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release date : august 2024
release party : Evoke 2024
compo : pc demo
ranked : 4th
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added on the 2024-08-18 02:28:58 by xphere xphere

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Reminds me sometimes of Rapture by ASD.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 02:35:25 by gaspode gaspode
Very good … love the credits.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 05:08:53 by nytrik nytrik
Imagine what they will do when they actually return.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 05:27:34 by ham ham
Lovely "demostyle" aesthetic all the way through.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 07:03:10 by Preacher Preacher
Yeah! Nice you are almost back!
added on the 2024-08-18 10:45:08 by noglin noglin
I meant to put rulez because.. it RULEZ! Liked it a lot and hope to see more stuff soon :D
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 10:58:54 by noglin noglin
What a trip... I remember, 12 years ago, a conversation with xphere. "We should redo all the tools" and "it will be fun" and "I would like to have kids too" and so on. Well, 12 years later I can say that we have the tools almost at the same level than in 2010!!! Remember that if you are lazy and start building your software stack over muddy floors you will need to rebuild everything and every day you decide not to do it generates future debt that will be paid no matter what.

Nytrik, open the data folder, locate the picture in the credits and replace it by yours and get your own credit!!! And you will also see my video unprocessed with the frying pan.

Gaspode, if you want the prequel to this demo you can also watch "don't deceive me" and get more car action. Other demos featuring the old version of the effects are "death of the death" and "die Änderung".

Now time to go home and rest. Many thanks for your comments!!!
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 11:36:08 by merlucin merlucin
This demo has many raw materials that can make the sum move one notch up, even without the theme of self depreciation.

If you think about it, you have sufficient tech already (and since 2010) - the face credit scene is among the best effects of recent times, also because of its simplicity. Give the vignettes some more space to breath, good to great is sometimes only a few seconds of waiting and pausing !

Maybe your next foray could be the world of mixing video and 3d stuff, you demonstrate a good for it.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 15:28:58 by Navis Navis
lovely to see Spöntz back :)
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 17:44:11 by waffle waffle
bit dated here and there, but at least the spanish scene isn't fully dead (yet) :P
as long as there is Ham, the spanish scene is not dead.
added on the 2024-08-18 21:19:34 by Navis Navis
Remember that there were three Spanish demos in this party!
added on the 2024-08-18 21:40:20 by merlucin merlucin
<3
what ham said
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 23:16:05 by wullon wullon
Not back, but back ! glad you are <3
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 23:39:26 by alkama alkama
This one went off the rails in a delightful way. Welcome not back!
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 00:02:47 by break break
I love music and your 20th century style!
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 07:03:13 by Dart/FNM Dart/FNM
Many thanks for all your comments!
Soon we will release the demo source code, so anyone can see how we did the demo, and even can modify it with our demoeditor! stay tunned! :)

For the most curious, you can edit the "data/config/control.spo" file and enable the "debug" flag. In debug mode, you will be able to see many realtime data of the engine, like fbo content, sections being drawn, etc etc...

About the history of this demo... well, it was around 2019 when we developed a new engine from scratch, because the old one ("Dragon", done by Kolian in ancient times) was too outdated to be refactored. Then we decided to build the new engine ("Phoenix"), but with the condition that should be compatible with the current DemoEditor (built by merlucin).
Then, as merlucin said, many things happened (pandemic, kids, etc...), which delayed the things a little bit more than expected... but finally we managed to have a "capable" new engine.
Finally, we decided to proper test the demoeditor + new engine with a "quick demo", rebuilding some scenes from previous demos (most of the effects have the same 3d models of the old demos), for example:
die Änderung - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBuD4HI_9oA
Death of the death - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50168
Don't deceive me - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53548
But finally, it took us almost 2 years to prepare this demo, mainly due to the very few available time, the new sections that we had to build to recreate some of the old effects, the (many) bugs the the new engine, etc...

Again, thanks all for the comments!! all feedback is more than welcome!! :)
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 10:56:11 by xphere xphere
What Navis said. Also more demos should feature cars driving off cliffs for no reason whatsoever.
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 12:34:48 by uncle-x uncle-x
I enjoyed the chill and straight-to-point style of this demo, with its over-the-top music, that says "we're just here to have fun". Yet in the middle of this, I thought the portraits were a really neat effect, that felt fresh.

On the other side, the similarity with Rupture was distracting, and I can't tell if it's a nod, a uninspired copy or a coincidence.
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 21:03:23 by Zavie Zavie
Hi Zavie, the car scene in this demo is an evolution of another car scene that you can see in our "don't deceive me" demo, that was presented two months after rupture. Although both demos feature an edges shader, rupture is more about morphings and ours was in exploding things.

I have to admit that when I saw rupture I was worried about the similarities in that scene, but with our euskal party deadline so close we focused in completing the rest of the scenes of the demo.

Isaac2 suggested that there were not a first person camera in rupture, so we added it to our demo in the party place, and it worked very well, so in this demo we decided to add also the driver and the car dash.
added on the 2024-08-20 09:50:54 by merlucin merlucin
I really liked this demo! :)
rulez added on the 2024-08-21 22:58:10 by rimina rimina
Cheesy effects but in served in good condition. I especially like the spinning ocarina scene.
rulez added on the 2024-08-22 18:14:01 by 0b5vr 0b5vr
This is not the right way not to be back :)
Remind me a bit of Rupture but apart of that it was fun!
rulez added on the 2024-08-23 13:30:28 by merry merry
Especially liked the portraits
rulez added on the 2024-08-23 20:06:00 by Fell Fell
Hope you wont be back again next time
rulez added on the 2024-08-23 23:27:13 by gopher gopher
Excellent music and entertaining visuals, really enjoyed it.
rulez added on the 2024-08-24 11:11:38 by StingRay StingRay
Oh yes you are!
rulez added on the 2024-08-25 14:14:55 by Saga Musix Saga Musix
Welcome (not) back, Spöntz!
rulez added on the 2024-08-27 19:47:11 by Manwe Manwe
Nice
rulez added on the 2024-09-15 13:40:09 by Frequent Frequent
Credits sequence is top notch!
rulez added on the 2024-09-27 14:46:07 by rloaderro rloaderro

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