Example of really good coding

[Modelworks]

I really haven't kept up on the demo scene in the past couple years, but someone forwarded this to me and I think it is a really good example of what someone can do if they really code efficiently.
This entire demo is under 180KB.

http://www.scene.org/file.php?...41_debris.zip&fileinfo

 

[Markbnj]

Pretty damn impressive, and runs smoothly on my 7600GT at 1920 x 1200, which is not slouchy either.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Bloatware grows as the "perceived" need for efficiency decreases.

Memory becomes cheaper, CPUs faster and quality code loses out to marketing deadlines.

 

[SunnyD]

The thing is that especially in graphics the trend is more detail, in which people tend to add textures and such with are space hogs in general. Demos generally use procedural textures - and good algorithm design basically makes what would be 1MB worth of texture information about 10 bytes of code.

The other thing that the demo scene is good at is using only what is absolutely necessary to get by. No additional libraries, no fat code... just pure efficient code that has no extra's laying around that sit unused.

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

None of that, unfortunately, is really applicable outside the demo scene.

 

[Snapster]

How about a 746 byte game. 🙂

 

[degibson]

Static binary and/or source size is pretty meaningless -- the real feature is when the dynamic footprint is small.