Awesome Demoscene

Awesome stuff by/and/for/with sceners.

Right now, this is mostly focused on PC/OGL/DX Plattforms - Send a PR if you want to change that. :)

• Awesome Demoscene
  • Tutorials and Guides
  • Demomaking
    • Frameworks, Libs & Engines
    • Tools
    • Audio & Synths
  • Productions
    • Executable Graphics
    • 1 k Intros
    • 4 k Intros
    • 8 k Intros
    • 64 k Intros
    • Demos
  • Misc Repos
    • Demoparty Organizing
    • Viewing and Capturing
    • Websites & Social
    • Github Orgs & Collections
  • Demoscene Around the Web
    • Community & Archives
    • Curated Lists and Galleries
    • Youtube Channels and Podcasts
    • Demoscene Organisations

Tutorials and Guides

• Teach yourself demoscene in 14 days - Fantastic starting guide by ps.
• Demoscene starter kits - Want to start making demos but don't know where to begin? Look no further!
• in4k.github.io - markdown clone / fork / 2016 revamp of the good old in4k.untergrund.net wiki - in4k.github.io
• 64k-scene.github.io - A gallery of 64k intros, making ofs and resources to learn how to get started with a 64k by Ctrl-Alt-Test.
• Games in the GPU shaders - modern examples and needed knowledge to make games in GPU shaders.
• How to "properly" release a Demoscene production - YT video by ps anwering multiple questions on how to release a prod.
• sizecoding.org - A wiki dedicated to the art of creating very tiny programs
• The Art of Coding - Youtube channels with many beginner-friendly tutorials on Shader Coding, Shadertoy, etc.

Demomaking

Ressources for creating demos and intros.

Frameworks, Libs & Engines

• Vulkan Shadertoy launcher - create a small single-bin(exe) file with built-in shaders. Using Vulkan and C. (~50Kb with builtin large shader)
• Leviathan 2.0 - A simple "framework" for developing small (around 1-8 kilobyte) Demoscene productions.
• shortcrust - Shortcrust is a Python wrapper library for OpenGL, intended for building applications that are portable to the Raspberry Pi.
• Blossom - 4K Executable Graphics framework
• Ever Laster Engine - Excess demo engine

• 4k Demo Oven - Framework for 4k demos.
• LunarEngine - This is a very primitive graphics engine, using a simple integer array as chunky-buffer.
• Ghostown & Whelpz 2021 - Amiga OCS demoscene related sources
• Harfang3D - A high-end platform for 2D and 3D application development (C++, Python, Lua)

Tools

Complete Demotools and Tools to help you create.

• RetroStudio - A non-destructive desktop app for creating demoscene-inspired graphics, retro images, animated compositions, character art and layered visual effects.
• tooll3 - Open source software to create realtime motion graphics. Main demotool of Still
• nin - Ninjadev's internal demo tool. It is a tool for easing development of browser-based WebGL demos.
• Rocket - A tool for synchronizing music and visuals in demoscene productions.
• Crinkler - Crinkler is an executable file compressor for Windows for compressing small demoscene executables.
• Farbrausch Public Repo - Farbrausch tools from 2001 to 2011 including werkzeug3 and kkrunchy.
• P*V3 - Jumalauta demo engine and tool.
• Werkzeug4 - Farbrausch Werkkzeug4 and Screens4
• CNS 2012 Source Pack - Repo containing demotools (and intros) of conspiracy up to 2012.
• Grimoire - A cross-platform live-coding tool for creative coding with GLSL shader demos.
• Shader Minifier - A tool that minifies and obfuscates shader code (GLSL and HLSL).
• GLSL Shader Shrinker - A Windows GUI tool that attempts to reduce the size of GLSL fragment shader code, whilst keeping it readable and understandable.
• Shiba - Digital content creation tool for demoscene and live coding.
• gShaderReplacer - OpenGL proxy dll for shader replacement and debugging
• Bonzomatic To Shadertoy - Python script to convert bonzomatic glsl fragment shaders to use them on shadertoy.com

Graphics

Editors from the scene

• grafx2 - ultimate 256-color bitmap paint program - Website
• moebius - Modern ANSI & ASCII Art Editor
• ansied - keyboard focused, web-based ANSI Editor - Website

Audio & Synths

Make some noise!

