Some of you will already know this, in that case just ignore. I decided to try out some of the other free games like Alien Arena and came across this game: http://theprodukkt.com/kkrieger - Its just a small coding show-off sample so dont expect anything much, no multiplayer and such, not even options. You just run down some corridors and hallways and thats all.
Dont be irritated, the game IS that small. Really. Yes, in KILObytes.

And that's what makes it so great. All calculated in realtime. No story, no real AI to talk of, but why bother.

Make sure your computer is up to spec or it will look very wierd as then it can't calculate it in realtime so it just doesn't happen. No walls.

Ed: I'm going to assume you are smarter than that post gives you kredit for.. .theprodukt is freaking awesome. It is second to nothing. It is abseloutly insane. ..krieger is just as good.. talk about contradicting one self, but its the same ppl

Do you have _any_ idea of how lil 96KB is in this case?

To bad I cant play it.. reverse mouse is missing

Can't run it.

On a similar note:

http://www.rasterwerks.com/

Not bad for running inside a browser window.





(and I can run it!)

kozak6 wrote:Can't run it.

Aaaaaaaah! Hahahaaaaaa! Raaaaaaaaaaaah!

tChr wrote:Ed: I'm going to assume you are smarter than that post gives you kredit for.. .theprodukt is freaking awesome. It is second to nothing. It is abseloutly insane. ..krieger is just as good.. talk about contradicting one self, but its the same ppl

Do you have _any_ idea of how lil 96KB is in this case?

tchr, I was saying it was great. That was my point.

Ed wrote:

tChr wrote:Ed: I'm going to assume you are smarter than that post gives you kredit for.. .theprodukt is freaking awesome. It is second to nothing. It is abseloutly insane. ..krieger is just as good.. talk about contradicting one self, but its the same ppl

Do you have _any_ idea of how lil 96KB is in this case?

tchr, I was saying it was great. That was my point.

heeee...

I readt the other way..i read: "And what makes it so great..."

And its just a beta showoff. I so beg to any deity thats out there for them to release the first MMORPG thats less than 1 mb for Free!

That Phosphor - Rasterwerks game is awesome! Almost what i was just talking of! Add an online multiplayer and we're done!

That Phosphor Rasterworks game does have multiplayer.

For some reasons on my new pc it simply quits
I know kkrieger for a long time, but I could never test it with a good pc.

.krieger is amazing. I hope to god they follow through with a full game of any kind.

wow i didn't knew someting like that was possible.... i knew the demo-scene was globally really active... but THAT is the most impressive coding thing i've seen since a lotta years. Procedural textures generated on the fly ! God they are crazy
ty for teh link 4m

well kkrieger is pretty old by now so i guess their procedual textures were only a nice idea. Granted a very very nice idea but nowadays storage memory is rather cheap. I would however imagine it to be very useful for changing online games.. a MMPORG with new stories, dungeons and textures every weeks.. download a few kb of math instructions to calculate the textures.

Imagine the possibilities! IMAGINE!!!! A ginormous online RPG world that you could easily access and explore with your browser! (Haha! No not like RuneScape!) Giving Automated Content Download a totally new dimension!

SecondLife

Dave wrote:SecondLife

where's the point? you got to download textures there (although it would be nice to have math-instructed textures there... always takes long to load the textures...)

esteel wrote:well kkrieger is pretty old by now so i guess their procedual textures were only a nice idea. Granted a very very nice idea but nowadays storage memory is rather cheap. I would however imagine it to be very useful for changing online games.. a MMPORG with new stories, dungeons and textures every weeks.. download a few kb of math instructions to calculate the textures.

Storage memory's been cheap for a long time now, already when it was released. It's not that the demoscene is trying to achieve anything "useful" (imagine that) with this and intros. They're just doing it for the sake of doing it and trying to push the limits. There isn't and very likely never will be a reason to squeeze something that requires massive computation into 4k, 64k or indeed 96k.

I remember reading about them trying to make money off of that calculated textures thing. No idea if they got some deal or not..

It was even digged too late, some hilariously ignorant comments here
http://www.digg.com/playable_web_games/ ... s_only_1mb

i love how they keep on arguing about the megabyte. XD