Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)(js13kgames.com)
119 pointsby mortenjorckJun 26, 2026

13 Comments

ChrisArchitect•Jun 27, 2026
Some previous discussions:

2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40558607

2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28520221

ChrisArchitect•Jun 27, 2026
Related this week:

CSSQuake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608223

no-name-here•Jul 3, 2026
Does it work on mobile?

Game video: https://youtu.be/tX8340GV87U?t=30

lopis•Jul 3, 2026
I definitely recommend checking out all top games from this competition over the years. Quite a few gems.
boricj•Jul 3, 2026
The making of is well worth a read: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of
andai•Jul 3, 2026
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...

ck2•Jul 3, 2026
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

M4v3R•Jul 3, 2026
Not sure if this is what you were thinking about, but .kkrieger was 96 kB and looked very impressive when it was released: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036
ck2•Jul 3, 2026
well there have been micro attempts over the years

like this is 512 bytes (half a K)

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83795

but the one I am thinking about had textured walls and sound

it used some insane levels of packing and exploits to render

butz•Jul 3, 2026
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.
tribal808•Jul 3, 2026
very cool, try it with other games
heresalexandria•Jul 3, 2026
This is really remarkable, and frankly more playable than a number of niche ports like this that I've tried - great work!
slavcik•Jul 3, 2026
Very epic stuff
syspec•Jul 3, 2026
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.
grg0•Jul 3, 2026
Blown away as in he had LLMs before anybody else did?
dmonterocrespo•Jul 3, 2026
Great job!