Debris

!= · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: the planet of leather moomins

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.

!= · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: the planet of leather moomins

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.

!= · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: the planet of leather moomins

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.

!= · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: the planet of leather moomins

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.