.kkrieger (A FPS that fits in 98kb of disk space)

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When was the last time you played an FPS which was 98kb in size? I found this about 2 and a 1/2 years back when going through some demoscene presentation.

An excerpt from Wikipedia about this little wonder:
.kkrieger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The entire game uses only 97,280 bytes of disk space. Much of this small size is attributable to the game's use of procedurally generated content. In contrast, most popular first-person shooters fill one or more CDs or DVDs. [1] According to the developers, .kkrieger itself would take up around 200—300MB of space if it had been stored the conventional way."

This is a great piece of software/game for its size. I just wanted to share this little wonder with you guys.

Direct Download: http://kk.kema.at/files/kkrieger-beta.zip
.kkrieger Info Page: .theprodukkt (scroll down for screenshots)
 
That is really cool.....

Here is some more on this game......

How the size is achieved:

.kkrieger makes extensive use of procedural generation methods:

Textures are stored via their creation history instead of a per-pixel basis, thus only requiring the history data (possibly as low as ~300 bytes per texture at any resolution) and the generator code to be compiled into the executable, producing a relatively small file size.

Meshes are created from basic solids such as boxes and cylinders, which are then deformed to achieve the desired shape - essentially a special way of box modeling.

These two generation processes explain the extensive loading time of the game - all assets of the gameplay are reproduced during the loading phase.

The game music and sounds are produced by a multifunctional synthesizer called V2, which is fed a continuous stream of MIDI data. The synthesizer then produces the music in realtime.:hap2:

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OOOLLLLDDD topic.. if u kno that u yourself found this like 2 years ago, den try to search on the forums please...
 
sTALKEr said:
OOOLLLLDDD topic.. if u kno that u yourself found this like 2 years ago, den try to search on the forums please...
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That is precisely the reason why I posted it here. Many gamers have joined the ranks in the past 2 years. So, I didn't want them to miss out on real gems like this one. Also you cannot search for something who's name you haven't heard of.

If you have seen it before, you choose can ignore it. Hope you don't mind :)
 
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