jariRG

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   by jariRG 4y ago

   https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for... But there's more: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/category/demoscene/
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   by jariRG 4y ago

   Afaik this is exactly what Unity builds are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_build
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   by jariRG 6y ago

   I think the 10 years is the key here. 15+ years ago the DevC++ was a gem, lightweight, fast usable IDE. But 10 years ago there was the free VSExpress out (not even the first, 2005 and 2008) which was far superior to DevC++ imho. (edit: on W
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   by jariRG 6y ago

   The size limited demos are use techniques like in the OP, scrapping the runtime, no std, filling the unused exe header sections with own data, quantizing floating point values, etc. And/or exe packers like Crinkler and kkrunchy. COM&#x
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   by jariRG 6y ago

   +1 for SOMA. That game was amazing emotionally. It was left me thinking for days what i went through in it.
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   by jariRG 6y ago

   I can recomment HROT, it is still in development but you can try the demo on Steam. It is awesome. Fun fact: it looks like Quake engine but not, it is written in Pascal.