Fr-087: Snake Charmer PC Demo

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While it has a nice atmosphere, I don't see what makes it special enough to be featured on hacker news? It looks just like a simple vertex shader to me TBH, or an I missing something blatantly obvious here?

It's a cute little demo that's only basically 1MB all in.

That said, I don't think it's the best for this group - they've done more in far less before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqu_IpkOYBg for example, is an executable only 177KB big.

Pouet.net is the more popular information repository for demos. Here's their link for the same demo:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=70418

Summary of the pouet.net comments: Proof of concept DX12 engine by chaos. One effect, no post processing. Still pretty cool though.

Farbrausch has made some of the coolest demos I've ever seen.

They have (fr08 completely blew my mind when I ran it at the time), but this isn't one of them.

Far cooler from the same competition alone is fr-minus-019 (a 64k intro) https://demozoo.org/productions/173267/

Not following the demo scene, and not being current on the capabilities of graphics cards these days, I have no idea if this is impressive. Wish it came with some explanation.

Still remember seeing fr-08 live at The Party here in Denmark 17 years ago. It has to be one of the most impressive things ive seen and it was what got me into demos.

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