Interview with Japanese demoscener 0x4015 (2017)

Re:Interview with Japanese demoscener 0x4015 (2017) by glitchc on Monday January 21, 2019 @11:41PM (#18966046)

I'm just amazed this is still a thing. Are these demos always written in low-level GPU primitives?

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Re:Interview with Japanese demoscener 0x4015 (2017) by fla on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @02:43AM (#18966685)

'2nd stage' is raymarched in a single shader. You can see the (adapted) source here https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MsGGDK

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Re:Interview with Japanese demoscener 0x4015 (2017) by daeken on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:11AM (#18966125)

Not at all. Many demos these days are either built on in-house engines which abstract things away (a group of tool devs builds those, while the actual demo devs/designers just work with the tools), or they're built on a premade engine. There are plenty of folks somewhere in-between, too, doing WebGL and the like.

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Re:Interview with Japanese demoscener 0x4015 (2017) by twic on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:59AM (#18966526)

Some are still done the hard way:

https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/

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Re:Interview with Japanese demoscener 0x4015 (2017) by jacquesm on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:11AM (#18966780)

Awesome. A meaningful program in 256 bytes is like a jewel.

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Re:Interview with Japanese demoscener 0x4015 (2017) by emptyfile on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @07:20AM (#18967738)

That's pretty insane.

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Re:Interview with Japanese demoscener 0x4015 (2017) by jnbiche on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @10:22AM (#18968852)

Wow. That soundtrack almost instantly has become a favorite.

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