Trash Talk - srs question: Flash Games and bandwidth Sercit - Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: srs question: Flash Games and bandwidth
So, I'm looking to pay some artists and someone fluent in flash to set up a simple game on the site for my webcomic when it goes up, but I want to know how much bandwidth am I looking at loosing with the game.
Is it like with 99.5% of internet downloads, and placed in a temp folder, then loads from it the rest of the time you enter the site, or does it automatically load from the site everytime?
Mine GO BOOM - Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject:
Depends on how it is programmed. I'm assuming what you are asking is does the browser cache the flash file? Yes, unless told otherwise. So it is a one-time download, and all other times it is read from the browser's cache, if they still have it.
As for how much bandwidth, depends on the file size. Can be a couple thousand bytes to a couple of megs pretty easily.
Sercit - Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject:
Hrm. Thats what I thought, I just wanted to make sure. Have a webcomic going up in the next couple of weeks, got the artist working on the character studies right now before I sign off on them, and I wanted to try and find someone with some experience to do a Flash game for me.
I'll be paying, obviously, but it'll still be a month or two off before I get started on it. Already talked to some other artists I know, and like, about doing the sprites.
Cheese - Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:57 am Post subject:
it loads the preloader every time,
which then stores data on your computer
the files are treated like cookies
Sercit - Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:48 pm Post subject:
Thats what I thought, I just was unsure of how much was stored. I know it has to be a decent amount or Adventure Quest/MechQuest/Dragon Fable would never survive.
Cheese - Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:20 pm Post subject:
as much as the user has defined