This is truly my most favorite demo I have ever witnessed. I keep coming back every year. Magnificent story telling, theme, music, and technical achievement. I only wish to find more ways of expressing how stunning this is.

This one really deserved first place at X'2016 in my opinion. I keep coming back to it, the design, the flow, the music, the emotions it triggers... it's just absolutely brilliant. My hat's still off to you Linus! Weird that I never knew about the X' parties, I live about a 10 minute drive away from there🤨The 2023 edition is rather expensive though at 180... not sure I'll attend.

What a gorgeous demo! Excellent storytelling, awesome theme, amazing flow, beautiful effects, and a feast for the ears. You really pulled every last cycle out of that old breadbin. Thanks so much for sharing, your art is a real inspiration to me.

Just rewatched this demo. Yet another time. I have many demo favourites, one aspect (of many) that make this demo standout from the crowd is the incredible mood that you set with the overall design and music score. It makes me both sad as well as hopeful.

4:45 Did you-- did you seriously add the sound of the purring cat into the demo?! Brilliant!!!

@noor-rx1ij

Жыл бұрын

I think it was made with the SID, but indeed brilliant :D My favorite part of the demo.

If this got second place, first place must've been made by an omnipotent being, this is beyond impressive.

This hands-down looks like it blows anything else from its time out of the water. You sir are some kind of focused genius.

This is me leaving another comment a year later because this demo is extremely inspiring, thanks for making this.

I really want to see this become a game.

@ltva8781

3 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't be possible on c64 with those parallaxes I guess. Though on PC or some more powerful retro computers such as Amiga 500 why not?

@ltva8781

2 жыл бұрын

This would be a platformer with strong storyline and ability to save your progress and, most importantly, the game world itself. It would be 2D, but you would be able to move between parallax layers.

@ltva8781

2 жыл бұрын

Well, meh. I suсk at music, programming, drawing. English even isn't my native language. So it is funny that I'm writing it here to be forgotten until Dеath Of KZread. Still as for me cool concept though. With such graphics (most importantly, beautiful rain and moon are required) and music as in demo (maybe some OPL3 stuff added to classic SID sounds) it would be a great game. But only would.

@ltva8781

2 жыл бұрын

I don't have any skills in programming retro platforms, but I was thinking about using C or even game engine such as Unity for programming this game (idk what will be harder for me). Also WFC algorithm IMO is ideal for world generation. Check this: Astortion devlog. I think such graphics are ideal for the game.

@BobbyCharlz

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree that taking this into full game production would be super-awesome especially as a multi-platform release but also-and especially-the C64, but I couldn’t imagine the work or time it would take to create such a behemoth of a vision. Good job here, whatever way you decide to take to publish this, stick to this beautiful creative direction that you are on.

Moonbeams and cathode rays will dance but this night has come to an end

that 3-layer parallax blew my mind :) and all the rest I quite enjoyed to watch too!

@earx23

Жыл бұрын

Could you explain why this is hard to do on the c64?

@nattila7713

Жыл бұрын

​@@earx23 these aren't real parallax effect: c64 could scroll only one "plane" and so you need to do tricks : scroll a section at one speed, then do interrupt (I guess) and scroll slower the next section, then once again, the next.... also when the scrolling of different "layers" are not done above each other, you need to do specific character/tile tricks so you see kind of a "foreground" and a "background" layer (with slower scroll speed). c64 was all about tricks, with a barely 1mhz cpu ... :)

So amazing. Love the interrupt and palette tricks. Very clever 👏 binging your vids

@__-bm5zj

3 жыл бұрын

I have a little black cat too 🥰

Probably my favourite C64 demo ever. I’ve watched and listened to this many many times.

Back in the day I would be impressed if a 486 PC could do this let alone a C64. I have so much respect for these loonie programmers of today and yesterday. I'm still stuck at "1 REM Make cool program" I've yet to get get to line 2.

Wow, just wow. When I grow up I want to be like you. Cheers!

I'm speechless- You are a genius!! Awesome

Your art is simply amazing, awesome and inspiring! Thank you for sharing!!!

