[casual_games] Recommended game dimensions for online games

[Austin Haas]

In my experience, very few Flash games are 100% vector. Our games are almost entirely bitmaps. The latest versions of Flash are seem to be expanding the bitmap API, while the vector API is pretty stagnant.

-austin

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Austin Haas
Pet Tomato, Inc.
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On Mon Jun 18 13:13 , Todd Sawicki wrote:

> Whenever having flash games developed for me I always used 640x480.

> It's essentially \the standard and since flash is vector it will scale

> to 800x600 and beyond.  

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> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Andy Makely

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> On 6/11/07, Paul Steven <paul_steven at btinternet.com> wrote:

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> 	Are there any recommendations for the dimensions of online

> games?

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> By "online", I presume you mean Flash games, and not downloadable

> network games. If so, the answer depends on the game project.  

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> If you build Flash games using Actionscript 3, I would say that you

> could go up to 800x600, because AS3 has code for drawing graphics at a

> faster rate than AS2.  If you try to build a scrolling fast-action Flash

> game at 800x600 with AS2 you'll have a REAL challenge getting it to

> maintain an acceptable framerate.  Trust me on this one.  But if the

> game is more casual, it's certainly possible. 

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> If you try and get Flash to go 1024x768, I believe that you're going to

> have framerate or performance issues with any advanced gameplay or

> complex animation, regardless of which version of ActionScript you use.

> Flash is software-rendered, so no matter what video card your user has,

> the performance of the Flash player itself is still going to be your

> main bottleneck. 

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