I worked somewhat intensively on my little project today, and started to groan in fear and terror as the kb amount rose up to 3.75 - and I hadn't even added... the main goal of the game yet. After some application of Lummoxism and external data files, I have managed to reduce it to a nice 3.03 kb.

This still isn't a lot, but I still have some strings I can hide in the map file, so I just might be able to squeeze everything inside. I truly hope it will hope it work out, though. Squishing the if clauses and while clauses onto one line should be quite challenging.

As for the game itself - I have truly no idea if its fun or not. It doesn't actually even matter to me - I just want to manage to complete the 4kb challenge with a playable... thingy, no matter how rough it is around the edges. And if nothing else, parts of the displayed texts and names are all customizable via text data file. ;-)

At this rate of progress, I'll probably be able to do a nice small test in a few days. And then? When its complete? I still don't know - but it probably won't involve tentacles in any way. Nautilii aren't everything in life.

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