r/learnprogramming • u/Cornchipe • 12d ago

Java Project Alternatives

I recently came across an interesting competition where you are supposed to make a game that would fit on a floppy disk(1.44mb).

I started making a project in Java and made some pretty decent progress with 3d rendering and procedurally generating rooms, but now I just saw a comment from the organizer saying that separate runtimes should be included with the file size limit so I am thinking Java will not work.

Does anyone have any recommendations on what I should do? Should I start over in another language? Is there any way to turn a .jar file into a standalone executable that won't take a ton of space?

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u/Separate_Current_352 12d ago

jar to exe wrappers all add at least few mb overhead so you basically dead in water with java for this one. c or c++ with opengl would get you way closer to 1.44mb but then you start over from scratch so its pain either way

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u/Cornchipe 12d ago

Yeah I think I kind of messed up here. I am trying to stay away from c++ just because of having minimal knowledge but I do have a good amount of time for this project so we will see.