BoyC
@boyc.conspiracy.hu
Main tool and engine coder for the Conspiracy demogroup (@conspiracy.hu), Ventuz engine wizard (http://ventuz.com)
Chaos Theory turns 20 years old today! 🎂 To know that even to this day we get people from all walks of life telling us how fond they're of it is honestly incredible to us. Got good memories about the intro? Where did you see it first? Let us know! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfk5...
Chaos Theory
YouTube video by Conspiracy
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Small survey on coordinate intuitions. You have an object on the screen, its position defined by the X, Y, Z coordinates. Which direction does your intuition say it will move in if you increase the X coordinate? What about increasing Y and Z? Which directions are the positive and negative?
Here's a small feature you didn't know you needed in your code editor: visual feedback for when you copy stuff to the clipboard. It's a simple thing but once you get used to it you'll start missing it everywhere else. Implemented as a Visual Studio plugin (not VSCode). github.com/BoyC/CopyHig...
Super surprised how fast Vera picked up the ins and outs of my demotool. I see great things ahead! Well done for 4th place in the largest 64k compo in recent memory!
strayboom@strayboom.bsky.social · 4mo agoNightform, aka. Catzilla with laser eyes - a 64kbytes executable, presented at @revision-party.bsky.social last weekend. Code by @boyc.conspiracy.hu Music by: @strayboom.bsky.social Visuals by Vera (no bsky acc :( ) Pouet: www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi... Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAmv...
My 4k executable graphics entry for Revision 2026 that came in 2nd. Created using an editor built as an experiment to see if current AI is capable of building tooling for smaller things like SDF editing. Consensus: prototyping - yes. Long term maintainable tooling - no. www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...
The collection is growing. Very proud of Slyspy for his first ever meteorik for best visuals and am glad that all the work with Tension last year was rewarded with a best high-end intro award as well. Awesome party as always, @revision-party.bsky.social!
My version of "googling yourself": every now and again I ask LLMs what they know about our demogroup Conspiracy (without googling). We're just obsucre enough to be known but not in detail so it's a good check to see how much info these systems gobble up over time. I feel like such a tool now...
Every so often we get asked why don't we use our 64k tech to make a game, or give it to people to improve existing games, and it's very hard to explain that That's Not How It Works.
Leigh Alexander@leighalexander.bsky.social · 8mo agothe world is learning in realtime what the procgen community has known for years
Looks like someone took our ball and ran with it, and continued with a fully portable C++ port of Second Reality - including a browser version! www.jsr-productions.com/secondrealit... Finally we can replace DOOM as "the thing you run on things"! 💪
Second Reality++
C++ version of Second Reality by Future Crew
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Conspiracy@conspiracy.hu · last yr.= 32 bits after 32 years = We're incredibly proud to announce that Second Reality has now been finally ported to a modern operating system, and you can watch it tear up your system: no video, no emulation, just code - as it should be. conspiracy.hu/files/w32nd_... github.com/ConspiracyHu...
In our efforts to restore old classics, we're proud to release the Windows port of a legendary 64k intro: "hplus" by Halcyon, from 1998 Download at conspiracy.hu/files/hplus_...
Here's a small treat if you're looking for some colorful backgrounds: 8k screenshots of our 2024 64k intro Empires with particle counts cranked to the tens of millions. As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...
This intro was an immense source of inspiration to me back then, one of the reasons I'm still making 64k intros to this day.
Conspiracy@conspiracy.hu · 10mo agoWe have spent a little time helping our friends at Altair out to restore one of our favorite 64k intros from 2001: "SCREAM" by Altair is now once again fully functional on modern Windows! files.scene.org/view/parties... @mlfatr.bsky.social (Sorry it took 10+ years 😅🤫)
Kicked off a long overdue #artstation page too. Not much there yet, but it's a start :) Planning a few more @mandragoragame.com BTS stuff in the future so stay tuned! www.artstation.com/zoomvfx #Portfolio #GameDev #VFX #RealtimeVFX #Niagara #GameArt #GameDevCommunity
Zoltán Szabó
Senior VFX Artist at Primal Game Studio
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Dear Apple. I'm glad you finally realized that phones are too large. I've been saying this for years. But damn, NOT ALONG THE Z AXIS!
