Rain by Life on Mars
Full title: Rain
Label: Life on Mars
Credits: spke^lom (Design, Code, Lyrics, Graphics)
Mister Beep (Music)
diver^4d (Graphics, Fonts)
sq^skrju (Lyrics)
The city scene pixel art drawn by diver^4d is
based upon an unsigned photograph of the downtown
Chicago (LaSalle Street looking south with the
Chicago Board of Trade in the background)
The back of the tired old man is converted by
spke^lom from a shot of T.Shimura's back in
Akira Kurosawa's "Ikiru" (1952)
Party: Multimatograf 2016
Compo: 8bit Demo
Requirements: ZX Spectrum 48K
Sounds a bit better with an AY/YM sound chip
Duration: About 4.30 (please do not stop earlier)
The final scene is looped to run forever
Contacts: zxintrospec@gmail.com
Notes: Who did what is a little bit compicated here.
First ideas about this demo emerged in late 2014,
when spke was working with Mister Beep on
"Octode XL", a new beeper engine based on Shiru's
"Octode" but with more powerful sound:
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/16445/zx-spectrum-octode-xl-a-new-1bit-engine/
One of tracks composed by Mister Beep to test
the new engine was called "Interstellar Drift":
http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Interstellar+Drift/16364/
spke immediately felt that this track deserves
to become a core of a beeper demo.
The idea of a pouring rain in a beeper demo was
the key original concept. Kurosawa's shot was
an immediate next step; spke converted it into
pixels the best he could. In spring 2015 sq^skrju
helped to write lyrics that framed this fairly
abstract imagery into a more specific story of
loss and departure. The basic idea how to do
make an acceptable rain effect on ZX Spectrum
came about in the second half of 2015 and were
implemented over the Christmas holidays in 2015.
The rest of work was done in the spring 2016,
with a massive help from diver^4d who drawn a
city background and designed a font for the
lyrics and a brand new Life on Mars logo.
Greetings: alff^cpu
at0m^speccy.pl
bfox
breeze^fishbone crew
busy^gemba boys
c-jeff
denis grachev
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elfh^inward
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hedj
hellboj^hooy-program
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koshi
kotsoft
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kylearan^cluster
mborik^gemba boys & rm-team
mike^zeroteam
mma
mmcm
moroz1999
noby^gemba boys
nodeus^light future group
nq^skrju
nyuk
pheel
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random
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robus^entire group
serzhsoft
shiru
siril^4th dimension
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tsl
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utz
vassa
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wbc
yerzmyey^hooy-program
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