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• ChrisIceBox

  August 2016

  This isn't so much related to using AC, and you might have better luck getting responses on the official Unity forums instead.  640x480 was the HD of my day, but @humaldo has produced some great "classic" look games, for example.
  
• irwa82

  August 2016

  Thanks for the reply, the games by @humaldo looks like the kinda games I want to build and nice to see adventure creator working with them.

  
  

  Here is some of my plans so far for other newbies that maybe researching what game size to use also.

  
  

  I have been looking around and decided to design art that works well with modern aspect ratio of 16:9 which works with most modern computers.

  
  

  I used 400x225 for the background art as it scales up to 720p and 1080p etc and can also do 800x450 for web player which seems like a good size to put within a website.

  
  

  I did notice for some reason the macbook pro laptop only comes up with 16:10 aspect ratios on the unity game options distorting my graphics on my laptop but I found the following solution in code to change the resolution to a 16:9 aspect ratio despite the computer not showing it in the options.

  
  
          if (Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.OSXPlayer) {
  
              Screen.SetResolution (1280, 720, Screen.fullScreen;);
  
          } 

  
  

  Not sure if this is the best method but it is working for me so far in testing.

  
  

  Anyway hope this helps others as finding the right resolution for the game and scaling it to work on newer computers is something I wanted to make sure worked right.

  
  

  Regards,

  Anthony 
  

  
  
• hedgefield

  August 2016

  Hey Anthony,

  
  

  You can limit the aspect ratios the player can choose by deselecting them under Edit > Project Settings > Player Settings > Resolution. It's generally better to make your UI responsive so it scales correctly in any ratio/resolution, but if you want to limit it to a specific size to emulate the old adventure games, you could do it that way. Or, if you set the aspect ratio in AC's Settings Manager, it will keep the game looking correctly no matter what the resolution or ratio.

  
  

  I've always been an HD person, so I make my art at least two or three times bigger than the resolution of the game. This keeps it looking sharp no matter what screen it's displayed at. It's not really true that bigger resolutions make for more work, that depends more on the style you choose. For pixel art, yeah, but if you're doing painted artwork you might as well draw it big
• irwa82

  August 2016

  thanks for the tips