Ever found a couple thousand bucks between the sofa cushions? That's how we felt last night when toggling a single compiler flag shrunk our 64k engine code by 20%. Moral of the story: don't assume anything when moving compilers in a size-coding context.
Gotta love AI overviews. That's two WD ssd product codes I wanted to compare to figure out the 40 eur price difference at my usual retailer.
Hello everyone who found us through this starter pack recently 👋 We're a Hungarian demogroup and we've been making 64 kilobyte intros for 20+ years now, using our own procedural tooling that looks/looked like this 👇
Sam Swain ➡ Develop:Brighton@sam.apparance.uk · 11mo agoDid you know I made a #ProcGen dev Starter Pack early on. If you are interested in people making things procedurally then check it out: bsky.app/starter-pack... Plenty of space for more cool people so if you'd like to be added, let me know! (cursory vetting applies)
I managed to buy a laptop with a copilot key not realizing that it can't be set to act as the ctrl key, and all workarounds ignore the fact that the hardware actually sends "win+shift+f23", taking over the shift button and making shift+ctrl+arrow key selection impossible. Well. NO. MORE. COPILOT.
GitHub - BoyC/NoMoreCopilot: A small driver to kill the goddamn copilot button and turn it into a FULLY functional ctrl button
A small driver to kill the goddamn copilot button and turn it into a FULLY functional ctrl button - BoyC/NoMoreCopilot
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I spent painstaking months on this, and without a doubt this is one of the proudest I've been of everything I've ever worked on. SR is a demo without which a lot of us wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so to make it run natively on my machine was very emotional. (❤️ to @oldskool.org for his help)
Conspiracy@conspiracy.hu · last yr.= 32 bits after 32 years = We're incredibly proud to announce that Second Reality has now been finally ported to a modern operating system, and you can watch it tear up your system: no video, no emulation, just code - as it should be. conspiracy.hu/files/w32nd_... github.com/ConspiracyHu...
= 32 bits after 32 years = We're incredibly proud to announce that Second Reality has now been finally ported to a modern operating system, and you can watch it tear up your system: no video, no emulation, just code - as it should be. conspiracy.hu/files/w32nd_... github.com/ConspiracyHu...
We've been a bit quiet recently, and this is one of the reasons! Go check it out!
Mandragora@mandragoragame.com · last yr.Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree is out now! 🎮 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1721060/... 🎮 GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/mand... 🎮 EGS: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/mand... 🎮 PlayStation 5: store.playstation.com/concept/1000... 🎮 Xbox Series X/S: xbox.com/games/store/... #actionrpg
Breakdown of a 64k intro: the contents of Tension (www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nL...) look like this after compression. Green is visual data, blue is audio code+data, brown/yellow is engine code and red is the exepacker+stub.
And what an honor. This project would not have been possible without the guys helping out with the audio: @virgill74.bsky.social, @kebby.org and gopher
kb@kebby.org · last yr.Slowly getting out of my Post Revision Brain Fog, and, oh, right, I had a release! www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi... It was an honor to work with @virgill74.bsky.social and especially @boyc.conspiracy.hu - 22 years after meeting on the Easter Party stage as rivals, we finally did so as collaborators.
Whoever thought that it'd be a good idea to have the copilot key send a ctrl-shift-f23 shortcut so there's no way to map it back to ctrl so that it works with shift-ctrl-arrow selection navigation needs to get persistent hiccups like right now.
Spent my evenings in the past 6 months working towards one of my holy grails: a real-time recreation of an old prerendered video, in 64 kbytes It won the 64k competition at @revision-party.bsky.social. Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nL... Executable version: www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...
Tension (64k intro)
YouTube video by BoyC
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