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THE MESSAGE by Gray Marchers [web]
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release date : august 2024
release party : Assembly 2024
compo : pc demo
ranked : 1st
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popularity : 66%
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alltime top: #1572
added on the 2024-08-04 21:40:59 by OUTRON OUTRON

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Phenomenal visuals and design, really hits the demo aesthetic perfectly, at least to my taste. Deserved 1st place, congrats!
rulez added on the 2024-08-04 22:11:04 by luutifa luutifa
Also wholeheartedly agree with the message :-)
added on the 2024-08-04 22:18:25 by luutifa luutifa
Hearing the authors, overwhelmed, making a speech at the prizegiving was an additional layer.
This demo is 0% fake.
rulez added on the 2024-08-04 22:45:31 by Trilkk Trilkk
The demo demo <3
rulez added on the 2024-08-04 22:53:27 by deepr deepr
The guitar part of this tune gives me the chills, and then there's this great demo too.
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 00:05:46 by Byproduct Byproduct
fantastic prod with some great super catchy incredibly well realised music which lifts in all the right places - bravo <3
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 00:08:54 by ne7 ne7
This demo leads by example. :)
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 00:22:19 by Mystran Mystran
Great stuff!
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 00:26:55 by gaspode gaspode
best in the compo
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 00:39:34 by MuffinHop MuffinHop
I fully approve this message.
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 01:53:23 by ham ham
Nice demo
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 02:56:07 by bitl bitl
Some extremely cool scenes and effects, especially loved the reflections on all the spinning objects like the tape, floppy and compact disk. And the demoscene lifesaver rings were a neat idea. Very fitting music, too!

The nonstop flashing in the whole first half of the demo was a bit too much for my liking, however. I feel like maybe less would've been more in this case :)
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 04:28:58 by SunSpire SunSpire
Great flow and uses relatively small amount of content very effectively. I was immersed in demo for whole duration, instead of waiting for next scene to happen, which can't be said for most demos nearing 5 minute mark.

Was also great to see "demo demo" win, instead of one of them big budget hollywood productions :D
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 07:45:29 by sauli sauli
Very good. Congratulations.
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 08:21:03 by tjahzi(aka Jimi) tjahzi(aka Jimi)
The visuals were super cool, art style executed brilliantly and I believe The Message was touching to everyone interested in the scene in one way or another. Grayte stuff!
added on the 2024-08-05 08:58:54 by rui rui
Nice message and some very pretty scenes. Got to agree with Sauli's comment. However, some of the stuff didn't work for me at all, like the Rush Hour scene and the nostalgia pandering with the disk/tape/etc objects that seemed completely out of place. Weak thumb up, I'm looking forward to see where and how you can evolve this style.
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 09:36:45 by break break
This is exactly what I want from my summer blockbuster demo. Flashy stuff, in your face attitude, tight sync and the music made me play air guitar in my home office. Fuck yes. By far the best demo in the competition and if anything ever was a breakthrough performance, it is this.

And the message was on point.
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 09:36:52 by Preacher Preacher
There is nothing wrong in having a Rush Hour scene! :D
added on the 2024-08-05 09:42:29 by sauli sauli
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There is nothing wrong in having a Rush Hour scene! :D

True, but you must go full-on cheesy with it ;)
added on the 2024-08-05 09:45:29 by break break
Great amounts of work and love in this one. Congrats!
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 10:26:32 by Soundy Soundy
This is a really good demo and I'm glad it won the compo. I was impressed by the consistent style and excellent visual design. Congratulations! I'm not sure to whom this is "nostalgic" as promised on the compo slide since this is clearly early 2010s retrowave style :)
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 10:40:31 by cce cce
Great production with polished soundtrack. A worthy winner. I suggest all of you to check the speech given at the ceremony though. Scene moment of the year.
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 10:53:21 by Mysdee Mysdee
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I'm not sure to whom this is "nostalgic" as promised on the compo slide


All us kids that went to the Alive '07 tour and saw Kavinsky open :D

Man what a lovely demo and what a great speech! <3 Exactly my thoughts, don't loose the fun!

