TMDC is back again!

For a different kind of coding project, I recommend textmode demos. 80×50 resolution with 16 colors means a lot of CPU power per pixel. For rules etc check out the official website. The deadline is on the 12th of December.

Check out our last year’s production below or download it (for Windows).

Goodbye friend. You were one of the most creative guy I’ve ever met..

We have decided not to release the demo after all.. There just is too much stuff missing and badly unfinished. Also, problems with running the demo on the xbox didn’t help either. If we loaded all the parts in memory when starting the demo they all lagged. We also tried to load each part after the previous one. We got the first part to run nicely but latter parts run slower and slower even when we tried to free the memory used by the earlier parts.

We will release the demo later with all the stuff we had originally planned.

The decision was very hard. This sucks.

The party is on! We visited the arena and now we are back at my place desperately trying to finish the demo. We now have the finalized version of the music and we are now putting the rest of the stuff together.

I’ll be joining Abyss/FC on YLE’s Aamu-TV to talk about Assembly and demoscene in general on Wednesday morning at 08:20.

–fragment

Whoah, I got an SMS from leaphion last night in which he told that he has almost completed the music. It is still missing the end part and many minor tweaks but the biggest work has been done and I have to say that I’m very very pleased so far :)

–fragment

..again. This is nothing new for us, but this time we are actually further than ever before. We now have the content fully planned out. Last year we had to come up with many parts while finishing the demo at the party place. For example the stars that spin in the girl picture in Pulque were added 10 minutes before the deadline ;)

Anyways, my summer vacation begun a few days ago so I should have quite a lot of time and energy to spend on the demo. About 18 days till the deadline! That is not very much though..

The lineup has changed slightly. Zef is spending his vacation abroad so I’ll handle the coding alone. Also, the music will be done by leaphion. This is the first time we’ll use his music in our demo. He is currently working hard on it and I hope we’ll get it somewhat ready in the next week so we can start putting the demo together.

–fragment

Here we are again, fragment and plokk. The plan is to try to make some content for the demo over the weekend.. But today we will concentrate only on bbq and beer.

–fragment

It is interesting what two men with excessive amounts of beef, pork, beer and caffeine can achieve in three days. We now have an almost finalized design and also got a good start on many 3D scenes.

Not much coding was done during the weekend, only some prototyping and 3D scene tests. The actual coding will happen later on.

The demo will basically be a 3D fly-by which means the content consists mostly of 3D scenes with a story. However, there will be a bunch of interesting effects so it will not be “just a .3DS player”. There should be something for everyone to enjoy.

–fragment

So, it is time for my first post. My name is plokk and I am one of the founding members of Hedelmae. My role is to create graphics. I have been working my ass off in my day job this summer and I have no vacation what so ever so I am trying to spend every bit of a free time I have on this project. This is the second day of our two man democrunch weekend and we actually have got some stuff done already. I have been drawing some concept art and fragment is creating 3d models based on them. I am already surprised of how much stuff we have managed to put together. Now it is time to open an ice cold beer and spend some time sitting in the sauna, so we will see how the rest of the evening goes :)

-plokk