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@navis: Can I take your word on that?
added on the 2013-02-05 10:35:44 by pixtur pixtur
Why would anybody stop making demos just because the awards are gone now? That's just... weird.
added on the 2013-02-05 10:55:52 by D.Fox D.Fox
Well, people also stopped making demos when Breakpoint died. DIDN'T THEY?!?!
Nobody made the point that somebody would stop making demos just because the awards are gone for now.

And back to the topic, I agree with cosmic, despite the text being oddly formatted, that WiLDS or Animations should have a category in whatever new award pops up.
Though, I'm wondering why they were gone from the scene.org awards, were there just too few entries, or what was the reason?
added on the 2013-02-05 11:19:05 by mog mog
navis ingeniously said - as long as there is community, that is, people enjoying watching demos, there will be a people that will make them.
added on the 2013-02-05 11:23:18 by bonefish bonefish
Quote:
[..]we'll be making demos even if there is nobody to watch[..]

He didn't.

Now back to the topic, what was the reason that wilds were dropped as category for scene.org awards? Seriously curious :)
added on the 2013-02-05 11:27:23 by mog mog
BECAUSE WILD ARE NOT REALTIME PRODS
added on the 2013-02-05 12:03:38 by rez rez
pixtur: haha sure. Shame there is no scene org awards this year, I'm sure you'd have bagged a few...
added on the 2013-02-05 12:12:55 by Navis Navis
the annual 2012 wysi-award goes to pixtur/still for SQUARE.
<3
added on the 2013-02-05 12:19:24 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
I don't know what to add. What is said, is already said.

I am sad to miss especially some very interesting categories as well, oldskool, technical achievement, breakthrough performance.

@cosmic: Wild animation wasn't a part of the scene in the past and I don't consider it as a primary part of the scene history. I think some demoparties later at 199x added wild compo, also the first animation in a wild compo was Global Trash 2 iirc? Anyway,. I wouldn't matter however if there were other categories today, wild, anim, even web as long as we have new awards and we are all happy again. Though, the more the categories, the harder the work for the jury.

And yes, I just found out there is demoklubbi. Must be fun to watch all these in a row!
added on the 2013-02-05 13:26:31 by Optimus Optimus
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BECAUSE WILD ARE NOT REALTIME PRODS


That's true, but aren't they worth to win an award? There are a lot of demos out there that are not entirely realtime. Kalms from TBL once mentioned in the audio-commentary for Silkcut (on Mindcandy 2) that they include animations in most of their productions to annoy those who hate animations in demos. Should all of these demos be disqualified from nomination for a real-time-award, too.

And when we are at it, why not kill all music- and graphic-compos at partys as well? Most of them are not realtime! And all fun-, drink-, discthrow-compos. Oh, and there are plenty of demos that use graphics and music not generated realtime. Drop them too. Make the entire scene realtime!

Okay, I exaggerated it a bit. :) But I hope you get my point.

Should there be a pouet-award it would be nice to incorporate all those categories that define the scene, too. Anim/Video, Streaming Music, Tracked Music, Freestyle Graphics, Pixeled Graphics, Ansi/Ascii (there are more I guess). And if the winners were selected by a jury why not pick multiple juries for demos-, music- and graphics-categories.
added on the 2013-02-05 13:52:40 by gaspode gaspode
After thinking a little more, here's a suggestion for any replacement.

1. The public votes for every category.

2. The jury looks at the top 3 the public picked and chooses the winner.

Hopefully that's a bit more balanced. The scoring can be hidden to avoid ugly fights, and if the public have a clear winner it's a strong influence on the jury. And the jury has a LOT less work this way too, which hopefully makes it more sustainable :)

Finally:

3. There's a "special mentions" list, containing the runners up plus any demos any member of the jury feels should be there. I think this would round off the awards list as a 'recommended viewing' list, and capture more of the demos that maybe don't deserve an award but do have something special.
added on the 2013-02-05 13:56:43 by psonice psonice
or just ship a box of statues to smash. he wins most of them anyway.
maali: but shipping them makes the little cubes fall off!
added on the 2013-02-05 14:48:57 by gloom gloom
So magnetise them and put a high-speed camera in the shipping box to record it. A bit of editing and some good music and you'll be up for a scene award of your own next year :)

No, wait.. there's no wild/animation category. Or scene awards. :(
added on the 2013-02-05 14:52:46 by psonice psonice
@gaspode: it was an obvious joke of course, I always hated "pc crashing lulz video" showed during wild compos but i am a big of this kind of wild and they deserve an award :)
added on the 2013-02-05 15:00:30 by rez rez
@rez: Okay, then it seems I misinterpreted your comment. No offence.
added on the 2013-02-05 15:12:02 by gaspode gaspode
well, what navis said
added on the 2013-02-05 18:07:52 by Defiance Defiance
On amigaremix.com there's a ROTY every year... 2011 i won one of that ROTY but i didn't know until Ziphoid wrote me (Hey, you won) ...

Means: I don't care about an award. I do my remixes because i just like to do them and not for getting prices ...
added on the 2013-02-05 20:23:42 by .. ..
the signs where visible days before as a pale shadow on the horizon...

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/abschied-von-der-ard-talfahrt-fuer-hansi-hinterseer-1.1591700

after the end of Hinterseer Hansi alias Hansi Hinterseer, its a normal result that the Scene Award will abandon the Award.

There is now only one force left, Florian Silbereisen alias "The Silveriron".....

farewell.... Scene Awards.
ah, the german loony bins forgot to lock their doors again..
scene.org awards are dead :'(
Let's reintroduce charts and diskmags! :D \o/
added on the 2013-02-05 22:51:15 by ok3anos ok3anos
Diskmags eh? Time for the Magic Countdown!
added on the 2013-02-05 23:08:59 by psonice psonice
Charts are so 1993 ;-)
added on the 2013-02-05 23:41:34 by magic magic

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