Ok, this is damn impressive. The title says it all. You can download the file and view pictures at http://theprodukkt.com/ .
requires:
- A 1.5GHz Pentium3/Athlon or faster.
- 512MB of RAM (or more)
- A Geforce4Ti (or higher) or ATI Radeon8500 (or higher) graphics card
supporting pixel shaders 1.3, preferably with 128MB or more of VRAM.
- Some kind of sound hardware
- DirectX 9.0b
Some discussion on it on [url="http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/04/15/1239203.shtml?tid=127&tid=186&…"]Slashdot[/url].
It doesn't look half bad either! It's got music, sound fx, multiple weapons, animated monsters etc too...
Obviously the work of someone whos into the demo scene. [:)]
Pretty impressive, amazing compression, I've seen a few scrolling demos etc but nothing you can interact with.
Industry programmers could take not of the compression techniuqes lol.
I'm sure if you add decent A.I., more varied textures and higher resolution meshes as well as the multitude of other assets needed to make a game really good it would soon reach a few hundred meg. [:P]
I like the precendent something like this sets.
Instead of downloading huge games (more so on portable devices than PC) you can just download small executables that unpack and setup when they're required, or when they have space...
have a read through the readme, they briefly discuss their compression techniques.
cheers
Ha, it looks better than most 1GB+ games, and takes less time to load.