Filesize too big?

ADSentertainmentADSentertainment Member Posts: 397
in Working with GS (Mac)
I've been trying to publish my gamesalad game, but it keeps getting timed out, I've heard that possibly the file size of it could affect it. The file size of my game Galastar is 90.3 MB. Is that a problem? I was told ( @Utveckla_Games ) that I should probably reduce the image sizes, but I'm not sure if that'll decrease the file size enough if that's the problem.

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  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    edited April 2013
    I had a problem with BOT when it hit around 100MB. I switched the large PNG images to indexed and that freed up enough space to publish the game.

    I think I posted about it somewhere in here... http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/15896/game-creation-log-bot/
  • ADSentertainmentADSentertainment Member Posts: 397
    I had a problem with BOT when it hit around 100MB. I switched the large PNG images to indexed and that freed up enough space to publish the game.

    I think I posted about it somewhere in here... http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/15896/game-creation-log-bot/
    indexed? what do you mean?
  • SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
    edited April 2013
    indexed? what do you mean?
    I think he means he converted his files to 8bit indexed within Photoshop.

    If you use something like ImageAlpha you can reduce your file size with quite a bit more control than you can in Photoshop, and you can retain any alpha information your file has, even at 8bit (and lower).

    http://pngmini.com
  • artfishartfish Member, PRO Posts: 369
    no probs here publishing a 200mb game.
  • PBEmpirePBEmpire Member Posts: 676
    you can mess around with the content package file and change all your image from .png to .jpg if you have them in jpg format. I did not find any issues after i did that. The game runs perfect in my iPad (yes it is published) and i reduced the size form 150MB to 50MB
  • PortymanPortyman Member, PRO Posts: 409
    edited April 2013
    My game is 1.5 GB.. Yes that's Gigabyte... Took 45 minutes to upload but worked fine.
  • SolarPepperStudiosSolarPepperStudios Member Posts: 754
    @ADSentertainment I agree with @SaladStraightShooter but one other thing I might add is getting rid or unused sounds or trying to compress them as well. I added a single music file to my game and it added about 15 mb to the game. Thats a lot for a single file (it was uncompressed).
  • ADSentertainmentADSentertainment Member Posts: 397
    @ADSentertainment I agree with @SaladStraightShooter but one other thing I might add is getting rid or unused sounds or trying to compress them as well. I added a single music file to my game and it added about 15 mb to the game. Thats a lot for a single file (it was uncompressed).
    I don't have a large amount of sounds that are unused, but I do have images and probably a few actors that I don't need. So I could probably go and remove those
  • ADSentertainmentADSentertainment Member Posts: 397
    90 MB shouldn't be a problem.

    What can be a problem:
    • You're using wireless
    • Your basic internet is slow
    • You've tampered with your XML in some way
    Given that it's timing out I'm think it's probably bullet one or two.
    I'll see if I can take a look at that
  • SolarPepperStudiosSolarPepperStudios Member Posts: 754
    @ADSentertainment That would probably be good. ;) I would still take @SaladStraightShooters advice though.
  • ADSentertainmentADSentertainment Member Posts: 397
    @ADSentertainment That would probably be good. ;) I would still take @SaladStraightShooters advice though.
    Yeah, I think my internet's fine. I do have wireless though...
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