Fiat Homo - A Traction experience in 64k for Assembly'05 Intro credits: -------------- -Code, Concept, Design - Martti "Preacher" Nurmikari -Music - Jukka "Grip" Älli -Bitmaps - Erkka "Kofeiini" Pynnönen -Additional code tidbits - Mikko "Vulture" Leppänen and with a little help from -tinyfmod sound system - Brett "Firelight" Paterson -kkrunchy executable packer - Fabian "Ryg" Giesen -Le Portse(Linux and OS X) - waffle/ExHouse (so blame me because of a bad port :)) Big thanks to you, this intro wouldn't exist without you. Intro requirements: ------------------- Linux, OpenGL&SDL. Should run on just about anything. It does consume fillrate though, I decided not to limit myself by keeping the amount of rendered things in check (ie. I was too lazy to optimize ;)) Runs flawlessy on my amd64 3000+/x600... It looks a bit different on different resolutions, due to OpenGL's way of handling point and line sizes and my inherent laziness. I made it in 1024x768. Also, organizers, please do not use the spooky mode ;) The greetings: -------------- For the second time in recorded Traction history, they're in the actual production! Watch it =) Flames and fan mail: -------------------- Preacher - mnurmika@cc.hut.fi Kofeiini - erkka.pynnonen@gmail.com Grip - grip@jippii.fi #traction @ IRCNet Babble: ------- So, here it is. My first ever 64k intro.. but definitely not the last. Of all the demoscene related projects I've ever done, this has definitely been one of my favourites. No engine, no API, just a sandbox of code to play around in. And hey, I got to make my first ever Windows dialog :) Conceptually it is very close to what I imagined when I first got the inspiration for it, only one fundamental thing has been changed. Originally it was supposed to be, aside from being a nice show, a comment towards a political movement called Intelligent Design which seeks to replace the teaching of Darwin's Theory of Evolution in schools with a theistic view that "someone" has designed us. But unfortunately the 2001 nspired monolith fit the intro so well (in my opinion) that what started as a joke, was left in the intro and thus defeats the pro-science point I wanted to make. But oh well.. at least the idea of a manifestation of cosmic consciousness helping us to evolve into next level is amusing in the science fiction-sense. Expect a "making of"-article in the next issue of Pain, complete with the full source code. Hope you like it. -Preacher P.S. I know the name will probably cause amusement among the less literate party visitors, but for the Latin challenged, it translates into "let there be man", in the biblical sense, and has nothing to do with people who like to tune their cars ;)