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• first name: Matt
• last name: Westcott
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• cdcs:
• cdc #1: untitled by Inward [web] & CyberPunks Unity [web]
• cdc #2: candy ~TokyoDemoFest 2013 Invitation~ by Nonoil [web] & Gorakubu [web] & 301 [web]
• cdc #3: Stellar by Kpacku
• cdc #4: Everything Is Static Still Changing by United Force [web] & Digital Dynamite [web]

• demo Atari XL/XE Rewind 2 by New Generation & Zelax & Radiance
• Think of this as an unofficial response to the "why did this not get a Meteoriks nomination" questions - although the rest of the jury will certainly have their own reasons for passing over it.
  
  It was absolutely not overlooked - in my personal shortlist it was one of the top three oldschool demos of the year, alongside two of the eventual nominees. It's clear that they set out to make an epic demo on the scale of previous Meteoriks winners - taking their cues (some more obvious than others) from demos like Overdrive 2, Mojo and Wonderland XIV, and showing that the Atari 8-bit is more than capable of doing that too. I can't fault them for rising to that level of ambition and pulling it off.
  
  Unfortunately, when you're whittling down the candidates to a final five you have to be a little bit ruthless, and when directly compared against the others on the shortlist, the lack of polish became all too apparent. Other people here have noted that it drags on a bit, and I think that's true - it feels like in the drive to throw everything at the project to make it as epic as possible it's ended up lacking in overall coherence, and the one thing it's missing is an editor's hand. Frankly, some of the audio work comes across as a little sloppy, like the Neverending-Story-soundalike tune around the 4:50 mark where the arpeggios slow down and speed up. (I even checked the live footage from the party to make sure it wasn't just a bad capture...) Maybe there's a valid technical reason for that - loading from disk in the background perhaps? - but it's the sort of detail the C64 veterans have nailed, and without getting those details right it's hard to vibe with this demo at a level beyond pure code-porn. By the end I'm left feeling more bombarded with Stuff than satisfied.
  
  I guess in a way this is the Iconoclast to a future Lifeforce... it's a great demo, but it shows the potential for something truly legendary once the authors shake off the single-minded focus on proving themselves and make something with a soul of its own.
• rulezadded on the 2025-03-13 15:29:28
• demo Windows JavaScript The Lucky One by Netro
• So glad this made it into the Meteoriks nominations - this would have totally passed me by otherwise.
  
  Never had a demo knock me out by going in multiple unexpected directions quite like this one. And rarely is a demo as meaningful and important as this one. Thankyou for sharing it with us.
• rulezadded on the 2025-02-14 22:35:46
• demo Windows Fair play to the queen by Candela
• @randomOrder: It's "Heaven let your light shine down", from Shine by Dolly Parton.
  
  (The opening riff is also taken from Jolene by Dolly Parton. And now that's got me wondering if there are other Dolly Parton songs in the mix too, because I don't think the guitar section one minute in is from either of those...)
• rulezadded on the 2025-01-20 14:49:22
• wild Animation/Video We Didn't Start The Färjan by Gasman
• la_mettrie: Hugi (and Pain) is in there! But the catch-all answer for "why wasn't X mentioned" is "because I couldn't make it rhyme".
  
  (I can now see why most WDSTF parodies cop out by not going in chronological order.... putting this together nearly drove me batty.)
• isokadded on the 2024-10-10 00:33:40
• musicdisk Windows TheEnd by ErrorSoft
• From the nfo:
  
  Quote:

  At the same time, the democene has come to terms with ready-made engines, and even game engines in demos, fully animated demos, etc. Why is there such a strong rejection of AI? All of these are difficult questions.

  
  If non-coders were using Notch and Unity to make demos full of "check out these 100000 gouraud shaded cubes!!!", then that would be shit. But they're not. They're using them as a tool for getting original creative ideas out of their heads and onto the screen.
  
  If you're a non-artist with a story or message you want to tell, then I can see the attraction of using AI as a tool to present that vision. But if the only message you have is "here is some music that I didn't make", what's the point?
• sucksadded on the 2024-05-01 11:59:15
• diskmag ZX Spectrum **/?\**
• The demoscene stops being a politically neutral place when the political issue on the table is "which group of people shall we exterminate today"
• sucksadded on the 2024-02-01 14:57:54
• demo TIC-80 Under The Sea by Slipstream [web]
• TôBach delivers! In awe at how seemingly-effortlessly you come up with these little bundles of joy.
• rulezadded on the 2024-01-19 13:09:47
• 256b MS-Dos bubble universe DOS port by Kuemmel [web]
• For the record... the original version
• rulezadded on the 2023-11-03 18:16:39
• demo Wild Raspberry Pi Pharmageddon by The Paramedics
• On the memes thing, I have to dispute the suggestion that they're just being lazily played straight with no attempt at cleverness. Yes, subtlety did go out of the window, but that's kind of the whole point... it's lampshading the notion that demosceners have a solemn duty to systematically port these things to every platform in existence, firstly by setting up a transparently silly pretext ("your prescription is ready...") for shoehorning them in here, and then blitzing through them in 30 seconds to subvert the usual state of affairs (namely, drip-feeding every compo in the next six months with Pharmafarjan, PharmaNICCC 2000 and Pharma Apple, which I think we can all agree would have been truly lame).
  
  Point taken, if you're thoroughly sick of demoscene memes at this point then this isn't going to be any consolation - doing The Thing ironically is still Doing The Thing. But I do think there's a place on the scene for self-indulgent memey things, and that's the kind of demo we collectively set out to make, so no regrets there...
• isokadded on the 2022-11-01 20:36:01
• demo Wild Raspberry Pi Pharmageddon by The Paramedics
• Making-of writeup: https://gasman.zxdemo.org/pharmageddon/
• isokadded on the 2022-10-26 23:01:21