Triton (TRN) was a
demogroup
Demogroups are teams of demosceners, who make computer based audio-visual works of art known as demos. Demogroups form a subculture collectively known as the demoscene.
Groups frequently consist of students, young computer enthusiasts who spend ...
active in the PC
demoscene
The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations. The purpose of a demo is to show off programming, visual ...
from 1992 to about 1996.
History
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 June 1993 and won the demo competition at The Computer Crossroads 1993 party in Gothenburg. In 1993 they released a multi-channel
MOD
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* Modesto City–County Airport, Stanislaus County, California, US
Arts, entertainment, and media Music
* Mods (band), a Norwegian rock band
* M.O.D. (Method of Destruction), a band from New York City, US ...
composer called
Fast Tracker
FastTracker 2 (also referred to as FastTracker II) is a music tracker created by Fredrik "Mr. H" Huss and Magnus "Vogue" Högdahl, two members of the demogroup Triton (who later founded Starbreeze Studios) which set about releasing their own trac ...
, followed by the
XM module composer Fast Tracker 2 in 1994.
Triton created a commercial demo for
Gravis Ultrasound cards.
Most of their work was done using a combination of x86
assembler
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* Nobukazu Takemura, avant-garde electronic musician, stage name Assembler
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and
Pascal
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* Pascal (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** Blaise Pascal, Fren ...
using either
Turbo Pascal
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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
Starbreeze Studios AB is a Swedish video game developer and Video game publisher, publisher based in Stockholm. The studios's notable games developed include ''The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay'', ''Payday 2'' and ''Brothers: ...
,
that merged with ''O3 Games'' in 2001.
Members
* 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
* Crystal Dream (1992, demo, 1st at Hackerence 92)
* Crystal Dream 2 (1993, demo, 1st at The Computer Crossroads 93)
*
FastTracker 2
FastTracker 2 (also referred to as FastTracker II) is a music tracker created by Fredrik "Mr. H" Huss and Magnus "Vogue" Högdahl, two members of the demogroup Triton (who later founded Starbreeze Studios) which set about releasing their own tr ...
(1995, tracker)
References
External links
Triton archiveon
Pouet
The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations. The purpose of a demo is to show off programming, visual ...
Tritonon Demozoo
Starbreeze Studios Website
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