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24 alternatives to A talking board game in a 2k program and 128 bytes of RAM
A talking board game compressed into a 2K program that runs on systems with only 128 bytes of RAM. The game includes voice output and operates within extreme memory constraints, making it a technical demonstration of… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A talking board game in a 2k program and 128 bytes of RAM launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I sometimes pick up random projects just because I can, this was one of those times. I made it as a week long project a while back this year but never shared here, so thought to go for it haha. I created a game inspired by Doom and the backrooms called The Backdooms under 2.4kb in minified html. (for reference, this entire post would be around 1.8kB haha) I had to use a not popular way of using GZip with Zlib headers (had to write my own script for compressing it, also in the repo) to eventually convert it a size 40 QR code that works right in your browser using Decompressionstream API. This…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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How small can a language model be while still doing something useful? I wanted to find out, and had some spare time over the holidays. Z80-μLM is a character-level language model with 2-bit quantized weights ({-2,-1,0,+1}) that runs on a Z80 with 64KB RAM. The entire thing: inference, weights, chat UI, it all fits in a 40KB .COM file that you can run in a CP/M emulator and hopefully even real hardware! It won't write your emails, but it can be trained to play a stripped down version of 20 Questions, and is sometimes able to maintain the illusion of having simple but terse conversations…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I have been working on this game somewhat sparsely for the past three years or so. However, it is still in a very early stage, and there is a lot of work to do. One of my friends encouraged me to post about it here, since he felt people might find interesting how I don’t use any libraries for it. The game can be played on a browser by virtue of WebAssembly. There are native ports using either MiniFB or SDL2, but you have to build those yourself. I decided to write the game in C because I feel like it is a simple language that a lot of people can understand well enough, and I didn’t think I…
2023 · zamfofex.neocities.org · its alternatives →
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Hardest memory game ever created.
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Next generation classic memory game!
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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A top-down 2d game engine, written from scratch in under 1000 lines of C. Development of the game based on this engine is streamed on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ryanpcmcquen - ryanpcmcquen/basque
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Blinks▲169An open-source board game system with a mind of its own
2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Reflections on an epic Kickstarter campaign for a tiny game
2016 · happymittengames.com · its alternatives →
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Playing Lean▲104A board game that teaches the Lean Startup Methodology
2015 · playinglean.com · its alternatives →
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The motherlode of all board game industry interviews
2016 · happymittengames.com · its alternatives →
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Interviews and play testing with designers and publishers
2016 · happymittengames.com · its alternatives →
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A gory retro platformer with dynamic ragdoll physics
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The Emotion Engine has 32 MB of RAM total, so the trick is streaming weights from CD-ROM one matrix at a time during the forward pass — only activations, KV cache and embeddings live in RAM. This means models bigger than the RAM can still run, they just read more from disc. Had to build a custom quantized format (PSNT), hack endianness, write a tokenizer pipeline, and most of the PS2 SDK from scratch (releasing that separately). The model itself is also custom — a 10M param Llama-style architecture I trained specifically for this. And it works. On real hardware.
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Voggle▲72A word game that demands lexical & strategic planning skills
2022 · voggle.com · its alternatives →
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