• Soundbox - SoundBox is an HTML5 synth music tracker/editor, suitable for creating music for small JavaScript demos (4K / 8K).
• WaveSabre - WaveSabre is a software synthesizer and toolchain for music for 64K intros.
• pulsejet - A bespoke sample compression codec for 64k intros
• 4klang - 4klang is a modular software synthesizer package intended to easily produce music for 4k intros.
• 64klang - 64klang is a modular, nodegraph based software synthesizer package intended to easily produce music for 64k intros.
• Axiom - A powerful realtime node-based audio synthesizer.
• OpenMPT - A free Windows/Wine-based tracker and libopenmpt, a library to render tracker music.
• libxm - A small XM (FastTracker II Extended Module) player library.
• Oidos - Oidos is a software synthesizer, based on additive synthesis, for making music for very small executables, such as 4 and 8 kilobyte intros.
• sointu - Fork of 4klang, supporting 386, amd64 and wasm. Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux & browser
• hivelytracker - Music tracker for AHX and HVL formats
• pt2-clone - Music tracker clone of ProTracker 2 for modern computers
• ft2-clone - Fasttracker II clone
• komposter - lightweight music composing system
• bambootracker -YM2608 (OPNA, sound chip of Yamaha) music tracker
• klystrack - Chiptune tracker
• goattracker - C64 music editor
• cheesecutter - SID music editor
• furnace - multi-system chiptune tracker compatible with DefleMask modules
• schism tracker - ImpulseTracker clone aiming at providing the same look&feel

Productions

Github Repos of Demoscene Productions.

Executable Graphics

• "Forbidden Path by" yx - MAGFest Demoparty 2020 Executable Graphics entry
• "Long Way From Home" by yx - SynchroNY 2020 Executable Graphics entry
• "Brutal Knowledge" by yx - Demosplash 2019 Executable Graphics entry
• "Light at the End of the Tunnel" by yx - NOVA 2019 Executable Graphics entry
• "Penrose Pathtraced" by yx - Revision 2019 Executable Graphics entry
• "The Real Party Is In Your Pocket" by Fizzer
• "Decay" by Fizzer
• "octree" by NR4 - 4k exe gfx entry by NR4/Team210 at Revision 2k20

1k Intros

• "Crawlspace" by Youth Uprising
• Star Traveler - A 1K JavaScript demo

4k Intros

• "Oscar's Chair" by Eos - Winner of the Revision 2018 4k Compo
• "Terrarium" by Eos - 2nd in the Assembly 2019 4K Intro competition
• "お花見 (Ohanami)" by Fizzer and Wayfinder - 4th in the Deadline 2017 PC 4K Intro competition
• "Love Reaction" by Fizzer and Puryx - 3rd in the Nordlicht 2015 Newschool Demo competition
• "IIII / IV" by Eos - 6th in the Revision 2019 PC 4K Intro competition
• "Horizon Machine" by Alcatraz and Eos - 3rd in the Revision 2017 PC 4K Intro competition
• "Glittermorphosis" by Eos - 2nd in the Under Construction 2016 PC High-End 4K Intro competition
• "Dropletia" by Eos and Prismbeings - 5th in the Evoke 2017 PC 4K Intro competition
• "Alive Here Now, Forever" by Empathy - 2nd in the Under Construction 2017 PC High-End Combined 4K/64K competition
• "Appear" by Jetlag - Released at Revision 2018
• "PiaggioNonTroppo" by Cookie Collective - 10th in the Evoke 2019 PC 4K Intro competition
• "Core Critical" by HBC - Placed 1st in Assembly 2018 4k intro competition
• "VIRGO 1302" by HBC - Placed 1st in Assembly 2020 4k intro competition
• "Ghosts of Mars" by Faemiyah - Placed 4th in the Assembly 2015 combined 4k competition
• "Hydrokinetics" by Prismbeings - Placed 1st in the Assembly 2015 combined 4k competiion
• "Drifting Shores" by NuSan - Placed 1st in the Revision 2024 PC 4k intro competition

