Master of 13000 Suns

An incremental space game in a procedural galaxy in 13kb Made for JS13k Games 2021

Play

• Latest build on the main branch: https://deathraygames.github.io/master-of-13k-suns/dist/ (this is the best version)

JS13k

• JS13k Rules: Make a game with a package size less than 13k (13,312 bytes) in one month (8/13 to 9/13).
• Theme for 2021: "Space"
• Entry for this game on js13kgames.com
• See all the entries for the competition at http://2021.js13kgames.com/

Post Mortem

I didn't have too much time to work on this game during the jam's month, so I went with simple design based off a previous game Master of a Thousand Suns (which is even more simple). My general goals were:

• 4x gameplay: Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate
• Slow incremental gameplay - easy to begin, but takes forever to complete
• Mobile-friendly
• Of course: Fit it all into 13kb!

Compression

Rather than using webpack for compression like last year, instead I used vite - mainly because I was already using it for a quick and easy dev server, but also because the build process was super easy. I didn't do any minimizing of my code by hand (i.e., code golf, Xem-style js) because fortunately I wasn't close to the limit.

• Source: ~44.9 KB
  • js scripts: ~36.8 KB
    • Empire.js: 16.1 KB
    • game.js: 11.8 KB
    • All others: ~9 KB (but not all were really used)
  • html/css: 7.95 KB
• Minified: 26.2 KB
  • js: 18.3 KB
  • html/css: 7.98 KB (it actually went up a tiny amount)
• Zipped: 8.95 KB (Plenty of extra space!)

Feedback

• Shortest (impatient) play-thru possible: https://youtu.be/uF1W_mfcCN8?t=369
• "Nice layout. I would definitely have benefited from a short tutorial and/or a way to speed up time"