Regis III by Damage (3rd place at Xenium 2025 – PC Demo Competition)

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Released at Xenium 2025, our production “Regis III” took 3rd place in the PC Demo Compo.

Inspired by Stanisław Lem’s The Invincible, this real-time audiovisual demo explores the idea of particle intelligence – chaotic, swarming, and alien. Its tagline says it all:

“Not every intelligence must wear a human face.”

Like our previous works, everything runs live in Python with Panda3D – featuring custom GLSL shaders, procedural particle systems, and tight sync with Dan’s soundtrack. No pre-rendered video – it’s all code in motion.

Credits:

  • Code – @miklesz (Mikołaj Leszczuk)
  • Music – Dan (Daniel Lulkowski)
  • 2D Graphics – Sitek (Marcin Sobczyk)
  • 3D Graphics – Frano (Franciszek Leszczuk)

Watch & download:

:link: Pouët

:link: Demozoo

:play_button: YouTube

Big thanks to the Panda3D devs and the Xenium community for the support and inspiration!

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As always, great work guys! With the increasing number of your productions, maybe P3D will become a major tool for demo groups! :slight_smile:

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Congratulations and well done on so placing! And the demo itself is pretty cool! :slight_smile:

(Funnily enough, I just today started watching a let’s play of the video-game based on The Invincible! :slight_smile: )

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I can warmly recommend the book - it’s a great read and really goes down smoothly.

I read Lem’s original in Polish, but I found online that The Invincible has been translated into over 30 languages - so chances are you’ll find your own there, or at least English :smiley: (for example German, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian, and many more).

What I liked most is how it mixes solid hard sci-fi with deeper philosophical questions about humanity and the nature of intelligence. Definitely worth checking out!

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