
Francisco Abarza
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Francisco Abarza
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Long live the new flesh!



El finde hice un agente que juega Dwarf Fortress, por ahora lleva algunas horas jugando solo. También todos los días me enviará que es lo ha pasado por su mundo vía telegram. Lo voy a probar para ver como anda y si es entrete lo que nos escribe. youtube.com/watch?v=MNBH8B…

An average picture that you save on your phone or PC has a size of around 400 kilobytes. It doesn't do anything, it's just a static image. Now divide that by the factor 10, so you drop to 40 kilobytes. That's the size of The Last Ninja, developed by System 3 and published in 1987. I still struggle to comprehend, even in the slightest, how programmers back then did what they did - and the worlds they created with the limitations they had to work with. I was simply blown away by the graphics (isometric on the C64 with such an amazing level of detail - simply gorgeous) and absolutely mesmerized by the kickass sound. What Ben Daglish and Anthony Lees conjured up musically will forever be part of gaming history - an iconic masterpiece. 40 kilobytes man...











