pouët.net

sp04 - Echo Chamber by Spacepigs
[nfo]
screenshot added by Paralax on 2018-04-02 11:04:33
platform :
type :
release date : april 2018
release party : Revision 2018
compo : pc demo
ranked : 3rd
  • 71
  • 12
  • 5
popularity : 65%
 65%
  • 0.75
alltime top: #1578
added on the 2018-04-02 11:04:33 by Paralax Paralax

popularity helper

increase the popularity of this prod by spreading this URL:

or via: facebook twitter pinterest tumblr

comments

KEVIN!
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 11:12:48 by mayday mayday
sucks added on the 2018-04-02 11:19:32 by ltk_tscc ltk_tscc
JCO Cinematic Universe.
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 11:20:02 by noby noby
You asked for it :)
sucks added on the 2018-04-02 11:31:16 by xTr1m xTr1m
Love it and love spacepigs
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 11:34:14 by cristea cristea
i feel like i should dislike it but i can't. great going!
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 11:39:27 by nagz nagz
During this prod there was a drop of 2000 viewers on twitch. Achievement unlocked.
added on the 2018-04-02 11:43:20 by gaspode gaspode
OINK

This is just fun

and scary
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 12:36:53 by rem rem
Too many levels of irony for me, although I commend the production values and effort. Admittedly, including an another demo in/from the compo was a touch of genius.
added on the 2018-04-02 12:45:08 by Preacher Preacher
Raises the bar for jokeprods. The moment when the reference to the previous compo entry kicked in, everyone around me just went nuts. Respect :)
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 12:57:50 by break break
Let it be known that this demo uses kusma's excellent mpeg artifact shadertoy code (which we ruined) and that we set the record straight with him after the compo and drank his beer. Sorry!
added on the 2018-04-02 13:37:13 by Paralax Paralax
I liked Kevin but this one just left me cold.
sucks added on the 2018-04-02 13:40:46 by la_mettrie la_mettrie
Genius on so many levels.... no-one will ever understand this completely.
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 14:09:51 by Foojiyama Foojiyama
damn i was hoping for sp05 right there!
i dont think i completely got all the details and references in this yet, but its way less offending than the kevin entry (which also really isnt but yeah, opinions...) so im wondering why the downthumb posse is at it again... namevote maybe? ;P
Counterthumb, by any means!
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 14:47:06 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
I was hoping for some kind of follow up on Kevin & this is way better than I ever could have imagined or expected. Bloody brilliant!
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 16:32:38 by Xanthe Xanthe
WHAT IF WE ARE STILL IN THE DEMO
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 16:51:07 by MrsBeanbag MrsBeanbag
This was good silliness.
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 16:55:54 by Zplex Zplex
bla
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 17:01:27 by aqu aqu
I lol'd. Most scene humour is odd at best but this brought out some big belly laughs, cheers guys!
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 18:58:27 by pigpenpete pigpenpete
...that was fun...after the first entries of the compo this made the whole thing freshen up...we need more releases like that !
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 20:17:50 by Kuemmel Kuemmel
What MrsBeanbag said!!
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 22:40:05 by wertstahl wertstahl
Yes. :)
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 23:23:02 by jimmi jimmi
Im Gegensatz zum Compo-Winner läuft die Spacepigs-Demo wenigstens auf meinem Rechner :Oink
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 23:28:31 by noname noname
Some say this demo is still running
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 23:35:07 by DickThunder DickThunder
ihr schweine!
rulez added on the 2018-04-03 00:15:55 by gopher gopher
