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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: Condition by FMS_Cat [web]

• 64k Windows Empires by Conspiracy [web]
• often times less is more, but turns out sometimes you can hold yourself back too much. even the music—while good as it is—feels like it's struggling to sufficiently fill up the spectrum. i can't fault it for what it is though; would've personally been very happy had this been my own handwriting.
  
  hard to find anything specific to commend on with out feeling like i'm overanalyzing for the sake of it. the (faked?) "milky" bits are a nice touch though.
  
  also the red title type against the green background… a bold choice, i see what you were going for and i applaud for the audacity, but i think you might've wanted to keep looking for the right hue for just a bit longer :)
• rulezadded on the 2024-07-30 17:04:50
• demo Windows Rainmaker by Byterapers [web] & Doomsday
• inconsistency as a virtue, something very quaint about a team of artists just putting together a reel of their best material, coherence be damned. maybe it's just me but i think this ethos of demomaking deserves love too; it's there our roots are after all, and i think there's still space for it in current year.
  
  it's obviously easy for me to appreciate demos that try to do things design-first, ymmv. almost any scene here (with some caveats, read on…) could by itself be repurposed for a still image or a poster, if chosen and edited the right way. in fact, the demo itself is keenly aware of this as well. i just love the fake-out towards the end with the image that lingers on screen for a few seconds, until suddenly coming to life with vivid animation and dense composition. it's the more abstract scenes here that steal the show for me, kudos for the work on those, and hey, at least for my money they remain relatively consistent too.
  
  with that being said though, i definitely don't like everything here; especially roughly the middle third is quite a slog. like, c'mon now, don't commit the cardinal sin of applying heavy shallow depth of field to what's supposed to be a wide expansive city shot, unless you just want to break the immersion and underline to the audience that they're just watching some Computer Graphics. also you move your camera way too fast, but that's something that can only be learned to restrict gradually with effort.
  
  also not completely thrilled with some of the visual ideas, like especially the solemn humanoid astronaut figure surrounded by vast cosmic events, simple gazing on facing away from the camera. borderline kitsch. but hey at least even those scenes look really good, purely in visual terms (well, until you put the camera too close to the landscape and the lack of vertex count texture resolution for the detail maps rears its ugly head).
  
  kind of an "AI art" vibe here at times, although i'm of course aware that i'm kind of reversing causality here, but i think we still ought to rather move past these scifi clichés wherever possible. i mean, we do want to distinguish our craft from autogenerated schlock hallucinations, right? if we have tools that can infinitely reproduce smoothed out, ostensibly polished yet utterly dull Content™ fit for consumption for the collective common denominator, then do we need to bother with yet more Beeple copies? i'm willing to enjoy this for now for what it is, but i'm at the same time starting to turn sour…
  
  the music is good, although again the middle third drags, and what's up with those drums (both the sound and the programming)? if anything i feel this just again underlines that realistically the mileage your gonna be able to eek out of your material is heavily tied to the quality of your soundtrack, and if there's a weak part in there, then likely the rest of it is going to suffer as well. the intro and final act are fantastic though. some classic hodgepodge of acid, breaks, IDM glitch, and cinematic sound design with a vintage feel, tastefully and just slightly updated for modern times.
  
  did kb_ say it all? yeah kinda, i mean i find it difficult to disagree, but i still like this. hmmh… yeah, i like it. good mikronfest. done rambling, hopefully it came out right, don't feel like reading it all back.
• rulezadded on the 2024-07-30 16:55:36
• procedural graphics Windows Peenut
• in the executed compo. straight up "rastering it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My Peenut
• isokadded on the 2024-06-15 23:39:42
• 4k procedural graphics Linux ワイヤードの女神 by epoqe [web]
• insanely good…
• rulezadded on the 2024-06-15 23:20:35
• 40k Amiga OCS/ECS AMIGA VHS by Desire [web]
• puts many (most?) PC "VHS" effects to shame
  
  don't like the track, some Da Jormas would've done wonders here, but good enough still
• rulezadded on the 2024-05-30 14:02:15
• 256b procedural graphics MS-Dos dream pond by Brainlez Coders!
• sick™
• rulezadded on the 2024-05-20 02:36:53
• demo Windows Still Sucking Nature by Federation Against Nature [web]
• this demo is kinda bad honestly; any demo that makes you think "i'd totally wanna see a game like this is" is one of the best criterions i can think of for inspecting the quality of a demo. but nevertheless, somehow this one still sticks to landing and ends up feeling absolutely endearing.
  
  i honestly strongly disliked this years and years ago when it still felt technologically more relevant, but as it often is the case, a bit of temporal distance make you appreciate things more.
• isokadded on the 2024-05-13 00:00:46
• demo Windows Still Sucking Nature by Federation Against Nature [web]
• grandiose ray tracing fantasias
  
  *the sound of thousands of investors simultaneously reaching for their wallets*
• rulezadded on the 2024-05-12 23:56:54
• musicdisk Windows TheEnd by ErrorSoft
• pffft
• sucksadded on the 2024-05-03 16:10:35
• dentro Amiga OCS/ECS PAINT by Melon [web]
• the only demo i remember from the compo. the music is especially lovely (regardless whether it's just picked from the archives), reminds me of Gontiti
• rulezadded on the 2024-04-17 13:08:56