Demoscene Introduction
1. Who am I
Rick, a GNU/wildebeest - https://gyiwr.tf
2. What is that is this is it ?
The Demoscene is a subculture which has grown in the 80' on the Internet.
Deeply linked to the Warez Scene, which cracks games. In the early days, people put demos at the begin of the crack as credit (not anymore today).
The terme demo means "demonstration" [of its skills].
It also refers to a binary file which makes real time animation, in 2D or 3D in the rythm of a music. It's more or less like a clip !
The performances can be short (a few seconds) or long (20 minutes and more).
A scener is a person who makes demos.
They show their works at a Party, it's like a Fauntastic but for demos !
3. Why people do this ?
Just to show their skills in:
- Music
- Art
- Code
4. The categories
All the Parties make their own categories, but the two main ones are :
- by computer
- by size
- from 128kB
- to 8B
Remimder, the size of:
- Doom Eternal : 54GB
- the first Doom : 2.4MB
- a floppy disk : 1.4MB
- the first floppy disks: 242kB
Happy scening :^)
The size of the binary for this (4K) video is only 64kB !
5. With what ?
- what we want !
- … but mostly C or ASM to make small binaries
- shaders
- the engines aren't made by companies but handmade by small groups
- often libres or with a source code which is open
5.1. Some engines
6. The end !
7. References
- What is the Demoscene? (ps's interview)
- Warez, The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy, 5. Aesthetics, The Demoscene, Martin Paul & Eve
8. Resources
9. Parties
- LoveByte
- Assembly
- ChaosConstruction
- …