By Kieron Gillen on June 27th, 2010 at 4:30 pm.
Time for a relaxing, beautiful UDK-video of hundreds of blocks swirling magnificently to the music? I think so. I love how this stuff looks, and what it hints towards. Also, I’m reminded of a presentation at World of Love, where Eskil Steenberg is showing his automated texture-jigsaw explosion thing, where the model just comes apart into a flat shape for easy texturing. It was such a striking visual, I thought that there has to be a way of using that in game – either stuff exploding out of walls from that flat state, to bloody transformers. Anyway – video!
Thanks for the heads up, Schizo.
27/06/2010 at 16:37 tomeoftom says:
That is so very, very cool.
27/06/2010 at 16:45 disperse says:
Was I the only one who found himself ignoring the beautiful, but distracting, lights in the center of the screen to check all the dark corners for space mutants?
OK, I think I’ve played too many FPS games.
27/06/2010 at 18:28 apa says:
me too :D
27/06/2010 at 16:54 Blandford says:
Man… remember when Source was the most awesome engine around?
28/06/2010 at 10:40 Matt says:
2004 is that you?
27/06/2010 at 16:54 Toyoch says:
OT: Damn england, you got schooled today. Greetings aus Deutschland :)
27/06/2010 at 18:26 Steelfists says:
Video replays. Video fucking replays.
England’s defence was still shitty though.
27/06/2010 at 17:09 westyfield says:
So that’s what Royksopp sounds like!
Also: cool video. Pretty lights are always welcome.
27/06/2010 at 17:11 westyfield says:
Failed italics and a missing edit button, on the other hand, are never welcome.
27/06/2010 at 18:52 sfury says:
Royksopp sounds like AWESOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ci4WAD2zo
28/06/2010 at 01:40 Morti says:
of all the songs Röyksopp has, you go and link the worse of the lot of them :(
Anyways, the song on the video is called “Triumphant”
28/06/2010 at 10:49 sfury says:
Bwah, I love them all, vocals or no. Greets with “Alpha Male” then.
And what’s with all the people not seeing whose or what song it is – isn’t it written at the beginning of the clip?
27/06/2010 at 17:24 Jacques says:
This is why we need telekinetic powers.
27/06/2010 at 17:29 Metalfish says:
Oh god, poltergiest! Get out of there Stalker!
27/06/2010 at 17:39 SpinalJack says:
I can see that being a very pretty and CPU intensive music visualiser for your itunes collection
27/06/2010 at 18:48 sfury says:
Yeah, but a bit less brown/gray please ;)
27/06/2010 at 17:40 Sunjammer says:
Ditto. Personally, as someone accustomed to the gorgeousness of the demo scene, i reckon this video has little if any value haha. It’s just random, unsynced crap. It’s barely attractive. I’ve seen prettier things thrown down on an Amiga 1200.
Hey, UDK frivolity boys; How about you attempt a modicum of vision, not just revel in chaos? Bleh.
27/06/2010 at 18:22 kikito says:
[Monocle pop]
27/06/2010 at 18:30 Draken says:
I found myself ignoring the randomly floating bricks and just listening to the song. It’s groovy.
27/06/2010 at 19:00 Kevbo says:
I agree that the song was nice, any ideas what it was or just someone’s creation :)
Otherwise the demo was okay but seemed a little less smooth that I would like, still nice though.
27/06/2010 at 19:09 Flimgoblin says:
I used to think I was at least a little bit clever, then I saw Eskil’s game building tools at World of Love.
27/06/2010 at 21:35 Jacques says:
They’re scary good. His new animation tool looks like a lot of fun.
27/06/2010 at 19:34 Shadrach says:
Lovely, and great music by Röyksopp, with an Ö damn it!
This reminded me of a lot of the demo scene stuff I’ve seen lately.
27/06/2010 at 23:29 Adam says:
Care to share some of your favourite recent demos? I always love a good demo but it’s sometimes hard to find the quality productions.
27/06/2010 at 23:45 LionsPhil says:
I have to agree with Sunjammer: the demoscene have been doing far, far more impressive stuff than this. Debris comes to mind, a 2007 scene.org award nominee.
And it’s not made out of dark, grey, and neon, unlike everything UnrealEngine 3.
(Although, looking again, it doesn’t seem to actually do physics. Still, “big physical mass’o'cubes” has been around for years as an interactive tech demo from the likes of Actor, Rocket, etc.)
28/06/2010 at 10:54 Tei says:
The Scene demos are somewhat like “experimental vehicles”. You are luck if you can put a human inside (dead or live). And the UDK is a “familiar car”. So this is more impresive, if you think a SDK to make generic games has been used.
27/06/2010 at 23:53 TheSombreroKid says:
more of this kind of thing
28/06/2010 at 00:11 Mate says:
O hai Tome :)
28/06/2010 at 09:44 tomeoftom says:
I TOLD YOU NOT TO RECOGNISE ME IN PUBLIC
28/06/2010 at 01:07 TeeJay says:
Much more interesting soundtrack than the typical thrash metal shtick that normally gets stuck over everything.
Marketing people out there – I hope you’re paying attention!
28/06/2010 at 06:35 Caiman says:
I have to say, I agree with Sunjammer. What makes a lot of demos even more impressive is their real-time rendering and extremely small file sizes.
Go to http://www.farb-rausch.com and download a few of their recent demos, then see if this video remains as impressive.
28/06/2010 at 11:22 Christovski says:
Am I the only one that got the “We are the Physics” reference? Awesome band to name drop, and not a bad video either.
28/06/2010 at 14:07 Mr. ThreEye says:
Nice visuals but why post it in 720p and still use what sounds like a 64kbps MP3?
28/06/2010 at 18:20 Pmeie says:
Nice song, boring bricks.
The only interesting part to watch was the last bit, 2:16 onward.