KKRIEGER DEMO 96KB GAME FROM 2004

Ooo

They used to have this magical aura back then... idk games today are kinda cold....

Damn will somebody look at those light reflections on the environment from your bullets? How the heck is this game just 96KB????

Map included (there's only one).

quote: They used to have this magical aura back then... idk games today are kinda cold....

The overwhelming majority of modern games are made purely as money grabbing devices either for personal benefit or for the benefit of stakeholders/stockholders. Creativity and new IPs risk not being profitable which doesn't look great for those stockholders who want ever increasing profits. Keep in mind that C-Suits also get stock incentives and you start to see the problem of why you don't see any new blockbuster IP. This is why games feel cold to you; you're essentially picking up on the corporatism seeping in.

quote: The overwhelming majority of modern games are made purely as money grabbing devices either for personal benefit or for the benefit of stakeholders/stockholders. Creativity and new IPs risk not being profitable which doesn't look great for those stockholders who want ever increasing profits. Keep in mind that C-Suits also get stock incentives and you start to see the problem of why you don't see any new blockbuster IP. This is why games feel cold to you; you're essentially picking up on the corporatism seeping in.

I believe this is more an issue due to game development becoming a career path rather than a side hobby. There probably are people making nice little indie games and projects, but they don't end up as mainstream games.

What's happening is that people wanting to make games for a living often have to target what's easiest to market and get a quick and big ROI. Hence they need to rush development and get the latest gimmicky features into their games along with ways to get themselves quickly monetized, so file size kinda goes out the window. They've also got to target the demographic of people most willing to spend money on such games - what you end up with is a bunch of rushed titles that appeals to a broad group of people who'd rather pay to play what's trending at the moment. Of course they also then have the responsibility towards shareholders.

There's nothing inherently wrong with that. You've just got to go looking for the cool indie titles or games that fit your criteria. A large group of people only play a few popular titles, you just have to avoid them.

quote: The overwhelming majority of modern games are made purely as money grabbing devices either for personal benefit or for the benefit of stakeholders/stockholders.

I think there might be some bias with that statement. I am sure there are more boring/stupid/corporate games, so indeed finding the great titles might take more effort than before. That being said I have played some amazing (at least for me) games recently - would list NierAutomata, DeathStranding, ItTakesTwo or Gibous (all new, different genres). And all are obviously well funded, professionally done games.

The 13k quake in a browser makes me think about how much stuff is in a browser and how much computing power we use just for abstraction sake. Has benefits but man that's a lot.

The demo scene was crazy but in the end a lot are down to compression/procedural generation. Impressive but you might still require some significant loading time or cpu power, when in the end nowadays storage is the cheapest thing.

Missed:
.kkrieger – Making Of Blog:

https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public/tree/master/werkkzeug3
https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public/blob/master/werkkzeug3/genmesh.cpp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger

Micro Mages – Making Of Blog:

ROM City Rampage - NES
https://sourceforge.net/projects/neshla/
3dSen PC (3D NES Emulator)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147940/3dSen_PC/
https://github.com/tructv/3DNes_Engine
https://geod.itch.io/3dsen-maker






Now, not really small, but i did like the pure ASCII thing:

Stone Story RPG (think something similar could have been made in old times):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/603390/Stone_Story_RPG/



ASCIICKER - "3D ASCII"- Press Q/E to rotate camera:
https://asciicker.com/y7/
https://www.reddit.com/r/asciicker/
https://github.com/msokalski/asciicker

There some anothers "ASCII 3D Filters/Shaders" on internet too...

KeeperRL an Open Source Dwarf Fortress alternative:
https://miki151.itch.io/keeperrl
https://github.com/miki151/keeperrl

and lot's of Roguelikes....

Unknown and niche, but that i did like:
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona (text based kingdom management)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/659540/Warsim_The_Realm_of_Aslona/
demo Warsim.zip v0687:
https://huw2k8.itch.io/warsim

AI Dungeon 2 (Procedural generation text adventure game which uses artificial intelligence to generate content. You can type whatever you want.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Dungeon
https://github.com/Latitude-Archives/AIDungeon






OpenXcom Extended very good too and small cause base on "X-Com 1 = UFO: Enemy Unknown (1994)".
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5258.0.html




and also a little off topic, but Coding History: 3D from Mode7 to DOOM, will be nice too for people interested in topic:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eniko/coding-history-3d-from-mode7-to-doom



Finally For Fun [FFF]:
Game Boy Color (GBC) Homebrew
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/metalscale/kharons-crypt-even-death-may-die
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII_(NES_video_game)
Java Fabled Lands (JaFL) (formerly known as FLApp):
http://flapp.sourceforge.net/
Extra ASCII that i am following:
Arcane Fortune (ASCII Civilization/Freeciv Roguelike) v1

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/01/empire-building-terminal-game-arcane-fortune-adds-trade-nobility-assassination
https://arcanefortune.com/screenshots.php
https://github.com/cody2007/arcane_fortune
Ultima Ratio Regum (ASCII Civilization/Freeciv Roguelike) v2
http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Ultima_Ratio_Regum
https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/games/ultima-ratio-regum/

ASCIIDENT (Terraria like ?)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113220/ASCIIDENT/

Ascii Sector (old ASCII Space Ship game)
http://www.asciisector.net/