Comments on: pong0.5k, a game in 510bytes

By: Lexi

Lexi — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:24:35 +0000

Lol. I just spent 5-10 minutes trying to play. I remember when I was pretty good at games like Pong and Breakout.

Jeremy, I agree with your statement. Some of the most fun games I have ever played have been short on the graphics end … Civilization, Colonization. What was the UFO one?

By: Jeremy G.

Jeremy G. — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:29:39 +0000

Pretty amazing you can make this game so small! Playing this just reminds me of something I have said for years and years: Game play will always be more important than graphics, PERIOD. I haven’t found a single PS3 game I really love yet, and I haven’t touched my Xbox 360 in I don’t know how long.

By: beech

beech — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:51:15 +0000

hey there – i saw this the other day and thought i might join in the fun ;)

I’ve been able to get it down to 338bytes – but a single player version – you can see it here: http://forums.flashgods.org/micro-pong-as3-t424.html

I wanted to hide the mouse too but that take 16bytes. the main differences are using the bitmapData class to construct the pieces and reversing the color scheme actual shaved off 4 bytes! LOL!!!

By: Navier

Navier — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:09:56 +0000

WOW, wait a second i have a question

The code that you posted above…is that ALL the code for this neat little game?

Kristof, do you think that if you add a score to it, the size will increase dramatically?

Anyway, its amazing that you can write that in 510bytes!

By: Kristof Neirynck

Kristof Neirynck — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:35:26 +0000

@Matthew: You’re really pushing it to the limit, aren’t you. You could probably win a few more bytes by setting the width and height to numbers you already use in the program and flasm would also help you to a byte or two. Maybe if you compiled it with mtasc it might also be a tiny bit smaller. It’ll never be 200 bytes though.

By: Matthew Lloyd

Matthew Lloyd — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:12:06 +0000

After a tip off Chris Benjamensen over at nonoba.com I managed to drop it down to 374 bytes. I’d love to see if anyone else can get any better. I have officially ran out of ideas now. Even going so far as to encorporate a basic form of Huffman encoding to the variables names.

You can see it at: http://www.devslash.com/?p=103

By: Christophe

Christophe — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:58:47 +0000

Having difficulty with the right paddle :-S

@Matthew: Good Job

By: Kristof Neirynck

Kristof Neirynck — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:23:17 +0000

@Mario: 5k and no compression? No way!

@Matthew: Nice work.

By: Matthew Lloyd

Matthew Lloyd — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:27:43 +0000

A friend of mine challenged me to try and beat this, so I did.

Here is a 393 byte version: http://www.devslash.com/?p=103

I tried to resist using __bytecode__, but I did have to sacrafice scalability of the stage.

By: Mario Klingemann

Mario Klingemann — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:05:15 +0000

I’m sure you could do that Joa ;-)

Damn, I have to look for that file on an old machine of mine – in 2001 I had a 5K PONG made in Flash 5 entered to the 5kAward. That version included scoring, sounds, one and two player mode and since it was Flash 5 it didn’t even use zlib compression. What a pity that those bastards simply shut down the old site so all the good stuff is gone. And no luck on archive.org either.