Q1K3 manages to pack in two levels, five different enemy types, three weapons, audio, and more.

You can play it in your browser here.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    Let me quote myself:

    I hate this “storage is cheap” mentality, it’s a cop out for being wasteful without a reason.

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      02·
      9 months ago

      And there’s almost always a reason. Code size tends to be modest compared to supporting data around it.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        I see you’ve never dealt with a real life project that requires god knows how many different libraries off nodejs because 🤷‍♂️

        Dependency hell takes a lot of space.

        • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
          01·
          9 months ago

          I have. Still small compared to the images and such that are used in a user facing application.

          Edit: just to bring in real numbers, I have an old TypeScript project that results in a 109M node_modules dir. Which I agree is absurd. I also have an old anime video, 21 minutes long, at only 560x432 resolution, 24fps, which takes 171M. And that’s my point: even in really bad cases, code size tends to be swamped out by everything else in user-facing applications. If there’s any kind of images, music, or video, the code size will be a small part of the complete picture.