New Asphalt Weighing 15 Megabytes?

Last week, Gameloft announced a new game, Asphalt Nitro, which is supposedly the "younger brother" of the popular racing game Asphalt 8. No details about the game were known, except that it would take up only 15 MB on a mobile device. This statement raised many questions, since even the simplest modern arcades take up about 100 megabytes, while large projects such as Asphalt 8 "weigh" around 1-2 GB. Now the developers have shared new details about Asphalt Nitro, revealing interesting features of the game.

As can be seen in the first trailer for Asphalt Nitro, we are in for a full-fledged racing game with high-quality graphics, many cars and large maps, like in Asphalt 8. Most interestingly, all of this really takes up only 15 MB. Asphalt Nitro is Gameloft's first experimental project in which the company used a new data compression algorithm without quality loss. According to the developers, everything in the game is generated in real time according to a given algorithm, rather than loaded as ready-made files.

The company intends to further develop this technology, and right now owners of Android devices have the opportunity to be the first to try Asphalt Nitro by buying the game for $5 on the official site Gameloft.

Source: 4pda