.kkrieger
.kkrieger (from Krieger, German for warrior) is a first-person shooter video game made by German demogroup .theprodukkt (previously part of Farbrausch). The game won first place in the 96k game competition at Breakpoint in April 2004 and is in beta.
| .kkrieger | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Farbrausch |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | 2004 |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Development
The game has been made since mid-2002 using .werkkzeug3, an unreleased version of .werkkzeug (from Werkzeug, German for tool). The source code of .werkkzeug3 was released in 2014. It can use the BSD license or be public domain.[1]
Generation
Textures are quite small, using creation history, not single pixels. Basic shapes such as boxes and cylinders are modeled into other shapes. How both are loaded at the same time takes a long time.
Most popular first-person shooters filled one or more CDs or DVDs at the time, but the game uses 97,280 bytes, over 7,000 times less than a CD (700MB), or 55,000 times less than an Unreal Tournament 2004 installation (5.5GB). That game normally comes on a DVD. .kkrieger's developers say storing it normally would use about 200–300 MB.[2]
The V2 synthesizer streams the game music and sounds using MIDI.
Reception
The game won two German game developer prizes at the Deutscher Entwicklerpreis in 2006: Innovation and Advancement.[3]
Gaming website Acid-Play gave the game 2/5 stars and a mixed review, saying it was buggy, but liking how a lot was stored in the small file size.[4]
References
- ↑ werkkzeug3 on github.com
- ↑ Nostalgia Nerd, kkrieger: Making an Impossible FPS, retrieved 2021-04-24
- ↑ "Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 2006: Hall of Fame" (in german). G.A.M.E. Bundesverband der Entwickler von Computerspielen e.V. 2006-12-13. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
Innovationspreis der Jury → The Produkkt - prozedurales 96kb Spiel .kkrieger
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Free .kkrieger download". Acid-Play.com. Retrieved 2014-08-28.