Dark Bit Factory & Gravity
GENERAL => Challenges & Competitions => Topic started by: combatking0 on January 11, 2013
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Just a quick one - it took me a few days, but I think this meets the criteria.
Hopefully you will enjoy this one, and it may inspire those who have yet to decide how to present their UDG entries.
View online version (http://fx.barcodebattler.co.uk/UDG.htm) (music may not kick in until it has buffered)
Download (http://fx.barcodebattler.co.uk/UDG-UDG.zip) (music starts instantly)
:bully: :bred:
Requires IE9+ or a recent version of FireFox or Chrome, or any HTML5 compliant browser.
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Woooooaaaaahhhhh .... this simply rocks !!! Very well done ...
One question though - the screenshot look like an interference circle scene - I see a nice startfield, scroller and rotating cube though ?
Is there a hidden part?
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Lots of things to like about this, really nice little entry and a good example of how to present your entry for the comp with the 2 tile sets shown :)
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Thanks Nick, hopefully this will be an example to someone who's unfamiliar with the technique.
Woooooaaaaahhhhh .... this simply rocks !!! Very well done ...
One question though - the screenshot look like an interference circle scene - I see a nice startfield, scroller and rotating cube though ?
Is there a hidden part?
Watch the text scroller to the end, and the evil will reveal itself :D
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When I use winRAR to open the .zip it says: "unexpected end of archive" and when I try to extract it, it follows with: "the archive is either in unkown format or damaged". :(
Screenshot looks really nice though! :)
Can you put it online somewhere?
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Very cool entry, CK. Well done on getting it in so fast and good on ya for keepin' on representing the browser based demos.
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Can you put it online somewhere?
It's now up at http://fx.barcodebattler.co.uk/UDG.htm but the music takes a while to start, depending on your download speed.
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Wow, that was really awesome! I'm impressed with the speed with which you made this too! :o
Cool browser goodness and ran really smooth too. :clap:
Will be interesting to figure out how you did this, K++ for the inherent open souce nature of your demo!
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Nice!! Works nicely on my iPad
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I tried it on my iPod2 - it runs very slowly. iOS has come a long way since v2.
Will be interesting to figure out how you did this, K++ for the inherent open souce nature of your demo!
I can describe how it works in detail if you want, but it may be easier to understand if I annotate the code and re-upload it. The functionality shouldn't change.
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Code comments and/or an explanation would be most excellent good sir! :cheers:
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I'll have a thoroughly annotated (and cleaned up) source ready tomorrow.
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Great demo! I was impressed that it ran reasonably well in Firefox 3.6.18 despite the fact that my computer has really been chugging along with 50 tabs open for over a week.
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On my Laptop - it run well in good Speed
Ipad 2 - It run so slow due dual core speed
Nexus 7- It run so well due to Quad core cpu :)
Nice one Combat King :clap:
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Thanks everyone. I have annotated and optimised the code. It still draws the same graphics, but it should be a tiny bit faster and easier to understand for anyone wanting to know how it works.
If there's something I haven't annotated clearly, please let me know and I'll explain it here.
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I tested the preivous version on my Samsung Galaxy Tab10.1 N. It ran a bit slow there - but this is normal for that device. I liked the fact that it ran at all!
Just viewed the new version on my laptop - and it seems to run a bit slower now (Chrome) - Will try it on my other PC later again.
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The 4kb of comments may be getting in the way. I have now put them into a .txt file in the zip archive, and cleaned all comments out of the .htm file, so the 12kb of code can be interpreted faster by the browser (in theory).
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The 4kb of comments may be getting in the way. I have now put them into a .txt file in the zip archive, and cleaned all comments out of the .htm file, so the 12kb of code can be interpreted faster by the browser (in theory).
Hmmm ... I tested it with Chrome. The javascript engine should be smart enough to skip comments IMHO. But to be sure - I will test the new version with my same laptop this evening.
Best,
benny!
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That's very nice, cute soothing music, tileset that reminds me of green monitor on old XT computer with Hercules graphics card :)
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Thanks Optimus. I was going for an old style, and I think the scan-lines add to the effect.
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K++ for adding the comments! :)
I'm quite busy atm but in a week or so I'll be free again and able to leisurely inspect your the code and meaby work a bit on my own entry too.
