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Very polished and I love the fisheye end scene

Way too much flyby, ASD and funny vocals for my taste. But I did enjoy the time-reversing syncs and the final Lifeforce / Media Error -scene :)

Pleasant, and "fancy" music :).

Fully deserves a thumb up.
Just some notes: Some objects are really nice (at the beginning) while others seem a little strange/random and also move in peculiar ways (e.g. the bat-like objects at the end). I really like the soundtrack, too, thogh the guitar-solo and the orchestral-part sound a bit synthetic. Anyway, nice melody and viariation!

For me it looked like a mess and not polished at all. The last scene was interesting, the rest not. A piggie.

pretty cheesy (especially the music) but some nice visuals.

Not for me. Okayish I guess, music is ok.

Nice one, enjoyed the distorted last scene!

Wow, great one.

ASD-ish in a bad way, low-poly, not original at all and, my god, the singer...

yeah my ears :/

Nice one!

I liked this prod. Very much. Norway has some great active demo groups today. Portal Proces, Andromeda, Outtracks and now PlayPsyCo.

The red heart almost at the end is to much borrowed from LifeForce perhaps..
I liked the scee with the train and chopper at the end very much..

I wonder if PlayPsyCo make there next demo even better and advanced than this one..

Thumb!

Good production! But needs a bit more polishing..

it's quite nice

nice prod indeed : cool 3d ( specular maps would truly improve the final result ) but i really wonder how the hell one can come up with such ideas without being on drugs .

clear winner! :) pretty massive effort, and the music was really good (mad props to kaktusen :) one thing i don't like is seeing polys, so that could have been touched up a bit, and also the content was a bit too (play)psychodelic for my usual taste, but still; GREAT STUFF!

the music is ace. too bad someone decided to add some singing to it (despite the good voice it kind of ruins it). the code and visuals goes up and down - some parts are wonderful and some butt ugly. i really liked the boxes, the greetings and the b/w effect.

Good stuff!

I agree with Gloom about the singing tho.

great soundtrack!

Very nice. The end and opening scenes really got my vote. I love the detail on surfaces and lighting.

Nice. A bit rough at some points but a solid production overall.

The music would have been better without voice.

Good opening scene, and some nice things throughout. Decent effort is evident, even if it doesn't really hit home all the time. The music is also well made, except for when the vocals come in. Then I just want the guy to swallow his tongue.

An attempt to catch the style of ASD, but it fails. The constant flow is missing, the music did absolutely nothing for me. What really made it is the last scene with the fisheye view. Overall it's technically and optically impressive and you have my full respect for the workload you put into, but it fails in telling the epic story it wants to tell.

crash at around 30% of the loading bar :(
(asus a6j: x1600 mobility, core2duo, xp)

very nice! asd-ish indeed, at least the credits part :)

this demo could've been so nice if you just had put a little more time and effort into it.. now it feels inconsistent and rushed so it only gets a piggy from me.

great work .. except that bitcrushed shader somewere in the middle .. ugly

WOOOOOW.... graphics, style, music. just brilliant, respect.

obviously alot of effort here, but nothing really grabbed me except for the fish-eye scene. but life's to short for piggies, so here's your thumb :)

Everything in this demo teleported me back to the late 90s... if it wasn't for the tech effort, it would be a thumb down from my side.

actually, it had some moments...

wooow - that's an absolute uber-production ...
an awesome masterpiece of soundtrack and a very cool atmosphere! As well as a good 3d engine with really nice scenes and shader fx ... !

Top!

I think it was great.

The vocals and the bad fisheye killl the demo.

thoutube video

I would really like to see what it looks like with shadows ( I have an 9600 XT )

decent modelling and well produced soundtrack.
horrible second scene (ugly 2d tails, clipping issues, wrong pace, too tight space, bad camera direction)
completly uninspired rest of demo despite a couple of good scenes.
dont copy effects / scenes or styles unless you do them better, its a basic ground rule..

i like it :)

Quite nice show.

i like the fishies! the music is absolutely atrocious though

good demo but music was "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" ... get proper sing god damn it.

proper singer .. yea. but cool anyway. keep up

Damn, there's a great overall feeling in this prod... Keep it up, guys ! You rock !

some nice gfx and effects, and soundtrack is good. However, things obviously doesn't fit together. At times, things look very messy and inconsistent, and when the soundtrack tries to create some space and awe, the visuals simply aren't coping. However, nice to see new high-end demos in the off-season. And thumb up for being Norwegian :)

What the hell ... this wasn't the best demo at Kindergarden

A weak thumb up. Music was ok, luckily there wasn't too much singing so it didn't manage to ruin the tune. Some nice scenes, some not so nice. Didn't impress me too much but was ok to watch anyway.

