Demoscene guidebook (2018)
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Demoscene guidebook (2018)
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#2This is awesome!
These knowledge bits surprisingly work really well if you are launching your own ideas in other formats (business, art, code, etc...), or doing other stuff just for fun.
Made my day :D
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#3I've followed the demoscene for nearly three decades, and the demos get put out every year have always been hugely impressive. The old Amiga stuff like Technological Death was great but the more modern demos like Intrinsic Gravity by Still (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxPhDC-r3w) are just amazing.
You can get pretty far making demo effects in CSS and JS these days. A couple of my attempts over on Codepen;
Text flash - https://codepen.io/onion2k/full/WyLoNg (Warning: flashing images)
Bitmap text wobble scroller - https://codepen.io/onion2k/full/rYgxdJ
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#4The fact that kids barely older than me in the 80s were cranking out stuff that used the C64 to its limits blows my mind. The demoscene is intensely inspiring, if really impenetrable to an outsider.
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#5I've followed the demoscene for nearly three decades, and the demos get put out every year have always been hugely impressive. The old Amiga stuff like Technological Death was great but the more modern demos like Intrinsic Gravity by Still ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxPhDC-r3w ) are just amazing . You can get pretty far making demo effects in CSS and JS these days. A couple of my attempts over on Codepen; Tex…
Some other resources:
http://www.wab.com - Have some amazing demos coded in Javascript and tutorials on how to create your own
http://modarchive.org/ - If your only interested in tracked music
http://www.pouet.net - A demoscene information source
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#6The fact that kids barely older than me in the 80s were cranking out stuff that used the C64 to its limits blows my mind. The demoscene is intensely inspiring, if really impenetrable to an outsider.
The best way to penetrate it is to just write a demo! It's fairly certain that it will be terrible, but the point is you tried and you will improve. Hopefully you'll get some pats on the back along the way, inviting you to try again with a second demo, and so it begins...
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#7One day I watched a 3D engine demo in a 1KB executable file.
It was unbelievable ! With my business partner we always wanted to have time to make one (not even in 1024 bytes, just one)
Those guys were (and still are) amazing.
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#8This brings back some fun memories. Back in 94 i attended the Assembly in Helsinki, Finland. Amazing people with incredible potential.
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#9I've followed the demoscene for nearly three decades, and the demos get put out every year have always been hugely impressive. The old Amiga stuff like Technological Death was great but the more modern demos like Intrinsic Gravity by Still ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxPhDC-r3w ) are just amazing . You can get pretty far making demo effects in CSS and JS these days. A couple of my attempts over on Codepen; Tex…
Especially the latter demo is really nice!
Some of my demos:
https://tobireif.com/demos/swirls/
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#10One day I watched a 3D engine demo in a 1KB executable file. It was unbelievable ! With my business partner we always wanted to have time to make one (not even in 1024 bytes, just one) Those guys were (and still are) amazing.
The most important thing to understand here is that these people are NOT actually that amazing! They are a wide spectrum of coders, artists and musicians of widely varying capabilities.
What people do have is some very PARTICULAR skillsets. You can pick up those skills too! People will help you out if you ask! You can learn all these tricks if you want to. It takes some effort and inspiration, but it is doable for most people. It's not magic, it's just learning things. Things that are often utterly useless, but fun!