Actionscript3, Flash, Scala, Java, C#, C++, Algorithms & Imageprocessing
I announced some weeks ago that I am currently working on a demo. It is done. Finally.
Some demo features:
The demo has been optimized to work in the stand-alone player. So you can download also the lectues of the ffk06 which include the demo.swf and a program that allows you to view the demo in fullscreen!
It was definitly not my time when demos were so popular. But it is fun to create something like that because of speed optimizations, different techniques and of course the eyecandy.
I looked around the web and found the Demo Effects Collection which is a site that lists a lot of oldschool demo effects. I know only thoose new demos, using a lot of 3D. So this site is very helpful to get some idea about old effects and the techniques behind them.
Basically I want this demo to be some showcase to demonstrate new possibilities of Actionscript3. It will be fun creating it. The screenshot shows a Voxel engine with terrain generation based on spectrum analysis. The demo will feature a playback system and different scenes. The screen is 480x240px (!) and all effects are currently done in real-time. A release of the demo will be around 30th of november.
I am also very happy that BitShifter allowed me to use his music. Thanks Josh!
Finally André Michelle posted an article about the top-secret world’s most shocking rich-internet-application ever. Ladys and gentlemen, we are proud to introduce the 8bitboy.
Since I really like 8bit music I am happy, proud and estatic to find some pieces of my own code in this project. It was very hard to get André working on this. But talking about Super Mario solves a lot of problems :o)
There are some effects missing. I hope we (well… André ;-)) will be able to implement them soon. And maybe the whole player will get a little touch-up with some “new-age-interpolation” methods for perfect pleasure. The current 8bitboy is just working like an Amiga.