My images are small files, yet the game runs out of memory on older phones

The download is tiny and the game still crashes while loading. A picture takes far more room once the phone has opened it than it does as a file. This entry adds up what your pictures really cost and names the ones that eat the budget.

Why this works

The phone stores every pixel of an opened picture, whatever the file looked like. Multiplying out the pixel count shows the real cost, so oversized pictures can be found before a player does.

When not to use it

Skip it for text-only games or games with a handful of small icons, where the total is always far below any limit.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 3 common mistakes and the fix
• A diagram of every state
• 28 lines of example code with 3 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

Say this to your AI

Use the Spielerando entry "My images are small files, yet the game runs out of memory on older phones" (read_entry small-image-files-but-phone-runs-out-of-memory) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

Or skip this and connect the MCP: your AI then finds all of this by itself.Connect the MCP