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[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It's quite insane. A couple years back I bought and played an indie space game that had beautiful graphics, weather effects, 'splosions, space stations, hundreds of star systems etc.

That game's installed size? ~~260MB.~~ 186MB on checking.

The full game could fit on a CD-ROM about five times over and it was still many hours of cool gameplay. This massive universe exploration game is smaller than 90% of the 2D procedurally generated games I own.

Looks like they still develop, and still offer demos which I think is awesome. And their game sizes look still super reasonable.

I'm not really sure how you achieve that kind of compression, I assume most textures are hand-written shaders or something rather than 4k .png files.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

looks a lot like tachyon. which is a great spaceship game too.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

NMS was 6GB on release. Nowadays it's still "only" 15GB.