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Ego Shooter in 96kb

Beta 1 of kkrieger, an ego-shooter doom3 like game in 96kb has been released this weekend:

http://www.theprodukkt.com

This games needs DirectX 9.0, and a high-end graphicscard (Pixelshaders)! Everything has been done with Visual C++ and x86 Assembler!

Here's a screenshot:

Posted: Apr 15 2004, 09:34 AM by Peter Koen | with 51 comment(s)

Comments

dj spoof said:

This crashes on my computer but I don't meet the requirements. I wish I had some solid proof to tell people that this isn't a gimmick. Everyone tells me that it's either suspicious or fake. One person asked if it was a virus :(
# April 18, 2004 5:42 AM

TschernoBill said:

Fuck, it seems that from no on everything will be released on a floppy disk... ^^

Great respekt to that crew!
# April 18, 2004 5:55 AM

shadowforever78 said:

Hi everybody i tryed to run the game but it doesnt work :( well i only got an Athlon 2400+ and an Geforce 2 /400 64 MB , and 382 MB RAM maybe the configuration tis the problem well dont know maybe i can get some help here.

Well maybe you visit our portal :) thx alot


faithfully


CsShAdOw
# April 18, 2004 8:24 AM

Eugene said:

File works fine here!
P4 3200 and Radeon 9800XT
Sometimes you can't move anymore... Just look around. Jump en walking is not possible. But it is a beta!! Amazing how much you can put in less than 100K!
# April 18, 2004 9:59 AM

deathbyzen said:

woah how did they get it down so small?

it worked fine for me, AtholonXP 2500+ and a Powercolor ATI 9800se.

amazing that they got it down so small.
# April 18, 2004 10:34 AM

cornholio said:

dudes, it don't work.. not on an athlon running w2k nor on a p4 running xp....

maybe i should try it on linux with winex...

if it don't work it ain't impressive, no matter how small it is...
# April 18, 2004 11:20 AM

JWLENNON said:

Man, I guess this is a kindda fake. I noticed that my cable MODEM worked so hard to download ev'rything for running this piece of sheet. It means that ev'ry other materials are in somewhere else; and I simply download them. Isn't this true, huh?
# April 18, 2004 1:00 PM

piglet44 said:

HOLY $#i+!!!!! amazing work with that size a program
# April 18, 2004 3:47 PM

piglet44 said:

i got a 2100+ athlon with 9200 ati and 512ram... runs fine
# April 18, 2004 3:48 PM

Bartboy said:

I got a ATHLON 1800+, a Geforce 4 MX-400 (64 MBRAM) on a NFORCE motherboard with 512 MD DDR-RAM and the application crashes. I installed the latest nvidia graphics driver.

Can somebody give me a hand ?

thanks.
# April 18, 2004 6:04 PM

R3B3L said:

It's real. I have a firewall and it doesn't get its textures from the web, as JWLENNON implied. It does nothing at all concerning the netwerk.

If the game doesn't run, check the spec list. Bartboy, you do not have a DirectX 9 compliant videocard, so you'll never be able to play this on your machine.

It does run on my machine, and I think it's brilliant. Not so much as a game, but more the achievement itself.
# April 18, 2004 6:45 PM

MalueMan said:

excellent, absolutely excellent. i love the graphical design and the sound is decent. the only problem i have is the frame rate, its really bad, hard to move and aim successfully and i don't get an ammo and health counter. either way its incredable for agame in 96k, absolutely amazing. if u could give me updates on versions etc. (email is pokeneo1@aol.com) i'm extremely interested in this.
# April 18, 2004 7:25 PM

Audio said:

I ran it on a P4 2.4 GHz, 512ram, GForce 4 MX 440, WIN XP, and a Athlon XP 1900+, 512ram, NFORCE motherboard GForce 4 MX 440. Doesn't work. is it because of my video card?
# April 19, 2004 1:35 AM

AnPapaSeiBua said:

read the readme.txt!

requirements:
- A Geforce4Ti (or higher) or ATI Radeon8500 (or higher) graphics card
supporting pixel shaders 1.3, preferably with 128MB or more of VRAM.
# April 19, 2004 5:51 AM

Lennon Hargreaves said:

This is amazing im running this on my NVIDIA GF4Ti4800 Superfast X2 and it looks awsome +_+;;;
# April 19, 2004 6:56 AM

FanaticVirus said:

It works great
The demo is running on my AMD 2,2 GHZ XP ,1024 MB Memory,Windows XP Pro,Geforce FX 5900 Ultra 256 MB.

Good work for an small game.

