demoscene

The demoscene is basically almost all about procedurally generated graphics and music - perhaps you could try entering your work at a demoparty competition.

What computer today has a culture comparable to the Amiga Demoscene of the 80s and 90s...

The demoscene[0], and computer golf[1], come to mind (although ironically computer golf is in some sense has to be very high level).

In the demoscene it was very rewarding to be able to match other demos without having any help how the others have done it.

I never programmed for the Amiga but like everyone else I was always impressed by what the Amiga demoscene could do.

I guess that you nave never been to a demoscene event then (or it doesn't count as a hackathon in your book).

Those friend of mine were into demoscene, hence the Assembly.

I found the site just recently, after getting interested in demoscene and 3D graphics.

I love chiptunes and the demoscene to death, but people (nostalgically) overstate their influence and underestimate the musical ability of early video game designers.

Reminds me of module music in demoscene.

Not to mention the modern tools used for composing the music and drawing the art, or how much we used the internet for research, or how we built on many years of demoscene research.

"Mindblowing" are the demoscene people who fit this (or something more complex with procedural generation) into 64k or 4k binaries.

Same experience here, specially because some of my friends were active in the Demoscene.

Demoscene programmers love generative systems, especially when targetting the 4 kilobyte executable category.

And I agree with you about the Demoscene.