[casual_games] Advice on how to include voice over with downloadable games

[Antonio Santamaria]

If I'm interpreting this correctly, you are asking whether to have a 
single large executable, or use a self-extracting or installer to put 
all the loose files on the drive.

When we've done this in the past, on the CD we relied on the Autorun or 
lone exe in the root, and sometimes not required any kind of install 
whatsoever.  For downloadables though, we've typically used a 
self-extracting exe, that called a simple installer or stub to add the 
appropriate start menu icons, add/removes, etc, then extracted the app, 
and the mp3's to an audio subdirectory from there. 

For the Mac, you could make a dmg that packages it all together.

So basically, from the download point of view I'd be going with one 
self-extracting file on either platform.  Once downloaded, I'd 
personally be installing a sub-dir for audio and data, and doing the 
same (via dmg) for the Mac.

Tony


Paul Steven wrote:

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> Hi there

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> I am developing a series of games that were originally going to be 

> delivered on CDROM but now will be sold online as a download instead. 

> I would like advice on how best to deal with the voice over element of 

> the games. As a CDROM based game, the audio would have been external 

> however I am now wondering what the best approach is with regards 

> including this voice over for a downloadable version. There will be 

> approximately 12mb of mp3 audio comprised of individual files in the 

> region of 50kb each.

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> I am wondering whether to embed all the audio so that the game is self 

> contained or whether I need to have the download as a self extracting 

> executable with the voice over in an external folder. The games will 

> be delivered for both PC and Mac.

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> Thanks

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>

> Paul

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