Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

15 comments

• boricj 1 day ago
  The making of is well worth a read: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of
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  • fiatpandas 17 hours ago
    Love the ingenuity of the texture DSL. So much variety can be packed into a small footprint.
  • djmips 14 hours ago
    In praise of a good editor.
• andai 1 day 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 7 days ago
  Some previous discussions:

  2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40558607

  2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28520221
• ChrisArchitect 7 days ago
  Related this week:

  CSSQuake

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608223
• no-name-here 1 day ago
  Does it work on mobile?

  Game video: https://youtu.be/tX8340GV87U?t=30
• lopis 1 day ago
  I definitely recommend checking out all top games from this competition over the years. Quite a few gems.
• butz 20 hours 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.
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  • 0x20cowboy 8 hours ago
    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.
• heresalexandria 20 hours ago
  This is really remarkable, and frankly more playable than a number of niche ports like this that I've tried - great work!
• maxlin 17 hours ago
  Very nice! Lack of pathfinding hardly made itself visible, in intense combat I at first assumed they did have some kind of pathfinding
• tribal808 20 hours ago
  very cool, try it with other games
• dmonterocrespo 19 hours ago
  Great job!
• ck2 23 hours 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

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  • M4v3R 21 hours 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
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    • ck2 20 hours 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
• slavcik 20 hours ago
  Very epic stuff
• syspec 19 hours 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.
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  • 3eb7988a1663 17 hours ago
    Does this make you question the accuracy of your personal LLM detector?
  • grg0 18 hours ago
    Blown away as in he had LLMs before anybody else did?