Astro Hacker News - Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB

vegabook |next [-]

It's incredibly satisfying to see the polar opposite of the usual LLM/superDB/K8/CICD/Cloud/Container/Crapola corpobloat we hear about on this site all the time, namely a tiny piece of handcrafted code, ironically produce something infinitely more aesthetically beautiful, and intellectually interesting from an almost artisan engineering perspective.

NooneAtAll3 |next |previous [-]

Reminds me of https://js13kgames.com/ where people managed to do a whole air sim in 13kb (out of many other things)

jstrieb |next |previous [-]

The rest of the games submitted to this very interesting, somewhat niche game jam (including my own entry) are here:

https://itch.io/jam/langjamgamejam/entries

There were some really impressive submissions in spite of the short time frame!

azhenley |root |parent [-]

The jam was originally going to be just me doing a solo project but it grew much larger! Over 200 people joined the Discord.

We plan on running it again: https://langjamgamejam.com/

jstrieb |root |parent [-]

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't notice a submission of yours in the jam. Did you end up getting around to doing your solo project?

PaulHoule |next |previous [-]

Such a beautiful technique for shoehorning straight out of the 1970s! See also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16

It seems so un-FORTRAN that DEC had a FORTRAN compiler for the PDP-11. that was based on a stack machine and then later built an FP accelerator specialized to accelerate the stack machine. It was a straggler but I'm still trying to track down a circa 1992 article from Dr. Dobb's Journal where someone used virtual machine techniques to unbreak the broken i860 and make a good FORTRAN compiler.

nsxwolf |previous [-]

What's that overall filter that covers the view? Is it supposed to look like a late 80s passive matrix color LCD screen?

Edit: Thanks for the downvote, guess I shouldn't have paid any attention to this post at all?

macintux |root |parent [-]

Worth noting that it's easy (and probably fairly frequent) to click the wrong arrow, especially on a phone screen. I've started double-checking the "unvote" vs "undown" link that appears afterwards to make sure I hit the right one.