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Brainworm by Polarity
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screenshot added by 100bit on 2019-04-21 13:20:47
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release date : april 2019
release party : Revision 2019
compo : pc 64k
ranked : 4th
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popularity : 63%
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added on the 2019-04-21 12:48:28 by yx yx

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Way to step it up! Very good prod with great sync and ideas.
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 13:00:24 by ferris ferris
So fresh and tight. Best in compo for me. <3
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 13:01:03 by cpdt cpdt
Not the best of compo, but great as firetruck.
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 13:01:52 by 100bit 100bit
Wow. Tech is quite impressive, specially those reflections were lovely to watch. The sphere-of-spheres scene illumination blew my mind not only because the tech but because of the elegance and good taste shown directing the scene. On the other side, at some point it felt a little bit long to me (the pattern-on-a-plane scene lasted too long IMHO). But it's a minor on top of a top notch entry.
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 13:07:33 by merry merry
The most uplifting and inspiring entry in the compo, but also carries that authoritative "you'll sit down and watch me" aura. Extremely well designed and put together <3
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 13:08:16 by noby noby
yes please
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 13:18:11 by pandur pandur
sweet, enjoyed it a lot on the bigscreen
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 13:27:39 by v3nom v3nom
Amazing.. simply amazing :)
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 13:32:47 by Sapphire Sapphire
Somehow manages to be oldskool and newskool at the same time.
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 14:40:18 by Gargaj Gargaj
Oh yes gimme me that shiny black goo...
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 14:44:07 by cce cce
It looks and sounds great, but needs to dial way back on the "inspired by Logicoma" feel imo. Especially on the tunnel scenes. I'd like to enjoy your own voice, but it's hard to do that when the content is so obviously similar.
added on the 2019-04-21 15:00:59 by moozooh moozooh
Like the music and direction. Well executed technically!
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 16:42:06 by klos klos
Fresh and not 100% raymarching.
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 16:45:59 by provod provod
The sync left me speechless!
cdc added on the 2019-04-21 18:38:16 by slerpy slerpy
(I forgot to actually tick the box the first time)
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 18:39:36 by slerpy slerpy
I think this demo got a good reaction, and also a good diffusion.
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 18:49:13 by fizzer fizzer
stunning use of cellular automata. really really interesting to see organic shapes evolve like that in a demo
rulez added on the 2019-04-21 20:12:55 by blackle blackle
added on the 2019-04-21 21:04:38 by Subi Subi
chill tune
rulez added on the 2019-04-22 10:11:01 by nagz nagz
Love it. Great visuals, awesome sync work and probably one of the best tunes we've ever had from subi. Rewatching intensifies.
rulez added on the 2019-04-22 13:08:50 by djh0ffman djh0ffman
lovely, great show! thx.
rulez added on the 2019-04-22 22:51:22 by Ramon B5 Ramon B5
really sweet effects, especially the sync on the cellular automata
rulez added on the 2019-04-23 00:12:41 by Rastertail Rastertail
I'll have a clean capture up in a couple of days, but for now here's the live version: https://youtu.be/FYyL_mEQWOM?t=1516
added on the 2019-04-23 03:41:31 by yx yx
dope stuff, loved the syncs
rulez added on the 2019-04-23 04:12:30 by psenough psenough
Damn good prod!
rulez added on the 2019-04-23 09:39:10 by velo velo
I remember i liked this in the compo! Nice syncs. Music feels very inspired by 'The Gitch Mob'
rulez added on the 2019-04-23 13:08:09 by prost prost
[quote=pro]Music feels very inspired by 'The Gitch Mob'[/quote]
Yup, it is indeed, their style inspired quite a lot of the intro. :)
added on the 2019-04-23 13:23:08 by Subi Subi
A few notes:

- Not just the music, the visuals were influenced by The Glitch Mob too - in particular the screen mirroring effects and that black/white/gold color scheme were inspired by the music videos from the Love Death Immortality album.

- The organic effects (both 2D and 3D) are using Gray Scott Reaction-Diffusion (which I guess is arguably a less-discrete form of cellular automata).

- To settle some arguments, the 3D 'brain' is raymarched. No polygonization going on there. Who needs vertex buffers anyway?

- I forgot to put it in the infotxt, but huge thanks are owed to Ferris for fixing how WaveSabre reports the current playback time just hours before the deadline, when I realised the release build was desyncing horribly on my laptop. I think the intro's reliance on sync shows just how important that fix was for me.

