This Easter saw the first proper, on-site, Revision demoparty since 2019. It’s the world’s biggest pure demoscene event, an overall awesome happening and it tends to have really good competitions. 🙂
As the party was getting closer, and after putting our original plans on hold due to lack of time, lug00ber and I decided to make a short 4 kilobyte intro for the Amiga 500, just so that we wouldn’t show up completely empty-handed.
I tried out a couple of effect ideas and after a few failed attempts I ended up going with an “x-rotator”-based effect.
The result was Candiru, which got the 2nd prize in the oldschool 4k intro competition at Revision. You can watch the recording of the competition here.
X-rotator, you say?
As with many oldschool demo effects there’s no definitive name for this technique, but “x-rotator” seems to be quite common. Similar approaches can…
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