Eniko Fox19h ago

here's a free idea: RAM shortage jam, where you have to make a game for a system with low RAM capacity. like maybe less than 128mb or something

edit: OOM jam is a much better name than what i came up with https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/116362518081235814

aeva (@[email protected])

@eniko "oom jam" has a nice ring to it

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Show threadBrian Swetland

@eniko It's clearly indicative of how I still haven't entirely adjusted to the scale of modern systems that 128MB does not sound "low" to me even though it's probably in the "good luck even booting" size for today's OSes.

I just checked and Animal Well is 33MB (windows exe), so even though things tend to be huge nowadays you can obviously still do a lot with well under 128MB... at least of binary image... unsure if Animal Well would actually *run* in 128MB...

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Show threadNoisytoot16h ago
@swetland @eniko It’s how much memory my server’s BMC has, and that runs GNU/Linux (and technically does have video output, although I’m not sure how to actually use it from the BMC)