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Roy "Mr. Awesome" Shildt is one of the worlds' premier gamers, specifically for his Missile Command scores. More recently, he (and Twin Galaxies) have become the subject of controversies regarding said scores, and Roy's battle to maintain his supremacy. AJ and Joerg talk to him about his history, the intricacies of playing Missile Command, and hit on some of the controversies at the heart of this topic. (interview begins at 14:50)

Listen to it at: http://scene.world/awesome

[Submitted by Nafcom]

First Demo with Listart which takes you back to the early 80s.
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=200351&show=trivia
[Submitted by Baracuda]

Demoscene - The Art of Coding is an initiative to enlist the demoscene as the first digital culture on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage. AJ and Joerg (er, Derision and Nafcom) talk to Dedux, Flopine, Kudrix, and Unjello about why this is important and how we can all help move the initiative forward. (interview begins at 10:00)

Listen to it at http://scene.world/artofcoding
[Submitted by Nafcom]

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!

[Submitted by dojoe]

Retro music is in right now, but few people have taken it to the lengths that Remute has, releasing his songs not just on vinyl and digital download, but also on cartridge and floppy disk (Amiga, C64, ect!) ! Joerg, Martin, and AJ talk to him about why he chose this medium, and the unique challenges associated with releasing music on such unusual platforms. (Interview begins at 22:40)

https://scene.world/remute
[Submitted by Nafcom]