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What is Friktal?
The dry, short answer -- Friktal is a game which invites players to explore and interact with 3D fractal worlds as they beat, morph, and flow to the user's music.

The not so dry answer -- Friktal is a portal to other dimensions. It is a small part of the answer to the question -- what is the nature of reality. Friktal is a key to unlock parts of your imagination which lay long dormant. Perhaps it is even a teacher to help open eyes to greater understanding of self and perceptions both internal and external. Friktal is seeing dragons in clouds and letting your mind move through those clouds in search of it's lair. Friktal is a toy, a tool, and a glimpse into the sheer freaking beauty of the universal language -- mathematics.

And the Geeky Techy Tidbits?
Friktal uses a genius technique of rendering called raymarching. Here is a great primer about raymarching, thanks adrian: http://flafla2.github.io/2016/10/01/r...

Current Project Status (updated 1/22/2019)
Friktal is estimated to be three to four months away from release via Steam Early Access for both Windows Desktop and Virtual Reality (Oculus and Vive). We will be launching a crowd funding campaign between now and then to raise awareness and funding for the project. We have so many plans for this and really appreciate the community support.

Features Completed (updated 1/22/2019)
20+ unique fractal setups to explore
Capture and visualization of any windows audio source or included songs composed by SonOfaFrik (spotify, soundcloud, youtube, etc)
Pause, fastforward, rewind time within the flowing fractal worlds without disrupting the flow of the music
toggling of beat morphing, and music flowing into the fractal math.
GPU optimizations for 100+fps@1080p on low-mid range gpus. 60-100+fps@4k on high end gpus (gtx1070+)
playing and fractal overlay of youtube videos inside Friktal
Numerous graphical effects including Anti-aliasing, Depth of Field blur, volumetric fog, blooms, rimlighting, and sdcreenspace reflections... all optimized to 60+ fps on target gpus/resolutions
ASCII rendering modes for my personal dialup BBS days nostalgia
Saving and Loading of any place you find within infinity
Features Targeted before 1.0 Release
Online, in-game sharing and browsing of user created fractal setups and saved locations worth visiting
Online voting system of favorite fractals / places
Integration with Spotify and Soundcloud to video other players flythroughs and fractal setups to specific songs
Online voting of song flythroughs -- Controller dancing is a thing!
Social sharing features, youtube video capture/posting
Advanced screenshot capture of higher than native resolution for large scale prints. Think multiples of screen rez. 2/4/8/10x

Where else is Friktal going?
Headed back to Burningman. In 2018 an early version was porjected at the burn in Playa Alchemist's 13 story metal pyramid Smiley
Using motion capture suits for live dancer's bodies to directly move and interact with the fractal world while it is projected all around them
Brainwave input into the fractal math using EEG equipment
Borrowing a page from SoundSelf (amazing project) for a meditation targeted Friktal product
Scripting system for live performance
midi controller integration and mapping for live control systems
DJ/VJ targeted version with Spout output
?? Ideas ??

What Early Testers Say About Friktal
"It's like being in the psychedelic larynx of a cosmic opera singer"
"At times it really feels like a window into alternate dimensions and perceptions of reality. Like I'm a human voyeur watching an inter-dimensional orgy. "
"This is proof humanity has hit AI singularity and our new god is talking to me through the music-driven fractal math"
"What the @%$#$ did I just see.... I'm in awe while feeling a little uncomfortable... maybe I just saw something my reality isn't ready for"
"My brain just level up'd"
"Well done. You found a way to record my brain on drugs and let me go explore my poor life decisions in gorgeous detail."
"I enjoy seeing a dragon in the randomness of a cloud but in Friktal the dragon is dancing while auroras pulse from the reflections the sun makes on his scales."
"Realtalk. Weed's legal in some places now. It's time for a new genre of games for us stoners. Long live Friktal."
"I'm a crusty old techie. I never in my wildest dreams thought it would be possible, in my lifetime, to visually explore fractal math in such a visceral and breathtakingly beautiful way. And in realtime -- controller in hand -- to go where I will through a gateway to far off realms is if to directly explain what infinity is all about."
"I've played a lot of VR games and had kind of written it off until resolutions and FOV are a couple generations improved. I gladly dusted off my Oculus to try Friktal. Wow. It is BY FAR the most surreal, goosebump enducing, vr experience to date. Well Done!"

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