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awesome-demoscene
A list of demoscene related tools, code and ressources.
https://github.com/psykon/awesome-demoscene
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Tutorials and Guides
- How to "properly" release a Demoscene production - YT video by ps anwering multiple questions on how to release a prod.
- 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
- 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
- sizecoding.org - A wiki dedicated to the art of creating very tiny programs
- 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.
- How to "properly" release a Demoscene production - YT video by ps anwering multiple questions on how to release a prod.
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Demoscene Around the Web
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Community & Archives
- 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.
- 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.
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Curated Lists and Galleries
- 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.
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Youtube Channels and Podcasts
- 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.
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Demoscene Organisations
- 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.
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Misc Repos
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Demoparty Organizing
- Partymeister - The Partymeister Demoparty "Intranet" and Composystem.
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Github Orgs & Collections
- in4k
- Demoscene Source Archive - A collection of demoscene source code.
- Demo Sources - Collection of Demos with Source
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Demomaking
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Frameworks, Libs & Engines
- Harfang3D - A high-end platform for 2D and 3D application development (C++, Python, Lua)
- 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
- isystem1k4k - iq's open source 1k / 4k framework(s) - removed for now - because outdated libs, etc -->
- 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
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Tools
- grafx2 - ultimate 256-color bitmap paint program
- tooll3 - Open source software to create realtime motion graphics. Main demotool of [Still](https://demozoo.org/groups/862/)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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Audio & Synths
- pt2-clone - Music tracker clone of ProTracker 2 for modern computers
- ft2-clone - Fasttracker II clone
- goattracker - C64 music editor
- cheesecutter - SID music editor
- schism tracker - ImpulseTracker clone aiming at providing the same look&feel
- 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
- komposter - lightweight music composing system
- bambootracker - YM2608 (OPNA, sound chip of Yamaha) music tracker
- klystrack - Chiptune tracker
- furnace - multi-system chiptune tracker compatible with DefleMask modules
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Graphics
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Productions
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4k Intros
- "Drifting Shores" by NuSan - Placed 1st in the Revision 2024 PC 4k intro competition
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Programming Languages
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