A Dolphin’s Journal of Events

Since my blog got a little popular last night after posting the vid captures of Linger in Shadows by Plastic [like, 1000+ visitors last night], I thought I’d clarify to all the gamers that got excited over it.

It’s a demoscene demo. It’s not a game and likely won’t be [and if it does have some interactive part, it won't be anything you're thinking]. Basicly a small movie of sorts made from the ground up [as in, own engine and effects code]. It was done by a few people from the demogroup Plastic. From what I understand, Sony paid them to do a demo for reasons not explained [being paid to do a demo is very rare in the demoscene, ussually demos are made to be entered in a competition or "for the fun of it", and sponsored demos like this create a lot of controvery in the scene].

And for those wondering what the storyline is, it’s what it appears it is. There are various things in the demo that are hidden greets to other demogroups. [The panda for example]

For more info, you can check out pouet.net [a demoscene database] for some info regarding it [and plenty of scener comments] - as well as the BBS topic.

More questions feel free to comment and I’ll do my best to answer them.

Thought people might like to see it, it’s been all over the internets for whatever reason. So here’s the cap of it.

http://capped.tv/player.php?vid=1206492145-1-0

Also, the NVScene Invite!

Breakpoint was over. People are calling it the best breakpoint ever. I watched most of the party through the live stream, and it was indeed awesome.

In other news, I might not make it to Blockparty. I will try but things are coming up. I will be releasing though.

More later.

In case anyone wanted to see a demoparty. Check out Breakpoint ’08’s live feed.

It’ll be active Easter Weekend only [21st to the 24th of March 2008]. After that you get to look for a pre-recorded version.

Just a heads up for everyone.

More info on breakpoint

In Other News

The demo I’ve been working on with trailer park demos made a nice shift from openGL to DirectX due to pixel shader limits in openGL. Everything’s been converted in only a few days. How nice yes?

Anyway, I’ve been put on Particle System duty since I don’t have enough experience with DirectX yet, but plenty of math experience due to mis-spent time on a TI calculator during highschool math classes.

That’s likely all you’ll hear about that for now.

A small blog post to show you what I’m up to.

Press ESC to exit off-center full screen mode

^ You’d think they’d fix that before release right?