Playing with IDEs

[Jeffrey Kesselman]

All these arguments are very logical... and go against the reality of
the game industry and its entire history.  An industry I worked in for
15 years.

Yes you can dynamically scale art... and you lose visual fidelity.
Yes you can run on a "letterboxed" screen.  And it looks like hell and
is distracting to the players.

Now, if you have decided that professional or equivalent to
professional games is unimportant then thats your call...  but don't
kid yourself about what you are deciding.

Now this isnt to say that a minimum resolution cant work in the same
way it works on PCs... it works IF you can go full screen at that
resolution and if the game can request that resolution.

On Dec 25, 2007 4:27 PM, Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
> > What I do think is a good idea is to specify a *minimum* screen size
> > which activities must support. I'd guess 1024x768 is a fair choice at
> > this point in time -- I don't see any reason why activity developers
> > should be forced to run on 800x600.
>
> I agree.  Applications that can't scale could at least center
> their contents and clear the surrounding frame.
>
>
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