[casual_games] Impact of Netbooks on PC Development?

[Jay Adan]

That’s an interesting question. It’s going to vary according to demographics but I just checked out our own stats because I hadn’t looked at this data in a while.

 

Percentage of users who are at or above 1024x768 = 95%

Users currently using 1024x768 = 30.38% (currently the most common resolution of our visitors)

Percentage of users at 800x600 = .95%

Percentage of users at 1024x600 - .21%

 

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From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of alexportilla at pobros.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:20 PM
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Impact of Netbooks on PC Development?

 

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.

 

From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] 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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