[casual_games] Question about iphone game development

[Andres Martinez]

Please take a look at this picture...  http://www.bakno.com/Billiards/iPhone.png

The System Info from the actual compressed file of our Billiards  
game:  6MB on disk (6,248,966 bytes). And the same application is  
11.6M on the App Store. Almost double the size!!!!!!!!!

I also doubted that a DRM can take that much. But reading the Unity  
forums I found that this is not the only case.

Regards,
Andres Martinez
www.baKno.com


On Jun 23, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Tom Park wrote:


> I have to agree that the DRM does add a little to the zip file,  

> usually about 0.1 or 0.2 MB.

>

> Definitely NOT 4MB, not even when comparing unzipped .ipa files.

>

>

> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Chris Dillman  

> <chrisd at plaidworld.com> wrote:

> It is true Tom

>

> The majority of our iPhone apps are sub 10M (some are even 6M  

> compressed), and none of them is sub 10M on the App Store.

>

> When we asked Apple about this inconsistency, they explained that  

> the extra code is from their own encryption added before compressing  

> it again (a.k.a DRM).

>

>

> Finder reports..

>

> Mouse House Lite 1.1.4

>

> Raw = 10.66 MB ... OR 10,442,581 BYTES

>

> Zipped = 9 OR 9,401,408 BYTES

>

> App store IPA... itunes says its 9.3

>

> Finder actually reports 9.3 and 9,705,884 BYTES

>

> So I see at least a small increase in a non unity app mostly  

> consisting of

> PNG, WAV, MP3 files and Text data.

>

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