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They did :)

Trixteron Maze Generation in Thirteen Bytes (2012)

While I was the beat-down recipient, it was my favorite part too. I have no problem getting beaten if I'm laughing the entire time (same goes for getting my ass handed to me in 1st-person shooters).

Trixteron Demoscene Blu-ray finally available after five years

Skrebbel! No worries, that's why there's a DVD in the pack as well. The DVD doesn't have the special features, but the main 3.5 hours of demos are there plus commentary and subtitles.

Blu-ray penetration is only 15% (in the USA, not sure about the rest of the world) so we didn't want to leave anyone behind. In five years when blu-ray players cost as much as a nice meal, you'll be set :)

Trixteron Demoscene Blu-ray finally available after five years

The main demo feature and intros featurette are 720p, but it's important to note they're 60p. 720@60p is the only 60 frame-per-second progressive format Blu-ray supports, so that's why we went with it (because demos at 30fps or lower don't have the same impact). At that size and framerate, 720@60 uses 88% of the bandwidth of 1080@30. I explain all this to illustrate that we didn't go with 720@60 for size reasons -- it was intentional, to match the full quality of the source material.

All the other special features (NVScene talks, production notes, etc.) are 1080@24 or 1080@30i.

We didn't consider a multi-disc release since we were already doing a Blu-ray+DVD combo pack. Trying to do a second disc of both would have increased the cost 50%, and we really wanted to keep it at the $20 mark, because who wants to spend more than that on a Blu-ray?

Trixteron Demoscene Blu-ray finally available after five years

Funny you mention that -- I coded a few effects (starfield, plasma, nothing amazing) to be used as the background for the menus around 2009. Unfortunately, the only production toolchain we could use (due to cost) didn't support authoring BD-J, so we dropped the idea. I know of at least one other group working on a Blu-ray BD-J demo...

Trixteron Demoscene Blu-ray finally available after five years

Buying a copy is like handing out a medal for us, since we have yet to break even on this release :-)

Thanks for the kind words. Getting the commentary from all the different authors was like trying to juggle cats, but with more cats.

Trixteron Demoscene Blu-ray finally available after five years

No, I'm afraid this is it. Ignoring the gigantic irony of filling a Blu-ray with 64k intro output, I am moving on after three great volumes over the past decade. Time to code some demos again!