ST Format


Papa Was A Bladerunner ()

 
Published in ST Format #60

Papa Was A Bladerunner

Hurrah for pointlessly silly titles. The accompanying document file reveals, modestly, that this demo won first prize at the Intermedia Convention. Once again, it's hardly a laugh riot of fun and invention, but shows off the Falcon to a heartening degree. Once again again, it's the sound that lets the side down. The track's a longer sample from "Little Fluffy Clouds" but, almost imperceptivly, the speed appears to change from moment to moment, creating an unpleasantly low, droning air.

The demo opens with a texture-mapped cube showing the programmers' logo zipping around the screen, before splitting to form a variety of uninteresting figures, including some smaller cubes and an Atari badge. The second and much longer part, informatively named "Z-buffering" involves a series of two snappily rendered shapes drifting around deceptively lazily, before plunging through each other and inducing watery queasiness in the viewer. The end. It's the kind of demo you occasionally reload wholly to see exactly what kind of power programmers are completely neglecting to use.