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The 2012 edition of Revision, a demoparty held annually in Saarbrücken (Germany), has come and gone. SVatG was there with record attendance (4 people!), and for once, we’d actually prepared something before the party, which is not something that usually happens - and this time, two releases!

Please enjoy:

Peridiummmm (A demo for the STM32F4 ARM-based µC)

[Pouet]- [Binary (Arm Cortex M4)]- [Source Code]

Blockparty 5 Non-Invitation

[Pouet]- [Binary (Windows)]

Meeting up with everyone (esp. Saga Musix) was great, of course, but this time, the best part was going to the party with people from my actual demo group, especially nrr, who flew over here just for the party! (Also, Mithaldu, who was spontaneously recruited at the party place).

Left to right: Mithaldu - nrr - ryx - halcy (with las^mercury sprinting in back)

Having finished up before the party, we of course didn’t party code any super dumb party prods filled with ridiculous jokes, a practice we at SVatG despise.

Finally, my favourite release from the party:

Boogietown by Ghostown & RNO

Overall, kickass party, hope to be there again next year. For me, the next party will most likely be Evoke, though I would really, really like to go to Assembly this year and see WAHa_06x36.

So, over the weekend, I went to Evoke. Evoke, for those who don’t know, is a Demoparty, a sort of gathering for people who write Demos to get together, show off their newest works in the competitions, talk, and potentially get mightily drunk.

We didn’t actually plan to release anything at the party, but after arriving after a 4ish-hour-drive (Drove there with Maep and Saga_Musix, took a few wrong turns… <.<) I suddenly felt like coding something up for the DS. WAHa_06x36 and coda were availble to assist with additional effects, graphics work and music, so in 16 hours of intense partycoding, during the course of which I downed half a crate of club mate and nearly threw up my breakfast, we’re able to give you:

[Pouet] [Non-live video]

Our release was generally well-redieved, and finished second in the “Alternative Plattform” compo. We even got Prizemoney this time around, which was a little unexpected.

One of my favourite demos of the whole party was this 64k intro (It’s 64k, despite what it says in the video). Beautiful use of… cubes! It won, too! <3

Something I sadly only found after the party was over is the full version of this years party jingle, mmsx#001 - dq feat. scraping micha - this year. Absolutely lovely.

In conclusion, Evoke 2010 was an awesome party, massive thanks to the organizers - especially to the beamteam for the recording, you’re awesome - and to brainstorm for free sausages and alcatraz for free beer. o/

The next demoparty for me will probably be the 2010 edition of the ultimate meeting, right here in Karlsruhe, or maybe a party up in finnland! See you there!

So, over the easter weekend, I went to Breakpoint, a demo party in the wonderful “Bingen am Rhein”. Since I like the invitation to that a lot, have a video of it to start off this post:

It was awesome, as always; Demos were released and enjoyed on the bigscreen, beer was consumed, people were drunkenly hugged, and a great time was had by all, as evidenced by my own pictures at flickr, and some more pictures over at slengpung.

Speaking of releases, here’s two: First, our [SVatGs] release for the 4 kilobyte intro competition, which placed 9th out of 18! (Upper half! Yeeeeeeeeeeah!) 4k intros are demos that have a size of only four kilobytes. For comparison, this tiny image, which I randomly picked out of my misc folder, is 10k big - more than twice that! [5dpl on pouet]

And then, there’s my favourite entry from the demo compo, because I like things what are colourful and blink a lot: United Force / Digital Dynamite - Wir sind Einstein. [on pouet]

Overally, it was a great weekend, and it’s impossible to thank the BP orga team enough for making it possible. I hope that some people will get together and pull off a party as awesome as this next easter, now that breakpoint is over with~

Until then, let’s remember the most important (most important possible) announcement, and see you at the next demoparty. :3