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https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for... But there's more: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/category/demoscene/

Afaik this is exactly what Unity builds are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_build

I think the 10 years is the key here. 15+ years ago the DevC++ was a gem, lightweight, fast usable IDE. But 10 years ago there was the free VSExpress out (not even the first, 2005 …

The size limited demos are use techniques like in the OP, scrapping the runtime, no std, filling the unused exe header sections with own data, quantizing floating point values, etc…

+1 for SOMA. That game was amazing emotionally. It was left me thinking for days what i went through in it.

I can recomment HROT, it is still in development but you can try the demo on Steam. It is awesome. Fun fact: it looks like Quake engine but not, it is written in Pascal.