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lopis
I definitely recommend checking out all top games from this competition over the years. Quite a few gems.
andai
Epic. That's super cool. That dog thing is very cute though, I felt bad.

js13k is super cool. Here is my favorite game from there: https://js13kgames.com/2022/games/infernal-throne

There was also some kind of java4k thing back in the day. Notch did a bunch of those:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100218133531/http://www.mojang...

kristianp
Interesting insight into Notch's creativity before Minecraft was released, although a public alpha was released beforehand in 2009.

Kind of a shame that Java applet support was removed from browsers. Obviously the security problems made it too much work to maintain.

ck2
the Wolfenstein3D-like game in only a few hundred bytes WITH SOUND might be even more impressive even though it's like exploits all the way down

oddly can't find a link to it at the moment

butz
Imagine, if someone would start making operating system and its applications that are just kilobytes in size. RAM price crysis would resolve in a day.
0x20cowboy
Those exist e.g. https://menuetos.net/ it’s just most people dont use them.

I agree with you though. If Apple open sourced os9, and the community could get it to run on modern hardware, I would run it.

tribal808
very cool, try it with other games
heresalexandria
This is really remarkable, and frankly more playable than a number of niche ports like this that I've tried - great work!
syspec
I read the whole writeup assuming it was LLM assisted, then when I got to the bottom I realized it's from 2021 and was blown away.
maxlin
Very nice! Lack of pathfinding hardly made itself visible, in intense combat I at first assumed they did have some kind of pathfinding