Demo Breakdowns

This category contains breakdowns, or "behind the scenes" writeups of demos I've made.

Some of these are more in-depth, others are shorter, depending on their complexity and how much I can remember about making them.

tAAt new year demos

I've been doing new year demos for tAAt under another nickname for quite a while now. I explain this further in tAAt 2013 writeup, which was the first one of its kinds I wrote.

I've made these by taking an idea and going with it, whether the results are good or bad. The results are all over the place, with both hits and misses.

tAAt 2006 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2006 new year's demo, with some sand falling in a rotating box.

tAAt 2007 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2007 new year's demo, bubbly physicy scrolley thingy.

tAAt 2008 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2008 new year's demo, old-school extravaganza, one of the better ones.

tAAt 2009 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2009 new year's demo, writer and a pixel shower which wasn't all that good.

tAAt 2010 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2010 new year's demo, lasershow which wasn't all that good.

tAAt 2011 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2011 new year's demo, which has snowflakes.

tAAt 2012 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2012 new year's demo, a leafy cloudy experience.

tAAt 2013 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2013 new year's demo, rendering a forest deferredly.

tAAt 2014 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2014 new year's demo, a photo-based wub-wub experience.

tAAt 2015 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2015 new year's demo, a rather difficult-to-read scroller thingy.

tAAt 2016 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2016 new year's demo, a downhill thingy.

tAAt 2017 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2017 new year's demo, with a disco cat in a teacup, of course.

tAAt 2018 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2018 new year's demo, a 3D sand simulator.

tAAt 2019 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2019 new year's demo, a procedurally generated planet.

tAAt 2020 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2020 new year's demo, an experiment in shaders.

tAAt 2021 new year demo breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the tAAt 2021 new year's demo, a photo-based spinny thingy.

Text mode demos

I organized the text mode demo competition for over 10 years, and after I gave it up others picked up where I had left. Good side: I could finally enter myself =), so I did.

"The Turing Machines Didn't Care" breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the TMDC11 winner demo.

"Litterae Finis" breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the TMDC15 winner demo.

"Light" breakdown writeup

A "behind the scenes" look at the TMDC20 winner demo.