News

The Meteoriks Awards 2016 just concluded, and the winners were as follows;

New Talent - Optical Circuit by 0x4015
Interactive - Caren and the Tangled Tentacles by PriorArt
Tiny Intro - Hypnoteye by Desire
Best Pixel Graphics In A Low-End Demo/Intro - Last Train To Danzig by Ghostown and Haujobb
Best Low-End Intro - Painter's Euphoria by Loonies and Unstable Label
That's Not Possible On This Platform - 8088 MPH by CRTC Desire and Hornet
Best Low-End Demo - We Were @ by Oxygene
Public Choice - Offscreen Colonies by Conspiracy
Best Storytelling / Storyline / Plot - Demos by Schaedelproduktion
Best Soundtrack - Coronoid by Still
Best High-End Intro - On by Mercury
Best Art Direction - Hold-And-Modify by CNCD and Fairlight
Best High-End Demo - Coronoid by Still

If you missed any of those in the previous year, you now know what to do!

Thanks to our advanced network of secret undercover agents, we present the full results from Forever 2016 - which as of right now is not yet available on their official website. Have some fun, and feel free to populate the entries with your comments, credits, screenshots, downloads and such as they become available. :)

http://demozoo.org/parties/2762/

...are now available. Results are already added at Demozoo, the entries will be matched with downloads very soon. So, go grab some prods and music pieces and have some fun :)

End of the World 2016 on Demozoo
End of the World 2016 on scene.org

Were you aware that by adding a youtube link to a music entry, it gets streamable in exactly the same way as "normal" productions get? And were you aware that a lot of people over on youtube upload music tracks by amiga, c64, zx spectrum and other tunes? So, army of demoscene music nerds - could I bother you ever so slightly to go on a link-adding rampage on these?

Thanks a bunch to sLASH/iNSANE and his newly created Youtube channel for inspiring this post. Way to go, sir! :)

We added the results from TDF when they became available this morning, but held off on a news post since we expected files were right behind it. Since nothing has appeared on the scene.org servers (or anywhere else) thus far, we're going ahead with that announced now, and we'll be back when the full set of files are out :)

edit: Files are out, and fully matched on Demozoo - go make some screenshots!

http://tokyodemofest.jp/2016/results.txt
http://demozoo.org/parties/2803/

The second of the two parties this weekend also has made files available, which we have now made available on scene.org. Get cracking!

scene.org
Demozoo party page

Observant browsers may have noticed that in the last week or so, certain productions had Play buttons on top of them, and clicking those buttons would pop up a video window where you could quite simply watch the video of that production. We're not entirely done with tweaking the implementation, but we felt it was timely to let you know now, so we can have a little feedback on how it works. We currently support YouTube and Vimeo. Feel free to add videos to any productions that you want to see that Play button on.

Now, some caveats;

• Adding a YouTube or Vimeo link does not currently mean you automatically get the play button, it gets added as part of a periodically run script that adds any new links. We're working on that.

• There is currently no intelligent matching for prods with multiple video links, to present the "best" one. We're exploring a few options for that.

Other than that, we'd love to hear from our users how you like the feature, and any bugs you may find. I'll add a forum post where you can post your feedback.

Have a great sunday, all :)

Files are now in from SynchroNY in New York this weekend - no results yet, though. We'll keep you posted on that front as we hear more :)

Files are now up on scene.org
Demozoo party page

The files from Under Construction are now available over on scene.org, all ready for your extensive screenshotting and documentation efforts :) Have fun!

Demozoo party page
scene.org

As has become the custom, the first invitation for next years' Revision - the biggest, baddest demoparty around - arrived at the German christmas party. With no further ado, go check out the site and the demo, and start planning your trip to Saarbrooklyn this coming easter. w00t w00t! :)

Revision homepage
Demozoo production page (youtube and download available now)