[casual_games] Full Screen or Windowed Mode?

[Brian Meidell Andersen]

You will very likely get placement and alignment problems due to  
precision loss in math operations, and the problems will be much to  
diagnose when you debug due to looking at numbers like 56.83333  
instead of a pixel coordinate like 341.0.

Brian Meidell Andersen
The Game Equation
http://www.gameequation.com
brian at gameequation.com



On Sat, Jan 26 08, at 16:46 , Sebastián Hernández wrote:


> 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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