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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

WASM-4 would good engine for this. Assuming you don't also have to ship the runtime.

https://wasm4.org/

Games are at most 64kb.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It seems they're including the runtime in the size, and have prohibited web based games for this reason (unless you can find a browser that fits in 1.44MB). Submissions must be a native executable (I'm assuming for x86)

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well technically since it compiles to wasm you just need a wasm runtime and a rendering system. Not a whole browser. Some people have reported getting wasm-4 games running on microcontrollers.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure you could do it with a standalone runtime, but it will just be overhead compared to compiling directly to x86, at least for the purposes of this competition. I'm a fan of WASM for a lot of other applications tho

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Fair enough