Can you make file sizes smaller?

[Spc120]

Ok so i now understand how too upload the game (Thanks to everyone that helped me:)) but now the file is really big like 90mb can i shrink the file somehow?

[RickJ]

Can someone help me?

Maybe but you'll probably have to give more information.   

[Spc120]

what i mean is how do you upload your finished game as a file by itself.  like what do you use to upload the file, like what file do you upload?

[LimpingFish]

Do you have webspace to upload your game to?

If you sign up for a free account with FileFront, you will be able to host your file there.

It's fairly simple to use. Just read the Terms of Service and FAQ before you sign up.

[Spc120]

thanks alot.

[Ghost]

To reduce filesize, WinRAR is a good and free tool. The best compression can positively leave you with a file only a third of the original size- try a RAR archive with best compression and solid archive enabled.

[Radiant]

It depends on why your game is so big.

If it's an AGS game, I'll hazard the guess that either you're including your source (don't do that, you only need the "compiled" directory), or your game contains a lot of music, sound effects, or movie files (none of which can be significantly compressed further by WinRAR and the like, because MP3/OGG/WMV and so forth all already use compression).

But in this day and age, 90 Mb isn't an unsurmountable obstacle to download.

[OneDollar]

This might be a little off topic, but I've been having trouble uploading a 18MB file to my googlepages website, with the upload repeatedly failing. I then tried putting it on my aged freewebs site *shudder* but it just gave me an error after a while. Is this a result of my slow upload speed, the file handling of these two websites or what? Do you think it would work better uploading to something like FileFront? Eventually I had to split the file into 5MB chunks with WinRAR, but that's far from an ideal solution

[Radiant]

I'd suggest getting a decent FTP client. Uploading through web browsers can be fickle (depending on your browser, of course).

Several of the File Upload Servers have their own client which effectively does this.

[OneDollar]

Unfortunately Googlepages doesn't support FTP upload, so playing with FileZilla will have to wait for me to buy some webspace. Anyway, FileFront seems to be handling to upload.

Back (more or less) on topic, I split the game into a music file (the one I was having trouble with) and the .exe files, manuals etc. These were about 37MB but compressed down to a 2.5MB .zip file. Compression is definitely the way to go.

[Khris]

I recommend savefile.com and rapidshare.com. They host files up to 60/100MB in size without registration, and uploading using only the webbrowser has so far worked for me every time.

[LimpingFish]

Nobody seems to like using FileFront; it does lack hotlinking to your file, etc. But on the plus side, they have no restrictions on filesize and no limit on the length of time your file will remain hosted (that I know of). Heartland Deluxe has been hosted there for over a year now, anyway. Plus, I always get decent download speeds with them.

You do have to register, though, but not in any overly intrusive way.

[InCreator]

rapidshare.com is a really bad idea.

[BOYD1981]

rapidshare is quite good, i even have a premium account. uploading is a little slow though, but more people will be downloading than uploading so the download speed is all that really matters, and that's good.