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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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[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (7 children)

In era of hundreds of GB game, to see someone make game less than 2 MB is very surprising. it's like we going back to NES era where every game fit in one single cartridge, no update, no DLC, and no resources hogging, everything was smooth

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 week ago

I did hear a point about general game dev trends which is how optimisation wasn't really a step in older games like it is now. When confined to the MB scale, or even just the finite scale of a single disc, the process wasn't one of bloat and then half-arsed optimization but hyper optimised from the get go. I don't think this shift is entirely the performance budget of modern games, but the multi-platform, limitless upper end, no disc limit design of modern games.

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