I don't think I've ever laughed that hard watching a Twitch stream. Loads of inside humor...And I'm always a sucked for a well timed fart.
rulez added on the 2018-04-03 00:16:02 by Leander Leander
spacepigs quality! :D
rulez added on the 2018-04-03 00:19:56 by psenough psenough
That's the first time I see a demo that doesn't disable system screensaver while playing.
added on the 2018-04-03 00:26:40 by Reg Reg
Fuck yeah JCO you should have gotten me that sticker in the late nite. ;) very good, I cried laughing!
rulez added on the 2018-04-03 00:45:52 by Dascon Dascon
i think kevin was a much more entertaining production and easier to follow. some of the practical jokes this demo pulled off were cool.
rulez added on the 2018-04-03 02:33:31 by MuffinHop MuffinHop
x)
rulez added on the 2018-04-03 03:21:16 by mrdoob mrdoob
Reg: thanks for pointing that out!
added on the 2018-04-03 11:31:27 by Paralax Paralax
is that demo already over? Well done Kevin!
rulez added on the 2018-04-03 18:44:45 by decca decca
funny
rulez added on the 2018-04-03 18:49:39 by yzi yzi
haha :D
rulez added on the 2018-04-03 18:53:14 by Ysplicit Ysplicit
what the hell?
added on the 2018-04-03 21:15:43 by Flashira Flashira
i had the urge to thumb this up
rulez added on the 2018-04-03 21:24:23 by Flashira Flashira
#metademo :D
rulez added on the 2018-04-03 21:45:09 by HellMood HellMood
Some great jokes and content, maybe a little bit too long. Anyway, Spacepigs rulez.
rulez added on the 2018-04-03 22:39:55 by Chainsaw Chainsaw
HELP!
rulez added on the 2018-04-04 10:44:36 by rp rp
best spacepigs prod so far. it was a really nice touch to have an earlier prod in the compo to compliment this prod and it's script. :)
rulez added on the 2018-04-04 10:53:09 by waffle waffle
Yeah, this is good!
rulez added on the 2018-04-04 11:19:38 by okkie okkie
Making PC demos good again, one at a time.
rulez added on the 2018-04-04 12:01:59 by Korvkiosken Korvkiosken
JCO is an actual literal genius.
rulez added on the 2018-04-04 14:30:59 by fizzer fizzer
Meta Overflow
rulez added on the 2018-04-04 14:35:10 by Saga Musix Saga Musix
LULz @ .nfo!
added on the 2018-04-04 15:51:58 by rp rp
Well crafted, many references, perfect sounding. I liked it.
rulez added on the 2018-04-04 22:46:47 by ok3anos ok3anos
had its moments
added on the 2018-04-05 15:28:43 by ferris ferris
I totally love this one. And hats off for investing so much work into this kind of demo. Totally worth re-watching.
rulez added on the 2018-04-05 15:35:34 by Kylearan Kylearan
it's good that some people are different
rulez added on the 2018-04-05 15:57:07 by pandur pandur
tfw regretting not having thumbed down the Kevin demo ... there goes the negated greeting
added on the 2018-04-05 16:08:06 by d0DgE d0DgE
Several scenes were a bit funny. Should have placed lower.
added on the 2018-04-05 16:25:32 by Radiant Radiant
what Ok3anos said
rulez added on the 2018-04-05 16:53:34 by a-move a-move
Thumb up for JCO's sound design alone. Plus, that canned laughter mixed SO well with the actual hall ambience in the back of the hall and the stream it's still weirding me the fuck out. :D
rulez added on the 2018-04-05 17:19:43 by kb_ kb_
37 and hairy... they did their homework.
rulez added on the 2018-04-06 08:11:47 by Rob Rob
What Ferris said.
added on the 2018-04-06 09:48:22 by StingRay StingRay
dem neue spacepigs demo stinkt
rulez added on the 2018-04-06 09:57:56 by seppjo seppjo
Great sound design. And funny :)
rulez added on the 2018-04-06 11:32:22 by jvb jvb
The frame rate and the visual design of the framing story leave a bit of a bad taste against the impeccable sound design and tight direction, but hey, a prod with a point to make - what's not to like?
rulez added on the 2018-04-06 22:19:47 by Gargaj Gargaj
@gargaj: you're absolutely right of course. This one is not built to run well on slow machines. The render loop in some parts just runs way too many Lua instructions and our specific VM is not particularly fast running these instructions (but very excellent when it comes to interop with .NET). We've done benchmarks on various VMs and profiling on our current tech and there are no low hanging fruits left.

