Revision Party 2011

merlucin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0200

The past year we were unable to reach the last breakpoint because a problem in the road with out hyper-vehicle, but that won't stop us this year in order to meet with our friends in what we expect to become the substitute of the breakpoint, at least from our point of view... Revision party, there we go!!!

Yet another nonsense demo

merlucin — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Finally, after years of work and problems with demoscene TV, xphere finally managed to convert his first demo made with the Spöntz demoengine to video. Here is, for the enjoyment of the entire human race: Yand

Art Futura: Realtime Generation

merlucin — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Spontz will be present in the Realtime Generation panel in Art Futura 2010. There, xphere will explain the techniques and tools we use in order to build demoscene productions, specially demos and intros. Other of the participants will be Jak, from threepixels, creator of celsius: a Video Jockey tool capable of mixing video with 3D scenes plus layered effects in realtime.

Main Party #5 and the demo editor

merlucin — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0200

A lot of time has passed since our last demo. it was at Main Party #4 a year ago when we presented Spontz's Quintessence to the demo compo. We came back to Main this year with empty hands, but not idle: we are preparing a complete rework of our code base, and some works are in progress also. Version 3 of the Spontz demo editor is in the works and will arrive soon, and with it a new demo called Electroscopia. We don't have a deadline for this projects, and therefore they will be released once we consider they are finished. The fifth edition of the main party was the boiler that made us switch to beta after two intense nights of code.

New demo: Second Coming

merlucin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Although we were not able to reach the breakpoint in order to present our last demo, this didn't prevented the Biomechanical Bastards to throw their first work to the compo: Second Coming is a demo created with the Spontz demo editor which represents the return of Jesus Christ (a catholic deity) to the world, from the point of view of a Jehovah witness that has not been yet rejected from the temple.

Quintessence

merlucin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Finally we have completed the Windows and MacOS X versions of Quintessence, the demo we presented at the MainParty #4 festival in Arles (France) obtaining the 6th place out of 15 demo productions. There we found really fine masterworks from sceners of several countries. Our admiration goes this time to the group Adinpsz, creators of the demo Extatique, that got the first place and one of the most fresh productions of this year.

Satan comes back from Hell

merlucin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Started in the Breakpoint 2009 and ended in the work office, this song was recorded with a plantronics headset and the shitty mac mini of the meeting room. Got the second place in the Euskal 17 High Quality Music competition. The lyrics pertain to a small fridge's instruction manual, but readed upside down.

Don't deceive me

merlucin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Here is the demo that we were preparing during this year for the Euskal Encounter XVII in Bilbao (Spain). Finally unveiling the real appearance of some of the people behind the Spontz demoengine, this demo represents once more the nonsense that maintains the demoscene alive. And for MacOSX an Windows, as usual!

Euskal Encounter 17

merlucin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

As every year, we will present our last works at the Euskal Encounter 17 in Bilbao, one of the last scene contest reducts in Spain. Meet us there at the end of July! There is more information in the official party web page.

Spontz Visuals Editor 2.0

merlucin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

After ~~months~~ years of work, here is the next version of our demo editor, as usual only recommended for brave hearts and sometimes even more difficult that simply coding your demo in C++ :) This version includes a realtime preview, support for Frame Buffer Objects, GLSL shaders, and a realtime expression evaluation system that allows to vary almost any parameter using simple algebraic expressions. But wait! there is more! Included with the demo editor are several small demo projects we use to test it and, of course, we have released the source files for three of our last demos.

pomod 0.7.6 is out!

xphere — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Here is a new version of pomod, the definitive modules player for pocketPC! Build over the famous FMOD libraries, this new version offers better MP3 support (ability to move the playhead while playing), better stability, playlist saving and reloading and better preferences handling

Hermine, by Pinza

pinza — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Pinza presented a mp3 stream to the breakpoint, obtaining the 7th place out of 16. This beautiful music called "Hermine" escapes from the traditional demoscene style and features real instruments played by himself

Cosmosis: The making of: Chapter 3

merlucin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The hidden secrets behind the underwater scene unveiled at last! Find here certain details that probably couldn't be appreciated in the final projection.

Death of the death

merlucin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200

We spent four hours in this experiment, presented in the open demo competition at Breakpoint. There was a lot of people in the party coding very different things, and we couldn't resist the pressure to compete. unfortunately the demo only runs for a minute, but it was a minute of good competition! :) Dynimix came back with a great music and xphere, isaac2 and merlucin put the best of themselves in this prod. Enjoy!

Particles of the death

merlucin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Finally I got time to update the website with our latest demo: Particles of the death. Sponsored by AMB and the ingent amounts of pizza he provided to merlucin, and powered by the Isaac2 shaders directly there at BCN Party 111. Finally we couldn't win the democompo because Ham presented his superb demo for GP2X with incredible music from JosSs so we got the last position in the ranking.... anyway we will continue trying :)

Cosmosis: The making of: Chapter 4

merlucin — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0200

A realtime generated sky using static textures as particles (and these particles as clouds) plus a dust filter were enough to get this scene up and running in the screen!

pomod 0.7 is out!

xphere — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Xphere has build a new version of pomod, his audio player for pocketPC! Based on the fmod libraries, this free player features MP3, OGG, WAV, MOD, IT, XM and S3M reproduction. And the code is also free. you can take a look to it in Google Code.

Cosmosis: The making of: Chapter 2

merlucin — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

God created the earth in six days. We only could get a fake earth in such time, but as everything in OpenGL depends of the point of view of the camera, the results are almost the same.

Cosmosis: the making of: Chapter 1

merlucin — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

I am pleased to announce the first chapter of the making of cosmosis: remix, where I will try to explain the concepts, decissions and tricks behind this demo. Although this chapter is not very graphic, it serves as a good introduction. More to come!