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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

It’s UNIQLOCK, customized for Karlsruhe, running on a panel hanging on my wall! WALLQLOCK!

The construction of the frame is pretty terrible, but the end result is kind of cool. There is actually a whole notebook computer in that thing.

Today, it’s nevada-tans birthday. Lets remember to be nice to each other on the internet.

Because primarily, the internet is not a network connecting computers. In the slightly modified words of captain Jack Sparrow: “The internet needs computers and routers and cables, but that is not what the internet means. What the interent means is communication.” The end points are people like each one of us, and when you are a dick on the network, that has real consequences to other human beings.

Today is a good day to remember not to do that.

More info (External): All about Nevada