« Vai Ser Um Verão Quente » Pico-8 ASCII picture submitted yesterday at Impulse 2026 Graphics Showcase, organized by @psenough.bsky.social and @inercia.bsky.social 32x140 chars, 16 colours #demoscene #demoparty #shadowparty #fantasyconsole #pico8 #pixelart #asciiart #nanojammer #impulse2026

Some photos from Impulse 2026 earlier this month, thanks to Jae686!

Está quase! A nova demoparty organizada pela Associação Inércia será já amanhã no Porto! Juntem-se a nós para mais um evento a celebrar a arte digital em Portugal!

Multiple people packing things up for Impulse, ready to demo!?

Impulse 2026 party holds a Sizecoding Showcase. Since the sizecoding showcase is not a competition this is an opportunity for newcomers to try sizecoding without being judged. For more information about the party: impulse.inercia.pt How to sizecode in TIC80/PICO8/MicroW8: tcc.lovebyte.party

Tiny Code Christmas

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Associação Inércia@inercia.bsky.social · last mo.

In about 9 days we'll have Impulse happening, a new one day demoparty taking place in Porto, got any productions to present? The party system is already open, remote submissions welcome, from local attendees that will be at the event even more: impulse.partyman.cloud

Next week-end is Impulse 2026, organised in Porto by @psenough.bsky.social , Jeenio and @inercia.bsky.social associação. Can't wait to see the releases that will be shown at this new party. More info: impulse.inercia.pt/en/ #demoscene #demoparty #pico8 #nanojammer #pixelart #asciiart #sizecoding

Este sábado, dia 11, estamos de volta ao Porto. Tens alguma coisa para apresentar? Código, gráficos, música? Apresentação de alguma coisa de arte digital? Fazes livecode de música ou gráficos? Aparece e fala connosco para teres palco! impulse.inercia.pt

In about 9 days we'll have Impulse happening, a new one day demoparty taking place in Porto, got any productions to present? The party system is already open, remote submissions welcome, from local attendees that will be at the event even more: impulse.partyman.cloud

Este fim de semana fomos à Posadas Party e convidámos os Batman Group a vir à Inércia deste ano! Dizem que muito provavelmente vem, cá os esperamos para gritar Amiga (e Amstrad CPC).

O Festival Impulse, no Porto é já daqui a um mês! Um dia de mostras, seminários e competições organizado por nós em parceria com A Beneficência Familiar. 11 de Julho de 2026, no Salão Nobre d’ A Beneficência Familiar, entrada é grátis. Mais informções em impulse.inercia.pt

thank you for attending another momentum, here are some photos of yesterday's event!

Here is a little demoscene flavored browser invitation for the one day digital art festival we are organizing 11 July 2026 in Porto this year. Hope it convinces you to attend or participate remotely! psenough.github.io/impulse_invi...

Impulse - 11 July 2026

Impulse 2026 Invitation

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A pedido de várias e diversas familias que queriam uma demoparty em Portugal durante o verão ou no norte de Portugal outra vez, ouvimos o vosso feedback e podem marcar no calendário: dia 11 de Julho vamos ter a Impulse a decorrer no centro do Porto. impulse.inercia.pt

Escrevi um resumo das novidades da demoscene de Maio 2026 para o Planeta Sinclair, podem ler aqui: planetasinclair.blogspot.com/2026/05/novi... #demoscene #zxspectrum

Novidades da demoscene: Maio 2026

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...and don't forget to come to Inércia Demoparty! A weekend of creativity, music, workshops, retro computing and a great atmosphere.

Associação Inércia@inercia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Busy day yesterday, promoting demoscene in 4 different places in Portugal, thank you all of our associates who helped out!

Meanwhile we are already cooking plans for the next Momentum meetup, in Almada again but on a new location this time, Salão das Carochas on the 6th of June. Drop by if you want to talk some demoscene with us and show us what digital art you been working on!

Busy day yesterday, promoting demoscene in 4 different places in Portugal, thank you all of our associates who helped out!

hoje (10 de Maio) estamos a promover a demoscene em 4 locais de Portugal ao mesmo tempo, quem quiser aparecer pode vir cuscar o ODET em Setúbal odet.pt/festival/2026/ e o Tech & Arts Fest na TUMO Lisboa, TUMO Coimbra e TUMO Porto. tafest.pt

Vamos estar presentes nos vários centros TUMO Portugal (Lisboa, Coimbra e Porto) para o Tech&Art Fest no dia 10 de Maio, entrada gratuita, apareçam! tafest.pt

Revision is the largest pure demoscene event in the world. It's taking place this coming weekend 3-6 April in Saarbrucken Germany and as usual some members of Associação Inércia are aiding the organization. 2026.revision-party.net

On the last few weeks we been giving TIC80 workshops at different hubs of TUMO Portugal leading up to a Tech&Art open day event that TUMO is planning for the 10th of May. Awesome to be involved in getting kids more exposed to graphics programming and creative coding.

Dizem que vai haver outra Momentum? Sim, é verdade. Dia 23 de Março estaremos no GamingHub em Lisboa. Juntem-se a nós para mais um meetup da Demoscene em Portugal!

Yesterday at the Load ZX museum in Cantanhede we presented the GOTY ZX Spectrum Award for best demo 2025, congratulations to AddMortem by Joker and Arise and all the other nominees!

Associação Inércia is partnering with the LOAD ZX Museum to present a demoscene category at the upcoming GOTY 2025 awards on the 21st of February. Here are the nominees selected by our jury.

Já no próximo fim de semana, o encontro mensal da demoscene em Portugal. Junta-te a nós, dia 31 a partir das 15h, para uma tarde bem passada!

We've released our invitation intro for RSync 2026 before we activated our BluSky presence, so lets make up on this. You can find it on Demozoo and Pouet and YouTube ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjDF... ) And as a reminder : RSync 2026, Jan 9 - 10, Leuven, Belgium. www.demoparty.be #demoscene

Beep Beep - Rsync 2026 Invitation

YouTube video by RSync DemoParty

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Inércia 2025 post party webpage is up: 2025.inercia.pt/en/postparty/ it has photos and links to all the releases, reports, etc. Check it out!

jae686 wrote a party report in Portuguese about Inércia 2025: scene.pt/inercia-2025... check it out!

Did you participate / attend / follow Inércia 2025? Give us your feedback on what went well and what went wrong and help make Inércia 2026 an even cooler experience for everyone. Use this google form forms.gle/vQwM23iFYfKf... or email us he info if you are anti-google.

That moment when you realized you've been on stage for two hours, doing something completely different, making noize. Thank you @inercia.bsky.social for letting us take Incrível Almadense's stage for a Jam Session (will share video when available)