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Wow, really good! I like how each tile has a gradient to make it look like scanlines!
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Cheers guys - the scan lines were a simple but hopefully effective touch which added some much needed detail to what would have otherwise been a basic dithering effect.
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Worked fine on Opera, the music fit well with the cube and "that effect that i don't remember the name but it's commonly used on oldskool demos" :)
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"that effect that i don't remember the name but it's commonly used on oldskool demos" :)
The subliminal message at the end? It could be a circular interference pattern.
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Me likes the interference. Oldskool is kool!!!!
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This is fucking awesome, i like it so much!!!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:
Cheers C3lt1c
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Very cool CK, reminds me of my uncle's Amstrad with green-screen monitor. Looks very authentic :)
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I'm glad you like it. Hopefully my retro-trip will do well.
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Just saw online version Combatking0 : very amazing and nostalgic. I'm new here, if only I could find how to give you good karma points.
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Just saw online version Combatking0 : very amazing and nostalgic. I'm new here, if only I could find how to give you good karma points.
Hi Baudsurfer (great name btw - Is it because of the 300Baud akkustikkoppler /BBS scene?) ... anyway - you need some posts before giving karma as far as I know. Maybe Shocky can tell the exact precondition for giving karma.
Anyway - welcome to the forums!
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Awesome :)
This stuff brings back memories.., :clap:
( And thank you for the sources to:), but i will refrain from reading them yet, as i think you might have inspired me into competing >:D )
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Just saw online version Combatking0 : very amazing and nostalgic. I'm new here, if only I could find how to give you good karma points.
Hi Baudsurfer (great name btw - Is it because of the 300Baud akkustikkoppler /BBS scene?) ... anyway - you need some posts before giving karma as far as I know. Maybe Shocky can tell the exact precondition for giving karma.
Anyway - welcome to the forums!
Hi Benny. Thank you for information about karma condition giving.
Also thanks for pseudo compliment. when I was a teenager, and first modems (hence BBS) came out in North America (before US Robotics gave them 2400 HST), I envisionned moDEM DEModulation as analog circular function signal wave, and as a semi-pro skateboarder then, I could see (with help of substances) myself gliding on that wave as a surfer would. I don't know when or where "surfing the net" came from but that is the origins of my pseudo.
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Just saw online version Combatking0 : very amazing and nostalgic. I'm new here, if only I could find how to give you good karma points.
Hi Baudsurfer (great name btw - Is it because of the 300Baud akkustikkoppler /BBS scene?) ... anyway - you need some posts before giving karma as far as I know. Maybe Shocky can tell the exact precondition for giving karma.
Anyway - welcome to the forums!
Hi Benny. Thank you for information about karma condition giving.
Also thanks for pseudo compliment. when I was a teenager, and first modems (hence BBS) came out in North America (before US Robotics gave them 2400 HST), I envisionned moDEM DEModulation as analog circular function signal wave, and as a semi-pro skateboarder then, I could see (with help of substances) myself gliding on that wave as a surfer would. I don't know when or where "surfing the net" came from but that is the origins of my pseudo.
hehe..cool story.I love those bbs times too...and yeah us robotics was the name of the company who built the elite modems back than...
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We've got a US Robotics modem at work. I'm not sure which year it's from though, but we don't use it any more.
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We've got a US Robotics modem at work. I'm not sure which year it's from though, but we don't use it any more.
Yeah cool!
Btw...This one was my first modem like device:
(http://home.arcor.de/andreas.pernau/images/Dataphon_S21-23d_full.jpg)
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They don't make them like that any more.
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They don't make them like that any more.
true...not even sure if the dataphone in the pic above was by us robitics anyway.but those devices were really cool back than.
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They made some interesting noises - I wonder how long it would take to download a typical demo - or even a Windows service pack through one of these devices?
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Cool one ck0! Your entries are getting better and better. Keep it up! I also liked the green about it, reminded me of the times I played Cauldron on an Amstrad CPC at a friends house. Good old times. <3
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Thanks. I've been learning from the best (yourself included), and it's starting to take effect.
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Nice Oldskool coolness!
I like the green tinge.