[casual_games] Impact of Netbooks on PC Development?

[alexportilla at pobros.com]

Hi James,

Would you have data supporting the majority of users are at 1024x768?
This would really be interesting.

Best regards,


James C. Smith wrote:

>

> 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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> 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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