Demos of 2025 from the Demoscene
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- The demoscene is a subculture focused on realtime graphics and technical creativity, with around 2,000 productions released annually.
- Meteoriks awards, judged by demosceners, highlight the best demos each year, with the 2026 nominees recently announced.
- Tension (Digital Dynamite x Aenima) is a 64kB remake of a 2002 video, showcasing high-quality procedural generation to match original shots.
- Dune (Alcatraz) won the 8k competition at Revision, praised for its atmospheric lighting and soundtrack.
- No-CPU Challenge (Demostue Allstars) is an Amiga demo using zero CPU cycles, relying on hardware hacks.
- Brute Concrete (United Force & Digital Dynamite) features a stop-motion aesthetic in a 64kB file, with brutalist models and postprocessing.
- Hexer (LJ) is a 4kB demo with a horror-film vibe, breaking the norm of abstract geometry in small intros.
- Breach (mfx) is a cinematic PC demo built with Cables.gl, featuring high-quality rendering and effects.
- Nine (lft) is a Commodore 64 demo that creatively exceeds the hardware's 8-sprite-per-scanline limit.
- Wunderlust (Gray Marchers) is a 500kB HTML/JS PC demo using raymarching, with beautiful shader-based rendering and demoscene references.
- The Meteoriks winners will be announced at Revision, the world's largest demoparty, on April 3 in Saarbrücken, Germany.