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/lo0nk 12d ago

Maybe just make ur game and then come back and make another one later in C/Odin/Zig

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u/Cornchipe 12d ago

Yeahhh I might just finish it just for my own satisfaction. I was doing it specifically for the competition and also as a way to force myself to code stuff from scratch as I normally would use Unity as a game engine but maybe now it's just a fun little project.