demoscene

How many real world developers are involved with the Demoscene?

I grew up learning to code based on what I've experienced with the demoscene. It seems to be a pretty sparse subculture in the US. How many developers watch or participate in the scene? Teaser: If you haven't checked out the scene before, take a look at one of my favorites: Debris by Farbrausch. Watch on demoscene.tv or download the ...

Animation effect in .NET?

Can someone point me to a C# open source implementaion with a simple image animations. e.g. I feed the input image to animator, and the animation code produces a few dozen of images which if displayed sequentially looks like animation. I am not something extremely fancy - a simple DirectX filter like animations would do. ...

How can I learn the insane art of 4K democoding?

I love the demoscene a lot, especially those small 4K exefiles. They don't have any dependencies except for the files already found in windows and they exhibit the awesome power of programming: 3D graphics + sound, all in 4K. How is this possible? What's the language they are using? What are the tools of trade, best practices and import...

Demo (FX) Coding Tutorials?

I'm looking for a few good tutorials to get me started in demo coding. I have some background in CG but it's all rather theoretical. There are many regular 3D programming tutorials, but I'm especially looking for some old school 2D stuff. ...