Comments on: Minimal work, maximum effect: Video game minimalism http://www.thetanooki.com/2009/10/25/minimal-work-maximum-effect-video-game-minimalism/ Your one-stop source for Video Game news coverage! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brian http://www.thetanooki.com/2009/10/25/minimal-work-maximum-effect-video-game-minimalism/comment-page-1/#comment-26040 Brian Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:41:13 +0000 http://www.thetanooki.com/?p=22151#comment-26040 Actually, it's a pretty massive file. It appears to be an uncompressed BMP… Keeping it lossless, a comparable PNG would be about 20% of the current filesize. High quality JPEG compression would be lossy but not noticeably so, and would be about 7% of the current filesize. Once they're cached, they load quickly of course, but as I look at graphs, on the first load the two BMPs take longer to load than everything else on the page combined, simply because (again, looking at it all on a graph) they're huge compared to every other file that's being loaded. That's not to say that a slow connection wouldn't contribute, as well as the general funkiness of the server right now, but the image files are, well, big. Actually, it’s a pretty massive file. It appears to be an uncompressed BMP… Keeping it lossless, a comparable PNG would be about 20% of the current filesize. High quality JPEG compression would be lossy but not noticeably so, and would be about 7% of the current filesize.

Once they’re cached, they load quickly of course, but as I look at graphs, on the first load the two BMPs take longer to load than everything else on the page combined, simply because (again, looking at it all on a graph) they’re huge compared to every other file that’s being loaded.

That’s not to say that a slow connection wouldn’t contribute, as well as the general funkiness of the server right now, but the image files are, well, big.

]]> By: Holly Green http://www.thetanooki.com/2009/10/25/minimal-work-maximum-effect-video-game-minimalism/comment-page-1/#comment-26036 Holly Green Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:48:54 +0000 http://www.thetanooki.com/?p=22151#comment-26036 I'm going with "slow connection", 'cause they're loading fine for me! :) But the files we use now on Tanooki ARE a little bigger (we have more room now on the page to do so), so bear that in mind. I’m going with “slow connection”, ’cause they’re loading fine for me! :) But the files we use now on Tanooki ARE a little bigger (we have more room now on the page to do so), so bear that in mind.

]]> By: guppy06 http://www.thetanooki.com/2009/10/25/minimal-work-maximum-effect-video-game-minimalism/comment-page-1/#comment-26035 guppy06 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:03:35 +0000 http://www.thetanooki.com/?p=22151#comment-26035 Minimal work, maximum number of pixels and filesize. Or was the slow load caused by a slow connection? Minimal work, maximum number of pixels and filesize. Or was the slow load caused by a slow connection?

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