Tweaking the Demo for Steam Next Fest

[p]I've had a blast trying out random demos in the Next Fest for the past two evenings. I hope you all are enjoying it as well.

One thing that did kinda get my goat though, was how big some of the demos are - it's much easier to frivolously install a bazillion demos to try out if they're not 1GB a pop.

My game, compressed, weighs in at 550MB on disk, compresse to ~ 450 MB for download. HOWEVER, the majority of that is just music - the game has 1 hour of core soundtrack, and 3 hours of extra tracks that're for custom levels.

Here's a break-down of the biggest files in the game: you can see they're almost all "mp3str" (mp3) files; only one of the chinese fonts and the background rain track stand above them:

The Demo version restricts where you can go, but has all the same files as the main version. I hadn't thought to try slim it down - but an evening of Next-Fest-ing convinced me to do so. By removing 3 hours of not-necessary-for-the-demo music I reduced the file size from about 550 MB to 350 MB, and the compressed download size from about 450MB to 250MB (550-300=450-200 because MP3-files are already highly compressed). [/p][p]It could be smaller, but it's better, and I hope just, you know, a bit less annoying lol

Anyway, have a fun rest of Next Fest, everyone!

(And, lemme know if you have any recommendations for demos to try out!) [/p]