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Ambitious developer showcases slick triple-level Quake-like game stored in tiny 64KB executable

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Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Developer Daivuk has released QUOD, a 64KB ‘boomer shooter’ with an uncanny resemblance to id Software’s seminal FPS title, Quake. Astonishingly, this tiny executable delivers a Quake-like 3D gaming experience with “3 levels, 1 boss fight, 4 unique enemies, 4 weapons, and a handful of power-ups.” Moreover, it doesn’t call on any external resources; the whole caboodle of textures, sounds, music, levels, models, animations, and code is compressed into that minimal 64KB download. Above, you can see Daivuk present his own tiny FPS masterwork, in a nicely structured step-by-step video, which touches on topics such as optimizing the textures, maps, models & animations, audio, code, and even creating a virtual machine for a further 2KB of file size savings.…

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