Duck and Cover

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 6:14 am**

http://www.theprodukkt.com/kkrieger.html

I've yet to mess with it, but the screen shots look nice.

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 6:19 am**

This is so old that yo momma can't remember it.

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 6:39 am**

I think its been posted about twice already.

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 7:08 am**

Meh. I'd never seen it.

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:50 am**

http://www.duckandcover.cx/forums/viewt ... sc&start=0

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:09 am**

OH SHIT I HEAR THE ICE CREAM TRUCK!!!!!111!1111oneone

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 1:57 pm**

Ryno discovers the INTERNET

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:43 pm**

That game is ancient.

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:11 pm**

That game is bad.

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:32 pm**

ExtremeRyno wrote:Meh. I'd never seen it.

Nice try punker.

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:36 pm**

I tried to forget it.

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:55 pm**

After seeing megatron's post, I do realize I had seen it. I just didn't get it because I don't usually download random zip files.

Anyone know why they dropped the project?

I'd much rather play games that are less than 100kb than play games that require 6GB or more.

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 6:57 pm**

Well I'd rather play games that require less than 2000$ vid card.

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 7:57 pm**

ExtremeRyno wrote:Anyone know why they dropped the project?

Well gee, I could go and ask since the developers live almost next door...

"well, it is exactly that, a technology showoff for our procedural content creation system, the .werkkzeug3. if you're interested in the details, refer to our technology section."

I think the group's been pretty quiet recently. Not anything new in quite a while, latest news entry: "5 aug 04". Besides, they used to (and I think they still do) concentrate on making demos and applying for different kinds of competitions with them. But I'm not even sure if they were present at the Assembly '05...

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:18 am**

Their demos are much cooler than that game.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:02 am**

ExtremeRyno wrote:After seeing megatron's post, I do realize I had seen it. I just didn't get it because I don't usually download random zip files.

Anyone know why they dropped the project?

I'd much rather play games that are less than 100kb than play games that require 6GB or more.

It requires a lot more power to run a game like that, because it creates everything or something.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:31 am**

Also it means the textures really, really suck and hey howdy this game's textures really suck. Not to mention the awful design, but that's independent of the technology, of course.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:28 am**

And not just textures, sound effects also. Those things are dang tough to compress. But oh well there's not much room for creativity since most of the things you see in the game are created by 20kb big mathematical algorithms.

Posted: **Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:23 am**

The actual demoes and the game they make are bogus...

All of the textures already exist on your computer, in DirectX, so the program just utilizes those, explaining why the files are so compact.

Looks nice though, and makes a nice first time impression.

Posted: **Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:31 pm**

Smiley wrote:All of the textures already exist on your computer, in DirectX, so the program just utilizes those, explaining why the files are so compact.

Uh, no shit?

I think you missed the point, which is that it's still bloody spectacular to use such a narrow collection of raw materials and turn it into something like they have. I've seen shittier stuff that can only barely be squeezed on a DVD, so I think 128/96/64 kb is pretty damn fine.

Like I said earlier, most of content in those packages is just pure math; algorithms, whatever.

Duck and Cover

FPS in 96kb.

FPS in 96kb.