2011 started up nicely regarding releases but the second half of the year was pretty quiet. For a first time in years we weren’t really working on a demo for the Assembly. We did however had something running at the party.

I wrote one of the applications for the eight LED screens that were positioned above the staircases. It featured a single effect - a rotating tunnel - and a scroller. It had a cool little feature though, the colors of the tunnel and scroller could be remotely tweaked by the AV team! It communicated with the ArtNET protocol, DMX over IP.

Also TMDC 2011 came and went. We were working on a demo but due to lack of inspiration and motivation it wasn’t finished. We aim to get it done this year but it will most likely be our last TMDC entry as I’d like to focus on other platforms and the textmode has been pretty much seen and conquered already.

Running Derelict on various Android devices I’ve discovered some bugs. On some devices the framerate seemed to be very poor. This was actually a timing bug and not a performance issue. The demo uses Android’s MediaPlayer for music playback and synced the demo with information from it. On some devices the playback position information resolution was very poor, only about 0.3 seconds! This caused the demo to run at 3 FPS.

Additionally there was an issue that caused the 2D images to disappear or distort on some devices. This was just a brainfart in the draw code and unfortunately the issue only appeared randomly.

The demo has now been fixed and the package has been updated.

We have some nice plans for 2012, stay tuned:)