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The Revision Archive is a comprehensive record of Revision, the world's largest demoparty, held annually in Saarbrücken, Germany since 2011. It documents competitions, entries, seminars, music events, special events, shader showdowns, timetables, visitor data, organizer rosters, and more across all editions of the party.

What is the Demoscene?

The demoscene is an international computer art subculture that emerged in the 1980s, focused on producing demos -- real-time audiovisual presentations that push the boundaries of programming, art, and music. Unlike pre-rendered video, demos generate their visuals and audio on the fly, making them a unique fusion of technical craft and artistic expression.

Demoscene productions span a wide range of formats: from full-length demos and music disks to size-restricted intros (64KB, 4KB, or even 256 bytes), pixel art, tracked music, and shader experiments. The scene is driven by friendly competition, with creators ("sceners") organizing into groups and releasing works at demoparties or online.

The cultural significance of the demoscene has been widely recognized. In 2020, Finland became the first country to add the demoscene to its national list of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Germany followed in 2021. Poland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland have followed in subsequent years. The Art of Coding initiative coordinates these efforts internationally.

Learn more: Demoscene on Wikipedia · scene.org · Demozoo · Pouët

What is a Demoparty?

A demoparty is a gathering, usually a long weekend of three or four days, where sceners meet in person to create, compete, and socialise around real-time computer art. Parties run year-round across every season, from Easter and midsummer events to autumn and deep-winter editions. The heart of the program is the compos: demos, size-limited intros, tracked and executable music, pixel and freestyle graphics, wild and game entries, all shown on the bigscreen and ranked by a public vote of attendees, a remote online vote, a jury, or some combination of the three.

Around the compos, a typical party weaves in seminars and workshops, live music sets and DJs, live coding battles such as shader showdowns, deadline crunches, prizegiving rituals, and plenty of informal hacking, BBQs and bonfires. For many sceners the party hall, not the internet, is the real home of the demoscene, the place where online handles finally become faces and handshakes.

Beyond Revision, the calendar spans parties of every size, platform and region: Assembly (Finland) · Evoke (Germany) · Function (Hungary) · TRSAC (Denmark) · Black Valley (Norway) · Outline (Netherlands) · X (Netherlands, Commodore 64) · Nova (France) · Deadline (Germany) · Lovebyte (sizecoding). The legendary The Party (Denmark, 1991–2002) is long gone but still looms large in scene memory. A full, constantly updated list of past and upcoming events lives on demoparty.net »

About Revision

Revision is the world's largest demoparty, held every Easter weekend at the E Werk in Saarbrücken, Germany. Since its first edition in 2011, it has grown to regularly attract around 1,000 visitors from more than 40 countries, with hundreds of competition entries across dozens of categories each year.

In 2020-2022, Revision moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, pioneering the concept of satellite parties hosted by local communities worldwide. The event returned to the E Werk in 2023.

Revision is organized by Tastatur und Maus e.V., a registered non-profit association dedicated to promoting digital culture and the demoscene. The event is run entirely by volunteers who contribute their time and skills to keep the tradition alive.

Predecessors: Breakpoint, Mekka & Symposium

Revision carries on a lineage of legendary German demoparties. Its direct predecessor is Breakpoint, which ran from 2003 to 2010 in Bingen am Rhein. Breakpoint itself succeeded Mekka & Symposium (often abbreviated as "M&S"), a demoparty held from 1997 to 2002 in Fallingbostel.

Mekka & Symposium was originally two separate events -- Mekka and The Symposium -- that merged in 1997 to become the premier Easter demoparty in Europe. Over the years, this unbroken lineage from Mekka & Symposium through Breakpoint to Revision has established the Easter weekend as the traditional highlight of the demoparty calendar, consistently drawing the scene's largest international audience.

Together, these three events span three decades of Easter demoparty history, forming the backbone of the European demoscene's competitive and social tradition.

Data Sources

This archive is built from multiple sources to create the most complete record possible:

• Official Revision results -- Competition data, submission statistics, and attendance records sourced from Revision's Partymeister instance and the official results files published after each edition.
• Demozoo -- The demoscene's community-maintained database of productions, groups, and sceners. Demozoo provides enriched metadata including author details, group affiliations, platform information, and screenshots. Each entry in this archive links back to its Demozoo page where available.
• scene.org -- The demoscene's central file repository. Download links for competition entries are sourced from scene.org's comprehensive file archive.
• livecode.demozoo.org -- Shader Showdown brackets and results are sourced from Demozoo's livecoding archive, which documents the head-to-head live coding competitions held at Revision and other parties.
• Revision YouTube channel -- Video recordings of competition entries, seminars, live performances, and shader showdowns are linked from Revision's official YouTube channel.
• Revision internal wiki -- Organizer and crew data is sourced from the Revision organizer wiki.

All data in this archive is stored as structured JSON files organized by year, making it easy to verify, correct, and extend.

Data in this archive is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

A Work in Progress

16 years of demoparty history is a lot to wrangle, and this archive is still a work in progress. Expect additions, corrections, and the occasional surprise. If you spot something missing or wrong, see Contribute below.

Contribute

Found an error? Missing data? Have additional information about a specific entry or edition? The archive is maintained as structured JSON files and corrections and additions are always welcome. You can also help by improving metadata on Demozoo, which directly benefits this archive.

Credits

• Revision logo by h2o / Rebels
• Official photography by Viscid / Neoplasia
• Results file artwork by NE7 / Divine Stylers (2012, 2021, 2025), zfr (2011), H7 / Accession (2013), sk!n / deZign (2014), dMG & zNr / Divine Stylers (2015), moqui / Schnappsgirls (2016), H7 / Dekadence & Blocktronics (2017), God of Break / Blocktronics (2018), iks / Titan Crew (2019), dipswitch / Divine Stylers (2020), Harvest (2022), zNr / Divine Stylers (2023), boheme / style! (2024), FuZioN / NeoKortex (2026)

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