And id Software’s Qtest multiplayer-only demo of Quake was released exactly 30 years ago today.
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Developer Daivuk has released QUOD , a 64KB ‘boomer shooter’ with an uncanny resemblance to id Software’s seminal FPS title, Quake . Astonishingly, this tiny executable delivers a Quake-like 3D gaming experience with “3 levels, 1 boss fight, 4 unique enemies, 4 weapons, and a handful of power-ups.” Moreover, it doesn’t call on any external resources; the whole caboodle of textures, sounds, music, levels, models, animations, and code is compressed into that minimal 64KB download.
Above, you can see Daivuk present his own tiny FPS masterwork, in a nicely structured step-by-step video, which touches on topics such as optimizing the textures, maps, models & animations, audio , code, and even creating a virtual machine for a further 2KB of file size savings.
The developer starts by explaining that the QUOD project has been about 10 years in gestation, but has only really been worked upon in the last year. Daivuk indicates to viewers that he has long thought 64KB is the sweet spot for such impressive demos. “It’s very small, but still leaves room for creativity,” he says.
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/ambitious-developer-showcases-slick-triple-level-quake-like-game-stored-in-tiny-64kb-executable-every-game-asset-tucked-inside-what-could-be-a-rounding-error-in-modern-app-payload-terms#main
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