RE: [GD-Windows] demo scene? party organizers?

[Philip T. <pt...@mi...>]

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From: Javier Arevalo [mailto:ja...@py...]=20
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 5:56 AM
To: Gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] demo scene? party organizers?

Rich <leg...@xm...> wrote:

> Is anyone here familiar with the demo scene?  I imagine the answer is
> yes.

I was active a few years ago, just an active observer now.

> I'm starting to organize a demo scene party to be held in Salt Lake
> City no earlier than 2003.  I'm interested in contacting other party
> organizers to gain from their experiences.  In particular I'd like to
> contact the organizers of any of these demoscene parties:

Wow the return of the american demoscene! That's going to create some
interest, despite the argument you got yourself into in the scene
newsgroups
last week (the whole thread was hilarious, not a surprise in csipd).
Possible steps to take:

 - Post in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos - many people read.
 - www.pouet.net and www.ojuice.org
 - I know a few people in the US who are still interested in the scene,
my
brother among them, so I could try to get you a list. One of them used
to
compile a contact list of former sceners who are now working in the
games
industry. He usually arranges a meeting at E3 every year, but I have
unfortunately been unable to join them the past two years. Similar thing
happens at the GDC I think.

>Yes, the last 2 years the DOG has had a presentation at GDC.

 - Siggraph last year had some form of "Demoscene Outreach Event" or
something similar - I could search the name of the guy in charge, my
brother
knows him.

>Yes, Vincent Scheib is point man for the DOG, see
http://www.scene.org/dog


IIRC the main problems when organizing a demoparty in the US were:

 - US sceners are noisy but scarce, and the concept seems fairly alien
to
most people there.
 - distances to travel are very long.
 - people were not allowed to sleep at the partyplace, or have computers
&
music playing at night, for that matter (a "legal fines" part in the
budget
is typical in european parties).

If someone is curious to see what a medium-size demoparty looks like, I
got
a few pics from the last Euskal Party in San Sebastian (Spain) last
summer:
www.iguanademos.com/Jare/EuskalX

This is fairly offtopic so I won't follow this up in the list.

  Javier Arevalo
  Pyro Studios




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