> This is probably the best looking C64 game ever.
I loaded the page and started watching the video immediately, wondering why I should care about it. Run of the mill platformer, seemed like graphics and animations were chosen for style reasons, like thousands of other games out there.
Frankly, I wasn't impressed.
It wasn't until I came back to the comments here until I found out it's a C64 game. Now I'm incredibly impressed. Mind blowing to me now. Holy cow.
Check out Quod Init Exit II. Simpler art but runs in high resolution mode. Also Sam's Journey and the Sonic port. Modern C64 games look so much better than most older games.
Most c64 games would fit in about 1/6 of a 170k floppy disc, and loaded entirely into memory at once. Really big ones were on about 4 of those discs. Well, both sides of two discs, since you could flip them over and use the back side.
This thing occupies the equivalent space of about 6 or 7 disc sides. It's crazy huge for a c64 game.
Huh, that's not even an entire side of a 1541 disc.
But I also just bought it and the game itself lives in a .crt file that OSX says is 1,034,272 bytes, and rounds to 1 megabyte. So I think you may be wrong in saying it is one megabit.
(Doing the math, it is about 5.9 1541 discs worth of data, possibly a bit more if you consider theoretical directory tracks and/or custom recording formats that sacrifice some data density for blazing speed. Not that there appear to be any plans for a floppy version.)