Take a D-breast..ahaaaaahh..So beautiful..yeaaaah ;)
Nice sync and creatures. The fish-eye city was prettiful. The heart could have been textured better.

Totally nice atmosphere!

*yawn*

And fire the singer.

Oh...and try other basslines with your 303-ish thingy.

I'm going to need an ear-transplant very soon.. Apart from the "breast" pronounciation I really liked the singer.

chromag: demosceners can't stand people singing regardless of quality, that's a sad but at least somewhat interesting fact of life. Must be some child trauma or something, or perhaps it has to do with this.

As for the demo it's a pigface. Nice effort, but too disjointed, too wannabe-ASD and the soundtrack seriously lacked any coherence (that's probably why the singing fells so out of place. A few dB less wouldn't have hurt either.)

absolute love

Nice

the first asd clone. liked some of the scenes.. the singing was "different". not bad, but just out-of-place as kb said. overall, i'd like to thumb this up but i just don't like the style.

Strong!
And the size is much smaller then 64 Mb :)

Awesome.

techwise pretty good, but still manages to suck. Cameras are bad, music is lame, "horror theme" (eyballs, bats, heart etc) is so lame it's almost funny. A little post-processing wouldn't hurt either, rendering is way too clean.

Great one with interesting soundtrack :)

Nice atmosphere :)

Cool

great ASDish journey!

I did watch the vidcap version. I agree a little with sauli about the theme thingie. Anyhow there's something there thats unique compared to other demos out there. Hope you can improve that in your future productions.

A bit messy and I won't say anything about the singer ;) Deserves a thumb up anyway.

Dense.

d--O_O--b

This is.. strange. On the other hand it's kind of like ASD without the sophistication and the magic, but on the other hand it's, despite some rough edges, quite an accomplished show in itself.

I kind of agree with sauli about the rendering thing.. it should be a bit rougher (add some noise or something), and the music should decide whether it's ambient vocal rock (which would've been cool) or then this electronic beat thing.

In the end, I really like the "weirdness", the strange perspective projection thing in the end, and the fact that it made me say "wtf". So thumbs up.

The things that ticked me off in this demo are obviously the singing. Don't get me wrong, the guy has a very cool voice but I think his voice is out of context with the soundtrack.. which by the way I really like. The lyrics also look like they were thrown together in the last minute..

Then.. the bats at the end remind me of Cylon raiders =)

Other than that, I really enjoyed the demo and the atmosphere it created. I did indeed smile at various elements and ideas that we've used on our demos, some of which were done better in this (like the tube lights).

I'll definately keep this in my list of "demos I wanna watch when I sit back and relax".

any chance to get a high quality video ?

A solid demo, compared to the average level of demos being released these days.

Comparing all demos to ASD demos would generally result in a lot of thumbs down on pouet. Things can still be good even if they aren't the best demos ever released :)

Great music (even though the singing was annoying) and visuals (even though too much flybye).

Nice one. Abit too chillout maybe seeing I passed out during it was on the big screen ;)
Nice to see it again in today in a more sober state :) Music not my cup of tea, but nicely done.

Feels like asd, but without the big theme linking it all together so it ends up a bit random. The style is not my cup of tea, but the quality was pretty good. And the singing was fine to me, apart from the "take a deep breast" lyric :)

A M A Z I N G =)

like someone as said, really asd like (slow motion,music, filters,...)
overall its a nice demo but there is nothing special

The only part that really rocks is the last one with train + special fish eye effect

Niiiiice!

Well YEAH! Really liked the movement of the living creatures, good shadows, good flow (be it ASD like, it is good anyway), good composition of things. The 2-color shader in the middle is magnificent and fits perfectly there. And the music was very refreshing and fits well to the graphics.

