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• cdc #1: my bird-cage by jamm
• cdc #2: Caero by Plant & Electromotive Force [web]
• cdc #3: { by Downtown [web]
• cdc #4: Hätä by Da Jormas [web]
• cdc #5: hello:FRIEND by Fairlight [web]
• cdc #6: collektikum by Calodox
• cdc #7: Markov Chant by Limp Ninja [web]

• 64k Windows fermi paradox by Mercury [web]
• Also I feel the more people tend to have to say about a production, the better it is, regardless of whether it's positive or negative things they have to say. There's easily a page or two to write about the actual contents of this intro as well. This is significant.
• isokadded on the 2016-03-27 13:16:29
• 64k Windows fermi paradox by Mercury [web]
• Fucking.
  sick.
  
  You guys finally outdid yourselves in every aspect you've been emphasizing before. This is so completely off the chart next to virtually anything else produced by the scene it's not even funny. Technical merit is one thing and this boasts plenty of those, but there is so much more here that makes this special.
  
  Composition. Editing. Proper montage. The sound design. Composition. Framing. Pace. And once more, composition. There's so much in this that transcends the entire demoscene. I have nothing but utmost respect for the attention put into the pacing and editing. If there's one thing that plagues the scene, it's people's inability take their time to express themselves. Needless rapid cuts and unnatural editing tend to be rampant. It's frankly unfathomable to me how well you managed to blend together such a vast array of editing ideas and do it seamlessly and naturally.
  
  I've previously criticized mercury a lot over their extravagant post-processing and poor color grading. Fermi Paradox really is in a league of its own and on a whole another level of maturity in those regards. Every choice done in the post-processing step supports the intention of the editing. I admire how well you managed to restrict yourselves, in many ways even better than many professionals. Of course overall this looks stunning. I'm yet to watch it realtime or in otherwise high quality, but I saw maybe one scene (early on) that didn't exactly sit right with me color-wise. The rest is gorgeous.
  
  There was some talk on IRC about this intro after the compo. Someone mentioned something along the line "conspiracy had people, mercury had spheres" and another person that "conspiracy had a story", implying Fermi Paradox didn't. I think both remarks I heard echoed from multiple people are disappointingly naive. The approach is very different in both intros, yet surprisingly similar. Both use iconography to support the story and hammer in their intention. Both emphasize pacing and framing over ostentation. There is a story in both of them, albeit different ones. Conspiracy says something about humanity and our feelings over other people. Mercury's is about the simultaneous grandeur and brutality of the nature, and how against all obstacles we yearn to reach toward it. Again, re-watches warranted, but Mercury's resonated more with me on a personal level. It takes a lot more to grasp your emotions with just "spheres".
  
  This is polished beyond anything I would've dared to suspect. Timeless looks amateurish next to this, and I'm not even trying to be hyperbolic. Like I commented on the Conspiracy intro, this feels like a new leaf opening. I hope these intros serve as the catalyst for the scene to start paying more attention to the humane and presentational sides of their productions. The boundary has been pushed, and I hope we all take that into consideration in the future when we push ourselves in demomaking. This is the first Mercury production I really, genuinely, love.
  
  Far and beyond.
• rulezadded on the 2016-03-27 13:14:18
• 64k Windows Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy [web]
• By the way did anyone get strong vibes of Terrence Malick's Days Of Heaven while watching? I need to compare both in detail later but that was my first impression.
• isokadded on the 2016-03-27 12:58:58
• 64k Windows Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy [web]
• Fucking.
  sick.
  
  Absolutely warrants a re-watch before proper criticism, but this is obviously far and beyond anything the scene typically produces. It seems to me this really is the production Conspiracy has been yearning to make for many years now, and they finally manned up and pulled it off not only better than probably anyone else in the scene could, but better than anyone (including myself) in the audience thought they could.
  
  It's really quite scary, because anyone considering making anything similar as mature as this now has an daunting bar to reach. Insane amount of detail put into framing, editing, pace, sound design, and first and foremost composition. Sure there are some flaws in some details that boil down to the 64k limitation, but honestly I think those add to the charm, it might be even slightly dull with out them.
  
  There are some small things that did genuinely annoy me, mainly the kind of bad camera shake that seemed way too perlinish for me (24Hz like ferris mentioned would help with that a lot though I'm sure). A couple colors in a few shots also didn't sit right with me, but those are such minor annoyances they hardly warrant a mention.
  
  The most positive thing I hope that comes out of this though is that people in the scene start to pay attention to the the factors that primarily make this significant in the context of demoscene, i.e. the work put into the visuals and camerawork. There's so much more to this than the implementation details under the hood. It's really a wake up call for me too; this is the level of quality we all should be striving for, and I hope I'm not the only one. Along with mercury this seems like the possibility for opening a new leaf in the history of the scene. Let's just hope.
  
  This is beyond.
• rulezadded on the 2016-03-27 06:57:00
• demo Wild Visual Novel by Trilobit [web]
• Erittäin söötti!
  
  Perfect visual novel aesthetics :)
• rulezadded on the 2016-03-27 03:06:45
• 64k MS-Dos Go Pete Go by Prone
• What kimi said, nice enough.
• rulezadded on the 2016-03-23 17:24:35
• intro Amiga OCS/ECS raw #8 intro by Virtual Dreams & Fairlight [web]
• wowwowwow music
• rulezadded on the 2016-03-20 20:21:13
• demo Amstrad CPC Amstrad Plus Phortem by Condense [web]
• Not my cop of aesthetic-soup, but insane amount of work.
• rulezadded on the 2016-03-18 14:43:16
• demo Commodore 64 The Throckmorton Device by Triad [web]
• Visually impeccable, very distressing and appropriate music.
• rulezadded on the 2016-03-18 14:35:38
• demo Atari XL/XE GENE by Lamers
• Most excellent.
• rulezadded on the 2016-03-18 14:32:41