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Shadow
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 355 |
Current trends in C64 demos
I find it interesting to see how trends (both when it comes to design and effects) develop on different platforms.
Of course there are plenty of people breaking the mainstream all the time, but still I find that there are elements that change in popularity over time.
For example, we had the logo+scroller+effect style of the "oldschool" era, the PC-style bigpixel effects of the mid/late 90ies etc. etc.
The last few years the attribute-moving effects have been coming out in force, but now after watching all the great demos from C64, it seems like a couple of new things are trending:
- Layered effects
- Moving "bobs" in amounts that frankly astounds me (no, not talking about the good old unlimited bobs technique). Both the Censor demo and the Arsenic demo had some cool stuff going in this department. |
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lft
Registered: Jul 2007
Posts: 369 |
Diagonal stuff. |
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Shadow
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 355 |
Can't edit messages but the sentence "...watching all the great demos from C64" should of course be "...watching all the great demos from X16" :) |
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Cruzer
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048 |
Colorcycling is the new 4x4. I.e. an overused technique like the 4x4 mode was in the late 90's. Of cuz it's cool when people come up with new colorcycle (aka definer) effects, but otherwise it gets boring. And nice to see that the trend seems to be on a decline. :) |
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hedning
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4723 |
Even if Hack'n Trade has been doing pure great PETSCII stuff for ages, I think it's safe to say that PETSCII demos have spread a bit lately, and is trending since ... X2014? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360 |
Quote:Colorcycling is the new 4x4
sad but true |
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enthusi
Registered: May 2004
Posts: 677 |
open (side)borders for gfx/games/fx also seems to become a trend :) |
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Radiant
Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 639 |
Small boats floating on waves has been a trend since Coma Light 13. |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1647 |
Even though stuff like digis and nice sound in general has always been a part of what a demo is, I think it is safe to say that there has been an upsurge in interest in doing more complex/technical things with the SID during the last few years. |
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Bob
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 71 |
And Samples ;) |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
the self imposed trend of 50fps and highres effects are leading to boredom these days. color cyclers and twisters, and twisters and color cyclers and parallax scrollers, then some more color cycling, then a scrolling picture.
that bob routine is the best innovation since years, hats down to cruzer tho.
I wish 4x4 was back, frankly it has a lot more unused potential than twisters and color cycling and the sixt gazillionth type of scroller. |
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