Re: [pygame] Game demo for review

["David Mikesell" <dave_mikesell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops.  That's not supposed to be there.  I forget who the composer was,
but I actually purchased it for a small price on sounddogs (or a similar
site last) last year.    Can't remember why I decided not to use it, but
it shouldn't be in the distro now.

Re: the mouse controls, for now use the 'm' key to toggle between mouse
and keyboard.

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:19:21 -0800, "David Tweet" <davidtweet@xxxxxxxxx>
said:
> Hello,
>    The game is pretty fun--I played the new version.  The mouse controls
> didn't work, so I used the keyboard ones.  I agree that getting all the
> controls under one hand would be cool, and also some way to put the ship
> in
> reverse.
>    Regarding the download size:  I can't help but point out that 9.57 MB
>    is
> being taken up by a raw uncompressed WAV file for a 1-minute long piece
> of
> music in the sounds file.  Converting that to level-3 ogg in audacity
> makes
> it only 760 KB, with no noticeable drop in quality for me, and I'm
> listening
> on studio monitors.  It's a nice track by the way, who made it?
>    -David
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/12/06, Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/12/06, Matt <revcompgeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Is it possible to zip the installer?
> > > WinAce is great for this kind of thing!
> > > --
> >
> > In my experience Inno Setup compression is very very good (bzip or
> > something like that?) and zipping stuff after that is marginal at best
> > and sometimes worse. In fact sometimes doing just one lossless
> > compression at the very end (i.e. inno setup) can get slightly better
> > results than compressing stuff multiple times down the chain (i.e.
> > png's inside of zips inside of archives inside of an installer can
> > often be very slightly bigger than uncompressed tga's in your
> > installer - probably because the installer's compression has the
> > benefit of finding and exploiting similarites between files that the
> > other compressions have obscured)
> >
> > The problem is that there's a limit to how much lossless compression
> > you can do, really the only practical way to get an install package
> > even smaller is by using great lossy compression on your original
> > assets, like jpg and ogg.
> >
> 
> 
> 
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