With just over 4 weeks to go until the upcoming raww.orgy, I’m busy working on my intro for the following month’s Forever7 party over inTrencin. Ok, so not quite “busy” working on it, I’m actually just playing about with a few ideas in my head. I wrote a quick Windows application to try out a few ideas, which I think look rather nice – now I need to work out how to fit it all into the 1024b I’m allowed. Bear in mind that I’m not quite as clever as Gasman or Baze so I actually have to think about these things – they don’t just pour from my fingers into my Cross-Assembler.
I guess that’s partly the challenge of 1024b Intros, and one of the reasons that I decided on a 256b Intro Competition at my demoparty – every compo has categories for Musicians and Artists, but not always for the Coders. Demo’s are a combination of the skills of all people who work on it – a badly-coded demo can be well-designed and hence be regarded as a “Good Demo”. But an Intro – that’s looking at the skill of just the coder. “Wow, he got full-screen pr0n animation and music into 1024b – nice!”
So. I’ll go back to my work and look at my Intro some more later. I don’t actually have Sinus problems, I just think the post title hightlights the task us coders have of fitting our work into a small space, while at the same time trying to optimise for speed. It’s a fun challenge. Fun. Really.