The people who commented that this challenge was difficult were right.
I tried for a few nights and binned a couple of attempts, I'll stop here for now as I have to dedicate some more time to forum maintanence.
Anyway, here's a start to the challenge, no doubt it will be beaten comprehensively but it was fun :)
Light sourced vectors.
Animated mathematical background texture.
Copperbars.
Sine Scroller.
All on screen at once drawn using 160 X 120 pixels and with only 4 colours on screen.
Code, font : Me.
Music: Rob hubbard.
Tools: PTC Ext (Rbz), Tinysid (stormbringer).
Software rendering :D
Hope you like it a bit!
Cool this has given me some ideas, a good start to the compo. The music suits the low res theme. Didnt realise the pixels would be so big at 160*120.
If you want to use dithering to make a lot of colours 160 X 120 mostly rules it out, the comp allows hi res stuff too though as long as you only use 4 colours :)
Using both criterea well will be very difficult I suspect. :)
Awesome first entry.
Really transport you back to the old days. Look spectrum
stylish somehow. Really good work, Shocky - and so fast!
Very nice first entry
This compo will be hard 8)
i really like that!
its very stylish and as benny said it does have an old spectrum feel to it.anywho very very nice!
Hardcore Pixel Madness ;D
Good work!
:) Thanks for the nice comments!
Great to come back from work and see people like it!
Good work Shockie my sort of colours.
Definitely reminds me of some of the graphics used on the Spectrum
:clap:
Apart from the dreaded spinning cube, this is very good indeed. Very clear and easy to see. A lot of dithering fx end up looking like digital soup.
Jim
I really think you have done a nice jopb working within such restrictions. Great style and interesting colors.
Ooh, nice choice of colours, I had to count them to check there were only four ;)
I totally dig the scroller and the cube and a very good choice of colours.
The overlapping rasters tend to produce rather confusing bit-structures, though. Maybe those would work better in a smaller window - or my screen is just too big ;)
very good but it not easy challange!
good luck to everyone who take the challange :)
:cheers:
Thanks for the nice comments :)
Hopefully I'll get the time to have another go at this before the deadline!
Welldone that man :)
looks cool on my 24" screen :)
old school to the max
Quote from: Ghost^BHT on August 04, 2008
looks cool on my 24" screen :)
old school to the max
24", wow that has got to be some *major* blocks going on ;)
Same here. I just have to stand back a bit :)
I really like this.
Thanks for the comments folks!
As for a 24 " screen, I can only dream..
Seriously just out of curiosity I went to a custom build pc website and built a PC that I thought I'd like and it would have cost me £3,800!
Super cool product. Blew me away. 10 / 10
I'm gonna use this demo from now on to wake me up in the mornings!
The power and tempo in this is just ... totally WOW! :clap:
Thanks Praecor :)
I don't think this is 10% as cool as what you made though.
Quote from: Shockwave on August 30, 2008
Thanks Praecor :)
I don't think this is 10% as cool as what you made though.
Not really, this has some oldschool feeling to it which is just unbeatable.