GPN22: Just Do It – Demoscene Edition

The “Gulaschprogrammiernacht” in Karlsruhe, Germany, is the second biggest event of the Chaos Computer Club, attracting around 2.000 visitors every year.

For a number of years, the demoscene has been welcomed at the event with open arms; especially thanks to some of their organisers called “trolls” helping at Revision and other demoparties, as well as demoshows and live coding acts during GPN itself.

Thanks again to all organisers, trolls and interested folks we got to spend the weekend with!

As GPN is highly participative, our own talk was called “Just Do It: Demoscene Edition”.

Shana and Psykon introduced the audience to potential starting points, recommended tools and shared tips and tricks for your first release at a demoparty (German-language only):

https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn22-419-einfach-mal-machen-demoszene-edition

And here comes the full list of free tools that can help you to get started in our community, or to just explore digital creativity for yourself!

We are just showing you some of our highlights – if you want to go deeper into the rabbit hole, you can also check out the Awesome Demoscene Repo maintained by psykon:

https://github.com/psykon/awesome-demoscene

Just Do It – Selected Tools

DisciplineToolLinkDescriptionPlatform(s)Open SourceTutorials
GraphicsGrafx2http://grafx2.chez.com/Bitmap Graphics Program (Pixel Graphics)Haiku, Linux, WindowsNohttp://grafx2.chez.com/index.php?article10/fundamentals
GraphicsMoebiushttps://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/ASCII/ANSIMacOS, Windows, LinuxYeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CJg0KDasnM
GraphicsKritahttps://krita.org/de/Digital DrawingMacOS, Windows, LinuxYeshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo_kbikcLfN-4kZjxDr0k4pmFJa147JTd
GraphicsInkscapehttps://inkscape.org/Vector GraphicsMacOS, Windows, Linux, BSDYeshttps://inkscape.org/learn/tutorials/
GraphicsBlenderhttps://www.blender.org/3D GraphicsMacOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, Haiku Yeshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEPv5y–4MKpciLaoQYZB1Z
GraphicsGimphttps://www.gimp.org/Picture ManipulationMacOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, AmigaOS 4Yeshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqazFFzUAPc4vITMJaF3Fnqh3pccSMnC4
MusicOpenMPThttps://openmpt.org/Music Sequencer / TrackerWindows, WineYeshttps://wiki.openmpt.org/Main_Page
MusicArdourhttps://ardour.org/DAWMacOS, Linux, BSD, WindowsYeshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL98ZX0JQtKmdmZD4LmFyr7NWiKaSHChot
MusicLMMShttps://lmms.io/DAWMacOs, Linux, WindowsYeshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqazFFzUAPc4K1To5JTtR3cskcdRifM1M
MusicGridsoundhttps://gridsound.com/#/DAWBrowser-basedYeshttps://www.youtube.com/qubodup
CodeTooll3https://tooll.io/Demo Tool / Motion GfxWindowsYeshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj-rnPROvbn3LigXGRSDvmLtgTwmNHcQs
CodeCables.glhttps://blog.cables.gl/Demo Tool / Motion GfxBrowser-basedNohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84pXsmJghdM
CodeGodothttps://godotengine.org/Demo Tool / Game EngineMacOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, WebYeshttps://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_by_step/index.html
CodeShadertoyhttps://www.shadertoy.com/Shader EditorBrowser-basedNohttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGmrMu-IwbguU_nY2egTFmlg691DN7uE5
CodeTIC-80https://tic80.com/Fantasy Console (angelehnt an 8-Bit Systeme)Browser-basedYeshttps://tic80.com/learn

Just Join It – Our Community

https://demozoo.org/ – Collection of almost all demoscene releases, including links to the scene.org archive, captures on YouTube and contact details for (some) demosceners

https://www.demoparty.net/ – List and calendar of all global demoparties

https://www.pouet.net/index.php – Demoscene Forum
https://discord.gg/MCDXrrB – Demoscene Discord (ca. 5000 User)

Just Watch It – The Video

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