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sp04 - Echo Chamber by Spacepigs [web]
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KEVIN!
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 11:12:48 by mayday 
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JCO Cinematic Universe.
You asked for it :)
Love it and love spacepigs
i feel like i should dislike it but i can't. great going!
During this prod there was a drop of 2000 viewers on twitch. Achievement unlocked.
OINK
This is just fun
and scary
This is just fun
and scary
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.
Raises the bar for jokeprods. The moment when the reference to the previous compo entry kicked in, everyone around me just went nuts. Respect :)
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!
I liked Kevin but this one just left me cold.
Genius on so many levels.... no-one will ever understand this completely.
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!
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!
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!
WHAT IF WE ARE STILL IN THE DEMO
This was good silliness.
bla
I lol'd. Most scene humour is odd at best but this brought out some big belly laughs, cheers guys!
...that was fun...after the first entries of the compo this made the whole thing freshen up...we need more releases like that !
What MrsBeanbag said!!
Yes. :)
Im Gegensatz zum Compo-Winner läuft die Spacepigs-Demo wenigstens auf meinem Rechner :Oink
Some say this demo is still running
ihr schweine!
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.
spacepigs quality! :D
That's the first time I see a demo that doesn't disable system screensaver while playing.
Fuck yeah JCO you should have gotten me that sticker in the late nite. ;) very good, I cried laughing!
i think kevin was a much more entertaining production and easier to follow. some of the practical jokes this demo pulled off were cool.
x)
Reg: thanks for pointing that out!
is that demo already over? Well done Kevin!
funny
haha :D
what the hell?
i had the urge to thumb this up
#metademo :D
Some great jokes and content, maybe a little bit too long. Anyway, Spacepigs rulez.
HELP!
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. :)
Yeah, this is good!
Making PC demos good again, one at a time.
JCO is an actual literal genius.
Meta Overflow
LULz @ .nfo!
Well crafted, many references, perfect sounding. I liked it.
had its moments
I totally love this one. And hats off for investing so much work into this kind of demo. Totally worth re-watching.
it's good that some people are different
tfw regretting not having thumbed down the Kevin demo ... there goes the negated greeting
Several scenes were a bit funny. Should have placed lower.
what Ok3anos said
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
37 and hairy... they did their homework.
What Ferris said.
dem neue spacepigs demo stinkt
Great sound design. And funny :)
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?
@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.
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.
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...
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...
awesome :D
meh. sound is totally off sync in youtube version.
new youtube version is good!
:D
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!
a bit mixed about this one. Some funny parts and some failed a bit.
More Kevin next year, please.
from critique of judgement to sp04, the project of aesthetics in german idealism is complete
crap
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.
@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 ;)
15 frames of fame for each comment
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.
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.
Spacepigs comic metaverse.
I liked your EGA Megademo better.
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.
yeheeees!
Great Turbine sounds, space and teacher scenes, some really strange stuff in others...
Great fun, thanks for making the compo more interesting :)
should have won
annnnd.... a piggy
and a thumb down
oh sorry i can't thumb up
Metageil!
Thought it was better than Kevin, although I didn't find it funny. I'll never get German humor I guess.
xernobyl, I'm surprised that people find it funny at all. You probably do get it.
you are the david lynch of the demoscene. i want to be your intern, and if i have to start with cooking the coffee.
this was actually really fun at the democompo, specially the demo inside the demo :D
Now I'm confused...
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? :)
TROLL HARD
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? :)
The Download Link has been updated for the final version. You can also still get the party version but why would you, right? :)
both versions quietly exit immediately after loading, occurs in both windowed and fullscreen and regardless of audio/subtitle settings (win10, ryzen 2700x, gtx 1080ti)
Dank des neuen Realzeitschiebebalkens läßt sich der gekonnte Sync im Kusmateil noch intensiver goutieren!
Great concept, and really well put together.
"Excellent" (in the voice of Montgomery Burns). "megademos" are back :-)
experience
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.)
(wertstahl's intern comment cracked me up.)
tomaes: rewatch value! the comments change randomly each run on the real thing :D
meta.
the commentaries are brillant.
the commentaries are brillant.
This is how SQL injections work.
delightful :D
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!
BEST DEMO EVER BECAUSE I'M IN IT!
holy crap! :) a quintessence of today's demo scene in a single prod
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