Wow!!! a FPS that is only 96kb!!

[sipoon]

Simply astounding!!

kkrieger

these guys are doing amazing stuff

 

[Veho]

Sw33t. I remember tech demos like this (a 96KB script rendering 2GB of data, for example; the awe knocked me over), but never an interactive one (an FPS even). N33t.

 

[greyhound]

very impressive, the 180kb video pretty much utilised all of the RAM on this machine

 

[Westside]

I posted this on gbatemp about a year ago I think. Good game, but it needs one hell of a machine.

 

[Veho]

I just noticed this is the ".theprodukkt" page. They made those demos I was talking about.


(The product will make you happy.)

 

[Mehdi]

most of my word documents exceed 96 kb... wtf

 

[nintendofreak]

how do they do it!?!

 

[Caoimhin]

It "does" all the textures and so on while loading. The .exe just tells them what to generate. Something like that I think

 

[Xeijin]

A little explanation from the readme for those interested:

- We do .not. have some kind of magical data compression machine that is able to squeeze
hundreds of megabytes of mesh/texture and sound data into 96k. We merely store the
individual steps employed by the artists to produce their textures and meshes, in a very
compact way. This allows us to get .much. higher data density than is achievable with
normal data compression techniques, at some expense in artistic freedom and loading times.
- .kkrieger is not written in 100% assembler/machine language. Not even nearly. Like the
vast majority of game projects being developed today, .kkrieger was mostly written in
C++, with some tiny bits of assembler where it is actually advantageous (notably, there
are a lot of MMX optimisations in the texture generator).
- A kilobyte is, historically, defined to be 1024 (2^10) bytes, not 1000. Thus .kkrieger is
a game in 96k even though it's actually 98304 bytes.
- The concept of the texture/mesh generators was developed by fiver2. We do .not. want to
claim that the techniques we used to develop .kkrieger are new inventions. It´s rather a
selection of useful operations and their parameters to optimise the results.

 

[rest0re]

OLD NEWS ... google for procedural generation. those guys are really 31337 scene coders. they made some stuff earlier this
year 177kb called something like fr-041 debris ... realtime animation or machinima or however you want to called it only 177kb
so phear farbrausch and theprodukt

 

[iamwhoiam]

Simply astounding!!Â

kkrieger

these guys are doing amazing stuff

old >.<

it's been around for ages

 

[sipoon]

it's new to me!!! and it's still amazing..talk about optimization