That's not the end of the world though since I'm excited to go hybrid soon. I'll work on integrating C# scripting now for future releases to prevent this specific bottleneck and we'll see how it goes from there.
added on the 2018-04-06 22:54:35 by Paralax Paralax
gargaj: you got a point there ;) I'm still catching up with current engine tech. For now we got one (!) point light, relatively simple shadows, and the ability to render reflection cubemaps anywhere in the scene. Shading is classic phong, and everything still 8bit per channel. The only thing that looks kinda good is the volume light tracing, which is why I overused it to death.

As paralax said, the central problem was that our lua interpreter is too expensive. Mint lua in c++ is about 10x as fast. The whole scene graph lives in lua, and traversing it multiple times for shadows, reflections and hires zbuffer destroys performance completely while the gpu is relatively bored.

As soon as we'll have this covered, next on my list is improving the lighting (more than one point light would be awesome!), probably switching to hdr, a basic pbr shader... the obvious next steps for achieving higher visual fidelity. Not rushing the models with my amateurish skills (I need content now!!1) but instead letting blockbuster create proper ones might help too ;)

Sidenote: "raytracing testtro" is the actual test scene I used for developing the new features...
added on the 2018-04-06 23:46:34 by jco jco
awesome :D
rulez added on the 2018-04-08 22:31:35 by neuralnet neuralnet
meh. sound is totally off sync in youtube version.
added on the 2018-04-09 15:56:55 by jco jco
new youtube version is good!
added on the 2018-04-10 13:56:49 by jco jco
:D
rulez added on the 2018-04-10 18:24:39 by sensenstahl sensenstahl
Made me laugh multiple times during the compo :) It's a beautiful mess and that is ment as a compliment. Loved every second of it!
rulez added on the 2018-04-11 18:57:58 by numtek numtek
a bit mixed about this one. Some funny parts and some failed a bit.
added on the 2018-04-11 22:19:04 by Frequent Frequent
More Kevin next year, please.
rulez added on the 2018-04-12 19:43:26 by flynn_nrg flynn_nrg
from critique of judgement to sp04, the project of aesthetics in german idealism is complete
rulez added on the 2018-04-13 13:54:22 by aegis aegis
crap
rulez added on the 2018-04-13 18:07:21 by SiR SiR
Massive sensory overload. Me somehow likes. Don't know why. @Paralax, why bloat the future with C# scripting? Bloat it more and go ChakraCore or build in jsrt api!!! Low hanging performance fruit without years of rewrite.
rulez added on the 2018-04-13 19:35:43 by EvilOne EvilOne
@EvilOne: don't you worry buddy, I am a trained professional. We'll merge the optimized IL right into the player binary on export to give it that nice lean finish we all yearn for. For all means and purposes that's much closer to hard coding an effect than what we've done until now ;)
added on the 2018-04-13 21:15:57 by Paralax Paralax
15 frames of fame for each comment
rulez added on the 2018-04-16 14:53:19 by tovi tovi
When the slide appeared, I told my friend: "Ok, either this is going to be awful, or either it's going to be genius". It was the latter.

The amount of effort and attention to detail you put in what may look as just a joke prod is impressive. I enjoyed it very much during the compo, and still enjoyed it at home, while noticing various additional elements and meanings. The mise en abîme in particular was absolutely brilliant.

