Stepping Back by Megabusters (Atari ST 32k intro)

[@7i6j]

Very nice!

[@HyLsT16]

Excellent ! J'aime beaucoup les couleurs de la tête d'oni ! Et AD à la musique, c'est un régal 😁

[@JeanBaptisteQueru]

Merci! Je suis Djaybee, le codeur de cette intro. J'avais décidé d'essayer de donner un peu de liberté à Pandafox, le graphiste, en lui laissant utiliser 16 couleurs et la forme qu'il voulait. Bien sûr, certaines des couleurs devaient être ré-utilisables pour les textes dans le fond et pour les petits logos, mais ça n'a pas posé de problèmes. AD a fait un super boulot aussi, nous avons en particulier peaufiné l'intro pour synchroniser les graphiques et la musique.

[@HyLsT16]

@@JeanBaptisteQueru ça se remarque, et le résultat est réussi & fluide 👍👍

[@vbarr67]

Sympa ! J'aime bien la musique entraînante ! Tout ça en 32Ko :)

[@JeanBaptisteQueru]

Merci! J'ai écrit le code de cette intro, le plus marrant c'est que je n'avais pas initialement prévu de compression, et elle faisait environ 150ko. Le fait qu'elle fasse presque exactement 32ko après compression est un pur hasard.

[@s_t_s4846]

Nice intro, I wonder whether it was planned as a contribution to the dead GOD project Too bad it didn't make it

[@JeanBaptisteQueru]

Hi there, I'm Djaybee, I wrote the code for this intro. The short answer is no, that intro wasn't planned for G.O.D. The long answer is that, about 30 years ago, I worked on the CSF Dentro kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4iuqZupf6x6bJo but never completed it, it was a bit too ambitious and I ran out of time because of university commitments. That had graphics from Pandafox (known as Imperator at the time). During COVID lockdowns, I did pick up some ST coding again, under emulation, and Pandafox and I started to work on a demo for G.O.D, which had some similarities with some aspects of the CSF Dentro (specifically, the plays on lines), but I was too ambitious again, I underestimated how rusty I was with 68k code, and that ended up going nowhere, which has been a major theme for G.O.D. Fast-forward a bit, I wanted to celebrate my 40th programming anniversary in 2024. I experimented with some other platforms (Atari 2600, NES, Amstrad CPC) but got frustrated with those, and I came back to the ST, with a desire to build something very simple. I wrote the initial code for Stepping Back, and suggested to Pandafox that he could do graphics for it. The project quickly took shape, AD adapted a music for us, and, without any desire to actually compete, we figured that showing it at SV WE 24 would bring us some exposure. That's how we ended up with a 32kB intro in a 96kB category: we hadn't even aimed for a specific size.