Gargaj, head honcho of demogroup Conspiracy sent this tutorial our way. If you remember their 64k demo CHAOS THEORY (below) that also won a Honorary Mention award at the Ars Electronica Prix 2007, then I’m sure it’s not just the pure perfection that drilled your head but also the killer grinding bassline. Here’s how to do that – beware, that’s some modular synth meddling in there! (And if I remember well, Gargaj said it was pretty much Black Sun Empire’s Arrakis that was a great inspiration.)

Ranked 20th at Breakpoint 2009 – steganography-based demo with tuned-down powernoise, somewhere between In Slaughter Natives, Con-Dom and Grey Wolves. Twisted.

Younglings, prepare for massif breakdown. Two of the major demoscene events, Gathering and Breakpoint have announced their winners and I’m posting you only two of the many that’s really worth checking out. ASD is back with another supreme demo this year with a terrific amount of blue wireframe and statik black (ranked 1st in the Windows demo category at Gathering 2009), whereas RGBA/TBC proves that you can add almost four minutes of gliding camera on photorealistic landscapes synced to music into nothing more than 4 kilobytes of code. Grand Theft Auto IV on dual-layer DVDs? Rockstar, eat your heart out. (ASD – Rupture at pouet.net, RGBA/TBC – Elevated at pouet.net)

We’re spending less time with Left 4 Dead and Mirror’s Edge (prepare for parkour goodness soon!), yet increasingly more with all the iPhone games that started trickling in the App Store since January – lots of neon geometry, intriguing gameplay, good design and some more procrastination extraordinaire. From aural LSD to Van Helsing Crimsonland, junior bondage and beatbox tutorials, it’s all here.
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