PS:all Movents and shots are going
# April 19, 2004 11:22 AM

Linuxgamer said:

The screenshots and the size of the game is very impressive. To bad I don´t have Windows so I can try it. Would love to try/buy it on Linux. Has anybody got it to work on Wine?

Would love to hear how you managed to do it.
# April 19, 2004 4:47 PM

Benjamin J. J. Voigt said:

@Linuxgamer: While I understand your desire, I truely believe without DirectX 9 on Linux you'll have a hard time building/running this :)
# April 19, 2004 5:05 PM

Killa Cam said:

I always said that programmers were lazy and made bloted code. THis game proves that! SO SMALL yet look at what they created! It worked for me, on my P4 2.8C, 512 RAM and 9800 ATI AIW PRO. Imagin what the game would look like if they made the game 1meg. :)
# April 19, 2004 5:31 PM

Alex said:

Holy shit. Holy shit. Sholy hit. Sholit! ... I mean, wow. Seriously, if you say this is done just with pixel shaders, you're full of crap. :) The models for things are just too detailed, and if this is what everything would look like with a per-pixel shader... damn. Someone should just make a basic, open-source shader for use by all professional and amateur sources, just so all our games can look this good. :)
# April 19, 2004 10:56 PM

Peter Koen said:

for details about the technologies used check out our second website @ http://www.theproduct.de there you will find screenshots of our tools and 2 nice gfx demos from our engine.
# April 20, 2004 5:02 AM

Peter said:

Here on ati9200SE width 64mb runs very slow.
# April 21, 2004 3:00 AM

S3th said:

I hadn't believed it if i hadn't run if...really impressive Code..

Runs perfect on my AthlonXP 2600+ @ 2300 MHz with G4TI4600 128 MB and 512 MB Corsair XMS
# April 21, 2004 7:09 AM

Holger said:

Super Teil, läuft auch fast flüssig. Respekt.
Aber ... Farbrausch, wen wunderts da noch ;-)
# April 21, 2004 6:24 PM

wow! said:

(+__+)b!!
# April 23, 2004 3:53 AM

Diehard, Unreal 1 fan said:

I think its great work............

I have a dual 1 Ghz pentium 3 system, videocard GeForce5900 XT. Runs a bit choppy, but i think its great work.

I can go forward(w), backwards(s), sideways(a and d) and i can jump(spacebar), pressing the k makes me loosing health :D. Weapons toggle is done by 1 through 0.

I only have tried it once, got stuck on the fourth level (or fifth ?, i forgot to count) At the end it seems i cannot go through the door, not sure if this would be possible if i could croutch, or maybe i just missed something. But it looks like i cant fire ahead either, so i guess it stops there?

But wow this is awsome work, 96 kb and it does it all, i for sure want to see the alfa version of it.

The graphics and design are cool too, as said i like Unreal 1, and the atmoshere of this game does resemble it.


Again, awsome work gentlemen :)




DìèHárd»§ÇW§ (Celtic Warriors clanleader)
# April 23, 2004 1:44 PM

_CaLeB_ said:

I've tried in my machine but doesn't work... i have an athlon xp 1800 and a g-force 2 gts w/64mb, 512 mb ram and windoze xp... will work in my machine?
# April 24, 2004 7:31 PM

Gigatron said:

O_O
# April 25, 2004 11:27 AM

EvilMaster said:

Hey! The textures and other data stands in the binary or will be downloaded from the net?
# April 25, 2004 8:45 PM

Fishlimbs said:

Works fine for me.
Barton 2500 oc'd to 3200, 512 ram, 9800pro.

The only thing that I ask is an inverted mouse option in the next release. I can't play it regular mouse.
# April 25, 2004 10:34 PM

Gio said:

it's very nice on a P4 2.4c, 1024ram, 9800 pro, windows XP pro.

It takes 65 secs to generate graphics/sounds and to load.

I also need an invert y axis mouse option.
# April 27, 2004 12:14 PM

KFBG said:

I don't think that anyone in here realises what the programmers from .theprodukkt have achieved. The reason why the game doesn't run on most of your pcs is that your video cards do not support the pixelshader function (directx 9). No matter. Main thing is that the game REALY WORKS!!! There is sound, textures, weapons, enemies, levels and all that in 96Kilobytes.
You know... Unreal Tournament 2004 has an approximent size of 5.5 GIGABITES which is 5500000 Kilobites. Thats insane...
# April 27, 2004 4:18 PM

Gio said:

I would surely be curious to know, if possible, how much the executable size would be reduced if the game would be compiled on a .NET framework machine, as there is a potential oart of the job that can be delegate to the framework...
# April 28, 2004 6:21 AM

Ultimo_Trovador said:


I ran it on a P4 2.8 GHz, 256 ram, GForce 4 NFORCE 440, WIN XP, and a Doesn't work. is it because of my video card and my memory ???

the program, open one bar of status and not complete load, close the program and not most the error mensage...