- Apparently the party version of the exe doesn't terminate the process properly, I guess I messed that up when we were hacking the DLL stuff at the last minute. If you've run it locally, maybe check your task manager ;) I'll fix it in the final version.
added on the 2019-04-23 17:31:47 by yx yx
What Fizzer said :D
rulez added on the 2019-04-23 19:21:10 by Anat Anat
Cool idea. Nicely executed. What else to ask from an intro?

As for 3d 'brain' effect - I would have guessed it is ray-marched from volumetric texture (which anyway has to be evaluated for reaction-diffusion effect).
rulez added on the 2019-04-23 20:41:52 by tomkh tomkh
innovative use of reaction diffusion. Soundtrack is kinda meh tho
rulez added on the 2019-04-23 20:52:12 by FMS_Cat FMS_Cat
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Loe4LGD4A&feature=youtu.be
rulez added on the 2019-04-24 00:03:11 by Green Green
Great work you two, sound sync and shaders all on point and you finally came up with a group name too :)
rulez added on the 2019-04-24 09:22:55 by mantratronic mantratronic
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I think the intro's reliance on sync shows just how important that fix was for me.
No worries! It was an obvious "must have" for our intro as well. This was a known issue, but it took someone hitting it _consistently_ to actually do something about it. Unfortunately that had to be you and I apologize for the timing (pun intended), but I'm happy to have been able to fix it in time and the sync in this intro is massive! :)

Also to address the "similar to logicoma" comments, I'd like to point out that I was actually surprised when someone pointed that out to me at the party. To me this feels quite distinct, especially with the faster-paced cameras and stuff (which I'm generally afraid to do tbh, so hats off for that). And I suppose that will only improve with further intros, which I assume are certainly coming!
added on the 2019-04-24 13:29:17 by ferris ferris
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And I suppose that will only improve with further intros, which I assume are certainly coming!

You betcha!
added on the 2019-04-25 18:02:09 by yx yx
very cool!! nice work yx!
added on the 2019-04-25 18:49:09 by blackpawn blackpawn
Very nice!!
rulez added on the 2019-04-25 21:53:32 by Mystra Mystra
A true sync festival which is highly entertaining!
rulez added on the 2019-04-25 22:29:25 by Bobic Bobic
very enjoyable!
rulez added on the 2019-04-26 16:54:42 by sensenstahl sensenstahl
Yes!
rulez added on the 2019-04-27 19:45:03 by Frequent Frequent
Good
rulez added on the 2019-04-28 14:42:23 by peturba peturba
I like how this feels very demoscenish and at the same time modern and fresh. Oh and sync rocks! Great prod.
rulez added on the 2019-05-02 09:36:25 by ratz ratz
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- Apparently the party version of the exe doesn't terminate the process properly, I guess I messed that up when we were hacking the DLL stuff at the last minute. If you've run it locally, maybe check your task manager ;) I'll fix it in the final version.

Imagine my surprise 3 days after watching the intro on my work PC :)
added on the 2019-05-02 09:41:33 by Gargaj Gargaj
sync on point. love it!
rulez added on the 2019-05-03 12:55:10 by a-move a-move
Amazing job ! I am not a huge fan of the almost b/w style (moar saturation ! moar contrast ! moar color !!), some scene lack a little bit of life :p . But the demo was really well put together and the cellular effect is really, really well done. Excited to see what you will do next !
rulez added on the 2019-05-03 14:26:44 by maeln maeln
wooah, that sync! sexy demo =) and, stamping logical shapes into a turing pattern? i might steal this idea for a tiny intro ;)
rulez added on the 2019-05-03 19:11:05 by HellMood HellMood
wow.
rulez added on the 2019-05-12 15:51:36 by Molive Molive
COOL!
rulez added on the 2019-05-30 13:03:28 by tifeco tifeco
Nice really like the tunnels and the music
rulez added on the 2019-06-21 15:42:29 by Queen_Luna Queen_Luna
Good enough !
rulez added on the 2019-11-10 12:41:01 by Black Dragon Black Dragon
Never boring and visually pleasing.
rulez added on the 2020-05-12 21:43:21 by friol friol
great 'traditional' intro with some very pleasing effects
rulez added on the 2021-04-10 23:39:34 by stijn stijn

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