Can we have a download link for the soundtrack please ? (I really like it, including vocals ;p)

neat. this was really fresh!

looks ambitious, but either get better at what you are trying to do or find a style of your own

slow motion?? music??? filters???? wtf. i don't find anything common with asd in this prod.
and i don't think that navis was the first person on the demoscene who did that kind of things either.

about the prod - there's a lot of work behind the messy results.
i really doesn't get it - how one could spend a lot of time drawing textures and tweaking fx and didn't pay a little attention to camera and unwanted colors. a couple of hours working on that, and the demo would be 5 times bettes... final version, may be?

thumb for the work anyway.

thanks a lot for making my day at the party place :)

even though i normally don't like this style, seeing this in a compo at a party i organized was just brilliant!

really good for being norwegian

No point in being Noways hardest working team unless you get results. :)

The effort is there, but the result is somewhat unpolished and messy. Parts of the artwork are really great (ornament textures, fishy animations), others seem like last decade or out of place (those yellow light cones, the "rainbow-weeds", polycount...)
Nice for a first watch, but not enough for a keeper I think.

Btw. the music has some notable influences from BT's "The Anhtkythera Mechanism" :)

ace!

hmm...this is inventive and repulsive at the same time. great scenes alternate with rather static and unfinished ones. the music seems to demonstrate everything: fine electronic/glitch elements meet awful metal, orchstral and vocal parts combined with cheap lyrics. "sooooohoooo beautiful" - c'mon guys :-(.
all in all: thumb up for the weirdness.

thumb up for the style, thumb up for the music!! thumb up ftw!! :D

it still crashes on my machine >_<

does not run on windows vista

Bit dodgy in places but will definitely watch again!

looks a bit rough but overall nice.

tmb: ran on my vista tough.

Ok it's not perfect, but I like the flow, the global presentation, the mantas, even the singing :)
Keep up the good work :)

Really good work.

nice animations, textures and models in some parts. music is good.

quite an effort but...
in the end it looks ugly. colors, textures, shapes - it all fails to be pretty
sorry

roxx!!

im not quite sure what to say, i gave some feedback at the party, but the only scenes i really like is the "different aquariums-part" and the last scene. The rest is somewhat on a line between tacky and atmosphere. Not sure whether to give it a thumb up or a pig. maybe a pig at a random rewatch.

OINK

somewhat lacking in the texturing department, BUT...

Great prod all round! Love the music, and despite what some comments say, I think the vocals work quite well.

Nice work but not convinced by the flow. Also, the music has a good start and mix but it sounds like a good starting idea with no more inspiration after one minute. My opinion. Also, the voice is really disturbing and unlike many SCENERS, I usually like songs and voices in them :)

Masterpiece

the vocals and teh music fits perfectly the spirit of this beauty
first scene was too darky

It seems that i like this one a lot :)

some great parts, but also some ugly parts - i like the music, but not the voice - all in all a piggie

needs to be hardly polished....scenes are not eye catchy and messy. Still no thumb down from me

mixed feelings about this one.. it's technically and visually great, but there is something i don't like about it, but i can't quite put my fingers on it. the music was a bit weird, but i had a laugh when the lyrics started.
oh well, you deserved your thumb

pretty cool

music reminds a lot of BT's style on the "this binary universe" album - especially the transitions with the stutter-effect. visuals are decent but tend to freeze for a millisecond occasionally for no apparent reason. furthermore the black bars are pretty superflous on a 16:10 aspect panel which is crying for 1920x1200 anyways.

The music saves this one, really. Some lyrics are always welcome. Nice greetings part, too.

Some nice ideas, but it lacks some kind of consitency.

still needs some love from a designer/artistic director to make it all fit together.
some glow could have helped also.

Not bad. Graphics could be better. I like the organic theme.

Really boring. The music was great but the visuals just were boring without any catch.

Agree with antdude, more fishy stuff is always good.

great music....nice visuals :)
....what more do you want ?

killer soundtrack, which deserves a rules alone.

take a deep breast?
somehow it doesn't convince me. bump mapping + underwater? o_O

ASD rip-off. Congrats, you found artists, but your shameless intersecting meshes and shadow poly bugs are unforgivable.

cool

I like the Giger bumpmaps and this strange world in here. I don't really get that underwater feeling 100% so I'm thinking that it is some sort of vacuum "aquarium" instead. Lots of stuff happening all the time so the show never gets boring. I love the last scene for that weird sense of scale it has. A giant heart and small trains and huge bats? Wtf? But it is cool :) Also I wish the projection was on the entire demo..

