The Assembly 2013 Showcase

Assembly is a yearly gaming and demoscene event held yearly in Finland, with 'demoscene' emphasizing a computer art subculture that specializes in creating audio visual presentations that run real time on various types of computers. In short, it's a competitive subculture centered around people doing incredible things with both likely and unlikely platforms (Like Hedelmae's amazing LCD demo above), showcasing their programming prowess and artistic abilities, all on a limited timeframe with the prerequisite that it has to run real time using the hardwares existing capabilities.

Check out a few of our favorite demos from one of the shows funnest categories, 'Real Wild' created on platforms including graphing calculators, browsers, Android platforms, a Nintendo DS and more. If you're a fan of chiptunes, you'll get a kick out of a few of the original compositions in this showcase. Be sure to subscribe to the Assembly Youtube channel as well for dozens of more creations in a variety of categories, including one dedicated to the true old school demoscene - the Amiga and ZX Spectrum demos.

64KB Of Awesome

This demoscene was just recently released by the folks at Razor1911, rather notorious for being one of the major software piracy groups. In case you didn't know about demoscene, its a subculture of art that focuses on producing audio visual intros that run on computers.  The main focus is to show off skill in programming, art and music. Basically a way for a bunch of underground hackers/rippers/programmers to show off how badass they are. The .exe for this file is just 64kb, which for the amount of stuff they managed to shove on screen is pretty mind blowing.