Doesn't work and Doesn't present error mensage !!!
# April 29, 2004 2:36 AM

Phil said:

Kudos; this is incredible.
# May 1, 2004 1:56 AM

Leandro Scott Jacques said:

I became petrified when I saw that less than 100k thing working!!! Congratulations, no word to express how I became amazed! Hope you continue that project...
# May 1, 2004 8:25 PM

John Daniels said:

Awsome........... just awsome
# May 3, 2004 8:58 PM

LoserOne said:

Brilliant guys! Really great work!
Sounds could be a little bit more sophisticated though...

greets from Holland!

LoserOne
# May 4, 2004 4:15 PM

Justin said:

Don't work for me... but Ya crappy compaq but all my high graphic games run fine on it... Was it just supposed to come with one file? *confused*
# May 6, 2004 11:26 PM

Andres said:

Works. It IS SLOW, but it works OK.
Feels like there is around 15 FPS, but i've not measured

Specs:
Chaintech 7VJDA (KT266A)
Athlon XP 1800+
512 Mb RAM
GeForce FX 5200, 128 Mb RAM
# May 7, 2004 2:54 AM

Jeepn said:

No problem running this at all, but then again my machine meets the specs. Oh how funny that so many do not know what machine specs are and try to run anything and everything, then just bitch when things do not work.
This is incredible! My question is why? Why are these huge game developers, with millions not using/doing this? Just think of what could come out of it.
P4 2.8c
1GB Corsair 3200
ATI 9800 Pro
XP Home
3DMark03: 5781
# May 8, 2004 5:50 PM

Winfried Dorndorf said:

Hi guys,
this is the first ego-shooter I have tried, and ... I am really impressed.
Switched off all the lights and dived into the game ...
The text is helpful to overcome the "get stuck in a door on level 6" problem.
Some ideas:
- not that much ammunition
- more crabs, at more random positions,
maybe even coming up from behind after you have crossed a room
- anything else besides the great graphics in the last level?
Phantastic game!
Gruss, Winfried
# May 9, 2004 5:29 AM

Martin said:

Great ego shooter!
runs very fast! at my NOTEBOOK!!!
had no problems, was surprised about the great light and shaddow effects! and also the several types of enemies and rooms.
closed several programs before started kkrieger

Specs:
notebook (!!!) by MEDION
Intel 4, CPU 3.06 GHz
512 MB RAM
WinXP Home SP1
Grafics: nVIDIA GeForce FX Go5350, 64 MB RAM
# May 11, 2004 2:43 PM

lugia said:

it runs fine on my pc

but i want to know HOW the FUCK they did this!

i think it is using some elements built-in directX 9 they are assembled in one piece of 96KB everything is running via DIRECTX9

well
that's my theory now i want the real truth!

tnx grtz,
richard
# May 15, 2004 12:41 PM

Hypecrush@hotmail.com said:

I bow myself for these grandiose beta.
Tested on AMD 1800 256MBG Geforce 3 32MB
(Grafics visibly however defectively)

and

AMD 2600 ATI 9600SE 1024 MB simply cream -

Grafics of Max Payne is against your only beside it.

your side will continue to visit for updates

best regards Hypercrush

PS: Translate my fucking english with goggle :o)
# May 15, 2004 7:37 PM

giggl said:

fuck you and your fucking game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# May 18, 2004 2:35 PM

some random guy said:

cant run it on my pentium 3, 128 mb ram comp :(

did i mention 500 mhz?
# May 23, 2004 12:55 AM

lukas said:

thats realy an fantastic game! so smal and such good efects great great respekt to the people how build this game

PS: the game works fine on wy Pentium 4 3,0 Ghz!
# May 23, 2004 8:10 AM

NeZbiE said:

Damn... A worthy bp winner =)
This really is sleek stuff.
# May 23, 2004 3:38 PM

chickenman said:

this game is sooooooo crazy!, i really gotta find out how all this is done, and to giggl-"fuck you and your fucking game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! " like to see you make a game this good on under 100k!, sure it runs a bit framey, but thats because my comps crap, not the programming.
# May 30, 2004 6:40 AM

I'm said:

great...
# June 21, 2004 5:48 AM
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