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Game With Quake 4 Graphics In Only 65K Binary

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

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18 Xbox 360 High Def Game Trailers

Quake 4 HD
TeamXbox.com has posted 18 Xbox 360 game trailers from E3. All in high definition using WMV.

List of Games:

  • Quake 4
  • Call of Duty 2
  • Condemned
  • The Darkness
  • Dead or Alive 4
  • EA E3 2005 Compilation
  • Dead Rising
  • Demonik
  • Frame City Killers
  • Full Auto
  • Final Fantasy XI
  • Ghost Recon 3
  • Kameo
  • Madden NFL 06
  • NBA 2k6
  • NHL 2k6
  • Saint’s Row
  • Test Drive Unlimited

System Requirements
Because of the processor-intensive requirements of high definition video, you need a powerful Windows XP–based PC to get the best experience.

Minimal Configuration

(Play 720p video)
Microsoft Windows XP
Windows Media Player 9 Series
2.4 GHz processor or equivalent
384 MB of RAM
64 MB video card
1024 × 768 screen resolution
16-bit sound card
Speakers

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Quake 3 Source Code Released

Quake 3 Logo As promised John Carmack has released the Quake 3 source code. The full source is licensed under the GPL. So developers are free to modify and redistribute games and mods.

And if I am not mistaken, it seems two new Quake games are on the way, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Quake IV. Both are suppose to use the Doom III engine.

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Quake 4! - Q3 Under GPL! - Carmack On NextGen Gaming


What else can I say. Big news on the ID front. John Carmack again was the keynote to the overly popular QuakeCON. This years opening topic revolved around the next generation of gaming on consoles and the obstacles and journeys future developers will have to grab success in the growing console market. There was a very big sense on making game development easier and Carmack was the first to congratulate Microsoft on supplying developers with the tools and APIs to make development easier. It almost sounded like Microsoft had paid him off stating he was glad to see Microsoft exposing new tools for their next generation gaming console, the XBOX360. He went on talking about how as games get more complex and graphics get better the development time obviously increases to the point where anything that can make a developers job easier will justify success and a game that fits the budget.

The other big announcement this year steamed around ID releasing the Quake 3 sourcecode under the GPL. I am sure this will make the Linux and Slashdot community very happy and no doubt the modding community will be having a field day with it. I am very glad to see Carmack recognizes open source as he did before with past Quake releases and values the learning experience other future developers will have.

Oh yeah almost forgot… Quake 4 was formally announced with a ship date of November 14th 2005. Just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas.. Carmack flaunted some new Quake 4 screenshots prefacing them with “these were to graphic for E3″ :)

GameSPY has a very nice right-up about day 1 at QuakeCON available for your viewing pleasure here.

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