Future Crew

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Artwork by Pixel from their popular demo, Second Reality.

Future Crew is a now-defunct group of Finnish computer coders and artists who created PC demos and software, active mostly between 1992 and 1994.

1 History
2 Members
3 Releases
- 3.1 Tributes
4 External links

[edit] History

The group was founded in 1986 by PSI as a Commodore 64 group, before moving to the PC demoscene in 1988; other members included, over time, Trug, Wildfire, Pixel, ICE, GORE, Abyss, Purple Motion, and Skaven, as well as several others not listed here.

Noteworthy demos by the Future Crew include Unreal (released at Assembly 1992), Panic (released at The Party 1992) and Second Reality (released at Assembly 1993). Second Reality may be considered one of the most influential PC demos ever made.

Future Crew was also responsible for the popular MOD editor Scream Tracker, which was fashioned after the Amiga Soundtracker, as well as the Advanced DigiPlayer sound editor. After development on Scream Tracker ceased, Jeffrey Lim created Impulse Tracker, which is very similar to Scream Tracker, yet with many more features.

Future Crew didn't release anything as a group after Scream Tracker 3. While it was never officially dissolved, its members parted ways in the second half of the 1990s. Companies like Futuremark (3DMark), Remedy (Death Rally, Max Payne) and Bitboys (a graphics hardware company) were all started in whole or in part by members of Future Crew.

[edit] Members

These are the members of the group at the time it released Second Reality :

Gore (Samuli Syvähuoko): organizer
Psi (Sami Tammilehto): coder
Trug (Mika Tuomi): coder
Wildfire (Arto Vuori): coder
Purple Motion (Jonne Valtonen): music [1]
Skaven (Peter Hajba): music & graphics [2]
Marvel (Aki Määttä): graphic artist
Pixel (Mikko Iho) : graphic artist
Abyss (Jussi Laakkonen): BBS coordinator / public relations
Henchman (Markus Mäki): BBS operator
Jake (Jarkko Heinonen): Internet PR

[edit] Releases

Future Crew released the following productions on the PC demoscene :

GR8 (1988, demo)
YO! (1989, demo)
Slideshow I (1990, slideshow)
Scream Tracker 2 (1990, tool)
Mental Surgery (1991, demo)
Assembly '92 Invitation, aka. Fishtro (1992, invitation)
Unreal (1992, demo, 1^st at Assembly 92)
Starport BBStro (1992, BBStro)
The Party 92 Invite (1992, invite)
Panic (1992, demo, 2^nd at The Party 92)
Assembly '93 Invitation (1993, invitation)
Worldcharts #01 (1993, diskmag)
Second Reality (1993, 1^st at Assembly 93)
Bussimatkaintro (1993, intro)
Journey 1 (1993, musicdisk)
Journey 2 (1993, musicdisk)
Starport BBS Add 2 (1993, BBStro)
Chaotic Mind (1994, musicdisk)
Assembly '94 Pre-invitation (1994, invitation)
Assembly '94 Invitation (1994, invitation)
Soppa (1994, 64k demo)
Scream Tracker 3 (1994, tool)

[edit] Tributes

Tributes to Future Crew include a 3D graphics benchmark called Final Reality by Remedy Entertainment (shown at Assembly 1997), and a remake of Second Reality for the Commodore 64 by Smash Designs called Second Reality 64 (released at The Party 1997).