Farbrausch
More info
- Type
- Demogroup
- Country
- Germany
- Founded
- c. 2000
- Known for
- .kkrieger (2004), fr-08 (2000)
A German demogroup that pushed procedural generation to its limit — a whole first-person shooter in 96 kilobytes.
Farbrausch formed around 2000 in Germany and made its name shrinking executables through procedural generation. The demo fr-08 "the .product" (2000) fit a full 3D demo with music into 64 KB, and .kkrieger (2004) was a complete first-person shooter in 96 KB — textures, geometry and sound all computed at launch rather than stored.
Its Werkkzeug toolchain and size-coding ethos shaped a whole generation of 64k intros on the demoscene. Where Future Crew defined the PC demo in the 90s, Farbrausch owned the technical extreme of the 2000s.