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- very cool, try it with other gamesby tribal808
- Very epic stuffby slavcik
- This is really remarkable, and frankly more playable than a number of niche ports like this that I've tried - great work!
- 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.by butz
- Those exist e.g. 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.
by 0x20cowboy - I definitely recommend checking out all top games from this competition over the years. Quite a few gems.by lopis
- Very nice! Lack of pathfinding hardly made itself visible, in intense combat I at first assumed they did have some kind of pathfindingby maxlin
- Does it work on mobile?
Game video: https://youtu.be/tX8340GV87U?t=30
by no-name-here - 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
by ck2 - 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=12036by M4v3R
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- 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...
by andai - Interesting 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.
by kristianp - The making of is well worth a read: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-ofby boricj
- In praise of a good editor.by djmips
- Love the ingenuity of the texture DSL. So much variety can be packed into a small footprint.by fiatpandas