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Posted By

Luca
on 2012-10-27
22:31:55
 X'2012

If you've felt like discouraged once you've watched some recent incredible trackmos, a bare glance to the democompo of X'2012 party (see on the usual places) will destroy your desire in coding even a single 1x1 DYCP!
It's very late now, and the party audience is now voting. But right now, I can say that Oxyron has just raised the bar in all the retro demoscene, with Coma Light 13! Oh, and several other participants would have easily beat any previous compo!

Posted By

Luca
on 2012-10-28
10:48:00
 Re: X'2012

2nd place: "Artphosys" by Hitmen, the power of borderless parallax turndisk parts.



Posted By

Luca
on 2012-10-28
11:01:07
 Re: X'2012

16th place: "Retroholika" by Genesis*Project, oldschool comeback.



Posted By

Chronos
on 2012-10-28
11:19:34
 Re: X'2012

I'dont shit into my pants from the Hitmen demo, there is a lot of good effects but there is cheesy one too, and sometimes the effect transitions have bugs.. its nice, but rather average..

We can talk about the Genesis Project's one too, its about the name, some retro effects, tons of scrolltexts and thats all..


Posted By

Luca
on 2012-10-28
12:11:17
 Re: X'2012

6th place: "Protogeo 80%" by Glance, greet us while dancing.




11th place: "Molotov" by Digital, Sounds System, art is revolution.




18th place: "Metarave" by Digital Sounds System, metaballs in 4k.




8th place: "Biba 3" by Arise, fullscreen interferences like raining.




14th place: "Det var bättre förr!" by Software Of Sweden, press space to a creepy night.




10th place: "Beertime 5" by Dekadence, chessboards look softy when you're drunk.



Posted By

Luca
on 2012-10-29
03:42:21
 Re: X'2012

1st place: "Coma Light 13" by Oxyron, ladies'n'gentlemen the winner, ever, live.




13th place: "Small Air" by Panda Design, living at the sideborders.




12th place: "Strange Day" by HCL, autumn is coming.



Posted By

Ati
on 2012-10-29
11:43:38
 Re: X'2012

Lol. I think, Coma light title was winner after 18 years. Fantastic demo.

Posted By

Luca
on 2012-10-29
11:58:02
 Re: X'2012

Yeah Ati, Oxyron really raised the bar! Once again!

19th place: "Bornscroller" by The Solaris Agency, fade you like a star.




16th place: "X2012" by Abnormal, scrolling back in time




21st place: "Conclusion" by Emulamer, wrong season Santa Atari!




4th place: "Cause Of Death" by Arsenic, dimensions count.



Posted By

Ati
on 2012-10-29
16:13:39
 Re: X'2012

Yeah Luca! Coma light 13 is the best demo on csdb with 9.8 points.

Hey plus4 guys, see it and get inspiration!

Posted By

Chronos
on 2012-10-29
17:29:47
 Re: X'2012

hey hey! where is:
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=112423

oxy hits again!

Posted By

Degauss
on 2012-10-29
17:52:14
 Re: X'2012

Oxyron, Hitmen and Arise entries are my favorite. Dekadence was nice aswell. Browsing the x-party-releases is really a highlight at the end of the year happy

And: Yeah, coma light is discouraging. Axis is some beast, really.

Posted By

MMS
on 2012-10-29
19:22:17
 Re: X'2012

Dear Luca,
Thank you for the viewable media links, I have no working C64 emulator on my PC happy

Some really nice demos, Oxy especially good in transitions...
About the parallax scrolling: it is just great. But if I remember well, a very similar one was there on the 8 shades of Grey collection (in fact I was really surprised, why it never transformed into a real arcade game... would look just perfect). I am not an expert, but except some overlap effects (can be done well only with sprites) our version was up to this standard.

Anyhow, it was really great to watch and listen. Thanx! grin

Posted By

bubis
on 2012-10-30
09:53:13
 Re: X'2012

I am not discouraged, especially not because of Coma Light. I don't see anything revolutionary in that prod technically. (I am a coder, sorry.) What is exceptional in that and other c64 prods is art work and music in my opinion.

Posted By

Luca
on 2012-11-02
10:36:07
 Re: X'2012

17th place: "C64faal" by DeFEEST, the happy side of democoding.




3rd place: "Trick And Treat" by Offence/Fairlight/Prosonic, shake your multicolor bonbon.




7th place: "Vicious SID 2" by The Noisy Bunch, power to the music first.




20th place: "32 Bytes Fuzzy Logic", challenge of the bytes.




5th place: "Wonderland XI", not over yet.



Posted By

Luca
on 2012-11-06
21:19:28
 Re: X'2012

9th place: "Ninfa" by Level64, follow my reflection on the water.



Posted By

bubis
on 2012-11-13
06:53:40
 Re: X'2012

There were a bunch of pretty nice hires pics as well on X. Any volunteers to convert them to Plus/4?

Posted By

Luca
on 2012-11-13
09:30:23
 Re: X'2012

And if I convert the pictures, who would code a decent release for a picture gallery which contains all of them? wink
Apropos, the wonderful piece of graphics drawn by Duce "The Origin Of Pixels" is hires but it's high the whole screen including borders (sprites?). And "Castle In The Sky" by Louie64 has little sprites in the centre of the image.

Posted By

bubis
on 2012-11-13
09:58:47
 Re: X'2012

Must be sprites, it's 26 rows at most what can be done on C64. Plus/4 is different, as you know... wink

Posted By

Luca
on 2012-11-13
10:22:49
 Re: X'2012

Anyway, click HERE to download (tmp!) the converted hires competitors at X2012, packed in order to view them quick but of course easily to re-save and re-use. In my opinion the Redcrab's gfx would place higher than his 11th rank.

Posted By

bubis
on 2012-11-13
12:05:08
 Re: X'2012

Thanks Luca, great!

BTW, just noticed that the Coma Light 13 turn disk image is actually in mc char mode!

http://artcity.bitfellas.org/index.php?a=show&id=31338

Jaw–dropping! No extra sprite layers, no FLI, nothing c64-ish. That pic is possible on Plus/4 too! (The moving frames in the demo are sprites of course.)



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