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• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: matt
• last name: swoboda
• cdcs:
• cdc #1: Paper by Psychic Link & Acme
• cdc #2: Square by Pulse [web]

• demo Windows Laevitas by Bitbendaz
• enjoyable music with good energy.
  
  the design, particularly the way of using 2d image layers on top of fx and generally the whole style, is straight from the mid 90s, with some rather odd colour choices (to put it kindly).
  the overall quality of the graphics and the effects aren't high enough to make it a modern, fresh take, and it's not presented as "oldschool" to be a homage.. so it weirdly falls between.
  
  the energy of the music and the pace of delivery carries it through though, just about.
• isokadded on the 2020-08-17 15:55:10
• 4k procedural graphics Windows Primitive Portrait by yx [web]
• what a brilliant idea
• rulezadded on the 2020-04-12 22:33:33
• demo Windows XO NOX by Altair
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• rulezadded on the 2018-09-03 12:27:00
• demo Windows XO NOX by Altair
• very good! the opening part is really nice, great soundtrack and cool idea with the "projection/structured light".
  perhaps some parts were a bit too simplistic & empty (some models/textures/lighting were a bit basic), and a few things seemed like random demo content rather than something made to fit (the wires). but a very good demo!
• isokadded on the 2018-09-03 12:26:47
• demo Windows Red Smoke by Adapt [web]
• i think i've seen this horse sandstorm thing somewhere before
• isokadded on the 2018-05-31 00:41:55
• demo Windows block one by Fairlight [web] & Cocoon [web]
• i can't really take any credit for this - NTSC used Notch (the tool developed by myself and destop which is now released, www.notch.one) and did all the work himself.
  and he did a fantastic job. :)
• isokadded on the 2018-04-03 15:56:00
• demo Windows Sokia by Carillon & Cyberiad [web] & Fairlight [web]
• 10 years ago id have been bothered by the comments on this demo, now i find the polarisation an amusing achievement in itself! this demo is clearly not to everybody's taste (and is not intended to be). being middle of the road sucks anyway. :)
  
  that said, personally i try to vote objectively on demos and only thumb down things which are objectively really bad, and i try to normalise my vote. in these days of relatively few actual good demos released, seeing any thumbs down on any decent demo really grates on me.
  
  if you're thumbing down this demo, or any demo which objectively clearly demonstrates quality in terms of audio (even if you dont like it), graphics, design (even if you dont like it), rendering quality, effects.. if you're really saying that this demo, objectively in terms of overall quality of work, really is in the bottom third, or less, of every production released this year.. well, i call bullshit. maybe you're acting as an angry consumer annoyed that they went to the theatre expecting to see a summer blockbuster and wandered into an indie movie by mistake and wants their 10$ back (except this is the scene, there was no 10$ and there's not supposed to be any consumers either..), or maybe you dont know enough to be objective about what you're watching, or maybe you don't have the respect for demos and their creators that i (and many others here) have while voting.
  
  re the stalling issue: it's not because of shader compilation (believe me, you'd be waiting minutes between scenes..) - it's due to the rather large amount of VRAM usage and allocation between scenes, unfortunately.
• isokadded on the 2017-08-13 13:35:18
• demo Windows Soundproof Motion by Fairlight [web] & Logicoma [web]
• the hoff is right.
  i was totally planning to show up to nova without releasing anything, then started sketching a day or so before the party and things started happening, and thought it would be nice to support the party with a demo, soo... i showed up at nova and bugged him into lending me a track - and it fit perfectly, so i quickly put it together. (and the ukscene allstars one. thats another story.)
  
  thanks a lot to ferris and hoffman for letting me use it and going so far as disqualifying themselves from the compo they were actually supposed to enter. i didnt realise they were going to do that - in the olden days releasing demo soundtracks in the music compo was acceptable.. :)
• isokadded on the 2017-06-27 14:00:33
• 64k Windows Elysian by Logicoma [web]
• great soundtrack (for 64k especially), very nice well-designed visuals.
  some pretty heavy gmunk inspiration spotted :)
• rulezadded on the 2016-10-25 00:10:10
• demo invitation Windows Rise and Shine by Aberration Creations & Logicoma [web]
• very pretty - but very static (and very baked). the same visual quality but dynamic would have really been something.
• rulezadded on the 2016-09-17 16:32:41