[casual_games] Full Screen or Windowed Mode?

[Aaron Murray]

Andrew - hopefully someone will chime in with a link to support their
statements, but we just went through this decision and I was quite
suprised by the results...something like 95% of users run 800x600 or
higher, and 60%+ run 1024x768 or higher/wider.

In addition, if someone is still running 640x480, what are the chances
that they are:
A. using a PC with enough ram/disk to play your game
B. going to purchase it

Just my 2 cents. Like I said, hopefully someone can provide a link to
some recent portal stats.

-Aaron
Tandem Games

On Jan 11, 2008 4:26 PM, Andrew Lum <andrew at fugazo.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,

>

> Fugazo is working on a new game and we are considering making the entire

> game in 640x480 resolution to save on space. We've decided that the art

> style looks fine in Full Screen 640x480 but we're not sure how many

> users play casual games in Window Mode. At 1024x768 a 640x480 windowed

> game isn't too bad but we're concerned about users who have a 1280x800,

> or 1280x1024, or higher.

>

> Does anyone have any sort of data on what percentage of casual gamers

> play games in Windowed Mode? Additionally, does anyone have any data on

> what percentage of customers have monitors set to higher than 1024x768?

>

> Thanks!

>

> Andrew Lum

>

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