I'm notoriously known for beating on 'nostalgia' bait, but c'mon, the man is called Outron and made an outrun demo, I'm not gonna hate on this!!
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 11:12:50 by okkie okkie
cheesy as fuck. the silver car scene was indeed very Rush Hour-silly. but it plays well on the 'most demoish demo'-vibe that was direly needed in that specific demo compo.
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 12:16:44 by post malone post malone
Hell yes!
added on the 2024-08-05 12:53:32 by mrdoob mrdoob
Fuuu
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 12:53:42 by mrdoob mrdoob
Excellent demo. Well done!
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 13:51:47 by hepphep hepphep
Rocks!!
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 14:43:19 by Anat Anat
What I saw was great. A demo demo.
It was 7/10ths of a funky FLT production, and clearly by far the best demo of the compo. Who are these guys !?
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 14:52:55 by Navis Navis
well deserved win. really nicely polished and didn't contain dull moments
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 15:00:15 by waffle waffle
Nice!
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 15:04:03 by sagacity sagacity
There's a raymarched cube. There is an envmapped car. There's a tunnel (well, two). The scene poetry has evolved into cliché slogans. And there are some objects spinning around in the center of the screen. Neither of this makes for a very interesting demo.
added on the 2024-08-05 16:22:35 by Sesse Sesse
awesome one, good music, fast pacing, coherent visuals, and perhaps the best size/content ratio in the compo (but that's the different story :)

not a fan of nostalgia pondering and overdone neon stuff tho :)
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 16:27:16 by wbcbz7 wbcbz7
perfect.
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 16:34:47 by Nuclear Nuclear
I like this so much.
The sincerely overwhelmed creators giving their speech at the awards ceremony was even better, though.
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 16:55:05 by Warma Warma
Cool flow full of energy, fitting music, pleasant colour palettes, I love it!
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 18:17:48 by magellan magellan
Best in compo for sure. Doesn't pretend to be anything else than a demo and doesn't sit on its ass for 15 minutes :)
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 18:28:09 by Marq Marq
Lovely in so many aspects; even file-size.
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 19:30:43 by hfr hfr
Very cool, smooth flow, but ofc I disagree with the message :-D
Bonus points for browser version (no exe!).
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 20:27:28 by tomkh tomkh
A stylish and polished demo in true demostyle.
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 21:24:21 by Zplex Zplex
Well deserved win :) I think the flashing should be a little more subtle, otherwise overall a very good demo
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Well deserved win :) I think the flashing should be a little more subtle, otherwise overall a very good demo


forgot to 👍 whoops
rulez added on the 2024-08-05 22:19:24 by RaccoonViolet RaccoonViolet
It's certainly a technical achievement, but I don't like the color scheme and the scene with the cars. Therefore, piggie.
added on the 2024-08-06 09:34:11 by Adok Adok
Definitely my favourite in the compo
rulez added on the 2024-08-06 09:43:51 by britelite britelite
Perfect Assembly demo! Great prod. Great production.

And great message + speech at the prize giving ceremony.
rulez added on the 2024-08-06 10:22:24 by p01 p01
Oscillates between "in your face" and "too cheesy" :).
I really liked the greetings part, with the different typos and (probably too much) flashing.
rulez added on the 2024-08-06 14:39:31 by wullon wullon
In. Your. Face. (Flash/Beats/Mirroring/Glow/Demoscene Lifebuoy).
rulez added on the 2024-08-07 00:02:30 by JAC! JAC!
meh
added on the 2024-08-07 00:55:20 by havoc havoc
Message received :)
rulez added on the 2024-08-07 07:25:12 by archy archy
Very nice!
rulez added on the 2024-08-07 08:37:32 by evil evil
Could have done with less text, otherwise I approve of the message!
rulez added on the 2024-08-07 09:11:48 by spkr spkr
awesome debut production
rulez added on the 2024-08-07 16:06:56 by iTeC iTeC
What a lovely demoshow. Love the the music, love the nostalgia pandering, love the message! Must have kicked serious ass on the bigscreen!
rulez added on the 2024-08-07 17:04:05 by tFt tFt
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Who are these guys !?


