The world has changed and today's generation wants easy-to-use apps and instant access. We listen to music at sites like BandCamp, Soundcloud or Spotify. We follow artists at online galleries such as DeviantArt, ArtStation or Tumblr. We entertain ourselves with bite-sized videos at YouTube, Vimeo and others.

But 20 years ago the hobbyist creator's options were limited. They could only share their work in public archives ordered via snail mail, or collaborate in a demoscene production. Music disks for example were executable programs featuring some songs packaged into a nice design with some graphics and effects. Slideshows were exactly the same for images. If you wanted to know the latest scoop about the demoscene, hear some gossip or tall tales, or just interesting articles or interviews with the superstars from this scene, you put a diskmag into your computer's floppy drive and had a good read. Those were the days.

We do miss the good old times and wanted to go back to the roots. Analysis was made to show the talent, fascination and wonderful art of the computer demoscene in a modern way. Easy to use and navigate also for the new generation, filled with stuff for everyone with many different art and music styles to show the potential, creativity and fun which exists there.

Since there's a chance you're running Analysis on a tablet computer or a smartphone you might want to sit back and have a good read, want to know more about some artists involved here or the fascinating world of the demoscene. Therefore we've included a bunch of articles to give those of you, who didn't yet know the demoscene, something to start with and all others some more content to enjoy.

Analysis was a troublesome child and its development took nearly two years. Sometimes we didn't see the light at the end of the tunnel, sometimes jobs, real life and family kept us way from working on it, but we always believed in getting this done. So naturally some of the tracks or pictures have been published online or at a party, but nothing contained within this production has been used in a demo as far as we know.

The core team existed of only 3 people, but overall 52 code wizards, artists and musicians from 14 different countries have worked on this project. They come from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom and USA. More than 1500 e-mails have been written during development and there also have been a couple of Skype chats. Thank you for being with us, thank you for being so awesome!

Enjoy Analysis!

Find us at: BitFellas.org and Acko.net

More Links To Discover

Demoscene High Quality Videos - Annikras' YouTube channel with loads of demo videos.

Pouët.net - Multi-platform database of news, groups and scene productions.

Demozoo.org - Multi-platform database of all stuff released at a demo party.

Scene.org - The file server for all demoscene productions ever made.

Curio - Selected demoscene works ready to download or to stream.

4Sceners.de (DE) - Das deutschsprachige Szeneportal für Freunde der audiovisuellen Computerkunst.

Demoscene @ Wikipedia - Learn more about the demoscene and its history.