Some great entries this year – the Trojan Bunny from Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail, a great corn on the cob entry, an expansion of the Cars animated series including Toe-mater, and a wonderful hunk of cheese driven by some mice, and a nice corn dog.
Here’s a nice walk through the pits
Plastic 195/95 is a 20mb demo made by a demo team on their picoEngine v2.1b in 2009
Not to be outdone, RGBA 195/95 is the same demo – done in 64k
These were shared in a presentation on lessons learned from Demo Scene coding:
A wonderful example of comparing how Hollywood portrays things and the way real life people who lived through the actual events tell the story.
Effulgence was just announced and brings some amazing 2.5D rendering to the table – not using blitting or rendering – but drawing text. Check out their Effulgence Steam page or Andrey Fomin’s YouTube channel for more cool looking development videos.
Here’s a room full of sunflowers for the Van Gogh exhibit in Chengdu China
The Obscuritory has done a 12 minute speedrun of the classic obscure game “The Labyrinth of Time“. I loved Myst and saved up my money to buy this game – only to find myself utterly lost as to what to do. It’s an obscure, but ultimately bad, game. The idea is interesting – an adventure that requires collecting items or changing the past to affect the future puzzles. It’s an idea that is probably ripe for a remake or a part 2 (that was hinted at at the ending of the game, but never written)
Back in the day, I actually contacted and talked with one of the programmers. He said that they were running out of storage space to fit the game on one CD-ROM, so they kept compressing and re-compressing the audio until it was barely acceptable quality. I believe his exact words were that ‘It was criminal’ how much they compressed them.
I remember that the sound track was pretty good. Ironically, it was mostly stock audio that could be licensed very cheaply. Some of my favorites were ‘Intrigue‘, ‘The Killing Ground‘, ‘Pastoral colours‘, and many others. Fans on the playlist linked above seem to have identified all the songs.
Here’s a longer, slower playthrough for the curious:
The Original Good Idea Girl notes there are more than 30 voice types (Fach types) in opera. I certainly had only a vague understanding of types. She does a magnificent job describing them with great actual examples.
Hanabira工房 makes insanely detailed miniature worlds on his Youtube channel. Here he puts a miniature world inside an old computer
He also did an interesting world building inside what appeared to be a working MSI computer build. This could becoming an interesting niche of computer customization up there with LEDs and custom colors.
8 years ago Tenkai Games Dev Room made a cool ASCII nethack-like prototype, and has only gotten like 60k views. It’s amazing how things like this exist yet nobody has seen them.