Empires

A 64-kilobyte real-time demoscene intro featuring advanced physically based rendering and procedural generation.

Video recording of "Empires", a 64 KByte realtime short film by Conspiracy. First presented at @revisionparty in 2024. Download the realtime version at conspiracy.hu/release/64k/empires/ Comment on Pouët at pouet.net/prod.php?which=96589 Get the soundtrack at soundcloud.com/gargaj/they-move Engine code and additional graphics by BOYC Visuals and direction by ZOOM Synth and music by GARGAJ Here we go, then. As you may have heard through the grapevine, we've started work on this engine about 3 years ago (before Clean Slate!), mostly from scratch, and this is our first "real" attempt to spend some time with the new features and see what we can do with it. This particular intro is a bit more centered around tech than what we usually do: there are quite a few new tricks, like improved physically based rendering (we did have an early version of that in Clean Slate already, but just roll with us here), fluid dynamics, GPU-accelerated particles, and a few upgrades on the synth as well. We're still learning how to utilize all of this properly, but the potential we see in it is quite intriguing. The intro itself has been inspired by the wonderful work of @RomanDeGiuli - obviously we went around it the hard way instead of "just" filming stuff, but who said demomaking should be easy and convenient? (Don't answer that.) As you can imagine, the combination of new tech and time running out may have caused the intro to be a bit more resource-heavy than we hoped for, so make sure you have plenty of graphics memory - the 48GB from the Revision compo machine is probably a good start. Hope to compete against you in the compos! conspiracy.hu twitter.com/conspiracyhu facebook.com/conspiracy.hu graphics.social/@conspiracyhu bsky.app/profile/conspiracy.hu #conspiracy​ #demoscene​ #64k​ #intro​ #realtime​ #hungary