#demosplash

Demosplash 2024 will be held 15–16 November 2024 at Carnegie Mellon.

Demosplash is one of the largest and longest-running demoparties in North America, catering both to newcomers to the demoscene as well as established artists. We show demos live on original hardware as much as humanly possible, offering a viewing experience that can't be matched by emulators or recordings. In addition to screenings, we feature a variety of events, including tech talks, workshops, chiptunes, and celebrations of retro gaming.

Demosplash is celebrating its thirteenth year! Demosplash 2023 will be held 3-4 November 2023.

Demosplash is one of the largest and longest-running demoparties in North America, catering both to newcomers to the demoscene as well as established artists. We show demos live on original hardware as much as humanly possible, offering a viewing experience that can't be matched by emulators or recordings. In addition to screenings, we feature a variety of events, including tech talks, workshops, and celebrations of retro gaming.

Demosplash is proud to announce our headline musical performer for 2023: DRAC-0, aka Dracorean, is an incredible chiptune DJ best known for spinning high-energy shows in VR raves. Her style mixes classic oldschool chiptunes, remixes, chiptune-style EDM, and retro visuals for intense unforgettable experiences. We're honored to welcome her to the Demosplash stage for one of her first - and not to be missed - live in-person performances!

We will of course have a whole roomful of retro gaming computers (Sharp X68000, Apple ][, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, NES, and much much more) for anyone who wants to take a break from the demos or talks and play some video games!

In the unfortunate event you can't make it, our friends at SceneSat will be streaming the whole event live.

Queen fiend Nitnatsnoc must be spinning in his retirement! I was waiting to feature this one in Mistigram to build some tension, but the Sixteen Colors ANSI of the Day was drawn straight toward it like a moth to a flame! The artist: cccfire, another parallelly-evolved case of ANSI art from the 8bitMUSH like today's Mistigram artist LDA. The artwork: an extra-wide XBin piece of monochrome ANSI art enshrining the members of the glam rock Queen (and enjoy the bonus, the same scene quite more minimally arranged by some anonymous SharpSCII artist), plus a late-breaking addition of the group's logo in glorious colour... and what we can most definitiveely describe as the ultimate, final "smallest textmode Mistigris logo" of all time.

The piece competed against the fruit of Blocktronics (including no fewer than four pieces by the godly ungennant) at the Demosplash demoparty earlier this month in its truncated form, and placed... 10th. (But in his defense, cccfire runs laps around all of the multi-decade veterans who outscored him in light of a "most improved" metric, maturing as a real contender with -- an admittedly idiosyncratic style -- in under a year. At this rate cccfire will be pulling down top scores for his ANSI art when all of Blocktronics will have been 15 years in the cold ground!)

Flow by Quebarium for the GP2X