The making of is well worth a read: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of

Epic. That's super cool. That dog thing is very cute though, I felt bad.

js13k is super cool. Here is my favorite game from there: https://js13kgames.com/2022/games/infernal-throne

There was also some kind of java4k thing back in the day. Notch did a bunch of those:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100218133531/http://www.mojang...

Related this week:

CSSQuake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608223

Some previous discussions:

2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40558607

2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28520221

I read the whole writeup assuming it was LLM assisted, then when I got to the bottom I realized it's from 2021 and was blown away.

Very nice! Lack of pathfinding hardly made itself visible, in intense combat I at first assumed they did have some kind of pathfinding

Does it work on mobile?

Game video: https://youtu.be/tX8340GV87U?t=30

I definitely recommend checking out all top games from this competition over the years. Quite a few gems.

Great job!

This is really remarkable, and frankly more playable than a number of niche ports like this that I've tried - great work!

very cool, try it with other games

Imagine, if someone would start making operating system and its applications that are just kilobytes in size. RAM price crysis would resolve in a day.

Very epic stuff

the Wolfenstein3D-like game in only a few hundred bytes WITH SOUND might be even more impressive even though it's like exploits all the way down

oddly can't find a link to it at the moment