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7:15 · 229K views · Feb 22, 2009
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.
HN recommends it as the demoscene showpiece to show someone what extreme size-limited real-time graphics look like.
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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.
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.
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 made the first demo I ever saw, a 2007 one called debris (fr-041): this video Super cool, and in an executable of 177kB.
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.