Triton (demogroup)
Triton (TRN) was a demogroup [1] active in the PC demoscene from 1992 to about 1996.
History
[edit ]Triton's first demo, Crystal Dream, was released in the summer of 1992 and won the PC demo competition at the Hackerence V demo party. Their second and last demo, Crystal Dream 2, was released in June 1993[2] and won the demo competition at The Computer Crossroads 1993 party in Gothenburg. It featured complex 3D scenes[2] and demo effects such as vector slime. In 1993 they released a multi-channel MOD composer called Fast Tracker, followed by the XM module composer Fast Tracker 2 in 1994.[3]
Triton created a commercial demo for Gravis Ultrasound cards.[4]
Most of their work was done using a combination of x86 assembler and Pascal using either Turbo Pascal or Borland Pascal 7 compilers.
Triton began developing on a fighting game named Into the Shadows. A game demo showing a character was released in 1995, but the development was stopped thereafter. In 1998, some of Triton's members founded the computer game development company Starbreeze Studios,[5] [6] that merged with O3 Games in 2001.
Members
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- Team founders (1992):
- Vogue (Magnus Högdahl) - code, music
- Mr. H (Fredrik Huss) - code
- Loot (Anders Aldengård) - graphics, raytracing
- Members hired in 1993:
- Lizardking (Gustaf Grefberg) - music
- Joachim (Joachim Barrum) - graphics
- Alt (Mikko Tähtinen) - graphics
Releases
[edit ]- Crystal Dream (1992, demo, 1st at Hackerence 92)
- Crystal Dream 2 (1993, demo, 1st at The Computer Crossroads 93)
- FastTracker 2 (1995, tracker)
References
[edit ]- ^ "'Demos' Make their Mark on the Net". Billboard . Vol. 109, no. 4. 1997年01月25日. p. 94. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ a b Melik, David (2012年06月08日). The Demoscene (Senior Colloquium). CWU.
- ^ Sandström, Göran (2013). "Chiptunes and the Early Days of Tracker Sequencers". Procedural Sequencing: A New Form of Procedural Music Creation (Thesis). Kristianstad University. p. 9. urn:urn:urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-10699:{{{2}}} . Retrieved 2021年06月05日.
- ^ Reunanen, Markku (2010). Computer Demos - What Makes Them Tick? (Thesis). Aalto University. p. 41. urn:urn:URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201206142600:{{{2}}}.
- ^ Goldberg, Daniel; Larsson, Linus (2015). Minecraft, Second Edition: The Unlikely Tale of Markus 'Notch' Persson and the Game that Changed Everything. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1-60980-686-6.
- ^ Gestalt (1999年11月11日). "An interview with Starbreeze, the Swedish company behind fantasy role playing game Sorcery". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 2016年02月21日.
External links
[edit ]- Triton archive on Pouet
- Triton on Demozoo
- Starbreeze Studios Website