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• cdcs:
• cdc #1: Secret Rooms
• cdc #2: Overdrive 2 by Titan [web]

• demo Windows Malum by Bitbendaz
• Made me feel a bit sick but that might have been because of the camera shake and extreme closeups combined watching it fullscreen (on YouTube). I appreciate the gloomy 3D corridors with neat glossy floor reflections. Unfortunately the 2D art looks AI generated - and I have no idea if they actually is - it's just that the highly detailed concept art style carries that stigma in my mind. I have nothing against the technique personally and my advice is to just keep working on it.
  
  As a horror movie fan I'm left with mixed feelings. Horror imagery without a purpose is just a shock video and I honestly have no idea what's the story trying to get told here. I'm sure it wasn't "mental illness bad" even though that's always a subtext when showing derelict insane asylum environments. The problem with just stringing cliches in a sequence is that you'll still end up sending a message but probably not something you intended.
  
  Since Chucky made an appearance here maybe it's appropriate to make quick comparison to Child's Play. If you consider how much screen time is spent on building tension vs releasing it with nasty images, you can see it's actually just tense drama with the occasional goofy puppetry sprinkled in. Still, as a viewer I can feel a knot in my stomach when the characters unknowingly treat Chucky as just a regular toy. Don't go there! Don't open that door!
  
  It's _not_ about the blood and guts and padded cells, it's about the characters I care about and the deep-seated human curiosity to hear the story on how the other ape almost got eaten by a sabre-toothed tiger but got away. And then we laugh feel alive again!
  
  As you can see you've taken on a very difficult task in translating horror to the short demoscene format without characters. It can be made to work if you're satisfied with just vignettes. Consider Oscar's Chair for example where we know the antagonist (?) only by name yet it's still effective. If you plan on just riffing on horror imagery in a less ambitious way, then it's worthing taking a good look at Shad 2. It's actually mostly scifi corridors stylized due to necessity (low poly) and artistic vision (cartoonish videogame look). The occasional gross thing is easier to stomach and they don't carry as much symbolical weight as cinematic shots. They are just schoolboyish scribbles in comparison.
  
  I'm taking your endeavour seriously on purpose because I care - both about demos and horror. Looking forward to your next production, as always.
• isokadded on the 2023-07-09 13:10:39
• 4k procedural graphics Windows paintball by silvia
• a marble
• rulezadded on the 2023-04-24 19:51:15
• 4k procedural graphics Windows La Chasse aux œuf (The Egg Hunt) by Peisik [web]
• code and discussion
• isokadded on the 2023-04-16 15:38:34
• demo Windows Arrested Development by bypass [web] & The PIMP Brigade
• Software rendering :)
• rulezadded on the 2023-04-12 22:45:11
• 256b MS-Dos gaia - poetry of life by Marquee Design [web]
• woah
• rulezadded on the 2023-04-12 13:37:27
• 64k Windows finlandsfärjan by Jumalauta [web]
• Could we erase this from history books, Soviet Union style?
• sucksadded on the 2023-04-12 13:17:00
• demo Windows Works for Everybody by Still [web]
• Fantastic work
• rulezadded on the 2023-04-11 17:23:01
• demo JavaScript The Cryptic Call by Gaia Space Agency
• Really enojyable and smooth. Maybe too many quotes on screen? Felt very fresh in the compo.
• rulezadded on the 2023-04-11 13:40:36
• demo Windows JavaScript The Interloper by mfx [web]
• I enjoyed the serenity of the museum. Perhaps the expectations attached to the MFX label made its calmness even more effective? A great demo!
• rulezadded on the 2023-04-10 11:42:54
• 4k procedural graphics Windows La Chasse aux œuf (The Egg Hunt) by Peisik [web]
• Oh and the zip includes an animated version of the piece that shows you the intermediate cellular automaton steps in their full latent space glory :)
• isokadded on the 2023-04-10 11:38:54