During a party, groups will work hard producing much of their content. However, considerable amounts of time are spent in preparation before a party. Some of the most fantastic demos have been created completely at a party, but existing code and engines are often used. A demo aims to display cutting edge real-time programming. Graphical effects are synchronized with music to drive the cool factor as far as it can go.
Teams generate demos.
Teams are made up of Coders - Generating effects, Generating procedural graphics, rendering complex 3D scenes, decoding audio. Trackers - Writing music. Artists Generating 2D and 3D art. Let me do a case study on a demo released at the Takeover 2000 Party , in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. This Is , by Orion , which answers the question, What is a Demo.