Scratch

Reasons why not:
1. The server would never load.
2. The game would never load, after the file loads.
3. The game would not download, after the page loads.
4. The game would take too long to open in scratch, after the file is downloaded after the page loads.
5. The game would lag, after the file is opened after the file is downloaded after the page loads.

As a new scratcher, I'm pretty sure you won't need 1000 MB of space, I rarely use up to 5.

Problem is the filesize of blocks themselves.

I heard from a guide that a green flag is 4kb and a forever is the same.

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juststickman wrote:

Problem is the filesize of blocks themselves.

I heard from a guide that a green flag is 4kb and a forever is the same.

So you support?    Forever takes up a lot of space too.

10 MB is a lot of space... you just need to watch out for the enormous soundtracks. 

For a guide to keeping project size small, click here 

kayybee wrote:

Reasons why not:
1. The server would never load.
2. The game would never load, after the file loads.
3. The game would not download, after the page loads.
4. The game would take too long to open in scratch, after the file is downloaded after the page loads.
5. The game would lag, after the file is opened after the file is downloaded after the page loads.

As a new scratcher, I'm pretty sure you won't need 1000 MB of space, I rarely use up to 5.

A gigabyte is 1024 megabytes >:U But anyway, you're right, I would have to take all my music to turn a 10mb scratch project into 1gb file. And 1gb would take about an hour to download.

hmnwilson wrote:

A whole GB? That's over 100x the current size limit - imagine how long that would take to download 

The reason there's a limit is so that it doesn't overload the Java player, and so people with slow internet connections can play it without having to wait forever.

If the limit's causing you problems because your project is over it, try these:
1. Click the "Edit" menu, select "Compress Sounds..." and chose a sound quality. Normal is recommended, since it cuts down the size a lot and doesn't sound bad. You can also do this with images if you want, but it usually doesn't do much.
2. If it's still too big, get rid of whatever you don't need, like non-important sounds or effects.

I know. but it would be useful for creating EPIC games.

Maybe about 20-30MB? With the current 10MB limit you could make Scratch in Scratch and still only have it less than 7MB... so 10MB is actually quite large.

fg123 wrote:

10 Megabytes is a lot. Just taking a guess here, but unless you are making a game with more than 20 songs, 100 sprites and a few hundred scripts, 10 mb should fit. Or just compress some stuff.

Do you realize just how big music and images are? An Eight minute mp3 takes up twenty megabytes and a large image takes four.

If a game has one hundred sprites, it should have six hundred scripts if it wants to be functional.

[b]Java would lag.[b]

1. It causes server bandwidth, or server pressure, to rise.
2. 10MB is a lot, usually more than most hosts allow!
3. If its 1.25gb for example, then it would take an estimated 10 minutes to load on a 1.5mb/s download rate.
4. Java would probably crash.
5. The server would crash.
6. You can compress it.
7. There's several restrictions in place on MIT's lab, especially the "infinite bandwidth" part.
8. It'd be expensive! On a regular host, 500 1gb projects would probably cost you a couple hundred to host!

I worked on it for months. It's a big job. All that work, and it can't be uploaded.

It's 40.7 MB. My magnum opus!
I'm going to make it lighter. But I can't just drop 30 MB. Then it's not a realtime RPG anymore.