Wap-Niak is an Atari 8 bit party that's been held yearly in Poland for the past few years. The 2017 edition just closed its doors and the results and some of the releases are now available. Stay tuned for the missing entries.
This weekend's QBParty in Sülysáp, Hungary was apparently another succesfull entry in the series, judging by the contributions!
The full results and files are now available, so go explore and comment and do all that wonderful stuff you do :)
The site Flashtro had a lot of problems recently, with hosting trouble, old software and finally a failing database. So they started rebuilding from the ground up, and finally relaunched with a completely new site - and most of the old content, still.
If you're not familiar with Flashtro, you will find a great community there, focused on the cracking scene of yesterday. This includes modern webremakes, but also some retro-cracking and a lot of reminiscence about times past.
Almost since we launched Demozoo, art groups flocked to us, adding their artpacks to the site. It was common for these to be added as "packs", a category intended originally for demopacks. We've spent a good, long time thinking about how to best include artpacks, and have landed on a subcategory of Graphics. We've gone ahead and recategorized a bunch of entries already, but if there's any we've missed, please let us know. We can't wait to see what Blocktronics, Mistigris and the others have in store for the future!
ZX Spectrum-oriented party Multimatograf was held last weekend in Vologda, Russia. Click below and enjoy the results and releases.
Multimatograf 2017 on Demozoo
Multimatograf 2017 on scene.org
The seminars from the recent Demobit event in Slovakia was finally released on YouTube, for your streaming pleasure. There's something for everyone in there, on several interesting topics. Have fun! :)
Demoscene & Netaudio - Filipe 'ps' Cruz
Helping Charming Hand-Drawn to Survive in Cruel CG - Daniel 'Redox' Sýkora
Magic of 256-byte c86 intros - Jan 'Rrřola' Kadlec
Making 'high-end' Amiga demos - Michal 'Kiero' Wozniak
Now and then: life in the big ASD machine - Kostas 'Navis' Pataridis
The popular Easter demoparty took place last weekend in Saarbrücken, Germany and it certainly didn't disappoint, especially in the 4k and 64k categories. Click below and be amazed!
And it's official! The Meteoriks awards for 2017 were given out this past Friday. The winners and runners-up are:
New Talent: Andro of Poo-Brain
Best Interactive Production: Analysis by Bitfellas & Acko
Best Low-End Intro: Higher State of Resolution by Dekadence
Best Freestyle Graphics: Drowned Lullabies by Slayer of Ghostown
That's not Possible on this Platform!: Wonderland XIII by Censor Design
Best Low-End Demo: Unmec by Agenda
Public Choice: Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy
Best High-End 4k Intro: 2nd stage BOSS by 0x4015 & YET11
Best Storytelling/Storyline/Plot: Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy
Best Soundtrack: Elysian by Logicoma (music by H0ffman)
Best Direction: 2nd stage BOSS by 0x4015 & YET11
Best High-End Demo: Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy
The winners and nominees are listed on the website, as are the jurors.
The Nominees for the Meteoriks Awards, to be presented at Revision later this month, are finally in! Without further ado, we'll let you know who they are.
Best Direction: 2nd Stage BOSS - Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me - Gestalt - Lucy - Through The Cracks
That's Not Possible On This Platform: Be No Sqr - Chiphead - Incoherent Nightmare - Lunatico - Wonderland XIII
Best High-End 4K Intro: 2nd Stage Boss - Among The Stars - Outcast - Rhodium - Xanax
Best Storytelling/Storyline/Plot: Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me - Evolve - In The Future - Lunatico - They Came In Peace
Interactive: Analysis - Laura - Sipper - Tiatracker - Visql
Best Freestyle Graphics: Grove of the Pilgrim Hollow - The Drowned Lullabies - Tortuga - Tribe - Vesta
Best Low-End Intro: Everyway - Harder, Better, Manic, Miner - Higher State of Resolution - Unglobal
Best Soundtrack: Calcatraz - Elysian - Everyway - Instant God - Through The Cracks
Best Low-End Demo: 30 Years Amstrad Megademo - Across The Edge - Lunatico - Unmec - Wonderland XIII
Best High-End Demo: Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me - Fermi Paradox - Instant God - Terminal 7 - True Colors
New Talent: AA-Ray - Andro - Branch - FMS_Cat - LJ
Public Choice: 2nd Stage Boss - Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me - Fermi Paradox - Higher State of Resolution - Lunatico - Variform 3
The year is 2017. The place, a small village in North-West Slovakia. The event, a long-running 8 bit only demoparty that goes by the name of Forever. It took place last weekend and all the ZX Spectrum/C64/Atari 8bit/PMD 85/ZX 81/Thomson/Sam Coupé/GameBoy releases and results are now available.