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THIS (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/kkrieger-chapter-1/screenshots http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/kkrieger-chapter-1/scr...) Entire game (interac
by ChrisNorstrom 15y ago
THIS (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/kkrieger-chapter-1/screenshots http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/kkrieger-chapter-1/scr...) Entire game (interactive demoscene) is only 96kb. It's all procedurally generated which is what demoscene is all about. Everything you see, sound, music, textures, models, is just code. No images or audio what-so-ever. Just algorithms that generate shapes within shapes, within shapes. Like fractals almost.
I was devastated to find the group's website is gone and the game's page no longer on the internet. For those of you who want to experience it I've got it on my server here: http://data.chrisnorstrom.com/hosting/kkrieger-beta.zip http://data.chrisnorstrom.com/hosting/kkrieger-beta.zip. They were probably the best group out there. Looks like they closed up show because their site theprodukt is closed for good.
I knew a really good Demoscene coder, and he introduced the culture to me. He worked on synthetic procedurally generated voices (which is really hard). But the problem is that the bar to entry is extremely high because it's all algorithms and the culture is all about fun, not profit. So the community stays small. Why spend months making lights and patterns react to music in a 64kb file when you can make a 200mb game or animated and sell it. The means do not justify the ends, thus most people will never know the awesomeness of demoscene.
- jimminy 15y agoA lot of the members of .theprodukkt joined Farbrausch[1]. You can still find the productions by that team, including .kkrieger on the Farbrausch site[2]. [1] http://www.farb-rausch.de/ http://www.farb-rausch.de/ [2] http://www.farb-rausch.de/prod.py?which=114 http://www.farb-rausch.de/prod.py?which=114
- Centigonal 15y agoIIRC, .theprodukkt is/was Farbrausch's commercial "arm."'
- jimminy 15y agoYou're right. I just did a quick search, and didn't double check the info.
- DanielH 15y agoFarbrausch is simply a demogroup... http://www.49games.de/ http://www.49games.de/ was the 'commercial' arm of Farbrausch (most Farbrausch members worked there) and they got bought by the german game developing company Bigpoint: http://bigpoint.net/2011/09/bigpoint-takes-over-the-entire-development-team-of-49games-gmbh/ http://bigpoint.net/2011/09/bigpoint-takes-over-the-entire-d... Here's Kebby (FR) talking a bit about the demoscene at MIT: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17875473 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17875473
- ChrisNorstrom 15y agoOh thank you. I thought their stuff was lost forever. Ever since Sonique and its hundreds of skins and visualization plugins where taken off the internet a few years back I no longer trust anyone to archive anything. I literally download my favorite YouTube videos as well, as many disappear over time.
- michelb 15y agoThis should make you happy then: https://github.com/blog/1103-ten-years-of-farbrausch-productions-on-github https://github.com/blog/1103-ten-years-of-farbrausch-product...
- z303 15y agoand the thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3843427 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3843427 also a thread on Memon releasing the sources to Demopaja http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3847017 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3847017