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'Tis the season, the season to watch ALL the demos once! And then present our favourite selection to and celebrate it together with you!

Our jurors are already browsing through the preselection, and we would love you to join them!

So: Do you love demos? Do you love celebrating them yet a little more? Have you ever commented on the nominations after the fact to let the world know who should have been nominated?

All very good reasons for finally becoming a juror!

Here is what your next couple of months would entail, if we get the honour of having you:

  • Help deciding on categories with your fellow jurors
  • Review a share of last year's productions
  • Identify up to five nominees in a specific category
  • Choose a laureate
  • Represent your category live during the award show


All in all, this will take between four and eight evenings' worth of time, mostly spread across January and February.

Visit our website to learn more and sign up for jury "duty" until January 1st, we would love to have you!

https://2026.meteoriks.org/taking_part/juror/

We are looking forward to working and celebrating the best productions of the year with you!

- The Meteoriks Team

P.S.: The recommendation system will open on December 16ths, I'll of course drop y'allanother reminder then!
added on the 2025-12-04 11:56:19 by Shana Shana
So, what were your favourite demos of the year?

You can help our jurors out now by using the recommendation feature here on Pouet and Demozoo until January 18th!

https://2026.meteoriks.org/taking_part/recommend/

We also still have a few slots left in our jury, apply until December 31st!
added on the 2025-12-20 15:09:56 by Shana Shana
And by that:

The categories have been decided, and we have an addition a lot of you have been asking for years:

Best Tiny Intro is finally here, getting its own trophy to the best that can fit into maximum 1 Kilobyte!

So go out there and let us know which were your favourite - and join the jury for this all-new-category!
added on the 2025-12-20 15:17:45 by Shana Shana
nice :)
added on the 2025-12-27 17:24:18 by MNTM587 MNTM587
Yeeey ... we really need that feature 'list all demos for 1 year, sort by bendovers' ... so we know where to start
added on the 2025-12-28 13:23:46 by Steel Steel
We'd still love (and quite honestly: need) more jurors to join our ranks.
Don't worry, you'll be joined by seasoned colleagues who'll help you through the process, your most important competence should be a good idea what you're looking at (having released before in those respective categories, or have a professional background and be somewhat active in the demoscene), and the ability to convey and discuss your opinion in a civilised, safe manner.

You can still apply here:
https://2026.meteoriks.org/taking_part/juror/
added on the 2026-01-06 09:54:42 by Shana Shana
Please dont mix the fantasy consoles with any of the old/midschool platforms, its a mess!
added on the 2026-01-06 11:16:39 by spkr spkr
This Friday (February 27th) at 8pm CET

is when we reveal the nominees of this year's Meteoriks Awards live on stage at MountainBytes!

The event will be live-streamed on SceneSat (and Twitch as a backup), make sure to keep an eye out!
added on the 2026-02-23 21:52:42 by Shana Shana
The Meteoriks Nominations for 2026

After a fun nomination reveal gala at MountainBytes we can finally share our nominations with the world :)

These are the nominees for the Meteoriks Awards 2026, give them a round of applause!

NEW TALENT


OUTSTANDING CONCEPT


BEST EXECUTABLE GRAPHICS


BEST OLDSCHOOL PRODUCTION


BEST MIDSCHOOL PRODUCTION


BEST SOUNDTRACK


OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT


BEST VISUALS


BEST TINY INTRO


BEST HIGH-END INTRO


BEST DIRECTION


BEST HIGH-END DEMO


Congratulations to all our nominees, you're living testimony of our lively and vibrant community
and it's an honor to have outstanding productions like these to honor year after year!

We will see you at Revision - Friday at eight - for the big awards show!
added on the 2026-02-27 21:43:02 by dojoe dojoe
Forgot the linky: All those nominations are also live on the website now - https://2026.meteoriks.org/nominees
added on the 2026-02-27 21:44:32 by dojoe dojoe
Is there a nomimee missing in above list for midskool ?
added on the 2026-02-28 09:10:07 by magic magic
They were 4 midschool, I was expecting the 5th when I was watching the stream, and got surprised it ended up there.
added on the 2026-02-28 09:39:50 by Optimus Optimus
Should have had another nomination for Taedium Vitae right there!
added on the 2026-02-28 10:00:30 by Krill Krill
There should have been a 5th entry to the midskool nomination list. Plenty of choice :)
added on the 2026-02-28 12:41:32 by jazZ jazZ
Exactly my point.. doesnt make sense midskool only one with 4 prods..
@dojoe whats the explanation for this?
added on the 2026-02-28 15:42:07 by magic magic
We were hoping to see one or two DOS demos in there, but nope :)
I thought most would go to the Amiga demos anyways, let alone I noticed fantasy consoles had entered the contest, so way more than five to go.
added on the 2026-02-28 16:14:04 by Optimus Optimus
Fantasy consoles still have no rightful place in the midschool category. You can't even run the emulation on an accelerated a1200!
added on the 2026-03-01 08:48:35 by spkr spkr
Since there's a glaring inconsistency in "Oldschool" + "Midschool" then "High-End"... maybe fantasy consoles should get their own "Newschool" category. :)

They're mimicking the platforms of old anyways, and come with simplified programming models.
added on the 2026-03-01 09:06:51 by Krill Krill
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There should have been a 5th entry to the midskool nomination list. Plenty of choice :)


Our nominations are not simply a ranking which we cut off at five - it's the set of up to five prods over which everyone in the jury could agree that they're the best of the year, with the word "agree" doing the heavy lifting. If all jurors in a category jury can agree on a set of five prods, we have five nominees. In this case however, the jurors could agree on four prods but were divided on who should be the fifth.

In cases like that the jurors keep discussing to see whether a consensus will emerge, but that did not happen this time. We did have a very small set of prods being discussed for the fifth nomination but the lack of consensus meant that we were unable to pick any one over the others, and in that case we believe the only sensible option is to pick none and go with only four nominations, which is what we did.
added on the 2026-03-01 11:07:38 by dojoe dojoe
Thank you for the insight!
added on the 2026-03-01 11:09:51 by Krill Krill
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and in that case we believe the only sensible option is to pick none and go with only four nominations, which is what we did.


In that case, the fifth nominee could have been chosen based on the viewers' votes - the one chosen by the majority of users, excluding those already selected by the jury. What are these votes for?
added on the 2026-03-01 12:54:48 by bitl bitl
If there 2 or even 3 contenders still being debated, it could actually be nice to nominate them all.

A Meteoriks nomination is pretty cool already.
5 nominees is the golden standard, but it's very hard to limit to 5
added on the 2026-03-01 12:56:30 by p01 p01
Having a hard upper limit seems sensible. Without that, there could perhaps be as many nominees as there are jurors. =)
added on the 2026-03-01 13:12:35 by Krill Krill
I know.
I'm mostly saying that, 6 nominees ain't unreasonable and would certainly feel better than having 4 then a 5th one a few days/weeks later.
added on the 2026-03-01 15:46:50 by p01 p01
hard upper limit of 13.37 nominations
added on the 2026-03-01 16:17:01 by havoc havoc
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