The produkkt strikes again
First they made a first person shooter in 96kb. Now the produkkt has this beautifully textured movie in 177 kb. That includes music, camera motions, models, textures, everything! You could fit four of these on a 5-1/2 inch floppy disk.
The secret? Procedural content creation. Rather than storing pictures of a brick wall, they just store a set of formulas that explain how to make a brick wall. Same goes for the synthesizer sounds, video effects, etc. For this reason, the movie takes a minute or so to load: it has to generate all that stuff and store it in memory.
There’s a whole community dedicated to making fast, tiny programs like this. It’s called the demoscene.
April 26th, 2007 at 11:21 am
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