Often referred to on the forums, the art budget is not a budget in the financial sense. Instead, it is used to describe the amount of artwork that goes into the game, and the result this has on download times. A stated goal of Three Rings is to produce a game that is of high quality without requiring significantly advanced computer hardware to run it. The download time, and file size, must be compact and accessible even to users with old computers and slow internet connections. Including too much art would make the file size larger than acceptable.