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Sercit 99.5% Optimistic

Age:41 Gender: Joined: Sep 12 2003 Posts: 352 Offline
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:52 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: srs question: Flash Games and bandwidth |
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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? |
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Age:41 Gender: Joined: Aug 01 2002 Posts: 3615 Location: Las Vegas Offline
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:44 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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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. |
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Sercit 99.5% Optimistic

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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:38 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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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. |
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Cheese Wow Cheese is so helpful!

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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:57 am Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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it loads the preloader every time,
which then stores data on your computer
the files are treated like cookies _________________ SSC Distension Owner
SSCU Trench Wars Developer |
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Sercit 99.5% Optimistic

Age:41 Gender: Joined: Sep 12 2003 Posts: 352 Offline
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:48 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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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. |
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Cheese Wow Cheese is so helpful!

Joined: Mar 18 2007 Posts: 1017 Offline
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:20 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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as much as the user has defined
idk what defaults are |
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