The demoscene spirit is alive and kicking, and has now arrived to the browser, thanks to this Demoparty by Mozilla.
It's the perfect opportunity to show the world what you can do in several categories, from graphics to CSS to audio. But as you can see by the examples in the category section - you'll really need to impress the judges!
(Personally, I can't stop visiting this flying through the clouds demo.)
Watch this Youtube video (and endure the 1st minute which is kind of slow).
Even so, this low resolution video pales in comparison to how ti looks like in full-screen, high resolution video as you can watch in your own PC (provided you have a decent 3D graphics card.)
The best part? How much do you think such a demo "weighs"? 300MB? 100Mb? 10MB? 1Mb? 500Kb? 200Kb? ... not quite...
Just an incredible 180 Kb!
You read it right, 180Kb for 7 minutes of high resolution 3D video, with music, detailed textures, particles, shadows, lighting, etc.
Now... where are those guys claiming that 50GB wasn't enough for their game?...
If you prefer something a bit more interactive, you can try their FPS game, which will waste an even smaller 96Kb! kkrieger.
Now, tell me if we should let any game install Gigabytes of data into our hardrives unless it actually provides a better "experience", millions of times better than these small demo examples, to justify their hunger for Gigabytes.
Nothing better to start the year than point out how current hardware is so badly used. With all the current multi-core CPUs, with Gigahertzs and Gigabytes, see what you could on an original 1981 IBM PC with an amazing 640Kb Ram, working at a blazingly fast 4.77Mhz, and obviously: CGA graphics.
