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A year ago, I never would’ve thought I’d see my name in the credits of one of the world’s most famous games. Still feels surreal, and I couldn’t be prouder. #TheWitcher3

Someone took our released sources and ported Chaos Theory to an AmigaOne X1000! So technically, we have now released an Amiga intro!

BoyC’s Law of thirdparty Libraries: “A thirdparty library building according to the readme and functioning out of the box is a deceptively rare exception to the rule.” Strong form to use when budgeting for integration: “No thirdparty library builds out of the box.”

Chaos Theory turns 20 years old today! 🎂 To know that even to this day we get people from all walks of life telling us how fond they're of it is honestly incredible to us. Got good memories about the intro? Where did you see it first? Let us know! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfk5...

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Small survey on coordinate intuitions. You have an object on the screen, its position defined by the X, Y, Z coordinates. Which direction does your intuition say it will move in if you increase the X coordinate? What about increasing Y and Z? Which directions are the positive and negative?

Here's a small feature you didn't know you needed in your code editor: visual feedback for when you copy stuff to the clipboard. It's a simple thing but once you get used to it you'll start missing it everywhere else. Implemented as a Visual Studio plugin (not VSCode). github.com/BoyC/CopyHig...

Super surprised how fast Vera picked up the ins and outs of my demotool. I see great things ahead! Well done for 4th place in the largest 64k compo in recent memory!

My 4k executable graphics entry for Revision 2026 that came in 2nd. Created using an editor built as an experiment to see if current AI is capable of building tooling for smaller things like SDF editing. Consensus: prototyping - yes. Long term maintainable tooling - no. www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...

The collection is growing. Very proud of Slyspy for his first ever meteorik for best visuals and am glad that all the work with Tension last year was rewarded with a best high-end intro award as well. Awesome party as always, @revision-party.bsky.social!

Those textures were killer back then!

My version of "googling yourself": every now and again I ask LLMs what they know about our demogroup Conspiracy (without googling). We're just obsucre enough to be known but not in detail so it's a good check to see how much info these systems gobble up over time. I feel like such a tool now...

Every so often we get asked why don't we use our 64k tech to make a game, or give it to people to improve existing games, and it's very hard to explain that That's Not How It Works.

Looks like someone took our ball and ran with it, and continued with a fully portable C++ port of Second Reality - including a browser version! www.jsr-productions.com/secondrealit... Finally we can replace DOOM as "the thing you run on things"! 💪

Probably one of the most ambitious works we've done.

In our efforts to restore old classics, we're proud to release the Windows port of a legendary 64k intro: "hplus" by Halcyon, from 1998 Download at conspiracy.hu/files/hplus_...

Here's a small treat if you're looking for some colorful backgrounds: 8k screenshots of our 2024 64k intro Empires with particle counts cranked to the tens of millions. As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...

This intro was an immense source of inspiration to me back then, one of the reasons I'm still making 64k intros to this day.

Kicked off a long overdue #artstation page too. Not much there yet, but it's a start :) Planning a few more @mandragoragame.com BTS stuff in the future so stay tuned! www.artstation.com/zoomvfx #Portfolio #GameDev #VFX #RealtimeVFX #Niagara #GameArt #GameDevCommunity

Dear Apple. I'm glad you finally realized that phones are too large. I've been saying this for years. But damn, NOT ALONG THE Z AXIS!

Ever found a couple thousand bucks between the sofa cushions? That's how we felt last night when toggling a single compiler flag shrunk our 64k engine code by 20%. Moral of the story: don't assume anything when moving compilers in a size-coding context.

Gotta love AI overviews. That's two WD ssd product codes I wanted to compare to figure out the 40 eur price difference at my usual retailer.

Hello everyone who found us through this starter pack recently 👋 We're a Hungarian demogroup and we've been making 64 kilobyte intros for 20+ years now, using our own procedural tooling that looks/looked like this 👇

I managed to buy a laptop with a copilot key not realizing that it can't be set to act as the ctrl key, and all workarounds ignore the fact that the hardware actually sends "win+shift+f23", taking over the shift button and making shift+ctrl+arrow key selection impossible. Well. NO. MORE. COPILOT.

= 32 bits after 32 years = We're incredibly proud to announce that Second Reality has now been finally ported to a modern operating system, and you can watch it tear up your system: no video, no emulation, just code - as it should be. conspiracy.hu/files/w32nd_... github.com/ConspiracyHu...

Look to the stars again at Assembly.

Hi #PortfolioDay! We made all these things. They all fit into 64 kilobytes. Yes, KILObytes.

We've been a bit quiet recently, and this is one of the reasons! Go check it out!

Breakdown of a 64k intro: the contents of Tension (www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nL...) look like this after compression. Green is visual data, blue is audio code+data, brown/yellow is engine code and red is the exepacker+stub.

And what an honor. This project would not have been possible without the guys helping out with the audio: @virgill74.bsky.social, @kebby.org and gopher

Whoever thought that it'd be a good idea to have the copilot key send a ctrl-shift-f23 shortcut so there's no way to map it back to ctrl so that it works with shift-ctrl-arrow selection navigation needs to get persistent hiccups like right now.

Spent my evenings in the past 6 months working towards one of my holy grails: a real-time recreation of an old prerendered video, in 64 kbytes It won the 64k competition at @revision-party.bsky.social. Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nL... Executable version: www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...

Our soundtrack for Clean Slate has made it into the latest edition of the legendary Demovibes compilation!

@c0de517e.bsky.social do you perchance happen to have public contact information for Earl Hammon? Would love to see his thoughts on www.jcgt.org/published/00... given his earlier excellent work on the topic.

Yes, yes we did 😊 EMPIRES has been nominated for Best High-End Intro and Best Visuals!

Tried out openai deep research. Feels the same as when I used google for the first time ever (waay back). It's a filter to get an unshittified google on a more mature version of the internet. This is the sort of innovation that is actually helpful. Here's a good example. chatgpt.com/share/67a326...

These past couple days the phrase "open source" has been thrown around a lot. I feel this is misleading. Deepseek is as much "open source" as any released binary compiled application is. Open weight, locally executable is not the same thing.

Hello #PortfolioDay We're a group who makes procedurally generated art with the upper size limit of 65535 bytes, music included. It looks like this:

If you're instead interested learning more from our tech-art side, here's our VFX / compositing breakdown of "When Silence Dims The Stars Above", our 64k intro / short film from 2018: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0Y...

It's a date! 🎉

Hello to the continuing wave of new followers 👋 Did you know we open-sourced the demotools we made Chaos Theory and Offscreen Colonies with? github.com/ConspiracyHu... github.com/ConspiracyHu... We don't usually receive a lot of feedback on these, so let us know if you find the code interesting!

22 years and still going strong!

@jenmsft.bsky.social this probably has been asked ad nauseum already but is there word on vertical taskbar support for Windows 11? Because of my usual workflow it's just utterly inconvenient to update at this point and time is running out on the Windows 10 lifecycle.

The magic of postprocessing.

Sat down last friday to check out imgui for the first time and rewrite an older tool for mass release. Not even a week later it's featured in the imgui showcase. Didn't expect that :D

Happy birthday to Conspiracy! I spent over 10 years working on this tool and it was used in the creation of about 70 demoscene releases. Enjoy a peek behind the curtain of what we create our releases with!

Here's a sneak preview - it just happens to be 400x300 for no apparent reason 🤭

May wanna keep a look out for this ;)