Unbelievable 177 Kb Demo from farbrausch 2.0

[mrproper]

News link: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Unbelievable-177-Kb-Demo-From-farbrausch-2-0-52264.shtml
Download link: http://www.trackmania.org/fr-041_debris.zip

Requirements
MINIMUM
• p4 2ghz or athlon 2000+ (with sse)
• 512mb ram
• ps2.0 capable graphics card with 128mb vram
• directx 9.0c

RECOMMENDED
• Core2duo or Athlon x2 with >=2.4ghz
• 1024mb ram
• Geforce 7600/Radeon x1600 or better with 256mb vram

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[Kombinator]

This is really cool, is this a new game?

 

[mrproper]

This is really cool, is this a new game?

No, it's a 3D demo. As in something developers do to show off their skills and technologies.

The cool thing about this one, is that they fit all those textures, all those constructs, the scenes contents, text, motion, effects... AND a 3D engine, in just 177Kb of data. For an average programmer, it would take maybe 50-100mb to do it...

I mean, consider EU's engine, it's 20mb in size if we take in all the binary files needed to run the game. And then, it needs 2gb of data to show pretty stuff ingame.

However, a game (Spore) is scheduled to appear, being based on the minimalistic binary approach, and online community and serving.