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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's not clear if dynamic linking is allowed or not (considering it's something you really have to go out of your way to avoid), which is a big difference.

I was also going by some modified Raylib examples (+bindings, Linux, so size is influenced by that) I already had compiled, 1,372,160 bytes for the 2D one (no textures/sounds, just collision detection and some polygons). With my original comment I wasn't even thinking about how dynamic links could be counted for size, only that static linking could be smaller (which isn't even a guarantee).

EDIT: Actually, the 3D one (yaw_pitch_roll example with plane replaced with a vertex-painted office plant) is smaller after the binary is stripped.

Just the logic .so for one of my Godot projects is significantly big (761,856 bytes for something with ~250LoC) though that might be on the bindings or even my compilation settings.