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How to Minify Godot's Build Size (93MB --> 6.4MB exe) (popcar.bearblog.dev)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This was a fun one. Here's my newest post on how to dramatically reduce Godot's build size.

Some sacrifices were made... But the end result is a Godot project that works exactly the same, albeit with slightly worse performance. Hope this can help others in achieving tiny build sizes!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

But, why?

100mb are already negligible. I want a reasonable size (less 20GB) and ok performance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

@Gladaed @popcar2 web, mobile, and as always, less space and optimization is always a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Wasting time on metrics that don't matter is waste. I get and agree with mobile/web constraints. I did not consider them.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 22 hours ago

@Gladaed @popcar2 because every bloated 100gb game is a mix of a thousand different assets/executables/libraries where the developer thought "why optimize, 100MB is nothing".

Often with little more than symbol stripping, removing unneeded files, and basic lz compression you can cut most game sizes in half, reduce load times, and free up terabytes of space on your system.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

The article begins by talking about web exports. The default there is 42MB, which is kind of a lot for the web

Edit: Of course, compressed it is ~9, which isn't so bad, I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

For mobile this is a legit difference imo

Also what raptor said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

@Gladaed @popcar2

See https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@popcar2/114144232496373416

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