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Started by Shockwave, July 30, 2008

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Shockwave

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!
Shockwave ^ Codigos
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rain_storm

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.

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Shockwave

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.  :)
Shockwave ^ Codigos
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benny!

Awesome first entry.

Really transport you back to the old days. Look spectrum
stylish somehow. Really good work, Shocky - and so fast!
[ mycroBLOG - POUET :: whatever keeps us longing - for another breath of air - is getting rare ]

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Rbz

Very nice first entry

This compo will be hard   8)
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ninogenio

i really like that!

its very stylish and as benny said it does have an old spectrum feel to it.anywho very very nice!
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AnimalMother

Hardcore Pixel Madness  ;D

Good work!

Shockwave

:) Thanks for the nice comments!

Great to come back from work and see people like it!
Shockwave ^ Codigos
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gooner

Good work Shockie my sort of colours.
Definitely reminds me of some of the graphics used on the Spectrum

:clap:

Jim

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
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Pixel_Outlaw

I really think you have done a nice jopb working within such restrictions. Great style and interesting colors.
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Xalthorn

Ooh, nice choice of colours, I had to count them to check there were only four ;)
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hellfire

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 ;)
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Hotshot

very good but it not easy challange!
good luck to everyone who take the challange  :)

:cheers:

Shockwave

Thanks for the nice comments :)

Hopefully I'll get the time to have another go at this before the deadline!
Shockwave ^ Codigos
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Clyde

Still Putting The IT Into Gravy
If Only I Knew Then What I Know Now.


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Ghost^BHT

looks cool on my 24" screen :)
old school to the max

Xalthorn

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 ;)
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Jim

Same here.  I just have to stand back a bit :)
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Optimus

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