Or a zip file in this case...

This is a full First Person Shooter in a 96kb file. My machine can barely play it, but I’m still impressed.

Discuss

Oh... One more thing... Before anyone else:
OMG WAREZ!!!!!1111oneone

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Crashes on my computer.

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Produced by Farb-Rausch by any chance? There's been stuff about 3D in 64k posted before, but never a game in under 100k. Very cool. I would love to see the source for it.

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You guys tell us how it goes (like if it is crashy), then I will decide if I should try it.

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Explain to me, how that...is only..96k, yet it takes ages to load. and ...that is impossible. Seriously. impossible. music and graphics and WTF.

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Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!

Everything is created at runtime - it's all procedural stuff. That's why it takes so long to load..

If I remember correctly from fr-08, which was the .product, all the program contains is a lot of text instructions to the processor and GPU. Nothing is actually pre-rendered or pre-composed, at least not in the sense that it's a seperate file. I don't remember exactly how they did it, but it's really neat.

Movies at http://www.farb-rausch.com

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Played it. it looks okay, I mean, lighting and textures are amazing. Modles are meh. But OMFG, it's so cool 96k?!?!?!

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Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!

The only thing I can think of is if it generates them from algorithms and/or downloads stuff when it's loading. You might try it without a network connection.

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Runs fine on my system, yet takes forever to load though. Graphics are a bit messed up though..

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My lighting was rather trippy at times. In the readme they mention that instead of actually including the textures and meshes, procedurals were written to actually generate most of them at runtime, hence the exceptional load times. I also have no question that this thing relies entirely on some APL or another to do all the rendering.

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*makes the West Wind blow East for wasting his time*

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Prowling out of the tundra, swinging a jeweled meat hammer, cometh Outlaw Torn! And he gives a gutteral bellow:

"I'm seriously going to hump you until you scream like a banshee!"

Its still pretty cool

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Aside from the lighting being abysmal, it ran peachy.

Didn't take all that long to load on a 3 GHz P4 either.

It looks impressive... Too bad I don't have any video cards supporting ps/vs...

As for the low size, that is easily understood. Maps, models, and instructions are basically text, and text that can be compressed excessively, at that.

As for textures, that is where you can cut the most space. For example, the download for UT2k4 is over 200MB. I don't quite remember how much of that is textures, but it's a lot, primarily because game textures are excessively large bitmaps, even if they use a different type of bitmap format.

Sounds are probably the only place where the game leaves me scratching my head. Last I knew, there was only one format that could create CD-quality (almost) sound in a tiny format, and that was the SNES's "MPC" (or whatever) format, which worked similar to a MIDI, but could fit decent voice clips and music tracks into files 8-64kb in size.

That reminds me of another game that fits into an almost as ludicrous space: Stars!. It's a fairly nice game, and the whole thing is encrypted into a single .exe file that's less than 3MB uncompressed, and it loads quickly in that form (it's 2D, though)

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
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would this count as a full game or is it just like one or 2 maps with some enemies? ragdoll? how is the AI?

i dare someone to review it objectively ignoring the load time and the fact that it's only 96KB

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wang is within all

Allow me to correct myself. I did not mean to say that the size wasn't impressive. To be honest, I founf it a bit shocking (though the game may contain less content then I thought, because I haven't played it yet). An advanced 3D game in 96k? In a few megs I could understand... Or if it was a raycaster (like Doom), and not a true 3D game... I figured the smallest file could pack a game into would be about 5 megabytes.

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
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I remember Stars!, that was one of the first games I ever downloaded from the internet. It was a rather impressive "Masters of Orion"-ish game with allot of content if I recall.

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it wouldn't even load up on my comp.



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No mouse inversion. Yuck.

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I played around enough to pick up 3 weapons, heh. The lighting and backwards controls(I'm an inverted Y-axis kinda guy) were giving me a headache though, so I quit.

The models on the enimies are not too good, but the surroundings and lighting are frelling awesome, and that's not simply from being 98kb. I got stuck a few times, but this is a beta build, so you have to expect it

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Yep. And once I got the full version, I found that it does have a ludicrous amount of content. It must have several hundred icon images, as well as data tables for hundreds of technologies, and a seemingly enless list of humorous planet names (There's at least 1000). I'm surprised that manages to fit into <3MB, though the manual PDF is a hefty 8MB.

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
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Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

I can work with the mouse's Y-axis either way...

...But unfortunately, I don't have the hardware for it... So I guess I lose.

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I would call it a Quake style Demo. There is one map, five weapons and three different types of enemies. The map layout is uninspired, yet graphically pleasing, In a dark industrial/gothic theme. Some of 3d elements match up with many modern big budget 3d Games with good-looking architecture, quality texturing, reflections, and even dynamic lighting (with the assumption that the lighting actually works when YOU run it).

The 3d models are moderate, but the powerups seem slightly out of place (they are immune to lighting rules, so they really stand out).

There are no ragdoll effects (bad guys just disappear when they die), or any real physics effects at all. And the AI is abysmal being little more than "Chase the good guy". Sound effects are awful, and the music is repetitive. Controls can sometimes be unresponsive.

There are no save points, and the game does not stop when you die, you simply respawn. It is also possible to get wedged into the level geometry such that it is impossible to proceed, luckily there is a manual re-spawn command.

Game play is about as bad as it can be, and overall the game is easy, if moderately long.

Pros: Graphics, useable weapons

Cons: Everything else

Overall: Don’t but it, don’t spend more than 5 minuets downloading it, and don’t waste more than 1MB of hard disk space storing it.




ya happy now?


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I can't. I've been playing inverted y-axis since the first time I played a game with mouselook and changing that is hard. Which I can't remember what game that would've been because with my horrible memory I can't remember what games had mouselook and what didn't. Was either DF, Duke 3D, or Quake though...

Oh, and I timed it for the hell of it. Took 53 seconds to load, heh.

Games can be compressed pretty well. As what I consider a good example, I entered a contest at DF-21 a while ago. Though the download size for my entry is the smallest, it is easily as large as the other two entries combined, and takes roughly as long to play as both of them put together. (and is 1000 times harder!)

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

I've seen things like this before, but this is the most impressive yet. As a matter of fact, I recognized some of the team from previous things that I've seen.

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Uh, yeah. I'm impressed. Not. Maybe if they could get it to, you know, work on more than 1 kind of system, I'd be impressed. There is NO reason for it not to run with my system..

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Yeah, because it's not like it's a very early beta version of something very unique(the FPS aspect of it) that's never really been done before or anything...

You guys are totally missing the point. They didnt make it to be actively played, its merely a demo. LIke all their previews demos, cept this one is interactive...


This was posted on /. this morning, and kb actully responded...

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Crashes on my computer when I try to run it. Is there a list of minimum requirements for it somewhere?

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Doesn't crash on mine, but runs really glitchy... lights not working right and stuff. Also, it'd be really nice if he had some control options someplace since I'm used to the mouse y-axis being inverted :x

Still, it's a beta. that's really slick!

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Actually it ran smooth as silk on my TI 4200.

Of course, it would depend on the processor and RAM you have coupled with coupled with the card... If you've only got a P4 1.5Ghz w/512MB, it would probably still run crappy with a 9600...

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

JK was the game I learned to mouselook with (I actually used keyboard my first play through! *gasp*) so I was used the the inverted "aeroplane" style and then Anachronox came along with out invert, so I had to get used to the "normal" way. Now I play everything the normal way, even JK, and the inverted style seems odd, despite having played that way for years.

So, uhh, play Anachronox. It's good...