The Meteoriks Awards 2021
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The Meteoriks 2021 Categories
Our jurors have thought long and hard and decided on a set of award categories for this year!
You'll recognize most of them from previous years but we made some changes to cater to 2020's peculiarities.
New Talent - The group or individual scener that made their most memorable entrance in 2020
Best Visuals - The production with the most beautiful and impressive art style, graphics, effects, modeling, texturing, color scheme, ...
Best Direction - The production with the best overall cohesion, camerawork, atmosphere, pacing, story, ...
Best Soundtrack - The production with the best soundtrack
Outstanding Technical Achievement - The production that most dropped our jaws as it was previously deemed impossible
Best Low-End Production - The overall best production on a low-end platform
Best High-End Demo - The overall best production above 64k on a high-end platform
Just going by the amount of prods, we decided to merge the 64k and Small Intro categories into one this year:
Best High-End Intro - The overall best production in 64k or less on a high-end platform
And since 2020 was very different in a lot of aspects we're proud to introduce two new categories especially for the past year:
Best Executable Graphics - The best executable still image on any platform
Scene Spirit Award - The project that most helped keep the scene spirit alive and our moods aloft during 2020
Juror applications closed
First of all, thanks to everyone who volunteered to be a juror this year! <3
We've got a great bunch of jurors again - folks returning from last year and also plenty of first-timers - and they've already begun sleuthing through 2020's prods to look for the prods that stand out.
And like last year, you can help them with that!
Prod suggestions are open!
As of right now, you can submit prods for consideration by our jurors through both https://www.pouet.net/ and https://demozoo.org/
Just view any prod page as a logged in user and you'll get a choice of awards to submit the prod for - at the top of the page on Demozoo, and at the bottom on Pouet.
Please help our jurors out and make sure they don't miss your favorite prods!
Our jurors have thought long and hard and decided on a set of award categories for this year!
You'll recognize most of them from previous years but we made some changes to cater to 2020's peculiarities.
Just going by the amount of prods, we decided to merge the 64k and Small Intro categories into one this year:
And since 2020 was very different in a lot of aspects we're proud to introduce two new categories especially for the past year:
Juror applications closed
First of all, thanks to everyone who volunteered to be a juror this year! <3
We've got a great bunch of jurors again - folks returning from last year and also plenty of first-timers - and they've already begun sleuthing through 2020's prods to look for the prods that stand out.
And like last year, you can help them with that!
Prod suggestions are open!
As of right now, you can submit prods for consideration by our jurors through both https://www.pouet.net/ and https://demozoo.org/
Just view any prod page as a logged in user and you'll get a choice of awards to submit the prod for - at the top of the page on Demozoo, and at the bottom on Pouet.
Please help our jurors out and make sure they don't miss your favorite prods!
I forgot to mention that prod suggestion will be open until Sunday, Feb 21, so don't be too late :)
"Hey, that's not a prod!" Nevertheless, I'd like to submit for your consideration Starchaser's "Demoscene Card Exchange" for the Scene Spirit Award.
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"Hey, that's not a prod!" Nevertheless, I'd like to submit for your consideration Starchaser's "Demoscene Card Exchange" for the Scene Spirit Award.
seconded!
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"Hey, that's not a prod!" Nevertheless, I'd like to submit for your consideration Starchaser's "Demoscene Card Exchange" for the Scene Spirit Award.
seconded!
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"Hey, that's not a prod!" Nevertheless, I'd like to submit for your consideration Starchaser's "Demoscene Card Exchange" for the Scene Spirit Award.
seconded!
thirded
farted :D
And duly noted, thanks! :)
We're going to set up an email address for Scene Spirit submissions as well, but this thread is perfectly fine for not-a-prod submissions too! Keep the suggestions coming!
We're going to set up an email address for Scene Spirit submissions as well, but this thread is perfectly fine for not-a-prod submissions too! Keep the suggestions coming!
And again only one nomination for LowEnd demos/intros... meh :(
Releasing an Amiga demo as mail-swap only (hence no Pouet or Demozoo page, yet) is pretty bold and true to the scene spirit. Thus, I'd like to propose Hologon by TEK.
Throwing in a couple more not-a-prod Scene Spirit suggestions...
* MountainBytes - Cowee's advent calendar
* NuSan and Alkama - Bonzomatic network support
* MountainBytes - Cowee's advent calendar
* NuSan and Alkama - Bonzomatic network support
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"Hey, that's not a prod!" Nevertheless, I'd like to submit for your consideration Starchaser's "Demoscene Card Exchange" for the Scene Spirit Award."
This
isn't vodka-krawallbrause the goto Scene Spirit since like.. forever? :D
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Releasing an Amiga demo as mail-swap only (hence no Pouet or Demozoo page, yet) is pretty bold and true to the scene spirit. Thus, I'd like to propose Hologon by TEK.
This.
And I would also like to propose "The Hologon" (which is not "Hologon Superspreader") for "outstanding technical achievement" and "best low-end production".
Was it released in 2020 or 2021 though ? Is the 2021 meteoriks for prods released in 2020 ?
Ahh.. seems the first people did get their Hologon disks at the end of December 2020 :)
@DanLemon: Meteoriks 2021 ist for prods from 2020.
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isn't vodka-krawallbrause the goto Scene Spirit since like.. forever? :D
Yeah, that's why we can't consider it for this year's Meteoriks, it was technically released before 2020 ;)
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And I would also like to propose "The Hologon" (which is not "Hologon Superspreader") for "outstanding technical achievement" and "best low-end production".
For anything that can be submitted through Pouet's and Demozoo's prod submission features, please use those and not this thread - the scripted process means less work for us, less room for human error, and less clutter in this thread :)
its pretty hard to vote for a demo that isnt realeased online, tho ;p
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For anything that can be submitted through Pouet's and Demozoo's prod submission features
Exactly. That's why.
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Exactly. That's why.
Oh! Right xD Misplaced my thinking hat there, sorry :)
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Releasing an Amiga demo as mail-swap only (hence no Pouet or Demozoo page, yet) is pretty bold and true to the scene spirit. Thus, I'd like to propose Hologon by TEK.
I _would_ like to add though that making the demo easily accessible to people outside the mailswapping business will greatly increase the accessibility to our juries and hence its chance of being considered ;)
I might even go as far as requiring that a prod be publicly accessible for a chance at an award, but I'm just thinking out loud here. I think it would be very weird to publicly recognize a prod that's not easily accessible for everyone to get their own impression.
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I might even go as far as requiring
I just realized how this might sound like I'm the one person making the rules xD
That is certainly not the case, but I think it's something we should think about in the team and I brought the topic up among our jury.
Even on a slight chance to derail the thread (please dont): I understand that swapping demos by mail gives you oldschool vibes and that its "cool" and "elite" but its completely contrary to my (and not only my) believes that data should be free, especially in scene context.
Those who got it by mail and feel good about it are of course free to do so, but yes: if you really consider "Hologen" to be worthy of an award please let the public know what its about.
Those who got it by mail and feel good about it are of course free to do so, but yes: if you really consider "Hologen" to be worthy of an award please let the public know what its about.
so your deep belief that data should be free cannot tolerate a retro gimmick?
on a side note, data is never free. even in the demoscene. people put time and afford in a a release (for your pleasure), so your demands are stupid and selfish at best!
on a side note, data is never free. even in the demoscene. people put time and afford in a a release (for your pleasure), so your demands are stupid and selfish at best!