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• cdcs:
• cdc #1: PROTOZOA by Kewlers [web]
• cdc #2: V2 Synthesizer System by Farbrausch [web]
• cdc #3: Unclear Throat by Pluisje
• cdc #4: Edge of Disgrace by Booze Design
• cdc #5: Absolute Territory by Prismbeings

• demo Windows The butterfly effect by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• Ok, I admit to usually making fun of people who can't stand vocals in demos but this time I'll have to join in. Let's at least try it in a constructive way:
  
  First the mixing needs some improvement. The way the voice is mixed with the piano it feels very disconnected, and I can relate to the people who said they lost their connection to the demo when the vocals started; they just stand out too much. Some EQ to get rid of the clashes in the spectrum between the piano and the vocals should help to let them "sink in" more. And perhaps play around with echo or reverb settings a bit to get the acoustic space consistent over the whole arrangement. This should help Alot.
  
  But perhaps the first thing is: Your singer needs to rehearse more. She's good but IMO not "in it" enough when you recorded her performance. Dynamics and pronounciation are lacking especially in the verse (singing a bit quieter, airier and with slightly shorter notes should give it more tension and also make it sound less hurried), and dragging her a note or two out of her comfort zone for the last line of the chorus (aka the punchline of your whole concept) doesn't help either. You can very much hear her insecurity during the word "butterfly". One important thing about singing is that you need to get beyond trying to hit all notes so that you can work on shaping your performance to fit the song. And that takes lots of practice that you start at square one with each song. Your singer just wasn't completely there yet.
  
  Apart fom that: Melody sticks in my head after hearing it three times, so the song itself is definitely good ;) Also, that combination of particle visuals with Navis' trademark love for details is just gorgeous. Especially the water is breathtaking.
• rulezadded on the 2011-07-25 17:15:34
• 64k Windows Fresnel 2 by kolor [web]
• missing thumb ;)
• rulezadded on the 2011-07-10 19:12:30
• 64k Windows ino by Quite
• Wait, I didn't thumb this up yet?
  
  What most of the others said, also: Thanks for again making us stare in disbelief that this comes out of the tools we wrote. :)
• rulezadded on the 2011-07-08 13:17:05
• 64k Windows We Have Accidently Borrowed Your Votedisk by Razor 1911 [web]
• okkie, in a way, yes. :)
  
• isokadded on the 2011-05-10 12:48:31
• 64k Windows We Have Accidently Borrowed Your Votedisk by Razor 1911 [web]
• d0DgE: ... and get "stuff that we've already seen a gazillion times in exactly the same way (better even because coders back then knew the machine) and/or pixelated, stuttery shit in a tiny window that desperately tries to emulate recent PC demos with cubemaps but oh look at the design and AMIGAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I HAVEN'T HEARD YOU! I WAS TOO BUSY SHOUTING AMIGAAAAAAAAAAAA!"? Naaaah, I do prefer my torisies in 1080p with some nice postproc and bassy french chiphouse instead, thank you.
  
  Anyway. Considering the strange "singularity" or in layman's terms "taste bubble" that this prod seems to reside in so perfectly - I've seen (and been in) enough subcultures to know that such things inevitably happen. Every closed group of people develops a certain fondness of inside tropes that at best make an independent, objective observer raise an eyebrow (and at worst make them "why do these people like that obvious shit so much?"). I mean, look at any "underground" musical genre and
  pay close attention to what crap people listen to - and STILL feel better than the rest.
  
  I think that's the point: Intros like these provide a means for (sub)cultural distinction or even a feeling of familiarity even when you're a newschool demoscener who never possessed a votedisk in their life. That's one of the weirder areas of human behaviour, yes, but a culturally important one nonetheless. And just to make it clear. Apart from its pointlessness in the grand scheme of things this intro is good. Design, transitions, flow, colors, length, all may be not the most innovative but they're spot on. Combine this with a very danceable soundtrack and you get something that's good. And "good" is definitely something worthy of a thumb up.
• isokadded on the 2011-05-10 11:56:17
• 64k Windows We Have Accidently Borrowed Your Votedisk by Razor 1911 [web]
• psonice: You got it wrong. Demos were full of toruses because a torus is so very _easy_ to pull off:
  - you only need a few sin/cos functions (or tables) to generate it
  - you can simply adjust the polygon count to exactly hit the target framerate/rastertime
  - it's not convex but if you generate the polys from the inside to the outside (or vice versa if you're Komplex) it'll draw correctly without zbuffer/sorting
  - mapping / wrapping / tangent space / etc is trivial to set up and first of all perfect. No wonder a torus is still the defacto standard mesh for testing material systems.
  - despite all its simplicity it looks kinda awesome. Almost as awesome as a cube. ;)
  
  THAT's why people used torii. JSYK. :D
• isokadded on the 2011-05-09 18:52:00
• demotool Windows CompoView by Farbrausch [web]
• Gargaj: AFAIK IrfanView had other quirks that made it unsuitable (we really tried to find a program that did what we wanted, no idea, my whole contribution was standing next to those attempts and saying stuff like "If I had the time, I'd just hack up a simple viewer for you" which probably sparked the whole thing), but the perfect 60fps scrolling/zooming and the crossfades are reason enough to use CompoView anyway ;)
• isokadded on the 2011-05-03 17:06:49
• demotool Windows CompoView by Farbrausch [web]
• Sorry for "selfvoting" but it was just too deliciously ironic that at Revision, Fashion installed six or seven different image viewers on one of our compo PCs, just to realize that "show an image and zoom into it without filtering" seems to be the kind of rocket science that seemingly no software vendor is capable of pulling off. Good that Chaos had a few hours to spare and jumped to the rescue. That's live partycoding for you ;)
  
• rulezadded on the 2011-05-03 13:51:11
• musicdisk Commodore 64 Swinth
• How is it possible that this hasn't got like 1000 thumbs up yet? :)
• rulezadded on the 2011-04-29 19:16:38
• demo Windows We Crave Sustenance by PlayPsyCo [web]
• Left me cold, probably because of the reasons Navis stated.
  
• isokadded on the 2011-04-28 18:51:35