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I always found Demoscene to be a curious phenomena. A combination of fascination and not understanding the point. Seems to be mostly a European thing, too.
by fnord77 1y ago
I always found Demoscene to be a curious phenomena. A combination of fascination and not understanding the point.
Seems to be mostly a European thing, too.
- badpun 1y agoThey're talented hobbyists who are not interested in monetizing their passion. Such people exist in US too, although perhaps are more rare.
- squigz 1y agoI think the point is to create fracking cool art - and show off your skills
- userbinator 1y agoFrom what I've seen, mostly East-European and former USSR.
- skrebbel 1y agoAbout evenly spread both sides of the Iron curtain, I’d say. Lots of demoscene in eg Germany, Scandinavia too. Netherlands, UK and France also have sizeable (though smaller) scenes.
- pjmlp 1y agoAnd to lesser extent Iberian Penisula, where sceners like shader toy creators come from.
- anyfoo 1y agoAssembly, arguably the most known demo party, was famously Finnish. Future Crew (who made Second Reality) were (are?) Finnish as well. Lots of demo scene in Germany, also.
- ptek 1y agoThere were a lot of global crews during c64 days and a few crews on the Amiga. In New Zealand on the Amiga a lot of the warez and compilations had importros on them. So was a small coding scene here but not as big as Europe or during C64 days.