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• demo Windows Sulcus by Bitbendaz
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  I know I'm nitpicking but if you have a dancer in your demo, shouldn't they dance TO the beat?

  
  
  Gargaj, thats your takeaway from the demo? LOL Demosceners seems to have different quality bars for different groups/productions.

  
  Not necessarily a takeaway, but it feels so indicative of the rest of the demo - my criteria for a prod is (generally) based on two things: what a demo is trying to do, and how well it does it. As far as the "what" is concerned, "disco demo" is not exactly a novel concept, and in terms of the "how", it just... doesn't seem to have a whole lot of groove or feeling to it, compared to other disco/funk demos that preceded it like Just A Touch Of Funk or even The Popular Demo - I just don't get a disco FEEL from it, and the fact that the character is out of sync just underlines that, y'know? Most of the scenes are pretty empty and often repetitive, so all my attention is turned toward all these little niggles like the flowers clipping into the character and the anachronism of a track with modern production (beat repeats, chip arpeggios) but with 70s visuals, and the title in latin for some reason which again feels weirdly disconnected from the rest of the demo? Like, I get what you were trying to do here, but it feels like as if the main inspiration for the demo was not disco itself but the Wikipedia article of "disco"? It just feels so sterile and sparse compared to what disco is supposed to be.
  
  The thing is, I see the effort; the track is great, the character model is great, clearly the engine is capable (and I immensely appreciate that you use your own, compared to the Borrowed Engine Bonanza this year) and you know how to make tight shit (Umbra), it's just that this wasn't it.

  
  
  And thats exactly what irks me, that effort isnt appreciated as much as personal taste preference. Using a 3rd party engine, throwing together some particles with some generic music gets thumbs up because it looks appealing, but when someone spends months doing their own engines, their own meshes and art, vocals and music etc that gets a thumbs down or a piggie because something is out of synch or that the demo name is in latin (surprise, all our demo names are in latin). I'll take effort any day over someone throwing something together in UE or cables. Anyone can make something pretty using 3d party engines and 3rd party art. Giving knitpicking feedback is fine and appreciated, especially if you back it up with your own productions.
• isokadded on the 2022-04-18 21:37:07
• 4k Windows Astraeus Project by LJ & Virgill [web]
• Overly slow for my personal taste but amazing nonetheless.
• rulezadded on the 2022-04-18 19:21:54
• demo Windows Sulcus by Bitbendaz
• Quote:

  I know I'm nitpicking but if you have a dancer in your demo, shouldn't they dance TO the beat?

  
  
  Gargaj, thats your takeaway from the demo? LOL Demosceners seems to have different quality bars for different groups/productions.
• isokadded on the 2022-04-18 19:18:31
• demo Amiga AGA Soul Strain by Amiga Skool [web]
• Great minds think alike!
• rulezadded on the 2022-04-18 19:14:31
• demo Windows JavaScript Let This Darkness Be by slay bells
• Looks and feels like an intro rather than a flushed out demo. Visuals of mixed quality, ranging from pretty to not so pretty. But way better than previous stuff.
• isokadded on the 2022-04-18 19:13:51
• demo Windows JavaScript Tigris by mfx [web]
• Its a pretty one effect thingy, feels like it could have been an intro rather than a demo.
• isokadded on the 2022-04-18 19:12:07
• demo Windows Miyagi by Futuris [web]
• Thumbs up for Biters visuals, meh for music and big thumbs down for Unreal engine usage. So piggie.
• isokadded on the 2022-04-18 19:10:48
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Transhuman / Pachinkoland by The Electronic Knights
• This is top notch stuff indeed!
• rulezadded on the 2022-04-06 19:47:24
• invitation Windows DMO by Bomb & Cocoon [web]
• Its a one scene / one effect Notch thingy with some odd 2d art. Meh.
• isokadded on the 2022-04-04 19:52:04
• 64k Windows JavaScript Domain by 0b5vr
• I liked this overall, but its sad to me that it gets nominated for Best Direction and Best Concept when its clearly been "highly inspired" by our Tempus demo rather than being original in any way.
• isokadded on the 2022-03-31 18:17:28