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Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

119 points by mortenjorck - 16 comments
boricj [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The making of is well worth a read: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of
andai [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Epic. 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

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...

ChrisArchitect [3 hidden]5 mins ago
syspec [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Blown away as in he had LLMs before anybody else did?
ChrisArchitect [3 hidden]5 mins ago
dmonterocrespo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Great job!
no-name-here [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Does it work on mobile?

Game video: https://youtu.be/tX8340GV87U?t=30

lopis [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I definitely recommend checking out all top games from this competition over the years. Quite a few gems.
heresalexandria [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is really remarkable, and frankly more playable than a number of niche ports like this that I've tried - great work!
tribal808 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
very cool, try it with other games
butz [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Imagine, if someone would start making operating system and its applications that are just kilobytes in size. RAM price crysis would resolve in a day.
slavcik [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Very epic stuff
ck2 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
the 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Not 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
ck2 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
well there have been micro attempts over the years

like this is 512 bytes (half a K)

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