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If you're interested in feats of low-size games, I offer you kkrieger, a 3D FPS that fits in 96KB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fZBUsn5RYg https://www.yout

• beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
  This is wild. One wonders what would happen if the (perhaps misguided) ideals that shaped that project returned to being in vogue.
  • sitkack 4y ago
    Previous discussions for a post about how they achieved that feat. https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for-madmen/ https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for... Nov 12, 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25043199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25043199 Aug 8, 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20635640 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20635640 May 13, 2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7739599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7739599
  • badsectoracula 4y ago
    Procedural generation for 3D content is something quite common nowadays - see Substance Designer as an example. AFAIK the people behind kkrieger tried to push their tool for commercial use at some point but it didn't seem to catch on - but that was years ago.
  • lmm 4y ago
    Huge but somewhat dull games. No Man's Sky is probably the big name that went that way recently. Or, in its own way, Dwarf Fortress.
    • Night_Thastus 4y ago
      I'm not sure I'd lump DF in there at all. It may be procedural generated, but there is a mountain of depth to it.
      • gleenn 4y ago
        Pun intended? It was just the two programmers writing that for a long time so I guess the mostly-procedurally-generated content makes sense.
• jesprenj 4y ago
  AFAIK this was achieved by heavily using DirectX API and features it contains. When running, it uses around 300 MiB of RAM.
  • andai 4y ago
    The textures and models are procedurally generated at load time!
  • democracy 4y ago
    Of course they are using DX or OpenGL - how else are they supposed to display graphics? )
    • mgaunard 4y ago
      just write bytes to the framebuffer?
      • tralarpa 4y ago
        Did you know that the original Doom game was shipped in 1993 with a VM running Windows 10, just for the DirectX driver? It was the only way to do computer graphics at that time /s
        • jesprenj 4y ago
          wrong parent?
          • tralarpa 4y ago
            Was it? I wanted to support mgaunard point, hence the "/s".
    • benj111 4y ago
      The very submission you're commenting on is a 3d game without DX or openGL.
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• McNutty 4y ago
  In the linked video, one of the kkrieger devs (kb) comments and addresses some FAQs
• 404mm 4y ago
  Nice. My little CLI utility that filters and lists my servers in EC2 is 11MB (GO).
  • nilslice 4y ago
    Too small for me.. I'd like to containerize this and add at least 10 more MB, do you have a Dockerfile already?
    • kurisufag 4y ago
      perhaps an AppImage for easy cross-platform support -- that should add an order of magnitude
      • loloquwowndueo 4y ago
        A snap. Lol
  • kitd 4y ago
    Tbf, 11mb is all it needs. Add in the graphics library and assorted libc utils that Awk is using and it would be similar.
• thih9 4y ago
  Timestamp where the gameplay starts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fZBUsn5RYg&t=97s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fZBUsn5RYg&t=97s I enjoyed the video. However for me it’s not about the game being small, it’s about implementing anything 3d (or any game for that matter) in awk!
• Daub 4y ago
  Details on how it was made… https://youtu.be/bD1wWY1YD-M https://youtu.be/bD1wWY1YD-M