Crystal Dream
More info
- Creator
- Triton
- Type
- PC demo
- Released
- 1992
- Platform
- MS-DOS
Triton's 1992 PC demo that proved texture mapping and tracker music could be squeezed out of an ordinary DOS box.
Released by the Swedish group Triton, at a moment when the demoscene's centre of gravity was drifting from the Amiga to the PC. Crystal Dream and its sequel Crystal Dream II (1993) paired fast 3D, plasma and interference with module music, reaching a polish few DOS productions had managed before.
Triton is best remembered for what its members did next: the core went on to found Starbreeze Studios, moving from demos to commercial games. By then the path from scene demo to game studio was well worn, but Crystal Dream remains one of the clearest springboards along it.