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Time is counting down to America’s new summer demo party – start planning those competition entries! Added to the list of live performers is cTrix, all the way from Australia! He organizes Syntax Party down there and will join us for an hour-long set of kicking dance music with an Amiga 500 thrown in. How about a full, free dinner Saturday night? The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab has generously sponsored an Italian dinner for all attendees. @party is warming up to the Boston IF scene with a new Interactive Fiction game compo – get ready for some creative writing! There will be an onsite contest to redesign the @party logo for next year, and some surprise outdoor compos.
Haven’t registered yet? All attendees must do so by June 7th at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/92611. If you’re staying overnight, beds will be available for everyone, but if you prefer a private room (2-3 beds) to a larger one, you had better act soon!
@party 2010 – June 18th-20th, Friendly Crossways, Harvard MA, USA. Visit http://www.atparty-demoscene.net for more info, compos, attendees, performances, site pics and more!
Tags: atparty
Another successful edition of Blockparty, thanks to another successful edition of Notacon, took place last weekend. We have a partial list of attendees.Official results, and links to various photos, videos, and reports, will be up soon. Here are some preliminary, very unofficial results:
Demo
1. Size Doesn’t Matter by Coda (7kb intro)
2. Sweet PEG Hoe by Northern Dragons & Bawlz
3. Box Festival by Brainstorm
There were only two oldskool demo entries, the winner being a Colecovision demo, run on original hardware for the compo, by Krue (his first demo).
Wild
1. Wyndham Reality by The Peppers Gang – another Second Reality real-life/human “demo”, done entirely at the hotel by a once-anonymous crew that turned out to be the Blockparty organizers themselves. They forfeited their prizes, which went to 2nd through 4th place instead.
2. Criticalartware
3. All That Glitters Is Not Code by Tabernac – a stop-motion assortment of demo-like effects, again done entirely at the party place.
For the first time, there was a live compo stream. You can watch it again, with all the zany antics, at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blockparty-2010.
Coda also won the music compo and placed 2nd in the oldskool music compo, which was won by Lapine. Guybrush held a workshop for using Processing code to create realtime visual effects for DJs. Criticalartware showed three entries from a “glitch compo” held in their hotel room.
As Jason Scott promised five of them, Blockparty 2011 will take place. However, it will not be in Cleveland, but rather in California, most likely the bay area. It will also be later in the year, around September. Nothing else is certain yet. Notacon will still take place around April in Cleveland, although it will not be in the Wyndham hotel, and another demo party might take Blockparty’s place alongside it.
Update: Photos!
http://picasaweb.google.com/val.grimm/NotaconBlockparty2010
http://picasaweb.google.com/IspdChaos/NotaconBlockparty2010
Tags: blockparty
The @party organizers are excited to announce that the event schedule will include live music performances by Oxygenstar, Coda, and Animalstyle, and a live visual performance by NO CARRIER (more musicians may be added to this list soon). Check out the schedule page for additional information.
The registration deadline (for onsite attendees) AND submission deadline for remote compo entries is JUNE 7, 2010. They cannot make exceptions, as the venue needs to know the headcount for the event in advance. There will be NO registration at the door. Note for overnight guests, private rooms with 1-3 beds are going fast (dorm-style rooms with more beds will still be available). Room type requests cannot be confirmed they have your registration in hand.
To register, go to the registration information page or visit the Brown Paper Tickets page for the event. Discounts may be available for full-time students receiving need-based financial aid and folks living at or below the federal poverty line. The budget will be shared with attendees at the end of the event, following Notacon’s model.
Tags: atparty
The Scene.org awards, an 8 year tradition of recognizing each year’s best demoscene productions with trophies and stage presence, includes Andr00′s “Diatom” intro in the nominees for best newcomer of 2009, and “Sans Titre” by Northern Dragons & Brainstorm for most original concept of 2009. The awards will be presented at Breakpoint in Germany. Wish them luck!
Evoflash has released the invitation intro for Blockparty 2010, running in, you guessed it, Flash. It’s still a very cool demo, with superb music from Coda. Just click here to watch. Feel free to comment on the invite on Pouet as well. Seven weeks to party time!
Tags: blockparty
Blockparty 2010 is taking place April 15th-18th in Cleveland, OH, back with Notacon. This is the fourth of the five promised annual editions, making it, oddly enough, the longest running demoparty in North America to date. There are a few competition changes, and be sure to check out Guybrush’s workshop, “Proce55ed Synaesthesia for fun and profit”. See you there!
www.demoparty.us
Tags: blockparty
If you’re interested in attending the new demoparty in Massachusetts this summer, go to www.atparty-demoscene.net to register! You can register with overnight beds or without (for locals staying at home), and pre-order a tshirt and help out with a sponsor pack (details to come later). Please remember that the “hostel room” assignment on the registration site is only for the bed, and “entry ticket” must still be selected.
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MindCandy Volume 3: PC Demos 2003-09 (Blu-ray + DVD) will feature audio commentary on every demo, just like volumes 1 and 2, but needs the help of some expert demo fans to make it possible. Go to http://www.mindcandydvd.com/3 to see which demos still need commentary. If you are interested (and would like a free copy for each demo commentary we use), use the contact form on the MindCandy 3 website, or email Phoenix or PM him on the demoscene.us forums. Video clips will be provided for audio syncing.
Tags: mindcandy
Blockparty is coming back for a 4th wave of North American demoparty goodness and is looking for speakers. Held as part of the Notacon technology and creativity conference in Cleveland, Blockparty has been fertile ground for a growing community of remarkably talented and passionate people. Come and share your ideas or talents with an audience that gets you, have your presentation recorded and published for posterity in the creative commons, be the coolest dude or dudette alive*. Read about it here, and tell them I.C. sent you. The deadline for proposals in January 31st.
*I really will call you “dude” or “dudette” and there’s no getting around that.
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