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Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)
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- ChrisArchitect 4mo agoSome previous discussions: 2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40558607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40558607 2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28520221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28520221
- ChrisArchitect 4mo agoRelated this week: CSSQuake https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608223 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608223
- no-name-here 4mo agoDoes it work on mobile? Game video: https://youtu.be/tX8340GV87U?t=30 https://youtu.be/tX8340GV87U?t=30
- lopis 4mo agoI definitely recommend checking out all top games from this competition over the years. Quite a few gems.
- boricj 4mo agoThe making of is well worth a read: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of
- fiatpandas 4mo agoLove the ingenuity of the texture DSL. So much variety can be packed into a small footprint.
- djmips 4mo agoIn praise of a good editor.
- andai 4mo agoEpic. That's super cool. That dog thing is very cute though, I felt bad. js13k is super cool. Here is my favorite game from there: https://js13kgames.com/2022/games/infernal-throne https://js13kgames.com/2022/games/infernal-throne There was also some kind of java4k thing back in the day. Notch did a bunch of those: https://web.archive.org/web/20100218133531/http://www.mojang.com/notch/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100218133531/http://www.mojang...
- kristianp 4mo agoInteresting insight into Notch's creativity before Minecraft was released, although a public alpha was released beforehand in 2009. Kind of a shame that Java applet support was removed from browsers. Obviously the security problems made it too much work to maintain.
- ck2 4mo agothe Wolfenstein3D-like game in only a few hundred bytes WITH SOUND might be even more impressive even though it's like exploits all the way down oddly can't find a link to it at the moment
- M4v3R 4mo agoNot sure if this is what you were thinking about, but .kkrieger was 96 kB and looked very impressive when it was released: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036 https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036
- ck2 4mo agowell there have been micro attempts over the years like this is 512 bytes (half a K) https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83795 https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83795 but the one I am thinking about had textured walls and sound it used some insane levels of packing and exploits to render
- butz 4mo agoImagine, if someone would start making operating system and its applications that are just kilobytes in size. RAM price crysis would resolve in a day.
- 0x20cowboy 4mo agoThose exist e.g. https://menuetos.net/ https://menuetos.net/ it’s just most people dont use them. I agree with you though. If Apple open sourced os9, and the community could get it to run on modern hardware, I would run it.
- rightbyte 4mo agoInteresting project. A floppy sized OS seems about right, excluding some sort of driver tree. OS preferences seem to boil down to "have someone else made this app work on the system" which makes it very much a network effect issue. And if you use such an OS to boot a bloated Firefox, then there is hardly any point.
- tribal808 4mo agovery cool, try it with other games
- heresalexandria 4mo agoThis is really remarkable, and frankly more playable than a number of niche ports like this that I've tried - great work!
- slavcik 4mo agoVery epic stuff
- syspec 4mo agoI read the whole writeup assuming it was LLM assisted, then when I got to the bottom I realized it's from 2021 and was blown away.
- grg0 4mo agoBlown away as in he had LLMs before anybody else did?
- 3eb7988a1663 4mo agoDoes this make you question the accuracy of your personal LLM detector?
- dmonterocrespo 4mo agoGreat job!
- maxlin 4mo agoVery nice! Lack of pathfinding hardly made itself visible, in intense combat I at first assumed they did have some kind of pathfinding