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#### Allow the game to be made fullscreen

There seems to be no way to maximize the game screen, that is, to make it take up all the available space in the browser window. This is clearly possible, since the game's loading screen is maximized. In fact, the game does grow or shrink depending on how much space is available, but it won't grow past a certain point, leaving quite a bit of space free on a high resolution, large display.
My eyes hurt from playing the game. I am having tons of fun, but why can't I make it bigger?
I've tried the "flash game maximizer" plugin for firefox, but it doesn't seem to play well with Glitch.

Posted 12 months ago by Sludana | Permalink

### Replies

- Try F11.
  Posted 12 months ago by Djabriil | Permalink
- F11 makes the browser full screen, but does nothing to make the game window itself larger. After a certain size, the game just wastes the remaining browser space (at least on firefox).
  Posted 12 months ago by Sludana | Permalink
- You could also maybe click over the arrow that hides your IM/group and friends lists... that makes the game window somewhat larger as well.
  Posted 12 months ago by Djabriil | Permalink
- I appreciate you trying to help, but perhaps your resolution isn't high enough to see the problem. At a certain size, the game window does not get any bigger. This includes hiding the IM/group and friends list. The list shrinks, but the game window stays exactly the same size. There is effectively a maximum size window, after which it doesn't get bigger.
  On a high resolution display, this is not all that big. On a large monitor, there is lots of wasted space that could be taken advantage of to ease eye-strain.
  Posted 12 months ago by Sludana | Permalink
- +1 with the OP it's kinda annoying I can't increase the play size.
  but... it may be a tradeoff for performance.
  Posted 12 months ago by Woochi | Permalink
- Oh to have a PC that would handle full-screen flash!
  Posted 12 months ago by Mablem Tiipot | Permalink
- heh, is your computer that cruddy Dr Hackenbush? Mine is only a dual core and it'd handle it just fine
  Posted 12 months ago by Woochi | Permalink
- Your processor has less to do with it than your graphics chip, Woochi. And no, it's not 'cruddy', it's just made for word processing and not piggish graphics applications like Flash. Glad to hear that you're so blessed, though.
  Posted 12 months ago by Mablem Tiipot | Permalink
- I would love this. I play Glitch on a 32" HD television, but I can't use up the whole thing because there is a limit to the size of the visible area. I want to see as much of the street as I have screen space! :D
  Posted 12 months ago by a lifted pixel | Permalink
- or let us open up more things on our huge screens...More chat rooms at the same time, the daily limit box could be tweaked to always show up, a 2 column friends list...something to use up some of that dead white space around the game.
  speaking of white space...a way to change the color of the extra area that is not used. That's a lot of white to burn out my eyes while playing.
  Posted 12 months ago by phelps.mike | Permalink
- Dr Hackenbush, I apologize for any interpreted snub. I didn't mean any disrespect with that characterization, just used what I thought would be a relatively innocuous adjective which fits my concept of what cruddy is... As an engineer, programmer, composer, and amateur graphics artist, I've always been concerned with having sufficient graphics capabilities, from CAD and EDA work to Photoshop type applications, but really, the necessary processing capabilities are pretty common even for consumer grade PCs these days. And for the record, raw system processor capabilities *can and *do bottleneck secondary graphics capabilities, not to mention the effect of insufficient available system ram.
  In any case, I'm sorry you would not be able to utilize such an enhancement. It is very helpful to have a larger "playing area" for most things I do, be they for fun like this or the more serious work I do to pay my mortgage on time. It's not a blessing, (ie an unnecessary luxury) it's my living.
  In any case, please accept my apologies for sounding flip. I re read and it does appear that way. wasn't though. just too familiar with someone I'm *not familiar with.
  FTR, my 22" (Mitsubishi diamond Pro 2040U) graphics monitor cost me $135, my old second monitor (of the same size) cost even less @$90. and my replacement for that one when it burned out last spring cost ~ $200, both run off a $60 graphics card., so I'm familiar with tight budgets. We're not talking liquid cooled Quad core computer and ~$400 gaming cards either...heck, the PC itself was bought as a bare-bones back in 2005 and is the original dual core @1.86GHz.
  Posted 12 months ago by Woochi | Permalink
- I don't know a lot about how browser games work, but to have some game maximized to different screen resolutions without losing the quality of the game itself, the game must be, and correct me if I'm wrong, Java.
  Posted 11 months ago by Rutger | Permalink
- Proper Flash should be using vector or procedural graphics (not bitmaps), and as such should scale without artifacts.
  Posted 11 months ago by Pascale | Permalink