Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB

melvinroest · 2024-09-22T09:47:52.000000Z

Tangentially related, I once wrote a literature review on why people play Flappy Bird. I was a graduate student in game studies at the time. Ultimately, I never pursued the academic route, just sharing it for fun.

For the curious minds, here it is [1].

[1] http://www.fdg2015.org/papers/fdg2015_paper_60.pdf

habibur · 2024-09-22T08:49:11.000000Z

Less than 4k loc.

   457 android_native_app_glue.c
   360 audio.c
   802 game.c
   201 init.c
    93 main.c
    39 mouse.c
    38 shaders.c
   229 texture.c
  1377 upng.c
    27 utils.c
  3623 total

freitzzz · 2024-09-22T08:42:23.000000Z

Really cool! I just love seeing Android apps that weight less than a 1MB and run anywhere, even on your old HTC.

Congrats!

mdp2021 · 2024-09-22T09:13:29.000000Z

Also an assessment of speed gains would be nice.

sureglymop · 2024-09-22T09:24:26.000000Z

That's amazing! I wish there was something like rawdrawandroid for Rust.

ladyanita22 · 2024-09-22T09:25:58.000000Z

Same, would like to see the same but implemented in Rust

userbinator · 2024-09-22T09:35:59.000000Z

"For Android" implies Java is usable, and bytecode can be very dense, so IMHO this could be even smaller.

akirk · 2024-09-22T09:13:52.000000Z

Great work! Good to see what only it takes to run on Android! On the other hand it also shows how much comes "for free" or made easier by using the provided sdks. For example volume control doesn't work while running this. Also resuming the game after switching away. Maybe that's relatively easy to save and restore state, though.

mdp2021 · 2024-09-22T09:12:56.000000Z

Could this technique, using rawdrawandroid to write C applications for Android, also use raylib (and other C frameworks)?

And maybe could this developing system be used through Termux, to have a C development environment on Android for Android?

tropicalfruit · 2024-09-22T09:06:08.000000Z

i realised recently, there is a correlation between the file size of a game and how likely i am to enjoy it.

the smaller the file size the more likely i am to enjoy it. and the opposite is true.

i think part of it is time investment. having less time. i dont see much value in 60gb of 4k graphics textures.

pac man on the atari or snes is maybe less than 100kb, while modern pac man could be easily 10gb or more. same for tetris or any game with the same gameplay that hasn't changed much.

coumbaya · 2024-09-22T09:24:59.000000Z

You'll love Desert Golfing then.