These guys were watching your seminar talk at Assembly last year about how you made The Legend of Sisyphus. It was very inspirational. I was thinking about it a lot when making this demo. That, and deepr's Just Demo It talk. It's a shame there are no videos of them for posterity.
added on the 2024-08-07 17:29:32 by OUTRON OUTRON
Super tight execution which made for a very fun and wholesome watching experience. Looking forward to see more of where that came from!
rulez added on the 2024-08-07 17:57:33 by darya darya
I approve of this message.
rulez added on the 2024-08-07 19:08:12 by zoi zoi
Quote:
Quote:
Who are these guys !?


These guys were watching your seminar talk at Assembly last year about how you made The Legend of Sisyphus. It was very inspirational. I was thinking about it a lot when making this demo. That, and deepr's Just Demo It talk. It's a shame there are no videos of them for posterity.


best response ever!!
added on the 2024-08-07 21:14:02 by skrebbel skrebbel
So good! The car scene is my favorite. Nice meeting you at the party, and hopefully, we will meet again next year!
rulez added on the 2024-08-08 13:20:56 by eerop eerop
Not a huge fan of the somewhat ”glued on” text overlays, but other than that, a very solid ”assembly demo”. Keep it up!
rulez added on the 2024-08-08 13:56:10 by uncle-x uncle-x
I think you spent a lot of time crafting really good materials. great job!
rulez added on the 2024-08-08 15:30:29 by prost prost
Great demo, but not a big fan of the font choice
How did you render the car scene? The car looks polygonal, but the surroundings look raymarched. Do you ray march the reflections based on the triangle normals / position or something like that?
rulez added on the 2024-08-09 00:46:00 by xernobyl xernobyl
Happy to see this one won, I approved of the message and the speech at the price giving was fun!
It's one of the few times a PC demo gives me the good vibes, especially the music.
But everything is nice, clean, energetic, reminds me of older demos, like last time I really liked a solid PC demo with similar vibes in presentation/music is far enough.
rulez added on the 2024-08-09 10:14:06 by Optimus Optimus
Liked it very much!
rulez added on the 2024-08-09 11:48:14 by tonic tonic
I liked it. As the meme says : "Nice. Nice... Not thrilling ! But nice !" :)
rulez added on the 2024-08-09 12:16:07 by TomS4wy3R TomS4wy3R
Cool! Looks gorgeous all the way :)
rulez added on the 2024-08-09 13:00:45 by rloaderro rloaderro
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Do you ray march the reflections based on the triangle normals / position or something like that?


You guessed it right! The tunnel and the car are indeed renderer as two separate passes and then merged. Some of the car's shaders include a simplified version of the same ray marching routine that is used to render the tunnel.

