Nostalgia Nerd | kkrieger: Making an Impossible FPS | Nostalgia Nerd @Nostalgianerd | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
Head to ​squarespace.com/nostalgianerd to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NOSTALGIANERD.... The 90s and 00s demoscene was filled with incredible sights & sounds for the senses, but none more incredible (in my opinion) than kkrieger; a playable 3D FPS that compacts into just 96KB created by German demo group Farbrausch (theprodukkt). I'm fascinated by this, so it was amazing to get the chance to speak to some of the developers and designers of this monumental release and find out just how and why it was made. #fps #demoscene #kkrieger

Massive thanks to the demoscene legends; giZMo and ryg for their help & resources on this video.
giZMo: twitter.com/chris_muetze
ryg: twitter.com/rygorous

00:00 The demoscene
04:17 Farbrausch pre-kkrieger
07:27 Procedural texture generation
10:04 Integrated ad
10:51 Using external libraries
12:19 Bump maps and meshes
13:30 Tools of the trade (Werkkzeug)
14:36 Character modelling
16:34 Reducing the code size
20:31 Detail work
23:03 Compression
24:38 Gameplay
25:26 kkrieger final
26:47 TheProdukkt is no more
28:01 Credits

🔗Video Links🔗
BreakPoint 04 Site: breakpoint.untergrund.net/2004/general.php
.theprodukkt: web.archive.org/web/20040810211758/theprodukkt.com/theprodukkt.html#tech
The Farbrausch way: llg.cubic.org/docs/farbrauschDemos
Research Gate: researchgate.net/figure/The-game-kkrieger-has-a-file-size-of-96-kb_fig1_320722498
Breakpoint 2004: breakpoint.untergrund.net/2004
Assembly seminars '04: web.archive.org/web/20041204090344/assembly.org
fiver2's website: theunitedstatesofamerica.de
ryg's homepage: farbrausch.com/~fg
gizmo's website: pixelz.de
"Metaprogramming for madmen": fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for-madmen
kkrieger interview from 2004: gamasutra.com/view/feature/130690/interview_frugal_fragging_with_.php
Interview from 2005: gamasutra.com/view/feature/130690/interview_frugal_fragging_with_.php
Github code: github.com/farbrausch/fr_public/blob/master/werkkzeug3/genmesh.cpp

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