On another forum, I was complaining about how Microsoft was planning to remove WordPad from Win11. I was advised that installing OpenOffice or LibreOffice was an appropriate replacement. I replied that WordPad was only 3 megs large, as opposed to the recommended replacements, which are decidedly larger.

I guess not everybody appreciates tight code, but I surely do. Things like this are amazingly impressive.

Reminds me of kkreiger, an fps with impressive graphics and sound for the time, that weighed in at 96KB.

https://youtu.be/2NBG-sKFaB0

How much of that is third-party libraries, and/or third-party hosted? Obviously the assets (images and music) aren’t being counted.

This is amazing for only 13KB.

And I was blown away the ps1 game Vagrant Story turned Into 90mb file as a chd.

That said one of the games I enjoyed most even when I had an Amiga was a 48k ZX Spectrum game called Chaos.

I did not know that I needed loderunner-quake in my life.

Thanks for posting.

To everyone scoffing: welcome to sizecoding! Yes, they really fit the textures and models and music in that limit. No, we don't care what the browser or hardware does for free. If you want tighter technical limits, contests go as low as you can imagine.

Here's a 256-byte raymarching demo for MS-DOS.

Here's an MS-DOS clone of Descent, in 4 KB.

Images are procedurally generated. It doesn't mean random; it means rules were followed. Music is generally MIDI-ish, with a synthesizer also built into the code. Instrument samples can also be procedurally generated, and effects like echo and stretching are commonplace. Models in this game are... well you can see why they don't take much space. But other projects get smooth and detailed objects using tesselation (remember that from 2007?), constructive solid geometry (cube with cylinder cut out), or signed distance fields (you are on your own).

The most useful tool is cheating your ass off. This game does not have doors. Everything's rectilinear. But it's based on levels you already recognize, so your brain hand-waves the missing parts and focuses on what looks like you expect. Contrast it with that Descent demo, which is dead-on. Seriously, that thing is from 1997, and they even nailed the sparkles in the healing chamber. If a bare Pentium with VGA isn't bare-metal enough for you, I'll try to find something tiny and mindblowing on ZX Spectrum, which had to be coerced into doing any damn thing.