Solid thumb.
rulez added on the 2018-04-16 16:16:09 by Zavie Zavie
Spacepigs comic metaverse.
rulez added on the 2018-04-16 16:25:22 by Trilkk Trilkk
I liked your EGA Megademo better.
sucks added on the 2018-04-16 16:38:17 by Marq Marq
Zavie: Thanks a lot! Also for pointing out that "mise en abîme" is a known thing. It's one of my favorite techniques which I used several times in all kinds of prods, in more or less meta ways. Exploring self-referentiality just keeps intriguing me, imho it's one of the most interesting concepts to convey deeper meaning.
added on the 2018-04-16 17:54:29 by jco jco
yeheeees!
rulez added on the 2018-04-16 21:11:38 by gentleman gentleman
Great Turbine sounds, space and teacher scenes, some really strange stuff in others...
rulez added on the 2018-04-16 21:26:08 by Bobic Bobic
Great fun, thanks for making the compo more interesting :)
rulez added on the 2018-04-17 10:28:13 by kusma kusma
should have won
rulez added on the 2018-04-22 03:10:24 by groepaz groepaz
annnnd.... a piggy
added on the 2018-04-23 20:39:07 by gloky gloky
and a thumb down
sucks added on the 2018-04-23 20:39:35 by gloky gloky
oh sorry i can't thumb up
added on the 2018-04-23 20:40:05 by gloky gloky
Metageil!
rulez added on the 2018-05-04 21:11:18 by T$ T$
Thought it was better than Kevin, although I didn't find it funny. I'll never get German humor I guess.
rulez added on the 2018-05-06 15:35:52 by xernobyl xernobyl
xernobyl, I'm surprised that people find it funny at all. You probably do get it.
added on the 2018-05-06 19:45:59 by jco jco
you are the david lynch of the demoscene. i want to be your intern, and if i have to start with cooking the coffee.
added on the 2018-05-11 01:40:49 by wertstahl wertstahl
this was actually really fun at the democompo, specially the demo inside the demo :D
rulez added on the 2018-05-11 08:14:02 by v3nom v3nom
Now I'm confused...
rulez added on the 2018-09-27 13:23:48 by baah baah
Quote:
During this prod there was a drop of 2000 viewers on twitch. Achievement unlocked.


So it should have been shown twice to get rid of all twitch bitches? :)
added on the 2018-11-08 03:47:49 by T$ T$
TROLL HARD
rulez added on the 2019-02-23 20:23:17 by pyksy pyksy
Hey! Celebrating our Meteoriks nomination we made a final version of Echo Chamber. It comes with various improvements over the original version all listed in the new .nfo and we hope you like it. Check out all the new links above!

The Download Link has been updated for the final version. You can also still get the party version but why would you, right? :)
added on the 2019-04-10 18:34:50 by Paralax Paralax
both versions quietly exit immediately after loading, occurs in both windowed and fullscreen and regardless of audio/subtitle settings (win10, ryzen 2700x, gtx 1080ti)
added on the 2019-04-10 18:45:58 by noby noby
Dank des neuen Realzeitschiebebalkens läßt sich der gekonnte Sync im Kusmateil noch intensiver goutieren!
added on the 2019-04-10 22:09:23 by T$ T$
Great concept, and really well put together.
rulez added on the 2019-04-13 13:41:24 by Dma-Sc Dma-Sc
"Excellent" (in the voice of Montgomery Burns). "megademos" are back :-)
rulez added on the 2019-04-13 14:02:39 by bsp bsp
experience
rulez added on the 2019-04-24 17:20:54 by FMS_Cat FMS_Cat
I've seen the commented version on YT first and confused that with the real thing (which would be amazing and so much higher on the WTF scale); There's sure some space left to make everything more meta next time. Only the pouet comment fixiation some demo makers have (do thumb-downs really hurt your feelings that much? I'm not trying to be cheeky here, it certainly stings a bit to make something with love and get ignorance back...) is a bit irritating and feels a bit overblown.

(wertstahl's intern comment cracked me up.)
added on the 2019-04-25 10:49:46 by tomaes tomaes
tomaes: rewatch value! the comments change randomly each run on the real thing :D
added on the 2019-04-25 12:05:44 by Paralax Paralax
meta.
the commentaries are brillant.
rulez added on the 2019-04-27 12:09:04 by wullon wullon
This is how SQL injections work.
added on the 2019-05-12 16:10:04 by Molive Molive
delightful :D
rulez added on the 2020-09-23 17:23:23 by blackpawn blackpawn
just rewatched it, it's brilliant. Thanks as well for the commentary, my eyes are open now! Also I spotted myself in the demo. IN THE DEMO! MUM, I'm INSIDE the deeeemoo!
added on the 2020-10-06 10:04:49 by v3nom v3nom
BEST DEMO EVER BECAUSE I'M IN IT!
rulez added on the 2021-08-27 21:58:41 by Emod Emod
holy crap! :) a quintessence of today's demo scene in a single prod
rulez added on the 2021-10-16 13:19:45 by hollowone hollowone

submit changes

if this prod is a fake, some info is false or the download link is broken,

do not post about it in the comments, it will get lost.

instead, click here !

[previous edits]

add a comment