fr-030: candytron

fr-030: candytron
the final version
chaos, ryg, gizmo, kb
2nd @ breakpoint 2003

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fr-030: candytron (final version)

1. due excuse
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here we go. about 3 months too late, the candytron final is *finally* here.
what should i say? as you probably noticed, the party version was majorly
unfinished and barely made it to the deadline (with the last fix that was
meant to correct the sound problems, which it didn't, submitted 10 minutes
before the compo. oops). so, why did it take so long? well, good question.
we had no impossible-to-debug or otherwise really nasty bugs and we didn't
suffer major lazyness or unwill. however, all of us were occupied with
other projects the last few months, which resulted in us working on the intro
*after* each other instead of in parallel, making the process quite a bit
lenghtier as you might imagine :)

gizmo wasn't really satisfied with the party version, and during my month
of work after the party i finally made some effects that were meant to be
used in the intro all the time actually usable. which results in the content
being *very* different from the party version (so this time, discussions
whether the party version or final is better actually make sense :). we hope
you like the new version.

note: this is the 1.01 version, which fixes some bugs that only occured in
pathological cases. sorry for those wo had problems with the 1.0 release :)

2. credits+greetings
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chaos - code (base system, 3d engine, texture generator, main tool code)
ryg - code (mesh engine, postproc effects, exe packer, add. tool code)
gizmo - textures, models, animations, timing
kb - music, sound code, voice synth

greetings to conspiracy, haujobb, kewlers, mfx, cocoon, kolor, freestyle,
cap, fan, downlords, 3state, threepixels, black maiden, bypass, spinning
kids, and, aardbei, pragma, t-rex, unique, tpolm, potion, madwizards,
scenic, science and all the angry screaming hordes we forgot (as usual).

3. the lyrics
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come for me
touch my skin
feel my pain
deep inside me

i'm in a place i don't belong
caught in this cage i sing my song
(2x)

she wants to be more than she is now
she's josie, she's josie
she wants to be more than she is now
i'm so aloooooone

she wants to be more than she is now
she's josie, she's josie
she wants to be more than she is now
she's josie.

(robot voices:
'warning! subject is trying to break out'
'begin countermeasures immediately.'
'confirmed. chance of success: twenty percent.')

find me
i'm down here
waiting
for you to come
so come for me
take on me
touch my skin
be the one to rescue me

(reprise: caught in this cage i sing my song)

...or then, maybe i'm just making this up and she's actually singing inf's
recipe for chocolate chip cookies. decide for yourself.

4. compatibility issues
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as of now, we've done some relatively thorough testing with all kinds of
different systems and haven't encountered problems. this demo *should* work
on pretty much anything satisfying our minimum specs of

p2 400mhz or faster cpu (atleast 800mhz strongly recommended!)
tnt2 or better graphics card (geforce2 level card recommended)
256mb ram (might work with 128mb just fine, we didn't try it)
directx9.0 (or higher)

should your system meet these requirements yet you still have problems
running candytron, feel free to contact us. see section 6.

big thanks must go to all our beta testers, especially ravian, ld0d,
diver, crest, break, maali and cm.

5. the point
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6. links+contact
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farbrausch homepage: http://www.farb-rausch.com
how we do it: http://www.theproduct.de
problems?: [email protected]
fanmail?: [email protected]