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Wait, there are no nominees for the best stream breaker award?!

more like coughs-out

We are happy to announce the nominees for The Meteoriks Awards 2022!

Thanks to everyone who joined us tonight, thanks to the jurors for assembling these lists and - most importantly - thanks to everyone who graced 2021 with their fantastic productions!

NEW TALENT

• TôBach for Spaceman - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=90578
  
• epoqe for OIΩNOΣ - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=90112
  
• Holo Sapiens for Holo Grail - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88663
  
• finalizer for the music in Paraller - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89715
  
• P_Malin for Caffeinate - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=90253
  

BEST SOUNDTRACK

• Arcade by Spectrals - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88624
  
• A New World Awaits by Peisik and ____blnk - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88644
  
• Ephemeral by LJ and Puryx - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88538
  
• Zero Percent by Eos and Prismbeings - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89606
  
• There by Still - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88632
  

BEST VISUALS

• Clean Slate by Conspiracy - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88524
  
• DRD5 by Still - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89609
  
• Condition by FMS_Cat - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88544
  
• A New World Awaits by Peisik and ____blnk - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88644
  
• Domain by 0b5vr - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=90435
  

BEST DIRECTION

• The Last Minute by Lucid - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=90099
  
• 1986 by Netro - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89848
  
• A New World Awaits by Peisik and ____blnk - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88644
  
• Paraller by Futuris -https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89715
  
• Domain by 0b5vr - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=90435
  

OUTSTANDING CONCEPT

• There by Still - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88632
  
• Domain by 0b5vr - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=90435
  
• Freespin by Reflex - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89362
  
• A New World Awaits by Peisik and ____blnk - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88644
  
• Cortez by Melon Dezign - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89349
  

OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

• Dread by Altair - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89794
  
• A New World Awaits by Peisik and ____blnk - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88644
  
• Freespin by Reflex - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89362
  
• MEMS by Digimind - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89830
  
• SSEraf by Řrřola - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88536
  

BEST OLDSCHOOL PRODUCTION

• Bromance by Bonzai - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89371
  
• Can Robots Take Control? by Benediction and Arkos - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88554
  
• Unity by Padua and Atlantis - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88810
  
• Delightful Attributes by Darklite and Offence - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88600
  
• Freespin by Reflex - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89362
  

BEST MIDSCHOOL PRODUCTION

• The Martini Effect by Flex - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88640
  
• Rule 30 by Andromeda - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89365
  
• FirST Love by Overlanders - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89673
  
• Cracklebass by Brainlez Coders! - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=90244
  
• D-Zero by Desire - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88550
  

BEST EXECUTABLE GRAPHICS

• Take it or leaf it! by Team210 and 5711 - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89603
  
• You Are Here by tdhooper - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88649
  
• Red Crash by NuSan - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88611
  
• Bull by Evilryu - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88648
  
• Caffeinate by bitshifters collective - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=90253
  

BEST HIGH-END INTRO

• Domain by 0b5vr -https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=90435
  
• Condition by FMS_Cat - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88544
  
• Alcanoid by Alcatraz - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88617
  
• Clean Slate by Conspiracy - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88524
  
• Deus Cervidae by Nuance - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88530
  

BEST HIGH-END DEMO

• Paraller by Futuris - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89715
  
• DRD5 by Still - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89609
  
• A New World Awaits by Peisik and ____blnk - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88644
  
• sp04 - Geiler Hydrant by Spacepigs - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89427
  
• Color by Ninjadev - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88627
  

Join us on Good Friday, 8pm at Revision Satellites for the great Award Show!

No Best Demo-Nomination for »Still / There«? WTF?!

What gaspode said.

(Congrats to all nominees though!)

I find your lack of 4k intro category disturbing...

For anyone thinking one sub-64k category would suffice - it obviously didn't.
We have two 4k's in Best Soundtrack and one in Best Direction, but that was not enough to compete with 64k's to even qualify into their own dedicated Best Intro category.

