[casual_games] Impact of Netbooks on PC Development?

[James C. Smith]

Your right, scaling down large art procedurally is not as good as having the
artists make it smaller to begin with.  We would never make 1024 X 768 art
if we though most people would end up playing at 800 X 600.  We started
building 1024 X 768 games when we thought it was safe to assume that a super
majority of our users will be playing that that rez or higher.  We support
lower rez by scaling down but we believe that is a small minority of the
players.    Now this netbook issue could change that assumption but those
machines may be so underpowered that they couldn't run the games anyway
without major changes.

 

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On Behalf Of Lennard
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [casual_games] Impact of Netbooks on PC Development?

 

My gut instinct is that the 2d art would look better developed for 800x600
than scaled down - right now if my artist puts a pixel on a building that's
important... it shows up - scaling down means you lose control over what is
displayed.  Have you done anything to mitigate this or do you have any
insight as to why this isn't a big deal?



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