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TMDC12 invitation intro released

phoenix — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:01:13 +0000

Northern Dragons has released the invite for the 12th Textmode Demo Compo, called “Pimp My Squid!”. Info and download links are on the Pouet page.

Guybrush & Blackpawn to provide live visuals at DataBeez in Seattle

phoenix — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:16:22 +0000

After all the 8-bit goodness that has blessed New York City and the east coast in the form of the annual Blip Festival and the monthly Pulsewave, the west coast gets their own mini chiptune tour in the form of DataBeez this November. Starting on the 7th in LA, it works its way up to San Francisco on the 12th, then Portland and finally Seattle on the 20th. There, they will be blessed with visuals from Guybrush/Northern Dragons and Blackpawn/XPLSV. They have already started work on some interesting effects in Processing. Would you like to see a sample? Here’s a Youtube clip. Musical performers will include Minusbaby, Starpause (aka K9D/Northern Dragons), Leeni, Mr. Spastic, and Crashfaster.

TMDC Results now Online

s_tec — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:32:06 +0000

The Northern Dragons have concluded their Text Mode Demo Competition, and the results are now online at the compo website and on pouet. This is the Northern Dragon’s first year hosting the competition after picking up the torch from tAAt, and the results look excellent! Let’s hear it for the Northern Dragons, and all those who contributed entries to the compo!

Northern Dragons Release NVision Parody

s_tec — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:51:24 +0000

The Northern Dragons have released a parody invitation for the upcoming NVision demoparty. The demo, released by “NDivia,” invites you to the “GinVision 2008″ demo party. The party features several wonderful competitions, including:

4k PC
4k GP32X Game
PSP music dic^Hsk
GBA 3D wild
Euroweenie-eating contest
Monkey Island Speedrun contest
Acoustic Guitar Hero
ATI Card throwing / skeet shoot
Rob is Jarig Dance Marathon

In addition, attendees receive free booze and a Tesla supercomputer! Naturally, the entire invitation, including the imaginary demo party, is a joke. The demo’s author, Guybrush, writes on pouet:

To be totally clear: we <3 nvidia and are looking forward to nvision with incredible excitement, SO much excitement that we’re going crazy having to fabricate details of the compos and events. I think they deserve to be this arrogant towards their competitors… anyway, ALL of the blame for how much this sucks lies completely on us, Garg and Temis had absolutely nothing to do with this. I’m looking forward to CNS completely crushing us with the real invite. Actually I’m kind of scared.

You can see this hilarious trainwreck of a demo on pouet.net. There is also a thread on the pouet bbs.

Note: The real NVScene invite was presented at Breakpoint by Farbrausch and Neuro (I originally thought it would be Conspiracy, but they cooperated on an Evoke invite instead). We’ll link to it when it’s released. -phoenix

Northern Dragons & XPLSV Win Final TMDC!

phoenix — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:01:51 +0000

Seattle represent. The tenth, and sadly, last Textmode Demo Competition is over, and ND/XPLSV narrowly squeezed out a first place victory with their new demo, “Clockwerck”. Download and review it at Pouet.net.