How to Minify Godot's Build Size (93MB -> 6.4MB exe)
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A quick guide on how to dramatically reduce Godot's export sizes for your game/app!

This was a fun one. Here’s my newest post on how to dramatically reduce Godot’s build size.

Some sacrifices were made… But the end result is a Godot project that works exactly the same, albeit with slightly worse performance. Hope this can help others in achieving tiny build sizes!

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    because every bloated 100gb game is a mix of a thousand different assets/executables/libraries

    Also needlessly uncompressed audio or poorly compressed video (that likely could instead be in-engine) particularly when multiple resolutions are needed. Sometimes one of these might be the bigger issue, particularly with remasters.

    @Gladaed I have less-than-stellar internet* (~6mb/s, shared with others), 20GB is definitely not a reasonable size for me. 100MiB is fine, but not negligible. Consider also storage space, particularly because users will run games from slower(->cheaper) drives when they deem games too big (which for me is already at 1GiB+, at least in terms of having a library because that adds up).

    * and I live in the US, not even in the woods! The price isn’t even great, either.

    As I see it, data size is an inverse multiplier for viability. The smaller a download is the more likely that users will be able to get and store it (long-term even) without issue. The difference between a day and an hour is huge, the difference between an hour and 5 minutes is still worthwhile (especially if this impacts household internet speed). Less than that (nearing instant download) is peak.

    EDIT: Updates also make this difference larger.