.
>
> That's my two pixels worth. :-)
>
> Donald Bahlman, Founder/CEO
> xBlitz Entertainment
>
> www.xblitz.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "dan chao" <dchao at mastermindgames.net>
> To: "IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List" <casual_games at igda.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [casual_games] app resolution
>
>
>> I just downloaded plantasia from gamelab/playfirst and Heavy Weapon 
>> from Popcap.  I'm just trying to tell my artist what rez to do stuff 
>> in. plantasia and if I'm not mistaken, diner dash were both in 
>> 640x480.  so the audience is ok with 800x600 as long as d/l sizes 
>> don't get too big.
>>
>> Phil Steinmeyer wrote:
>>
>>> Where did you get that impression?  Download the top 10 games from 
>>> Real, and probably 7 out of 10 are at 800 x 600.  Those still 
>>> staying at 640 x 480 are either behind the times or trying to keep 
>>> their download size really small (smaller target-rez = smaller 
>>> source graphics = smaller files)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "dan chao" 
>>> <dchao at mastermindgames.net>
>>> To: "IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List" <casual_games at igda.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:21 PM
>>> Subject: [casual_games] app resolution
>>>
>>>
>>>> it seems to me all the games are still using 640x480.  any thoughts 
>>>> about the status quo going up to 800x600?  it'd be so nice, but I 
>>>> realize this isn't the industry to being pushing boundaries like that.
>>>>
>>>> dan
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