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Farbrausch - FR041 - Debris.
A demo in 180kb.
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30244
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v0Eg3dBnsHk

Farbrausch is a group formed from the old and the new guard of the german demoscene. Chaos, Ryg, KB: their arch-coders excel technology-wise. Their artists, fiver2, Gizmo, Ronny, Visualice etc.. excel each at their own domain as well. And for the first time in a few dozen releases, both sides of the same eurocoin finally managed to meet. And it's a cataclysm.

[psiga]

Oh, those no-talent hacks.

(Really, really impressive work. I love the part around the mid-point where one of the buildings is spinning forward on the pavement, and the other buildings seem to be making room for it.)
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[Kappuru]

That is incredible. I feel compelled to mention Candytron, a demo done by the group four years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InPdjzDGM4s

Remind anyone of REZ?
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[!=]

Candytron was nice. I liked it very much when I saw it on the bigscreen of that -then still standing up- hangar of the german military army where the breakpoint party was held at.

It's shiny and totally not affraid of being shiny. And I'm not overly fond of things shiny.

[Takashi]

Man, remember when a 64k demo was two bouncy shiny cubes and a chiptune? Those were the days.
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[!=]

I actually rather fondly remember the times where a 64k was a moody, gritty, sample based soundtrack with lots of particles or even with metallic planets.

Or about transformers with a downtempo soundtrack.

[professor_scissors]

I am almost positive that these things are made by witches, using witchcraft.

[guest253]

[psiga]

Bugchasing takes time and effort.
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[SplashBeats]

someone post that awesome psp demo

it was vector-y

[Jeff Garneau]

so, did they write their own 3D engine for this? like, it doesn't even make directX calls?

damn.

[kael]

[Jeff Garneau]

[SplashBeats]

[Tokyo Rude]

I don't like to be an ignoramus, but could you explain to me why this is impressive?

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If you focus only on the size factor, it's somewhat impressive that the executable, being 170kb-big is not even the size of one single screenshot you'd use on a webpage to illustrate it.

(Also, you're really missing up when not seeing such on a big screen. Big screen here does not mean puny 43" lcd tvs, rather theatre-big screens. It's really part of the whole experience, watching a demo live, among the audience, akin to seeing a live human performance. Cheering, grinning, getting irritated or excited with the audience by what is being shown one sequence after another)

What I would rather praise in debris is that it's not just a technological performance. The camera work, the pacing and unfolding +really works+ The whole is consistently ambitious.

[scratchmonkey]

[dongle]

[Takashi]

You can consider a good demo, like a exhibition performed by a martial arts master. There is no unnecessary movements, concise, everything should just work together in beauty. But most of that is only apparent to someone that has at least some comprehension of the sport. Otherwise it's just an old guy flipping out.

The demoscene is also historically a source of cutting-edge innovation in terms of graphics and pushing hardware to the limits. So stuff like this in important because it drives other sceners to try even hard, pushing the go-kart just a little bit more over the hill.
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[Jeff Garneau]

frankly, i really prefer demoscene stuff that's all, "FUCK THE SCENE, FUCK 1c3DUD3, FUCK =3r3=, FUCK THE HATERS"

but you know this is cool too and i occasionally see that in .NFOs which is fun.