8k Intros

• "From The Seas To The Stars" by Fizzer and noby / Eos - 3rd in the Evoke 2018 PC 64K Intro competition
• "Blue Morpho" by Eos - 3rd in the TRSAC 2016 PC 64k competition

64k Intros

• CNS 2012 Source Pack - Repo containing intros (inc. demotools) of conspiracy up to 2012.
• Ctrl-Alt-Test - Repo containing the intros "B-Incubation", "D-Four", "E-Departure" and "F-Felix's Workshop" from Ctrl-Alt-Test.
• "Insert No Coins" by Razor 1911 - Winning entry of the Main 2010 combined 64k competition
• "The Scene Is Dead" by Razor 1911 - Placed 3rd at the Revision 2012 pc 64k competition
• "Lightcyber" by Team210 - 64k Intro for Evoke 2019
• "providence" by Team210 - PC64k intro by Team210 at Vortex 2k19
• "hardcyber" by Team210 - PC-64k-Intro by Team210 at Deadline 2k19

Demos

• "Second Reality" by Future Crew - Source code and data of Second Reality by Future Crew in 1993
• "Amoeba" by Excess
• "Doomsday" by Complex - Xbox demo from 2003
• "Okiedokie" by SoopaDoopa - MS-DOS Demo from 1999
• "What Are You Syncing About?" by Ninjadev - Ninjadev's submission for Revision 2017
• "Construct" by Ninjadev - Ninjadev's new school demo for Solskogen 2019
• "Flat Shade Society" by Ninjadev - Solskogen 2019 invite
• "Pinky Frinky" by Ninjadev - This is Ninjadev's demo for Solskogen 2018
• "No invitation" by Ninjadev - Invitation for Revision 2018, submitted to Under Construction 2017.
• "Black Hole" by Nesnausk! - A real-time rendering demo. 1st place at Field-FX 2020.
• "Parallel Multiverse" by Abyss - This is Abyss´ contribution to the Revision 2020 Demoscene event.
• "World Domination" by Odd - World Domination by ODD, now as open source! Released with permission from tr0nders0DD!

Misc Repos

Demoparty Organizing

Ressources for organizing your own party/event.

• CompoKit - CompoKit is an all-inclusive environment with (almost) all tools required for hosting PC demoscene competitions.
• Bonzomatic - A live-coding tool, where you can write a 2D fragment/pixel shader while it is running in the background.
• Bonzomatic Server - Relays shaders from opponents during LiveShading battle that use Bonzomatic.
• Granola - A minimal, modern competition system for demoparties.
• Partyman - The All-in-one Party Manager.
• Partyboi - Partyboi is a demoparty competition and info screen management system.
• Partymeister - The Partymeister Demoparty "Intranet" and Composystem.
• stuhl.js (Partymeister notification bot) - This bot provides the ability for Partymeister to broadcast certain events to several destinations.
• WUHU - Lightweight Party Management System

Viewing and Capturing

Having a Beer - capturing a demo.

