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Comment by leeoniya | Hacker News Reader

let's not forget .kkrieger - their 96k procedural FPS game [1]

also, ryg from Farbrausch (who works for RAD Game Tools) blogs regularly [2]. A story about their crazy .kkrieger code sprints at [3] (submitted about a year ago [4])

[1] http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036

[2] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/

[3] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7739599

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My favorite bits from link 3:

  In the menu at the start, cursor-down works,
  but cursor-up doesn’t (he never hit cursor-up
  in menus during the test run).

  The small enemies at the start can hit you, but
  he didn’t get hit by any enemy shots, so in the
  released version of .kkrieger enemy shots deal
  no damage.

96k. Think about that for a sec. Most big name games for PC are ~10GB these days... 100,000x as big as .kkrieger.

Funny how they apparently did go with reusability at the end ;).

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