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Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021) (js13kgames.com)
172 points by mortenjorck 32 days ago
14 comments
boricj 26 days ago
The making of is well worth a read: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of
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fiatpandas 25 days ago
Love the ingenuity of the texture DSL. So much variety can be packed into a small footprint.
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djmips 25 days ago
In praise of a good editor.
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andai 25 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...

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kristianp 24 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.

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ChrisArchitect 32 days ago
Some previous discussions:

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

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

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ChrisArchitect 32 days ago
Related this week:

CSSQuake

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

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ck2 25 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

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M4v3R 25 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
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ck2 25 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

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no-name-here 26 days ago
Does it work on mobile?

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

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maxlin 25 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
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lopis 26 days ago
I definitely recommend checking out all top games from this competition over the years. Quite a few gems.
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butz 25 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.
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0x20cowboy 25 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.

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rightbyte 24 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.

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heresalexandria 25 days ago
This is really remarkable, and frankly more playable than a number of niche ports like this that I've tried - great work!
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slavcik 25 days ago
Very epic stuff
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tribal808 25 days ago
very cool, try it with other games
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dmonterocrespo 25 days ago
Great job!
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syspec 25 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.
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3eb7988a1663 25 days ago
Does this make you question the accuracy of your personal LLM detector?
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grg0 25 days ago
Blown away as in he had LLMs before anybody else did?
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