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• demo Windows Sisyphus Unchained by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• @sesse this, most probably, has been forgotten in the nfo file from our previous demo. It runs pretty smooth at 1080p on my tired old 1060.
  
  And (navis correct me if I’m wrong) but the seemingly 2d renders of Sisyphus and Merope actors are still in 3d.
• isokadded on the 2024-04-01 21:18:17
• demo Windows Sisyphus Unchained by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• @gaspode, in all fairness to sq, Midnight run is now 16 years old..
• isokadded on the 2024-04-01 13:38:58
• demo Windows Sisyphus Unchained by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• Lyrics:
  
  Dreaming
  restrictions
  addictions
  can bend
  
  Somehow
  tomorrow
  my sorrow
  should mend
  
  Maybe
  my torment
  this moment
  will end
  
  My turn
  by dying
  defying
  my destiny
  
  --
  
  Uncharted
  Coldhearted
  I gotta disappear
  
  Departed
  Restarted
  The life you stole from me
  
  Illusion
  Seclusion
  Could never hide in shame
  Making amends for the crimes you commit in my name
  
  Deflection
  Rejection
  I'm shrinking in my mind
  
  Attrition
  Sedition
  Nobody left behind
  
  Permission
  Condition
  don't wanna be restrained
  
  I’m free of this prison so
  watch me I have been unchained
  
  --
  
  Uncharted
  Coldhearted
  Already lit the fuse
  
  Restarted
  Departed
  a lifetime of abuse
  
  Illusion
  Seclusion
  you never took the blame
  covering up the attrocities done in my name
  
  Deflection
  Rejection
  how could I be so blind?
  
  Sedition
  Attrition
  should I respond in kind?
  
  Submission
  Permission
  I'm tired of this game
  
  I’m free of this prison so
  fuck you I have been unchained
• isokadded on the 2024-04-01 02:56:16
• demo Windows The Legend of Sisyphus by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• For those of you who like behind the scenes stuff and feel like reading through a leeeengthy analysis of the soundtrack creation process, I've written a blog post about it.
• isokadded on the 2023-08-25 05:43:55
• demo Windows The Legend of Sisyphus by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• Quote:

  Forgot to comment on the sound: amusics soundtrack works really well here. While I like overindulgent rectified guitar riffs that I came to associate with many of amusics previous soundtracks, they wouldn't have worked so well here. Actually, I think that soundtrack and demo form a better symbiosis than in some other ASD demos. Some improvement may be possible on the vocal mix, and it would be cool to see demos make more use of sound effects and ambiences in general, to increase immersion.

  
  
  Let’s not forget Leviathan though who’s been crucial to composition and those nifty guitar riffs and playing in all those ASD demos that featured them!
  
  As for the sound effects, it is a bit challenging to incorporate them so that they complement the visuals, but at the same time they don’t sound jarring inside the soundtrack when you’re listening to it on its own without the video.
  
  Regarding the vocals, as I both wrote the lyrics and sung them, I always understand them from the get go, and at the same time since I’m not really a singer (lots of pitch correction in Reason) I’m a bit self conscious about them, so their volume in the mix felt comfortable to me. Loud enough to make out what I’m saying and at the same time blended in the mix with various effects to not take a dominant role at the center stage. I might produce a mix with the vocals being more pronounced and upload it on soundcloud and get some feedback. I’ve listened to this track more than 1000 times while creating it to the point that I’ve lost all objectivity towards it.
• isokadded on the 2023-08-17 14:45:18
• demo Windows The Legend of Sisyphus by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• Quote:
  
  
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  ps.at first I thought the guy is wearing stockings because of the dithering

  
  
  
  Hahaha, I had exaclty the same thought! I still do sometimes! I got to blink my eyes and enable my internal disbelief filter to snap back to just shorts (cause I know he wasn’t wearing stockings during the 4d capture).
  
  Sometimes also it makes me believe that in the scene where Sisyphus walks under the legs, they’re women’s legs and not his own.. fortunately he’a not looking up :P
• isokadded on the 2023-08-08 18:01:25
• demo Windows The Legend of Sisyphus by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• Davince, we’ve never ever done size coding and that’s you’ve never seen a 64k or 4k intro from ASD (and you’ll most probably never will).
  
  Since the target platform that we write demos on has no uniform restrictions across the board (like how it once was were all C64s had the same limits), we focus our efforts on art (and try to make our demos run relatively smooth on hardware that has been available in the past 5 years and doesn’t cost a fortune to acquire).
  
  Now, demos have always been compared with the gaming industry as they’re closely related in terms of technology and algorithms, and in the past the demoscene was pioneering by looking and performing bettter than the games out there.. this is no longer the case.. games have been looking better than demos for a while now, not because they have pioneered new technologies and better algorithms (although they have done that on occasions), but because they have armies of artists creating massive content, something that we folks on the demoscene han hardly compete with. Content and assets take up space, and the more you want to make your production look good and compare with games the larger the filesize will be.
  
  Back when the year was 2007 and debris pioneered things at only 177kb we were all impressed and went apeshit. But since then we’ve seen all the things debris did back then in numerous demos (and in some cases in smaller filesizes). 16 years later, new ideas, new effects, and what we did in Sisyphus, can not fit into 177kb, no matter what compression wizardry you use.
  
  In a similar manner people could complain about my music. It’s not procedurally generated, not tracked, not replayed on the fly by a softsynth. It’s a whopping 20MB mp3 at 320kbps bitrate. Essentially it’s the equivalent of a “prerendered video with a player”. But nobody complained, as nobody complained for the thousands of demos that replay an mp3 file for music. It was the new paradigm shift, we dealt with it!
  
  There are categories and demos made for them with strict restrictions, so that old scene spirit can be found there. The pc demo category (and following our demo) however, is not one of those.
• isokadded on the 2023-08-07 20:50:49
• demo JavaScript Mundane Institute by mikucom
• This ranking 9th is sheer injustice!!
• isokadded on the 2023-08-07 18:02:08
• demo JavaScript Wake Up / Rise Up
• This is a lovely first demo! I totally love the “Wake up, Rise up” message, especially being interspersed between the greets. Acts like a nudge/wake up call for groups to make more stunning demos!
  
  Now, get yourselves a group name, start planning on your next demo (next year maybe) and be legends!
• rulezadded on the 2023-08-07 17:58:16
• demo Windows Focused by Gaspode [web]
• I absolutely love this! Clean, clever, crisp! Gets the message across and a lovely tune! WTG gaspode!!
• rulezadded on the 2023-08-06 01:46:26