Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms
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Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms
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#2I used to be the coder of a small demoscene team in the early 2000's. I never had as much fun writing computer programs ever since then. It was creating awesome stuff just for the sake of awesomeness.
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#3This is a great collection of links. And it's extremely up-to-date - that last demo, Gaia Machina, just came out last week!
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#4Don't miss the BBS Documentary's Artscene episode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ReS4Bp4IPY seems to be a copy of it.
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#5I used to be the coder of a small demoscene team in the early 2000's. I never had as much fun writing computer programs ever since then. It was creating awesome stuff just for the sake of awesomeness.
same here but mid 90`s oh the nostalgia. Kinda surprising, demogroups were kinda like small startups at least on the production side. biz side/product development/customer development/etc etc ... non existent, guess that`s why it was so fun.
Still great learning experience for a kid.
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#6This was an awesome documentary, even though I am not currently writing anything for the scene I still like to watch what they do and I generally try and tune into streams of the parties. Fun times
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#7I used to be the coder of a small demoscene team in the early 2000's. I never had as much fun writing computer programs ever since then. It was creating awesome stuff just for the sake of awesomeness.
What do you think is stopping demos from taking off as a serious commercial art form? Just culture, or something more fundamental?
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#8I used to be the coder of a small demoscene team in the early 2000's. I never had as much fun writing computer programs ever since then. It was creating awesome stuff just for the sake of awesomeness.
What do you think is stopping demos from taking off as a serious commercial art form? Just culture, or something more fundamental?
Interactive demo-like things have been taking off lately, but mostly under the label "games" (which sells more), even in the case where the game-ness is pretty minimal. Not sure if they're explicitly inspired by the demoscene or not, but interactive-procedural-graphics-and-sound stuff like Proteus feels very much like a demoscene production to me (http://www.visitproteus.com/). Main difference imo is more focus on the procedural interactivity from an experiential perspective, and less focus on technical virtuosity.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you think is stopping demos from taking off as a serious commercial art form? Just culture, or something more fundamental?
Interactive demo-like things have been taking off lately, but mostly under the label "games" (which sells more), even in the case where the game-ness is pretty minimal. Not sure if they're explicitly inspired by the demoscene or not, but interactive-procedural-graphics-and-sound stuff like Proteus feels very much like a demoscene production to me ( http://www.visitproteus.com/ ). Main difference imo is more focus on…
Indeed, many people went from the demoscene to the game industry. Case in point:
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#10I used to be the coder of a small demoscene team in the early 2000's. I never had as much fun writing computer programs ever since then. It was creating awesome stuff just for the sake of awesomeness.
same here but mid 90`s oh the nostalgia. Kinda surprising, demogroups were kinda like small startups at least on the production side. biz side/product development/customer development/etc etc ... non existent, guess that`s why it was so fun. Still great learning experience for a kid.
Actually this comparison to startups can be extended. In case of demogroups PR was very important, there were strong brands, you had to apply for the positions etc. That was fun&learning not only on the technical side but also about teamwork, coping with failure on the party etc.