[casual_games] Full Screen or Windowed Mode?

[Sebastián Hernández]

As for screen-coordinate abstraction, what are the potential
benefits/downfalls of abstracting your resolution to normalized (0-to-1)
screen space? Technically, floating-point precision would take care of any
low-resolution artifacts when laying out GUIs at multiple-resolution levels
(as long as you also have multiple-resolution assets so you don't lose pixel
information). However, I'm a bit concerned about gaps potentially showing up
between GUI elements when your coordinate system gets translated back to
integer-based screen space. Any insight/recommendations on this matter?

2008/1/11, Andrew Lum <andrew at fugazo.com>:

>

> 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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> Fugazo, Inc.

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