I appreaciated greatly the way you used the rain in the demo. That was very clever. Bravo !

I grew up using a Commodore 64. At the time I never imagined that something like this would be possible.

Masterpiece.

Excellent! I've never seen so good effects and music together!

Brilliant, you're a great programmer.

This is amazing. Im letting this play in the background for the music.

@ltva8781

2 жыл бұрын

I've added it in my everyday playlist along with other lft music. I've even made a music compilation

greeting fm Hong Kong! amazing music work!

This is brilliant, LFT you're on a league of your own. And the sid is awesome, I'm playing this on repeat on and on and on...! :)

the part with the 3d tunnel and stars was really good

Wow, this is incredible!

I missed seeing these great demos from you. You deserved first place, Linus! ;-)

Why it took me almost four years to find this gem? Is it not from the guy who made the Chipophone?

@ltva8781

3 жыл бұрын

ep, check da channel

never knew you made demos, this is some good stuff.

I loved every moment of it! :D

Thank you for pulling me out of this world for some minutes!

Absolutely amazing art and audio! Thank you for making this..

This demo was clearly #1 above THE PHOENIX CODE however that demo had those nostalgic feels so it's all good!

yesss! A new video! I look forward to these so much! Inspired me to start learning how to code and dabble with circuits.

Man, my workbench doesn't display video, let alone this good!

Love it!

Knowing the limitations I had no idea 8-bit computers could do this. Too bad none of these capabilities were used to enhance gaming at the time. I must have watched a million 8-bit games on YT but none of them looked or sounded as good as this demo or other demos.

Really stunning

Fantastic! Grats on the second place as well

Glad to see you're still active and being amazing.

One of the main reasons I got a real C64 (again) was because I want to run this demo on it, just witness it in all its glory.

Classy as always, Linus. :)

Whenever I see this level of coding, I imagine what it would've been like to see it running back in the '80s - minds would've been blown!

Fascinating!

You make some beautiful stuff.

This is gorgeous!!!! What the hell??

I don't know how i got here, but i'm sure i'll be coming back

Mindblowing stuff again

Simply amazing! Please suggest steps for a new c64 user to begin in this incredible journey of learning about how to do just this type of work and art!!!

@lftkryo

7 ай бұрын

Thanks! It's a long, arduous journey; start small and work your way up! If you want something with a plot, "Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide" is still worth a read, and so is "Mapping the Commodore 64". But these books only tell you how you're supposed to use the machine; head over to codebase64.org for articles and code examples on how to abuse it. Of these, the gold-standard reference work is "The VIC-II Article" by Christian Bauer.

Greetings from Argentina

The bit at 3:50 reminds me so much of VVVVVV. I imagine it's definitely gotta have referenced this.

I LOVE C64 ❤❤❤️ FOREVER ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Wow !!

new movie from lftkryo - insta like! also, i just ordered po-20 will use it to create music for my retro styled roguelike game! textures 8x8px and it will heavily rely on random, wish me luck! :D as always love your work and dedication!

Really great ;) Congrats lftkryo!

Amazing

awesome!

Awesome!

2spooky4me! hope you keep making awesome art

Oh BOI! LOVE it

*clapclapclapclapclap* this is my favourite C64 demo.

excellence.

you beautiful man

You're genius.

Wow.

Nice dude.. =)

Programming black magic!

wow

so god

\o/

i have no idea what this is or how it was made but i know i like it a lot

WTF?! 8 sprites they said, 16 colors they said, 38KB basic bytes free they said, IT HAS BEEN ALL A LIE!!!!

Dude. How ?? can you list what tricks you did . Sorcery

@Mnnvint

3 жыл бұрын

LFT does nice writeups of a lot of his tricks on his homepage. I know he's done explanations of the "massively interleaved sprite crunch" which debuted in this demo, and of the all directions smooth scrolling thing (which is an old technique, but LFT did some hardware detective work to figure out why it would crash some C64s, and found a way to do it safely).

How did this get 2nd place and not 1st?

Hi

Amazing

wow