This Game Only Weighs 8 KB!
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The theme was "Limited Space", so I took it quite literally.
*Created by Guilherme Teres (@UnidayStudio)*
This code was put together in a few (around 3) hours to fit the theme. I had this idea to make a game with the final executable having the smallest size as possible, ideally bellow 16 KB, since I was not able to think about anything else with this theme.
Unfortunately I lost the first two days of the jam trying other (more complex) ideas, so I was not able to put this in the Compo, even making it in 3 hours. I think it would be a perfect game for the category. But I'll leave it open source anyways!
The game itself is very simple, just a Sokoban clone with no sound and a few levels. But it have some interesting features, such as procedurally generated textures for the sprites and a hand drawn character pixel art using nothing but binary. :P
Code is a bit of a mess, but given the short amount of time I had, I'm happy with it. It uses no external lib, just Windows.h, which sadly makes it window specific, but I think it would be a bit harder to make it extremely small in size and still cross platform.
This was my first attempt to make an executable small, I know that there are plenty of advanced techniques out there that I'm not using and that I could same a lot more space on stack and not using any default lib, but I'l already happy with the result.
It was fun to develop this little project! :)
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If you want to check how I manage to make it so small or even try to add new levels yourself, you can follow those steps:
In order to build this project, you must be on Windows and have MSVC and Make installed. Then you need to follow those steps:
- Open the Native Tools Command Prompt for VS (so you can use msvc's `cl` and `link`)
- Navigate to this project's root folder
- Type `make`
*Created by Guilherme Teres (@UnidayStudio)*
But... WHY?
This code was put together in a few (around 3) hours to fit the theme. I had this idea to make a game with the final executable having the smallest size as possible, ideally bellow 16 KB, since I was not able to think about anything else with this theme.
Unfortunately I lost the first two days of the jam trying other (more complex) ideas, so I was not able to put this in the Compo, even making it in 3 hours. I think it would be a perfect game for the category. But I'll leave it open source anyways!
The game itself is very simple, just a Sokoban clone with no sound and a few levels. But it have some interesting features, such as procedurally generated textures for the sprites and a hand drawn character pixel art using nothing but binary. :P
Code is a bit of a mess, but given the short amount of time I had, I'm happy with it. It uses no external lib, just Windows.h, which sadly makes it window specific, but I think it would be a bit harder to make it extremely small in size and still cross platform.
Update (Before Jam Ends):
One hour remaining for the end of the Jam, I managed to remove LIBC from the project, saving another ~8 KB. I'll keep BOTH versions for download here, so you can try them all. The only difference is the size in disk and I made both versions DURING the jam (so keep that in mind). This is how it looks like now:This was my first attempt to make an executable small, I know that there are plenty of advanced techniques out there that I'm not using and that I could same a lot more space on stack and not using any default lib, but I'l already happy with the result.
It was fun to develop this little project! :)
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Bonus: Building the Source Code
If you want to check how I manage to make it so small or even try to add new levels yourself, you can follow those steps:
In order to build this project, you must be on Windows and have MSVC and Make installed. Then you need to follow those steps:
- Open the Native Tools Command Prompt for VS (so you can use msvc's `cl` and `link`)
- Navigate to this project's root folder
- Type `make`