How can I reduce the size of my game?

Question

I have developed an Android game called Blubb but the size of the game is a bit more than expected. Can someone suggest a way of reducing the size of the game without compromising much on the quality of the game? Thanks.

Answer 1

It depends. If your code is generalized, encapsulated, and DRY, then there's probably not a whole lot you could do. If it isn't, do those things. IMHO, does it really matter? Unless it's grossly oversize for a simple game, then it doesn't matter all to much.

Also....

Given you're using an engine, and probably a few libraries, you're adding a lot of unused code. The only way to really scale down is to start removing unnecessary features from the engine/libraries. Only do that if you're comfortable though. Otherwise, you could get fatal errors, or simply weird behavior.