2024 Results

Competition results from 2024 are available here, and a full archive of entries may be found here.

2024 Compo Categories

The following categories have been finalized for Demosplash 2024.
Click through for more detailed rules and guidelines.

Deadline for submissions is ().
Submissions may be uploaded using the compo management system.

Modern

$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.

Retro

$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!

Size Constrained

$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.

Freestyle Video

$50 prize

Is your preferred medium less than real-time? Submit works to this category that have been produced before showing.

Freestyle Graphics

$50 prize

Looking to flaunt your mastery of still images? Submit still visual works to this category that have been produced before showing.

Freestyle ASCII/ANSI

$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.

Freestyle Audio

$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.

Entries from Previous Years