Nearly a decade ago, before the site formerly known as Twitter went to total ratshit, @edent published a choose-your-own-adventure game where Twitter was the game engine.
This was perfect nerd-sniping bait. How far could you bend a common tool and use it to build a game? How small could a game engine be?
Read more on my blog.
$ ./build.sh$ ./page 1
This game engine was orginally built to fit within a single tweet. This was back in 2015 when a tweet wasn't 4000 characters, or even 280 characters, but just 140 characters. By simply removing some of the syntactic sugar and renaming all columns, tables and databases to single characters, I've reduced the filesize to just 122 characters. Removing all unnecessary spaces and replacing repeated "long" strings with single character variables has brought it down to 106 characters.
The user experience isn't as good as the "full fat" version, but it's still pretty playable.
# Build the minimised version.
$ ./b.sh
# Turn the first page!
$ ./p 1
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