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Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]

Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]

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4 HN recommenders · discussed 2010–2026
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Debris by Farbrausch, the winner of the Breakpoint 2007 demo competition. All of its 3D visuals, textures and music come from a single 177 KB executable.

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HN recommends it as the demoscene showpiece to show someone what extreme size-limited real-time graphics look like.

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corysama · 2010-05 · rec

Farbrausch's "debris." shows just how much you can pack into 200k (including the audio, btw). [VIDEO] For the webby crowd: "Masagin" features animated, recursive SVGs with antialiasing and motion blur at high rez and high frame rate. [LINK] Or, you could download both demos from [LINK] and run them on your own PC.

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guiambros · 2013-03 · rec

If you want to really show off the demoscene, try Farbrausch - fr-041. It's comparatively very big (179KB), but impressive how they were able to squeeze so much stuff there: video [VIDEO] , official repository: [LINK] . If you want to dig deeper, Farbrausch published most of their material and tools last year including the source code for fr-041. Search for farbrausch on GitHub. But I must say, it's pretty hardcore.

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clay_to_n · 2015-03 · rec

Farbrausch made the first demo I ever saw, a 2007 one called debris (fr-041): [VIDEO] Super cool, and in an executable of 177kB.

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sclangdon · 2016-06 · rec

Although they generally didn't compete in the 4kb genre, Farbrausch open-sourced many of their demos and demo-making tools a few years ago [1]. fr-041: Debris [2], and kkrieger [3] (the 96kb FPS) are particularly worth checking out for the uninitiated. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO] [3] [LINK]

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gurkendoktor · 2012-04 · reference

I always tought that the tiny hint of a narrative was why I've seen Debris[1] reach much more nerds than other demos, not its spectacularly small file size. [1] [VIDEO]

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errantspark · 2014-08 · reference

Ok fair point I shouldn't have been so glib as puet is pretty horrible from a web design standpoint. It's a website for the demoscene, where people do stuff like this [VIDEO] in 177 kilobytes.

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abstractbeliefs · 2017-07 · reference

It's a cute little demo that's only basically 1MB all in. That said, I don't think it's the best for this group - they've done more in far less before. [VIDEO] for example, is an executable only 177KB big.

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future_crew_fan · 2026-03 · reference

> "one guy" sir, that's no way to refer to farbrausch here is their Breakpoint 2007 demo, a 177 Kb executable including 3d assets and textures. [VIDEO]

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