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How to reduce your project's size, without losing quality! - Third333Strike - 12-06-2008 Okay well, we all have projects we are working on. During my time making Fallen Shadows, I realized the game was getting a bit bigger than I expected. There is two main sources of information when making your game. Images and Audio. In this tutoiral I will explain how to reduce both of these file types. I always save my images as*.png's, as they are the best looking, and smallest filesize that I know of. When I use GIMP, I always compress as much as possible. Recently, I came across a program called PNGOUTWin. If you download this program, it will take batch files of images, and "cut" any extra data out, thus reducing all of your images from 20-80% more. This is lossless quality, your images will still look the same. Reducing Image Size Step 1 - Download - PNGOUTWin. Step 2 - Choose files to shrink Next, If you have any MP3's in your project, you may want to think about converting them to OGG's. Reducing Music Size Step 1 - Download - MP3 WAV WMA OGG Converter Step 2 - Convert all your MP3's to OGG's Links - http://www.ardfry.com/pngoutwin/ http://www.audio-converter.com/