• Shadertoy to video with FBO - frame perfect Shaders capture script made in Python and OpenGL. Suport Windows/Linux.
• Capturinha - A tool for real time screen and audio capture on Windows, using NVIDIA's NVENC.
• Conduit - Demo downloader and watching utility and browser plugin
• upskkale - .kkapture-based realtime upscaling of demos that run in deprecated / unsupported video modes.
• Exemusic Recorder - A tool to record music from executables.
• Foxotron - ASSIMP based general purpose model viewer ("turntable") created for the Revision 2021 3D Graphics Competition
• ILBMViewer - ILBM (color-cycling image format) viewer for Windows
• showNet - Demo viewer using Pouet.net's metadata

Websites & Social

• Demozoo - Repo for www.demozoo.org
• Pouet - Repo for www.pouet.net
• PouetDiscordBot - A bot to spam #pouet on demoscene discord with highly relevant pouet stuff.
• pouet-enhancement-suite - FireFox/Chrome Addon for Pouet Browsing.
• demoscene.no - The source code for demoscene.no

Github Orgs & Collections

• in4k
• Demoscene Source Archive - A collection of demoscene source code.
• Demo Sources - Collection of Demos with Source

Demoscene Around the Web

Community & Archives

Forums, Community Hubs and sites archiving scene productions

• scene.org - Home of the scene.org archive, sceneid and various scene related sites.
• Demozoo - A website dedicated to collecting and organizing the history of the demoscene - its productions, people, events and many other bits of information.
• pouet - Home of the glöps, prods and the oldskool pouët.net bbs.
• demoparty.net - A list of demoscene events happening around the world.
• livecode.demozoo.org - Archive of recordings from different livecoding events.
• scene.hu - The hungarian demoscene portal and community.
• scenecity - Streaming and Chat Platform for the demoscene.
• scenesat - A demoscene online-radio, community and accociation.
• Nectarine - Demoscene online-radio and home of the Demovibes DJ Mixes.

Curated Lists and Galleries

Find beautiful prods

• curio - A curated and continuously expanding collection of modern demoscene and real-time graphics pieces.
• executable.graphics - A collection of executable graphic prods curated by xy.
• nanogems - A curated selection of the best Tiny Intros from the Demoscene.

Youtube Channels and Podcasts

Watch scene related videos

• psenough - Personal channel of ps. He publishes a monthly demoscene report as well as guides, partyreports and curated playlists.
• Fairlight - Channel of the Fairlight demogroup. Publishes FairlightTV with interviews, reports and technical insight.
• Inigo Quilez - Personal channel of iq. Lot's of content and tutorials on shadercoding, shadertoy and math.
• ferrisstreamsstuff - Personal channels of ferris with recordings on streams on demomaking, emulator development and hardware hacking.
• Gasman - Personal channel of gasman with ZX Spectrum, TIC-80 and livemusic content.
• Zine: The Radio show - Zine is a Demoscene Podcast from and for sceners, and everyone curious about one of the oldest but still very lively digital art cultures.
• Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras) - Youtubes biggest collection of captured demos and intros.
• AssemblyTV - Channel of Assembly.
• Echtzeit - Channel of the swiss scene accociation.
• Revision - Channel of the revision demoparty with compo and seminar recordings.
• Evoke Demoparty - Channel of the Evoke demoparty with compo and seminar recordings.
• Field-FX - Channel of the Field-FX demoparty.
• The Retro Vibe - Channel with oral interviews with sceners (focused around Amiga Norway).
• Moleman - Channel with documentary and oral interviews with sceners (focused around C64 Hungary).

Demoscene Organisations

Local and national organisations supporting the demoscene. Listed are those which accept various kind of contributions and memberships

• Computerkunst e.V - Berlin based NPA for the support of the demoscene.
• Inércia - Inércia is a non-profit organisation aimed to make the demoscene known in Portugal through preservation and outreach.
• Echtzeit - digitale Kultur - Echtzeit is a charitable association, with the primary goal of facilitating and supporting the Demoscene in Switzerland.

• The Bloop Museum (patreon) - The US based Bloop Museum strifes to start a year-round brick-and-mortar electronic entertainment museum.
• Norsk Demopartyforening - A non-profit organization that has the goal of furthering demoparties in Norway.
• Comprocrew ry - A registered non-profit association in Finland, that grants aid to Finnish demoscene parties.