Dreams in Realtime: LifeForce by ASD

The Demo Competition at Assembly was mainly a fight between the traditional C++ PC demos and the XNA Demos (Windows/XBOX 360). At least those people who always say that C# performs bad should have shut up by now - there were plenty of nice and well performing XNA demos!

Nonetheless, the trophy of the winner belongs to ASD (Andreomeda Software Development), for their C++/OpenGL demo called LifeForce!

The 8 months of hard work for that demo were well worth it. It is hard to describe the content of the demo in words. Once more, ASD combines millions of effects flawlessly and uses spectacular transitions in between the scenes. The music varies wonderfully and underlies the poetic and surreal content of life and death perfectly. The stunning mixes of 2D and 3D give the demo a never-seen-before artistic touch. This is the true Art of the Demoscene, a Dream in Realtime!

In a sense this artistic masterpiece must be like a slap in the face for Intel: ASD has recently participated with Beyond the walls of Eryx at the Intel Demo Competition. The chip manufacturer had explicitly praised to combine the most creative demos from the demoscene with the impressive power of its new Quad-Core-Processors. But funnily, what ASD made for Intel looks rather simple compared to LifeForce!

Lots of respect from Green Hippo to all team members of ASD (especially to the coder Kostas, aka Navis)! It was great to be there at Assembly and to make friends! You are inspiring us, we love you!

As mentioned above, there were many great releases at Assembly. You should e.g. also check out the following short movie called 'Realtime Demo Wannabe':



If you are interested in Photos of Assembly, search for "asmsummer07" at Flickr!