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Once again it’s been a while since I’ve updated my site here. Also, it’s almost a year since I founded this site – which means that Alternative Party 2010 is coming up! I’m very excited about the event this year, not only because there’s amazing artists like Muffler, Aavikko, Alex Shazala and Byproduct performing this year, but because I’m participating in the Beginner Demo compo.

It’s been about twenty years since I first found out about demoscene, mostly thanks to Sivu/Byterapers who lived in the neighborhood back then. As a little kid who had just learned some BASIC on Vic-20 I was thinking that one day I want to make those amazing graphics too. Well, several years passed and I started learning C, and with internet I found articles about demo making and started experimenting with Allegro library. I actually had a couple of effects ready back then, but teen mind wandered away from demos and concentrated more on music. Fast forward to this day and here I am sitting in my computer corner and I’ve just finished coding my first complete demo. It’s quite funny feeling to finally do something that you’ve dreamt of since you were a little kid. Wow.

The demo is built on top of Kajak3D game engine and it runs currently on Windows. Coded in Visual Studio 2010, graphics done in Photoshop, Blender, 3DSMAX and Paint. Music is handled by FMOD EX framework and the song behind the demo is made by my good friend Alpha Mind. I’ve probably been a huge pain in the ass for Mika and Mikko by pestering them about features in the Kajak3D engine back at work, but I hope I’ve given them some much needed feedback about their engine.

You can read more about the engine from http://kajak3d.com/index.php?page=pelimoottori_en

See you at AltParty! http://www.altparty.org