This is super awesome. Left 4k Dead. It’s a 4kb Java applet top-down zombie shooter game.
It was made by Markus Persson as part of the 2009 Java4K competition. There is some really good stuff there. You should go and check it out.
That’s 4 kilobytes. I’ve written blog posts bigger than that. Plus it’s in Java, a programming language not exactly renowned for it’s conciseness… It’s all reminiscent of the old-school demo scene - which was also super awesome.
Markus also did Miners4k as part of the 2006 Java4k competition. You should check that out as well, it’s an amazingly fun Lemmings clone. I spent hours playing that one a few years back.
