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• cdc #1: my bird-cage by jamm
• cdc #2: Caero by Plant & Electromotive Force [web]
• cdc #3: { by Downtown [web]
• cdc #4: Hätä by Da Jormas [web]
• cdc #5: hello:FRIEND by Fairlight [web]
• cdc #6: collektikum by Calodox
• cdc #7: Markov Chant by Limp Ninja [web]

• 4k Windows Deck II by LJ & Virgill [web]
• This is better than Eisenerz—or any previous intro by LJ really—by quite a bit, and that's not saying a little. To me the biggest accomplishment here is the feeling of a closure, or possibly a well employed cyclic narrative, can't really tell which. While the formula is not too different than in the past, it works better in tandem with the setting of the intro. We know what a parking hall looks like, the way the space is interconnected and loops back into itself; the narrative does the same and enforces a feeling of entrapment effectively.
  
  That's also not the only thing that rewards repeated viewings. Albeit being somewhat obvious towards the end, I definitely did not notice the pillars and other parts of the building shifting around along with the cuboids throughout the intro on my first couple viewings. Even though it happens in plain sight, our attention is guided elsewhere, and the effect is just subtle enough that it doesn't really register but subliminally, and further underlines the disorienting nature of urban spaces like these. Respect.
  
  All of that on top of the usual accolades. The camerawork overall is just sublime; I can't find a single fault in it and there's plenty of details all over that I would've had hard time coming up with. The graphics are brilliant, having just enough detail in just the right places to convey the necessary level of realism. Yeah, sure, the specular highlights don't (always) align with the supposed light sources in geometry, but more important, especially in a category like this, is the impression of the lighting overall. (If you're bothered by this, you've been staring too much at "rendering" and not enough art.) The supposed discrepancy also works diegetically by, again, enforcing the disorienting nature of the environment; the way it misleads a person stuck within it. Could even be called Lynchian to some extent.
  
  The soundtrack feels appropriate as well, very much akin to Neil Ollivierra's The Detroit Escalator Company project, and quite probably my favorite track in any of LJs intros to date. Overall the sound is much less characteristic of Virgill than usual, both in terms of song writing and flashy 4klang acrobatics. The more low key, subdued, even meditative and mantra-like approach is heavenly, and the visual direction is married together with it just the right way.
  
  Lack of showiness is a virtue. A distance field too complex to spare a sufficient amount of bytes to present it in a worthy manner, or to construct a meaningful narrative around it rarely makes a worthwhile production. A lot of 4k intros suffer from this and it is one of the central things I try to be conscious of while making them. All of the best 4k intros in my opinion manage to strike a balance on this spectrum, and I there aren't many of them that hit so close to the sweet spot as Deck II does.
  
  Best 4k released at Revision along with Horizon Machine from 2017. Goes onto my long list of future CDC entries.
• rulezadded on the 2020-04-16 14:04:49
• 4k Atari VCS chp by Bunch of Craving Kids
• Amazing! compo favorite~
• rulezadded on the 2020-04-16 13:31:38
• 64k Amiga AGA Cubic Meditation by Software Failure [web]
• the usual fare, with the usual iterative evolution in quality
  
  still curious to see how your intros would be with someone else's music =)
• rulezadded on the 2020-04-16 13:02:29
• 64k Amiga AGA Breadbox by Appendix [web]
• not terribly interesting but if you want to take solace in something it's at least better than the nah-kolor one
• isokadded on the 2020-04-16 13:00:51
• 4k Amstrad CPC Square Roots by Vanity [web]
• there's beauty in you
• rulezadded on the 2020-04-16 12:50:07
• 4k Amstrad CPC Daymo of the tentacle by Pulpo Corrosivo & Praline & Arkos [web]
• cute pixels =)
  
  don't know about them being scattered all over like that tho...?
• rulezadded on the 2020-04-16 12:48:21
• 256b Atari VCS Pandemia by Satori [web]
• Best 256b intro released at the party, super sweet, definitely in my top-3 favorites of the compo.
• rulezadded on the 2020-04-16 12:43:14
• invitation Amiga AGA noord - nordlicht demoparty 2020 invitation by Titan [web]
• clean invitation with lovely music, dig the split-screen biome idea
• rulezadded on the 2020-04-16 01:54:06
• demo Amiga AGA Syntetikk Life by Nah-Kolor [web]
• what a mess... again... nothing fits together and each visual idea barely managed to keep itself together
  
  piggy for the first ~minute of music here and because i'm happy to see Drareg in the credits
• isokadded on the 2020-04-16 01:52:31
• demo Amiga AGA Top Gear by Nah-Kolor [web]
• borderline rush hour on amiga
• sucksadded on the 2020-04-16 01:45:11