The depth info from the car rendering pass is also used to prevent the tunnel rendering pass from drawing occluded rays behind the car. We have this dogma, that the demo has to run smoothly on my mac laptop. I know this prevents us from doing really complex scenes, but the goal is that you don't need a super expensive graphics card to run the demo.
added on the 2024-08-09 17:43:40 by OUTRON OUTRON
Outron/7 HUGE fan (huge indeed), excellent work, 2nd place doesn't actually "vituta", where I can contact u guys just for good times chat? Send me pm via IRC /mikron or telegram @mikronBee and let's talk about demos (and later via discord, that's the common language) NICE WORK!
rulez added on the 2024-08-10 01:33:25 by mikron mikron
OFC after being first full finnish group ever to win Revision we were gunning for for the double win as 1st group ever, but well u're standing our way. Ohwell this puts more pressure for us to take Revision trophy again and try double again next year : ) or lose the game at Revision already, against you guys hopefully ; ) Love your style and spirit! < 3
added on the 2024-08-10 01:36:20 by mikron mikron
very nice demo with an excellent soundtrack!
rulez added on the 2024-08-10 10:08:30 by mop2 mop2
Good vibes for sure
rulez added on the 2024-08-10 11:40:33 by Daddy Freddy Daddy Freddy
PURE FUN <3
rulez added on the 2024-08-10 11:54:58 by SiR SiR
Pretty and cool tune!
added on the 2024-08-11 06:55:05 by AntDude AntDude
100% self coded bugs :)
rulez added on the 2024-08-11 09:26:34 by Olympian Olympian
great demo and incredible that it's your first release! I dig the flow, music, aesthetics and the message!
rulez added on the 2024-08-11 15:46:41 by v3nom v3nom
oh and the web version runs great on my pixel smartphone (it just doesn't go fullscreen)
added on the 2024-08-11 15:49:43 by v3nom v3nom
So very good, in every aspect. 10 out of 10. 11 out of 10, if the prize acceptance speech is included.
rulez added on the 2024-08-11 20:54:24 by rawArgon rawArgon
No idea what the prize acceptance speech was so I'm forced to judge it on the demo merits - there's a lot to like here, what's there is well done, and I really can't knock the enthusiasm there, but it's also as safe as you can humanly get with the bisexual lighting and synthwave, and I could've done without the kumba-ya populism, earnest as it may be. Still, on principle it's at least doing what a demo is supposed to, and that ground is getting thinner by the day, so the win is deserved.
rulez added on the 2024-08-11 23:43:14 by Gargaj Gargaj
Well done!
rulez added on the 2024-08-12 14:31:20 by toms toms
After a couple of minutes I wanted to get sarcastic about this. But then it turned out that this is actually quite powerful as a demo, so I guess I'm convinced.
rulez added on the 2024-08-12 14:51:57 by cp_ cp_
👏👏👏
rulez added on the 2024-08-12 14:55:07 by thunder_burn thunder_burn
A joy to watch!
rulez added on the 2024-08-13 00:14:39 by exocet exocet
Incredible!
rulez added on the 2024-08-16 21:39:18 by tom526 tom526
It certainly follows the formula, but it does so, almost flawlessly. Very enjoyable, well done!
rulez added on the 2024-08-17 23:48:09 by velo velo
Pretty and I like its soundtracks.
added on the 2024-08-19 07:52:29 by AntDude AntDude
ok
added on the 2024-08-23 12:26:35 by Frequent Frequent
The technical part is good but the artistry is hit and miss. The segment with the car is especially underwhelming because it moves like a snail in a scene that should give the sense of speed. Also I'm freaking tired of fractals. People, let them go already, they bring nothing but deadly boredom.
added on the 2024-08-24 02:05:00 by dex46... dex46...
22 Mb total, 11 Mb MP3 music.
Great quality/size ratio!
That's what I call the demo.
rulezcdc added on the 2024-08-27 14:14:17 by Manwe Manwe
OK, this is excellent. And runs smooth on my M2 MacBook.
rulez added on the 2024-08-31 21:32:09 by Charlie Charlie
nice one, enjoyed every second of it.
rulez added on the 2024-09-03 18:09:19 by comankh comankh
Awesome!
rulez added on the 2024-09-03 23:03:46 by NinjaKoala NinjaKoala
Quite enjoyable demo and runs pretty smooth on an M1.
rulez added on the 2024-09-13 15:31:59 by Rob Rob
Holy shit! An outstanding demo that works on a wide range of platforms. The music is stunning, really empowering. Thanks for providing us this kind of demo entertainment.
rulez added on the 2024-09-14 13:53:56 by lancel lancel
You are my new favorite group. The previous one was Outron & Seven_dc
rulez added on the 2024-10-14 11:43:20 by mstuomel mstuomel
Nope.
sucks added on the 2024-10-20 02:54:11 by AzzaroMWI AzzaroMWI

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