Quote: "reduce filesize by removing the engine and any NON-custom media. People with FPSC can just download a tiny file collide it with their files folder and test it out."
Who is going to bother doing all that just to play a demo? Perhaps if you provided a program to do it for the user.
I'd just zip the game folder up and distribute that. Use a self extracting
7-zip as they compress quite a bit better than zip.
I don't like installers for demos. I've got to click through the installer, find the shortcut in the start menu to run it then find the uninstaller when I want to remove it.
By way of demonstration, he emitted a batlike squeak that was indeed bothersome.