The music is cool, but it is all over the place too which makes it very hard to make visuals for I think. It is a bit like music for the sake of music. Sounds like Kaktusen is in some transition phase in his music making.

In my perfect world there would be more Giger bumpmaps, darkness and an overall atmosphere of cold unbreakable doom! That might be just me though :)

'city', music. gotta love it.

Really nice. The music alone would have deserved a thumb up.

There are some goods and some less good.
The metal side of the music is just too cliché for my tastes, remind me ASD, but still, it's polished, some scenes are nicely executed...
So its a piggy though I somehow would want to put a thumb up... but there are elements in this prod that make me piggy.

Gah. I felt in love.

OK this may be biased because parts of the demo appeared super-dark for me, but the whole thing looked a bit slapdash. The effects don't link together very well, and in a demo like this flow is paramount.

I'm getting a strong vibe that this is the kind of thing that would be found on the cutting-room floor at ASD. Also that city scene with the fish-eye? FLT's "Media Error" set the bar for fish-eye lens + city + helicopters, and this doesn't measure up.

PlayPsyCo put a lot of energy into big, ambitious demos with loads of arty textures and models and equal amounts of bloom to cover up where the textures/models look stale. I think you guys should do something more compact and better planned, because frankly it looks like you had a ton of ideas and then a nightmare making them all fit together here.

So I gotta thumb this down just because it's doing something that's been done before worse than it was done before, and it's totally shameless about it. Sorry.

weak thumb up, just because of music.

The demo started out like a dream, but then it got messy. The demo has a strong concept, but there are too many rough edges to be really effective. I had to watch it twice, though, so it's definitely a top-tier production. Also, the music was awesome.

weird and cool

nice nice. i watched a few times. damn good work imho. the idea is nice. seems i did not see many nice scenes for some years

worked fine on my cheap HD2600 AGP.
very moody wonderful demo. thanks for that.

Pretty damn cool

Wow! Great 3d-objects, awesome music!!!!!! Damn nice one <3

TU for the soundtrack...visuals average

Really excellent. But is it still a demo?

Lovley demo. Some nice objects and good music. Take a deep breast!

I luckily didn't notice the ASD-feel - great stuff :)

Did anyone mention ASD yet? Har har... well anyways, a weak thumb up.

Mixed bag. Some parts looked extremely polished and nice, but sometimes textures and normal maps are visibly low-resolution and look pretty ugly. Same for the music; the track itself is pretty nice, but the vocals don't work.

sweet

Awesome music! I love the hints of BT's Binary Universe album in there, and good job on the vocals too, they fit really well. Thumbs up just for that.

I really should not have passed out from being tired before this was on, cuz the music owns.

Forgot my thumb

Neat

ont ejaquler l'ejac

went from interesting to downright bad at the end. Basically the last scene is probably one of the worst ideas put into a demo ever. There is a horrible, utterly horrible fish-eye lens, a tron motorbike, a weird city upon a city, a heart, some doors, some helicopters, some bats and a dude singing (!?!)

The weakest demo so far from playpsyco, a group that is actually very technically proficient and have delivered some impressive demos in the past ( contr jous, camden town etc).

+

Great soundtrack, that somehow has absolutely nothing to do with the somehow uninspired visuals... still a thumb up.

Another ASM.TV watcher tuning in. ;)

Anyway, it's really, really weird. Not mfx-weird, more like incomprehensible "what were they thinking?" weird. Piggy for now...

Exactly what xernobyl said, except that the growing stuff with the reverse sync scene was pretty cool.

great one

i mean with a thumb

Another great demo I forgot to comment. The textures and design is lacking a little, but the modelling is excellent and I really demos like this that take me on a little ride into the artist's imagination.

I really liked the soundtrack too, even the vocals!

Messy in some parts, but the nice atmosphere won me over.

nice one with a great mood. i like the music but really hate that voice. this one still deserves a thumb!

soulless.

Highlight from kg2007

Very enjoyable. Reminds me of asd-style. Soundtrack is very good, too.

lovely shading and shadows, moody music, both of which unfortunately take a bit of a nose dive on the 2nd half, should've just stayed ambient