Also: Congratulations for all the nominees! :)

No, we're afraid it is only nominated for Best Soundtrack and Outstanding Concept, and another fantastic release of them, DRD5, made it onto the Best High-End Demo list (amongst other category nominations).

Don't get me wrong, our jurors don't "trade prods" amongst each other, every category is independently reviewed.
Selecting five out of a lot of fantastic productions is not an easy job, and I'm sure we can also all agree that the ones selected absolutely deserve their nominations as well.

Also: Very much looking forward to having you on the jury next year! :)

I don't mean to say that I expected a nomination, but I second KK's lament for the 4k intros (again).

Congratulations to all nonetheless. :)

@fizzer: Well, I was genuinely curious if "Before I Slumber" could keep against competition in its own category, as there were some really nice prods this year. :)
But after merger with 64k, all 4k's in the world totally flew under the radar.

Good to see that the jurors were provided some high quality crack this year :P

..nominee reveal time is always people complaining time :D

So Amiga 500 is a "midschool" platform now, is it? Certainly didn't feel that way last time I touched it. ;-o

Holding out for the grade school category, where you need a PhD to make the demos.

i agree with there / still being much worthier of a best demo nomination then for example drd5. for me it was demo of the year.

about the high end intro being combined: it was discussed separating them but there were 2 main issues with it that i recall from the top of my head which led to this decision:
a) the 64k category would easily end up with as many nominations as there were releases in the year. in this particular year there were some very good quality despite not much quantity (64ks are always in sparse numbers these days).
b) trying to keep the number of categories below 12 to avoid the meteoriks being a too long show.

i do agree the 4k and 8k released this year could easily have made a category of their own. before i slumber was one of my favorite 4ks of the year and it definitely felt weird not seeing it nominated.

blueberry: we realize the line is not very easy to define in what is oldschool and what is midschool. as one of the jury members who tried to push for the separation of the lowend category into these 2, i hope it atleast feels a bit better then last year. but think positive: you can consider yourself not an old person for coding amiga, just mid :P

»Trying to keep the number of categories below 12 to avoid the meteoriks being a too long show.«

I think it would be better to risk a slightly longer show if you can have one or two more categories.

i agree with you on this particular case but there is always "just one more" category idea lurking around the corner, and so in that regard i can understand the main orgas decision to focus on keeping the show tight. at the end of the day it's always a juggle between people complaining about not enough categories and people complaining that show is too long.

If the scene started most of all with OCS Amiga, I don't know how that platform could be called anything else than oldskool. And if you now make a demo for PDP-1 is it an oldskool thing just because the platform itself is old? I don't think so. To avoid this kind of conceptual problems related to mixing scene history vs. technological history, I would maybe rather speak about low-end, mid-end platforms or something like this.

The low-end/mid-end name was discussed, and we worried that would have led to c64, zx, etc sceners being offended that their machines were being called weak...

There's no naming scheme that is going to keep everyone happy, but please remember that this is an attempt to recognize more of the productions been done with older platforms by adding an award.

(feel free to prove me wrong about perfect names for the categories)

I am tremendously offended by the stupidity of this argument.

@psenough: People who think the show is too long can ignore it. I understand that there cannot be infinitive awards, but it always seems there are only 1 or 2 missing.

There were times the scene.org awards were longer than an hour. People hated it. Also revision has a right af schedule as is, people really don’t want things to be longer than an hour. We always suffer with the first shader showdowns too. Most people leave after the first two matches (coincidentally that takes an hour) and keeping the hype up for an hour more is hard.

*tight af schedule, stupid autocorrect

It didn't.


...yes? I'm not aware of a single demoparty with an oldschool compo that wouldn't put a PDP-1 demo in that category if it received one.


Last year the award was called "low-end", and this is a genuine argument that was made. This year we figured that people were going to make tedious arguments about it either way, so we decided to go with the name that's actually used in the demoscene rather than contriving to come up with a new one that people will still complain about. Congratulations for being this year's Person Making The Tedious Argument.

I didn't see anybody getting offended on that thread.



If this is the criterion, "midschool" shouldn't be there.