Sep 29

Here’s some interesting tech facts about Tap-Fu:

  • Created from scratch over a 5 month period
  • 443 individually crafted character sprites (128×128 each) in 7 1024×1024 textures (loaded as 16 bpp). No PVR compression on sprites.
Full Tap-Fu Sprite Sheet

Full Tap-Fu Sprite Sheet

  • Environment textures are all PVR compressed (4bpp). Six 512×512 and four 1024×1024 textures.
  • Main theme 0.6 MB .caf file. Streamed from file.
  • 87 unique sounds. Uncompressed .wav (PCM) files with varying bitrates tweaked by hand. Steamed from file via OpenAL
  • Streaming levels (for story mode)
  • Engine is 100,000+ lines of code. Game specific code is 10,000+ lines.

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