Comments | vossanova: no subject/mood/music anymore, just too lazy

vossanova

no subject/mood/music anymore, just too lazy

Jun 14, 2009 11:32

back to watching new demos again. trixter's getting on my case to make a proper mc3 playlist, as well he should. plus it's about damned time i put these twin radeon 4850s to use. god, full framerate 1920x1200 is beautiful, i won't be too dazzled by blu-ray but hopefully others will ( Read more... )

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tcinseattle June 14 2009, 18:40:06 UTC

In my experience:
Really great stuff only happens when you have community, real, face to face, drinking/gaming/hacking buddy style community - and community is hard when the population is spread so far apart. FR's best stuff (Popular Demo) was done with them renting a freaking house for a week to have the whole team grind on it.
There is just nothing that compares to sitting in the same room with people, getting pumped about cool ideas, bouncing ideas off of each other, and coming up with and showing off fantastic stuff on the spot.
The most fun I've had democoding was with TMDC 2007, when I hung out with Blackpawn hacking for a week after work, and nvision last year, when the ND spent 3 days on a road trip and then a day hacking at the party place. The rest of the time it's just work.

Or, it could just be that we are forced to work longer hours with less vacation here - so people are too burned out to create. I know I have been.

ginaspider June 15 2009, 03:59:57 UTC

They rented a house to work on their demos? That's fucking wicked! Do the northern dragons do anything thing like that? How do you usually work and communicate with your demo-mates?

tcinseattle June 15 2009, 05:32:22 UTC

Usually it's irc meetings once a week and up till about march this year, skype on the weekends to play around with stuff. We're spread from seattle through winnipeg and quebec, so getting together for any period of time is hard. We use CVS and SVN and a big private wiki to keep things in synch.

It's tough to work that way, especially since we're all playing the same role. It'd be dead simple if it were coder / artist / musician.

vossanova June 15 2009, 12:08:00 UTC

those are among the excuses i've brought up talking to europeans, but yes, living closer together and having more vacation time would help, i'm sure.

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bneely June 14 2009, 19:07:07 UTC

> why is it that every shred of talent here immediately jumps to hollywood or video games

that's not the real problem, because we all have jobs these days.

sketchthecow June 15 2009, 05:23:12 UTC

I continue to maintain the reason for this is because all the energy and youth-scooping that would go into a demoscene is aimed towards videogames. I see meetups, cons, recruiting and the rest all aimed towards the videogame and software industries. We have one of the most vibrant such industries in the world, still a case where there's a cachet and positive spin to it.

I'll put my five years in towards helping with things and then I'll spend the next five trying to pay back my debts. :)

Hey, Sigflup, why no demo this year!

ginaspider June 15 2009, 15:25:17 UTC

I didn't feel satisfied with it. I discussed it a little on notacon-radio. I rather have something run that I feel good about, you know. 2010 will be the year of the sigflup demo.

I've heard some talk from bernie s about organizing a demo party at hope. Once your done with your five years I would hope that a demo party still exists. I feel that's another problem. There's very little outlet for those who like demos here. whereas in europe it seems they're having parties left and right. It's difficult because general demo-awareness is so combined with parties. More awareness= more parties and more parties= more awareness.