Competition results from 2024 are available here, and a full archive of entries may be found here.
The following categories were offered at Demosplash 2024.
We are still determining what compo categories will be offered in 2025.
Click through for more detailed rules and guidelines.
$150 prize
Live-rendering with the technology of today. Platforms include: Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, Arduino, and pretty much anything still in mass-production.
$100 prize
Show off your skills at resurrecting the gaming and computing platforms of the past. We have one of the largest collections of original working hardware, on which we will make our very best efforts to show your work!
$100 prize
Flex your efficient coding skills by showing the world how much demo awesomeness you can pack into 1 KiB or less. In today's world disk and RAM are cheap but that doesn't mean that less isn't more.
$50 prize
Is your preferred medium less than real-time? Submit works to this category that have been produced before showing.
$50 prize
Looking to flaunt your mastery of still images? Submit still visual works to this category that have been produced before showing.
$50 prize
Pining for the days before all of this new-fangled raster graphics nonsense? Submit text-based ASCII or ANSI art to this category.
$50 prize
If sound is your game, then sound we shall play. Prerecorded and executable audio compositions of all flavors are welcome in this category.