Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage
Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage
Q1K3 manages to pack in two levels, five different enemy types, three weapons, audio, and more.
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How much of that is third-party libraries, and/or third-party hosted? Obviously the assets (images and music) aren’t being counted.
21 0 ReplyThe whole page transferred about 7kB and shows 18.2kB of ressources according to the debug tools.
39 0 ReplyThe game also requires a renderer (browser) to play.
I think what they did is impressive but the claim about the size feels like taking source code and saying "look how small on disk it is"
29 0 ReplyIt is js, it is always source code.
2 1 ReplyExcept if it's minified for production.
3 0 ReplyThat is still source code, obfuscated but still source code.
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Not sure about GreaseMonkey, but V8 compiles JS to an IL.
Nodejs has an emit IL debugging feature to see the emitted IL code.
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