--- title: QUOD Is A Quake-Like In Only 64kB | daily.dev description: Developer daivuk created QUOD, a fully playable Quake-like first-person shooter compressed into a 64kB Windows executable. The project includes multiple... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/quod-is-a-quake-like-in-only-64kb-vrabdgjmn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: QUOD Is A Quake-Like In Only 64kB | daily.dev og:description: Developer daivuk created QUOD, a fully playable Quake-like first-person shooter compressed into a 64kB Windows executable. The project includes multiple... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/quod-is-a-quake-like-in-only-64kb-vrabdgjmn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VRAbdGjmN.png og:image:alt: QUOD Is A Quake-Like In Only 64kB og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # QUOD Is A Quake-Like In Only 64kB **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Developer daivuk created QUOD, a fully playable Quake-like first-person shooter compressed into a 64kB Windows executable. The project includes multiple enemies, levels, textures, and animations — none of it procedurally generated. To achieve this, daivuk built an entire custom toolchain: a procedural texture editor, a bespoke model tool with bone/pose support, a sound synthesis tool using square and sine waves, a tracker for music, and even a custom scripting language with its own virtual machine (which saved 2kB and allowed fitting an extra level). Levels are designed in TrenchBroom and reprocessed into an optimized format, while Blender exports symmetric half-meshes to halve vertex data. A Python-based map file analyzer was used to track the exact byte cost of each game element and validate optimizations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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