Perl 5.14, this year's stable release of the Perl 5 language, is the first in the planned series of annual time-based releases announced last year. From the Perl developer's point of view it has several important features. This article takes a look at what's new and valuable.
Given our expectations of Xbox games, you might consider writing a
game within a 13K limit, which is the challenge for the annual js13K
competition far too restrictive. Its results are now out and prove that
it is possible to produce a game that is fun to play.
Back in the tape loading days and on platforms the likes of Commodore64 games came in sizes of 4K or less. As proof of concept, here's a list of a few such 4K titles, copied over from Lemon64 's archive:
Alien SidestepBug CrusherDot GobblerClose EncountersDot Gobbler v2GridrunnerLaser CyclesMarios BrewerySpace ActionSpace RicoshayTank WarsHesmon64Retro Ball Fast forward to now, at a time when Javascript's eating the world by making all sorts of applications or games available to everyone through the medium of the browser, rendering the need of dedicated platforms and Operating systems obsolete, 13K is sufficient enough to pack both gameplay AND cool graphics due to the advanced browser engines and HTML5.
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Back in the tape loading days and on platforms the likes of Commodore64 games came in sizes of 4K or less. As proof of concept, here's a list of a few such 4K titles, copied over from Lemon64 's archive:
Alien SidestepBug CrusherDot GobblerClose EncountersDot Gobbler v2GridrunnerLaser CyclesMarios BrewerySpace ActionSpace RicoshayTank WarsHesmon64Retro Ball Fast forward to now, at a time when Javascript's eating the world by making all sorts of applications or games available to everyone through the medium of the browser, rendering the need of dedicated platforms and Operating systems obsolete, 13K is sufficient enough to pack both gameplay AND cool graphics due to the advanced browser engines and HTML5.
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