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]           by   STRAPPER
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] Hi there ! Today I'll talk U about two
]things you just have to know if U wanna
]do decent d-mos nowadays .
]       They are the DESIGN and the
]               ORIGINALITY .

 Since the beginning of the ST-SCENE,
d-mos were mainly made for a technical
challenge between the groups and to
show to other people what they can do.

 Since approximately one year, ST d-mos
are coming up with some more design and
groups have made a little effort in de-
-sign and SOMETIMES in originality .

 Only sometimes, and I think it's a
lack. Because groups do a too much lit-
-tle effort compared to certain groups
like MELON DEZIGN (Amiga) who mixes
very well design, originality, code,
graphics and music . They even won't
miss the synchro between animations
and music. In most of the cases, the
music is made FOR the d-mo, it is like
a GLUE: the d-mo would be bad if they
do another kind of music for this.

 On ST, it's mainly like this:
music and animations aren't "ENTITIES"
and without this UNITY, d-mos won't
have a piece of design.

 That was for the first point. For the
second point, I'll talk U about the
]           ORIGINALITY .


 I've seen many d-mos where many FX
were taken from other d-mos and, in
the most recent ones, from Amiga's
d-mos.

]             HEY DUDES !

] AREN'T YOU ABLE TO -CREATE- YOUR OWN
]             EFFECTS ?!?

 Just do like some Amiga groups :
they have a guy who's called nor coder
nor graphician, nor musician, nor
swapper but just "IDEA-MAN" or
"DESIGNER" who THINKS and FINDS -NEW-
IDEAS FOR D-MOS and assembles 'em into
a very nice design (in general !).

 After a passage by this kind of guy,
a d-mo just could access, if the guy
is good enough at this, to the rank of
PURE ART (Yes !).
] BECAUSE IT'S BEAUTIFUL .
] BECAUSE IT HAVE AN UNITY .
] BECAUSE IT TRANSFERS TO U A FEELING,
]  A STATE OF EMOTION THAT ALL OF YOUR
]  TECHNICAL STUFF WOULD NEVER HAVE !
 There's also a "road" between all the
ideas and the code, gfx or music.
It have an UNITY.

 I wrote this article not only as an
observation of this poor side of ST
d-mos, but also for finding more d-mos
in the (near) future which would have
more design and more ORIGINAL ideas .

]         AND DONT FORGET

 That with the FALCON which is there
that you won't have ONLY to do just a
3D-SCROLLER, a ROTATING-SCROLL or a
STARFIELD with the first music your
musician gaved U to prove that you're
good enough. Because that's a great
machine and U can do nearly what U
want with .

 If we want that more people buy this
fantastic machine, d-mos should be seen
by OTHER PEOPLE THAN US (dmos-creators)
and, if U have forgotten, I remember to
U that this kind of people isn't
interested AT ALL by ALL YOUR
TECHNICAL STUFF, even if it's good
enough FOR US, they have to be impres-
sed by BEAUTIFUL AND DESIGNED THINGS .
 Don't forget this when your do d-mos!
 You'll now to consider these as a
kind of INTERACTIVE PAINTINGS .














]SO PLEASE BEGIN -NOW-
]AND GIVE US, TO ALL ST-USERS BY NOW
]AND TO OTHER PEOPLE MORE AND MORE
]GOOD, ORIGINAL AND VERY BEAUTIFUL
]              DEMOS !

]               Signing off, 05/11/93
]                      STRAPPER