Hacker News Reader

The matrix demo project requires 100GB of disk space!

While uninstalling games to free up space to download the project, I noticed that there was no correlation between a game's disk space usage and the amount of fun it provided.

View on HN

With cloud gaming gaining in popularity at the same time asset detail/sizes are ballooning in size, it certainly feels like we're now ~1-2 generations away from games/experiences being so large most people won't bother installing them locally.

That is why cloud companies are now also offering game development workflows completly based on their platforms.

Would raw project files be larger than a compiled game? I assume yes. I’m not sure by how much.

By an absolute bucketload. Valley of the Ancients was a 100GB project that went down to 25GB packaged if I remember correctly.

Sounds like a smaller drop than I would have expected tbh. Valley was pretty short. Is a large game of that detail really possible to ship with sane size requirements?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com