Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

https://js13kgames.com/games/q1k3

by mortenjorck • 26 days ago

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ChrisArchitect2• 26 days ago

Some previous discussions:

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

2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28520221

ChrisArchitect2• 26 days ago

Related this week:

CSSQuake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608223

no-name-here• 20 days ago

Does it work on mobile?

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

lopis• 20 days ago

I definitely recommend checking out all top games from this competition over the years. Quite a few gems.

boricj• 20 days ago

The making of is well worth a read: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of

fiatpandas• 19 days ago

Love the ingenuity of the texture DSL. So much variety can be packed into a small footprint.

djmips• 19 days ago

In praise of a good editor.

andai• 20 days 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...

kristianp• 18 days ago

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.

ck22• 20 days 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• 19 days 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

ck22• 19 days 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

butz• 19 days 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.

0x20cowboy• 19 days 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.

rightbyte• 18 days ago

Interesting 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• 19 days ago

very cool, try it with other games

heresalexandria• 19 days ago

This is really remarkable, and frankly more playable than a number of niche ports like this that I've tried - great work!

slavcik• 19 days ago

Very epic stuff

syspec• 19 days 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• 19 days ago

Blown away as in he had LLMs before anybody else did?

3eb7988a1663• 19 days ago

Does this make you question the accuracy of your personal LLM detector?

dmonterocrespo• 19 days ago

Great job!

maxlin• 19 days ago

Very nice! Lack of pathfinding hardly made itself visible, in intense combat I at first assumed they did have some kind of pathfinding

Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

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