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HN recommends it as the demoscene showpiece to show someone what extreme size-limited real-time graphics look like.
Debris by Farbrausch, the winner of the Breakpoint 2007 demo competition. All of its 3D visuals, textures and music come from a single 177 KB executable.
“If you want to really show off the demoscene, try Farbrausch - fr-041.” (HN, 2013)
Farbrausch's "debris." shows just how much you can pack into 200k (including the audio, btw). [this video] For the webby crowd: "Masagin" features animated, recursive SVGs with antialiasing and motion blur at high rez and high frame rate. [link] Or, you could download both demos from [link] and run them on your own PC.
If you want to really show off the demoscene, try Farbrausch - fr-041. It's comparatively very big (179KB), but impressive how they were able to squeeze so much stuff there: video [this video] , official repository: [link] . If you want to dig deeper, Farbrausch published most of their material and tools last year including the source code for fr-041. Search for farbrausch on GitHub. But I must say, it's pretty hardcore.
Impressive demo squeezing huge content into 179KB.
Although they generally didn't compete in the 4kb genre, Farbrausch open-sourced many of their demos and demo-making tools a few years ago [1]. fr-041: Debris [2], and kkrieger [3] (the 96kb FPS) are particularly worth checking out for the uninitiated. [1] [link] [2] [this video] [3] [link]
Farbrausch demo worth checking out for the uninitiated.
I always tought that the tiny hint of a narrative was why I've seen Debris[1] reach much more nerds than other demos, not its spectacularly small file size. [1] [this video]
Ok fair point I shouldn't have been so glib as puet is pretty horrible from a web design standpoint. It's a website for the demoscene, where people do stuff like this [this video] in 177 kilobytes.
It's a cute little demo that's only basically 1MB all in. That said, I don't think it's the best for this group - they've done more in far less before. [this video] for example, is an executable only 177KB big.
> "one guy" sir, that's no way to refer to farbrausch here is their Breakpoint 2007 demo, a 177 Kb executable including 3d assets and textures. [this video]
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