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Trauma - Light ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ [ .oo.] 80.83
GP+TRSI - TMDC20 Compothriller ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ [ . oO ] 78.50
musk - Here We Are ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ [ .Oo ] 78.33
BITS - BITS5039∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ [.. o .. ] 45.55
CHAOS - Plasma ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ [O . ] 16.25 DQ
PoroCYon - tmdc20 boycott∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ [. ] 00.00 DQ
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/_____/ BITS - BITS5039 /___________________________________________________/
∙ Nice randomizing effects, especially the snow with self drawing title screen.
However, only the shifted keys are recognized, otherwise it ends the demo,
which can be irritating.
∙ Thanks for taking part!
∙ Colourful, many classic effects and several scenes. The christmas theme was
fun, but the music lacking. With stronger music this would have been a much
stronger prod. Sorry to hear your PC died!
∙ Its this jolly time of the year, where another bits prod lands in TMDC.
Happy Christmas too! +20 for the consistent yearly contribution.
∙ Random data send to adlib is not music. Blinking characters in snow screen
felt like someone forgot to turn off blink via the display controller. The
plasma was very nice, as was the TMDC20 sine motion; same goes for the BITS
section. End scroller is actually very good, probably best seen in a BITS
demo. You know, with actual music, this could have been a really cute, sweet
little demo.
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/_____/ GP+TRSI - TMDC20 Compothriller /____________________________________/
∙ Good flow, nice effects, nice music. I especially like the background with
the palette of square characters. It could have been improved with some kind
of theme or something, to glue it all together.
∙ Oh yeah, a compofi...thriller! Nice collection of FX.
∙ Strong tune! Some really great effects, but the color scheme could use some
tweaking....
∙ Pretty good for a quick compofiller, trippy colors with good contrast helping
to see the raytraced effects pretty well.
∙ Raymarching and distance fields FTW! Bonus points for using a tracked music
format ;-) Bonus points for attempting custom text effects. Nice take on
traditional tunnels.
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/_____/ musk - Here We Are /________________________________________________/
∙ Very high polish, very nice graphics and music. But it ends when I thought it
was actually starting!
∙ Nice lighting & palettes, very smooth. Music doesn't seem to fit.
∙ Short and sweet... very strong synch. OpenGL was a sweet touch. I wish it had
been longer.
∙ Nice transition from an initial B&W expectation, to color. Suitable music.
Abstract.
∙ Very nice custom text rendering. Irrational CPU use -- uses 100% of all 12
cores on my system?! Wish it were longer. OpenGL version nice touch and was
great to run a second time for verification!
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/_____/ Trauma - Light /____________________________________________________/
∙ Very good use of the theme. Very cohesive. Sadly, the converter seems to have
some glitches here and there. But it really shows towards the end when all
the convertion modes are shown successively. Maybe this could have been used
pushed further.
∙ Solid demo overall. Colors looked rather bland and dirty, but nice words
about them.
∙ Listen to me carfully... this ia an good prod. Mad props for a loader bar!!!
Great sequencing, great effects, great synch! Especially at the end.
∙ The narration is adding more flesh to sometimes abstract visuals of textmode
compos. I like.
∙ High marks for design and concept. Lower marks for disappointing text
rendering until the very end.
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/_____/ CHAOS - Plasma /____________________________________________________/
∙ Pretty nonstandard to have a demo mainly constituted of a .BAT. Kudos for
creativity here. However editing the palette isn't allowed, and the file had
to be edited with cmdmp3win being called with "start". Also, the music has to
be killed be manually killed when exiting.
∙ One of the parts was "illegal function call" error. Thanks for taking part!
∙ Quickbasic 4.5 is so much fun! It was really sweet to see this prod, and I
hope they come back for future compos with more!
∙ No XP/Vista machine to try it out. Slow & silent in DosBox.
∙ Should probably be disqualified as music was not original (appears to be a
Pokemon cover?). Could not run on Windows XP, got message "upal.exe cannot
start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows". Ran in
DOSBox after modifying batch file to not start music. One effect, plasma, was
excrutiagingly slow and unoptimized.
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/_____/ PoroCYon - tmdc20 boycott /_________________________________________/
∙ I suppose the joke is fun but sadly, I spent way too much time trying to make
it work, and I'm still missing packages. Linux hell! :)
∙ Linux, download from the web. But well yeah, got the message, you dont like
proprietary platforms. Cheers :)
∙ Cute joke prod, but disqualified, as it requires an operating system not
allowed by the competition, and also accesses the internet.
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