Real-Time Graphics Delight: The NVScene 2008 Demo Competition

You may recall that I blogged about the rather fascinating demo-scene part of the NVision show in San Jose earlier this week. Well, as part of it, there was a pretty large demo competition, and the NVScene 2008 results — including pictures, downloadables, video and comments where available — are posted over at demo-scene nexus Pouet.net.
Basically, here’s what’s going on with the two NVScene 2008 competitions. All demos need to run in real-time on your PC — even though they are non-interactive.
The best designed one that shows off impressive real-time effects (you may find you need quite a powerful PC to run them!) will likely win the competition. There were two sections to NVScene — a regular demo competition, and a 4k intro competition, in which the application had to fit into, yes, just 4096 bytes.
If you’d like to watch the competitions ‘as they happened’, excellent streaming video resource […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back