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Android / Graphical differences between Windows and Android versions of game

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Location: Milton Keynes, UK
Posted: 23rd Feb 2012 23:24
Hi guys,

I'm sorry these images may be a little bit large, but I thought I'd do like for like comparisons and shrinking the images didn't display the discrepancies properly.

This first picture is my game (Slimeblast! coming soon, keep checking our site for news ) running under windows.


and here is exactly the same code running under the AppGameKit Player on Android.


Now I'm sure the eagle eyed ones amongst you have spotted the problem already, but for those who are not so observant, I'd like to draw your attention to the "boxes" which appear to be drawn around the slime squares in the android version.

My question is why is this happening? I suspect it's a problem with the Android AppGameKit player, but as is always the case, it could just as easily be me doing something stupid with my code.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

Thanks in advance as always.

bjadams
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Posted: 25th Feb 2012 18:34
Most probably the problem is related to the fact that on Windows the screen size is set to 100% of the actual game graphics, and on Android its being resized down, hence the results in the 2nd pic
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Posted: 25th Feb 2012 20:24
Nope, the Windows one is running windowed at 1280 x 800; the Android screen size is 1280 x 800; and both are using the same media.

In each instance the game media is being scaled up in size.

MrValentine
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Posted: 27th Feb 2012 16:09
from my semi-limited web knowledge...

Padding?

Paul Johnston
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Posted: 27th Feb 2012 18:53
probably due to non power of 2 images getting padded into power of 2 images on mobile devices, but not on Windows. How is the green pixel storage as an image?
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Posted: 27th Feb 2012 22:52
@Paul Johnston:
You were completely right Thanks for that.

All of the blue and green sprites were stored as images based on 20x20 pixel tiles.

MrValentine
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Posted: 27th Feb 2012 23:02
Yup ^2 precisely right Paul...

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