Wirehead Studios

This /. article (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/15/1239203&mode=thread&tid=127&tid=186&tid=204) brought this to my attention.

Here's the homepage.
http://theprodukkt.com/ (http://theprodukkt.com/)

Imagine a game that looks as good (or better) as any game currently on the market, in nintey-six KB.

This is insane.

Looks cool from the screenies...  have to try it out tonight.

If you're not running at least a GF4, you'll run into some funky problems with the shaders.

Things like this are why I've often wondered why the demo scene doesn't make games.

I didn't know you posted this here and I had started my own thread.  

Yes, it is pretty amazing.  It does take a long time to load, and it runs pretty slow and choppy on my system, but it does look very nice.  I have often wondered why this approach has not been taken sooner for data storage and world generation.

Ha! I'm faster than you!

Anyway, at least it runs on your system. It won't run at all on less than a Geforce4. GF3 and lower doesn't have the right shader capabilities or something.

I get a world, but it's all cell-shaded red and yellow.

You might like that, actually.

It looks nice, but it runs extremely slow, like com_maxfps 2 slow.

...and there was a clipping problem, and I couldn't move to a different room. =[

Worked perfectly fine for me, no slowdown issues or anything. Too bad the final weapon never seemed to get any ammo, but I attribute that to the "To Be Continued" that appears shortly thereafter.

As someone who works with prim-based modelling due to its file size, those spiders stuck out to me right away as something created from mathematical primitive geometric shapes, with a few booleans applied.  The textures on these 96k demos have always looked pretty procedural to me as well, something you could create with a formula.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to create a conventional model (say a player model) with this technique.  It's still highly impressive, though.

(Note that I last saw this game a week ago, so if you turn around and point out something I missed... that's because I missed it.)  ;^)

Not knocking it at all,  trust me.  Just trying to counter the "why can't games be made like this, games are bloatware" argument.  (EDIT: Which no one explicitly made, btw.)

there is ammo for the final weapon, ya just gotta look :)

but yeha.. it is impressive... for 96k! :)