Competition results from 2022 are available here, and a full archive of entries may be found here.
The following categories have been finalized for Demosplash 2023.
Click through for more detailed rules and guidelines.
Deadline for submissions is
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The submission system will open roughly 2.5 weeks ahead of the deadline, around .
$150 prize
Live-rendering with the technology of today. Platforms include: Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, 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? Looking to flaunt your mastery of stil images? Submit 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 audio compositions of all flavors are welcome in this category.