stage size?

[ChaseNYC]

quick question... whats the biggest width and height of your stage you suggest making a game for getting the full spectrum of audiences?

edit: completely offtopic, but am I the only one that in the games forum section seems to not be loading all the standard forum images?

[tonypa]

I get distorted images from FK sometimes too, but it has been same for so long that I tend to ignore it. It has probably something to do with how many people use the forum so when many people view FK same time server gets slower. Or something like that. If you have problem with images all the time, you should post message in feedback section.

As for the stage size, I am using 600x460 stage currently.

[ChaseNYC]

would you say 460 height is the heighest one should go? i'm currently making a shooter game and i'm going for less width in relation to height... 400x600, but i'm pretty damn sure anyone with 800x600 isnt going to be able to see it all lol... all my code is set to Stage.height, so it wont be a big deal to resize but I'm trying to account for people with a few toolbars taking up space...

[tonypa]

I would say around 500 pixels is enough height. But it would be even better if people could change the size while playing. Screen too small to see whole game? No problem, click this button to choose smaller size. You could then set a variable and use that instead of stage.height without resizing the swf itself. Cant say I know many games allowing dynamic resize inside swf, its mostly done by changing width and height in the html code.