While awaiting the arrival of the highly anticipated FPS game Quake 4 in none other than #Quake4 (EFnet) tonight I ran into a guy (dyntix) who was telling me about some killer FPS game named .kkrieger: chapter 1 that believe it or not only has the the footprint of 96KB yet delivers Quake 4 equivalent graphics.. I couldn’t believe it.

After visiting the developers website and spending almost a nanosecond downloading, I ran the single binary. It began to what appeared to be some sort of decompression which took less than a minute. A demo began and after hitting a button a menu was brought up with the option to start a new game. I was immediately immersed with extremely high quality graphics with very accurate lighting and shadowing models coupled with an almost perfect representation of a long never ending hallway. I couldn’t believe it. I spent 15 mins going through the game demo and finally beating it. I felt so satisfied that someone could develop something so small that had such a large game feeling.

I thought to myself, if this guy can do this much with 65K, imagine what he could do with an entire DVD worth of space and about a year of his own time! Watch out Carmack!

Download the free game here.

dyntix also had a couple of other great links that I thought I’d pass along:

(dyntix) check this one, free: http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/
(dyntix) supports multiplayer too
(dyntix) there is one more, http://www.nexuiz.com/index.php?module=media