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Feb 20 2025

Spirotranquil 1K

This 1K intro was made for the LoveByte 2025 high-end 1K intro competition, it placed 4th.

The effect is a particle effect based on the spirograph toy I had as a kid. The music is again procedual floatbeat on the GPU, but this time I wanted to see if I could add explicit synchronisation between the visuals and the music. It works, but takes quite some bytes so the visuals couldn’t be very complex. Also, the first time the shader is compiled, the intro might get out of sync. So best to press escape and restart it to be sure sync is as it is supposed to be…

You can download the intro from here: Spirotranquil by Fulcrum

Beware, Windows Defender is once again paranoid and likes to delete the .exes as soon as it sees them. Best to unpack in a folder you’ve excepted from the AV.

Aug 10 2024

Building From Bedrock 1K shader code

This is the exhaustively documented shader code of the Building From Bedrock 1 kilobyte intro. Remember, don’t try this at work!

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Aug 03 2024

Building From Bedrock 1K

This intro was created for the Assembly summer 2024 1K intro competition, where it placed 1st. Since this was the first time one of my kids came along, I was inspired by one of their favourite games :) The music was made by Miss Saigon on a very limited size and time budget.

You can watch the intro on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/yDIRSU-8coQ

For feedback, the Pouet page is here: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=97442

If you have a fast enough Nvidia video card, you can run the executable yourself, download it from here .

Warning: Windows Defender doesn’t like the 1K assembler magic that is needed to create this, and will report it as a virus (and delete the exe). You might want to download it in a folder that is excluded from the virus scanning.

Aug 03 2024

Lux Minima, Lux Sancta 1K

This 1K intro was made for the Lovebyte 2024 1Kb intro competition, where it placed 4th. It uses a particle effect, instead of the usual raymarching :) This also means that you don’t really need a heavy videocard to run this. It’s recommended to run the intro realtime, because the Youtube compression really messes up particle effects… You can download the intro from here, feedback welcome on the Pouet page. Note that antivirus scanners might complain about 1Ks due to the unusual header hacks used.

If you prefer to watch it on youtube: you can do that here.

Aug 05 2023

Lost in Neon 1K

This is our contribution to the Assembly 2023 1 kilobyte Intro competition, where it placed 2nd.

Get the executable here: Lost In Neon by Fulcrum

You can also watch it on Youtube

Feb 12 2023

Sliver 1K

This is our contribution to the LoveByte 2023 high-end 1K intro competition.

Download: Sliver 1 K by Fulcrum

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSy8RGeap8U

Aug 07 2022

The Red Chair executable graphics

My first 4K executable gfx, for the Outline 2021 party. It placed 2nd in the executable graphics competition. It’s amazing how much space is in a 4K if you don’t have to add a soundtrack and animation…

Pouet page: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=91371

Download link: http://www.fulcrum-demo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/The-Red-Chair-by-Fulcrum.zip

Jan 06 2019

MAGI

It took us 7 years to release a new demo, and one month later we have another ready :) Made in approximately 1 week time to support the MAGFest 2019 demoparty, it took 1st place in the combined intro/demo competition. It’s a bit short, but we’re happy we made it.

Get the executable here: MAGI by Fulcrum

If your videocard is too slow, watch it on Youtube: MAGI by Fulcrum

Dec 28 2018

Arctic Voltage 4K


Here is our contribution to the 4K intro competition at Under Construction 2018.

Get the executable here: Arctic Voltage by Fulcrum

Aug 05 2017

Shoot The Core 1K


This is our contribution to the Assembly 2017 1K intro compo. You can download the executable here:
Shoot The Core 1k By Fulcrum