MakeCode Arcade demoscene?

[Vegz78]

Just happened to stumble across a couple of players within the Norwegian demoscene who told me that there are actually active demo development and serious competition entries for fantasy consoles like the TIC-80, Pico-8 etc.(See e.g. Demozoo among many other demo archives)

Having seen what the limited MakeCode Arcade is capable of when pushing the limits, like e.g. @kwx et. al. has done with 3D-graphics and sound, I thought this was a fun coincidence and I have started to wonder if there could be some potential also for MakeCode Arcade for making enjoyable audiovisual demo productions?

…and maybe some fun demo parties hosted by Microsoft’s @makecode team?

Anyone here who has a view on the subject, or who maybe already have made some demos in MakeCode Arcade that they want to show off here?

[Vegz78]

Now also continuous development of advanced screen effects, which surely would contribute to some cool MakeCode Arcade computer demos in the (near?) future!:

How would one make these screen effects?

This is not an actual request, but if someone does knoe how to do it, please do make a demo. Also please watch this video first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjQik7uwLIQ I have made some screen effects, like a water screen effect [skillissuegemtree] and a heat screen effect [skillissuegemtree] But how would one make wavy effects like this? Or a ghost-like effect like this? [image] Or a weird squishing effect like this?? (https://thumbs.gfycat.com/UnevenConventionalLeafbird-max-1mb…

64kB is a cool category…:

Logicoma - Engage (Final version)

…though something like this would probably be a more realistic result in the MakeCode Arcade simulator:

makeshift in 4kB by Logicoma (C64)

[hasanchik]

The makeshift example would be easily possible in hardware form. Although the framerate can be pretty low, like 5 fps, effects like that are already available in my screen-fx extension. If you have the correct sprite/image makeshift uses and do some horizontal and vertical scrolling and screen-squishing + some zooming in and out (didn’t bother to add those in) you can achieve this.