This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser

On a related note -- when I see the minuscule filesize of the original Zelda game on emulators, I marvel at how little text/code/information could produce how much wonder, how far-reaching impact, and how many hours of enchantment for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_(video_gam...

For me:

- Browser: works after renaming to .html

- Linux: "./snake.com: line 20: lzma: command not found". Installing the xz package makes it work (already had XWayland enabled so X11 worked, but may be needed if you have a strict Wayland session).

- Windows: As either .com or renaming to .exe I get "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005). Click OK to close the application." Not sure how to make this one work, it's definitely not AV related though (I have that stripped in this sandbox VM).

Edit: Got it working in all 3 now. On Windows I still had DEP enabled on all programs to test some apps earlier, turning that back off allowed it to launch.

I love the idea of applications which exist in one file which you can run anywhere. I've been working towards this with my serverless platform; you can build complex data-driven apps with just one .html file and mostly declarative HTML markup (thanks to web-components which are loaded from a remote server). With modern browser features, you don't need a bundling system. Once you do away with it; a whole universe is opened up.

The ability to load .html files over the file:// protocol is a powerful, often neglected feature. In practice, it means you can double-click an HTML file and it runs an app in your browser instantly.

https://js13kgames.com/

One of the interesting things about Polyglot is that nobody did it any sooner. It would have been feasible a decade ago or two ago.

Not cross-platform, but I'm reminded of the kkrieger game for Windows which was a 96k FPS game that looked visually impressive for the time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100304155706/http://www.thepro...

Wonder why they don't give a demo/link to the browser version

Very clever!

Quite cool.

You could distribute it as `.html` only, and use JS to offer a local download link to itself in the correct extension. A polyglot installer, of sorts.

For example, this gist is an HTML that, when opened, offers a download zip of its DOM in whatever state it currently is:

https://gist.github.com/alganet/c904acb57282402fc0bd724f1eeb...

I think you can use something similar to get the entire page contents as a blob, but I never tested with binary data in actual browsers. Perhaps even patch it to avoid the initial windows error.

Can't you do that with a language model in less than one paragraph of instructions? Seems like overkill.