the so complete pouët.net oneliner
- 2016-03-27
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ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2016/revision16/amiga_intro/ -
https://files.scene.org/browse/parties/2016/revision16/ - first batch of files are up. -
compofiller.this -
mercury 64k -> wow -
I feel so humble and small after what Mercury and Conspiracy just released... -
lick me beautifull!!! -
drift: It's a weird mixed feeling of elevation, respect, and depression... -
it's good to be lame, so I never feel like that! Instead, I just look forward to all the other platforms all the PC people are blissfully ignoring in their creative mindset. - noby: yes exactly. On one hand it makes me wonder why I bother trying... on the other it makes me want to try harder...
- Yup. These intros are why I had been envisioning the "Art Direction" award category for a while... this stuff matters.
- is demoscene resorting to the realist aesthetic as an objective measure of visual quality? could we see some J.M.W Turner inspired demos please?
- Agreed. I can't sum up all my thoughts in the one liner but I really believe this is the direction demos need to go in the future to stay relevant both in and outside the demoscene.
- All aesthetics matter. I mean that as both an argument for and against realism :)
- I hope more people will make demos from wildly different aesthetical starting points. Kinda bittersweet, but the influence of other prods is understandably very strong.
- I agree, that's one aspect I feel in the demoscene still isn't even close to mature yet. In that sense I don't feel the scene is very artistically inclined.
- It certainly doesn't need to be realistic, but it needs to be fresh and have some appeal other than just being "demoish".
- True. The untapped potential is so vast that I always feel people are willingly crippling themselves by self-censoring their "weird" demo ideas.
- the scene still hasn't gotten its true modernist moments yet
- I wouldn't go that far. Scener's tastes just tend to be narrow and limited. Most don't look for inspiration from wide enough sources.
- 2016 could be the year we challenge competitivity and mimesis imo
- Just something as simple as not forcing in awkward greetings and credits scenes makes a big difference to immersion. It's brave to break tradition and it shows that it works.
- (that was directed to visy btw, I agree with what aegis said)
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good stuff here overall ^ :) - Being truly original seems to be almost impossible at the very least :) - so, I guess one either embraces the sources of influence and go in all the way or try to sort of hide it in plain sight. I agree with drift that just being in the moment seems to be an important factor in demos for me.
- according to Adorno, making crowdpleasing romanticist crap amplifies capitalist ideology. so there's not only an aesthetic but also an ethical imperative to make weird demos!!