Comment by bobsam

9 years ago

96KB?

A guy I know wrote a Minecraft clone, a left 4 dead clone and a populus clone in 4KB each.

(he also wrote the real Minecraft)

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PhasmaFelis  9 years ago

IIRC, the "Left 4 Dead clone" was a single-player top-down shooter with sub-Atari 2600 graphics, and the "Minecraft clone" was basically a screen saver, zooming non-interactively through endless raycast cubes. Much respect for doing that in 4K, but it's not directly comparable to a fully textured and lit FPS.

rounce  9 years ago

Rather unfair comparison IMO. All of the '4k' demos you mention rely on the Java runtime and lean on the big JRE stdlib. That's not to their detriment, just that they've had some rather large hurdles overcome for them compared to the starting point of produkkt/Farbrausch.

> (he also wrote the real Minecraft) So what you're /actually/ trying to do is namedrop, and say "I know notch". Good for you. I find it funny that you felt the need to add this footnote, given anyone who is wise to these prods (or just googles them) will be aware of the author.