A Jaw-Dropping Demo In Only 256 Bytes:
"Revision" is probably the Olympics of the demoscene. The world's best tiny graphics coders assemble, show off their works, and learn new tricks to pack as much awesome into as few bytes as possible or make unheard-of effects on limited hardware. And of course, there's a competition. Winning this year's 256-byte (byte!) competition, and then taking the overall crowd favorite award, was [HellMood]'s Memories.
If you watch it in the live-stream from Revision, you'll hear the crowd going (virtually) wild, and the announcer losing his grip and gasping for words. It's that amazing. Not only are more effects put into 28 bytes than we thought possible, but there's a full generative MIDI score to go with it. What?!?
But almost as amazing is [HellMood]'s generous writeup of how he pulled it off. If you're at all interested in demos, minimal graphics effects, or just plain old sweet hacks, you have your weekend's reading laid out for you. [HellMood] has all of his references and influences linked in as well. You're about to go down a very deep rabbit hole.
Video (2m).
(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Friday April 24 2020, @02:03AM (1 child)
A Mind Is Born (256 bytes) [youtube.com]
Puls - Rrrola | 256b [youtube.com]
H - Immersion - Ctrl-Alt-Test | Revision 2017 | 64k [youtube.com]
Future Crew - Second Reality (1993) [60fps] [youtube.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by corey on Saturday April 25 2020, @01:58PM
Well there went an hour and a half of my Saturday night.
I saw the Rrrola one earlier - good one that.
Back in 98 or so I first saw Martian by Euthanasia, catchy music, cute story (rather than rotating patterns and meaningless stuff:
Euthanasia - Martian (1997) [60fps] [youtube.com]
Another Euthanasia follow-up, cool music too:
Euthanasia - Space (1997) [60fps] [youtube.com]
Liked the music in this one.
ino by Quite | 64k [youtube.com]
Couple of nice RAZOR 1911 prods:
RAZOR 1911 - We Have Accidently Borrowed Your Votedisk | 64k 2011 [youtube.com]
The Scene Is Dead - Razor1911 | 64k Revision 2012 [youtube.com]
I just came upon this one - wow it's absorbing and intense! From 2010, what quality. Music and the colour/lighting is wicked.
cdak by Quite & orange (Final version) | 4k intro 64k [youtube.com]
I do find it hard to like a lot of the new 3D demos more than the old pre-2000 ones, where they had to raster/sprite everything. No fancy AA/filtering/spectral effects/3D/shadowing/etc back then. But some of the new ones are insanely good, and still 64k (or 256byte!)