.kkrieger: the 2004 FPS that fit a full 3D shooter into 96KB

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-15

In 2004, German demoscene group .theprodukkt released .kkrieger, a full 3D FPS with dynamic lighting, textures, sound, music, and monster AI — all in a 96KB executable. Instead of shipping assets, they wrote C++ and Assembly that procedurally generated meshes, textures, and sound waves in RAM at boot. The poster marvels that today a single 'Accept Cookies' banner is 10x larger than the whole game.

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