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.: Aesthetic Distance - A demo by Youth Uprising.
   Produced November through December 2007.
   Released at the Ultimate Meeting '07.

   Inviting YOU to Icons 2008
   From 6th to 8th June.
   Helsinki, Finland
   http://icons.decadence.fi

-DivX video and soundtrack (.mp3) are available at:
   [   http://thygrion.untergrund.net/   ]
 Along with more of our work.

-Mostly coded on a Pentium II 650mhz with 192MB RAM and a
 Geforce MX 4000.

- To run this decently a 1.5GHz machine is required
  and some horse power out of the GPU
  (no shaders and only basic OpenGL stuff used so go figure)

-Credits:
 -Ferris   - Code, design, graphics, music   - jaketaylor123 [at] hotmail [dot] com
 -Waffle   - Code, add.design, add.graphics  - rautio [dot] mika [at] gmail [dot] com
 -Maali    - Demotool code
 -Xtrusion - Add.graphics

-Tools used:
 -Our Aeolus demoengine
 -Bloodshed Dev-C++
 -Resource Builder
 -A texgen
 -MS Paint ;)
 -Vittu GIMP
 -Irfanview
 -Reason 3.0.4
 -Fmod
 -kkrunchy by Ryg/Farb-Rausch

-Ferris' Notes:
 -This is the party version. And the final version.
  To me, those shouldn't be two different things. As
  far as bug fixes go for this, I haven't noticed any
  except on some cards with low video memory none of
  the particle effects work. If this occurs, run it
  again with a lower resolution, or just download the
  video version. Oh yeah, there have also been some
  compatibility issues with Vista, but I think that's
  expected. ;)

 -I threw in the inverted mode because I was bored :) .
  It inverts the colors and it's kinda neat, although
  I think it looks better in the original color scheme.

 -EVERYTHING in this intro has been hard-coded - all
  animation, camera paths, etc., everything. I
  really just don't feel like coding a WYSIWYG demomaker
  like Farbrausch or Conspiracy or Stravaganza or any of
  them - I don't have the time and I wouldn't like to
  do it without the rest of my group, so maybe we will
  once I have a stable internet connection again.

 -I am 15 years old. However, when this demo will be
  released, I will have only just turned 16. Just thought
  I'd throw that out there. :D

 -Final thoughts: I like the demo as a whole more than
  anything I've ever done. Finally, especially with the
  music, I'm producing in a style that I really feel
  strongly about. I had more fun working on this project
  than I have making a demo in a long time. The only
  thing I regret is that the some of the group didn't
  take part in the production - I can never seem to talk
  to Decipher...well, at least I actually had something
  that could be called design this time ;) .

 -Waffle's Notes:
  Well what do I see here. I wasn't going to participate
  in making of the demo at all but seems like it's 3AM
  and deadline approaches. :) Not much to add. It looks
  nice.

-Greetings:
 -3SC ....................................... Aardbei-
 -Andromeda Software Development ............. Aspekt-
 -Bauknecht ........................ Black Lotus, The-
 -Bombsquad .............................. Brainstorm-
 -Bypass .................................... Calodox-
 -Conspiracy ....................... Dark Bit Factory-
 -Exceed .................................... Equinox-
 -ExHouse ......................................... F-
 -Fairlight ............................. Farb-Rausch-
 -Gravity ................................... Haujobb-
 -Jumalauta ................................. Kewlers-
 -Kolor .................................. Limp Ninja-
 -LKCC ...................................... Mandula-
 -Maturefurk .................................... MFX-
 -Northern Dragons ............................ Orion-
 -Outracks ................................... Pathos-
 -Plastic ............................ Portal process-
 -Replay ....................................... Rgba-
 -Surprise!Productions ................ Spinning Kids-
 -Stravaganza .............................. Suburban-
 -Tin Dragons, The ............................ Tpolm-
 -Traction .......................... uemlauet Design-
 -[ ....................and you.................... ]-

-Outreach:
 -Youth Uprising is looking for talented youth! If you
  are under 18 and would like to join, email Ferris at:
  jaketaylor123 [at] hotmail [dot] com and you will be
  greatly considered. Visit http://thygrion.untergrund.net/
  for more info!

-Eof: Copyright 2007 Youth Uprising
