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• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: Jake
• last name: Taylor
• portals:
• csdb: profile
• slengpung: pictures
• demozoo: profile
• cdcs:
• cdc #1: aether by mfx [web]
• cdc #2: Tsunami by Booze Design
• cdc #3: Aesterozoa by Kewlers [web]
• cdc #4: regus ademordna by Excess [web]
• cdc #5: Waillee by Prismbeings
• cdc #6: ▶ by Ümlaüt Design [web]

• 4k Windows Then and Before by Altair
• Man, I dunno. I really don't want to be a killjoy or some overly-critical fuck but like, I'm such a big fan of the people behind this and I love what it's trying to do, the minimal shapes/colors, the sound design/direction, etc. The difficult thing is that it all feels a bit 80% to me - the perturbations are too regular/obvious, the accumulation in the rendering ruins any impact of the hard camera cuts as it blurs frames together, the sounds themselves all have the right vibe and tone but somehow lack impact, and the marching artifacts (which should add to the noisy look and help create the feeling of darkness and chaos) are too regular, making them feel cheap instead of contributing meaningfully. So instead of this dark awesome experience I'm left feeling a bit indifferent - in contrast to waillee, for example, which achieves exactly what I think this prod was trying to achieve, in a more coherent and polished way.
  
  Obvious thumb here as there was clearly a lot of effort involved and I'm super into what I think this was going for. I just wish it actually got there.
• rulezadded on the 2019-09-02 10:56:47
• demo Windows minim by Altair
• Very nice! Well executed coherent style and very polished. The second part didn't really do anything for me though.
• rulezadded on the 2019-09-01 16:31:30
• 4k Windows Glitch Rider by Alcatraz [web]
• I dig it, feels good, music fits great. Somehow feels a bit lacking tho.
• rulezadded on the 2019-08-28 11:22:41
• demo Commodore 64 Wild The Tuneful Eight by The Tuneful Eight
• Really nice!!
• rulezadded on the 2019-08-23 10:54:57
• demo Windows A World without Lights by Desire [web] & Calodox
• Oh YeAH!! That music hits me right in the everything, and fits the visuals so well. Simple stuff on that front, but comes together into a very enjoyable package. I love it!
• rulezadded on the 2019-08-20 08:28:03
• 4k Windows terrarium by Eos
• Quote:

  Maybe I missed a detail, or maybe it's just that simple that we're all confused/surprised :)

  And to add, one of my favorite joys in the demoscene is finding prods that make me feel this way!
• isokadded on the 2019-08-09 12:51:40
• 4k Windows terrarium by Eos
• Excellent on all fronts (and to my eyes, especially technical!)
  
  I'm also in the camp of "I think I get it but something doesn't add up" and that's due to the demo not appearing nearly as noisy as I expect. From the description above I guess particle positions are transformed to view space or similar, and then for each transformed particle, you plot several (a few hundred?) pixels additively with atomic image add operations (on a floating point buffer I assume). The pixels you plot have modulated positions and colors depending on position relative to the camera and lens parameters (what you refer to as "jitter", and perhaps it's somewhat random?), and this is enough to get the crazy bokeh expansions and glows we see here without so much noise? I suppose with enough plots everything converges to a nice image but I guess I'm surprised at just now many there are (though if that's the case, of course this is the right approach for the hw). Maybe I missed a detail, or maybe it's just that simple that we're all confused/surprised :)
• rulezadded on the 2019-08-09 12:50:26
• demo Amiga AGA Call of the Wild by Boozoholics [web]
• only two people on the planet could have made this
  
  
  
  unfortunately they did
• rulezadded on the 2019-07-28 19:17:53
• demo Windows Twenty Past Midnight by Cocoon [web]
• yes
• rulezadded on the 2019-07-27 16:15:27
• 4k Windows Blackboxing by LJ & 5711 [web]
• tasty!!!
• rulezadded on the 2019-07-25 17:37:02