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Where are all the US/Canada demo parties? I moved from Finland and I sorely miss the active scene there.
by nikanj 12y ago
Where are all the US/Canada demo parties? I moved from Finland and I sorely miss the active scene there.
- Jare 12y agoNVscene was a couple weeks ago.
- bane 12y agohttp://www.demoparty.net/ http://www.demoparty.net/
- nikanj 12y agoThere's two (2) pins on the map for the entire North-, South- and Middle-Americas. Are you telling me there are no parties here?
- bane 12y agoThere used to be one in Salt Lake City, but I think it hasn't run for a number of years. If you check pouet.net you can see what's around. Back in the mid-late 90s there used to be a fairly vibrant local scene on the East Coast of the U.S. and up into Canada, but it seems to have kind of calmed down and spread out. Lots of very small parties back in those days. I imagine there's still lots of small parties in the U.S., but they just aren't as advertised? The U.S. is just too spread out I guess.
- flywheel 12y agoHistorically, no, there is no active demo scene in the United States. I was one of the few demo scene programmers in the US during the 1980's - 1990's, but it's never really been a thing over here.
- dom96 12y agoAs an extension to this question, are there any UK demo parties?
- chengsun 12y agoSundown is probably the most well-known one: http://www.demoparty.net/sundown2015/ http://www.demoparty.net/sundown2015/ http://www.sundowndemoparty.net/ http://www.sundowndemoparty.net/ [not updated for 2015 yet]
- csixty4 12y agoYep, that's about right. In the heyday of the 8-bit & 16-bit machines, US users were more focused on user groups than a demoscene. We didn't "party" much. It never became a thing here.