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It must be a preety good year for me. Well,. you know, I was in Karlsruhe and visited as many parties as I didn't five years ago (Sota 2004, CPC only meeting 2, 0a000h 2003, Breakpoint 2004, ReAct2004). Meeting with sceners I hadn't seen before in real life. Boozing with those people!

Much more things happened. Oh, I got kicked by Pouet, getting into deep worries about why I am in the scene and what am I doing here for few months. Then, I also released my 1st C64 demo. And lately (from October) I found my own true reasons for doing what I am currently doing which boosted for a while my creativity until it dropped down for odd reasons before I have finished something.

My favorite 2004 event: Breakpoint, demo: Heartcore

>0a000h 2003 (???)

this came out and made 2004 a great norwegian scene year.

BCN was the best.

Last time I checked the topic was not "Review of Optimus life in 2004". Somebody got a big ego there...

Have to still see what all cool things happen at tUM, but so far my best memories come from Assembly'04.
Probably never had so much fun coding a demo even when the party had already started, then going to Boozembly to hang out with all the cool people, and finally winning a compo. Yay! :)

Winnin the demo compo at BCN and partying with the stravaganza+other cool spanish people are amongst my best memories of 2004.
Also buying a new xbox from the price money we got for coding a demo on a burning xbox was cool, in a way.
Visiting Scene Event without breaking all my hardware was a total surprise :)

Well, the time has come that we can all finally ask this question.


Once again I want to wish everyone a happy new year...

Yeah, BCN gets my vote too :)

Disco is one its way back into demos.

dominei's laptop-keyboard is strange.

Hmm, yeah, the start part of 2004, the end part, and the parts in between where I was meeting everyone at parties and so on. Cuz there were a LOT of sceners I met. Without 2004, I woudln'ta met'tem.

hmmm 2004. some flashbacks:

- ridiciously huge bonfire at breakpoint. singing "code inside me" with dixan, ps and the others for quite some time while waiting for the compos
- solskogen being yet another regnskogen, beating even the 2002 edition with almost continous rain.
- dutch people and their beer pool at scene event. okkie not knowing when to stop talking about dead prostitutes.
- pre-assembly picnic at suomenlinna with petanque, red-wine and baguette (are we turning into french or what?)
- painstation at evoke and sir garbagetruck screaming out loud. yoda crashing his bmw on autobahn and kb telling about it totally wasted and traumatized.

bcnparty, all of it.

As a non-scener prod-consuming pouet member:

- Planet Risk, ASD
- Arise, Stravaganza
- .kkrieger beta, fr

FYaNiCa, Breakpoint, Symphony, Assembly, Buenzli, Evoke, Function, tUM...

Seems I visited almost all possible parties this year... :)

Christ, did someone mention Doom3 in relation to the demoscene?

yes,was me...it's engine just turns me on in a pretty horny way

tUM and Scene Event was the best.... Scene Event was my first party, and tUM had a *great* atmosphere.

It was also cool to travel to Austria and meet some of the other members from my group, but Function wasn't very good.

I also went to a small party, The Meltdown, which was pretty okay.

I'll be at TMD, SE, and tUM again next year, and besides, I'd like to visit BP and Evoke.

i made my first demo i like.

Being organizer at 3 parties with differnet locations and different styles, meeting many people (the infoteam is not that bad ;) ), finally getting all that cute orgashirts,...

The trip to and from Symphony will also stay in my brain for some time. It's just too shocking when driving 5-10 metres behind a wood transporting truck and finally trying to pass it being passed at the same time by another truck at the speed of 80-110 km/h on a street which has not enough space for two trucks and a small Polo between them...
The strange part was, when I arrived back in Germany I asked at some point myself, how I will be able to drive at a small (but pretty normal) main road at 100 km/h with some oncoming traffic here and then. Polish streets rule in some way, in some other they are horrible. ;)

Anyway, taken 1 of 3 planned polish parties is not a good result, I hope I can do it better this year. ;)

tomcat:


except that you missed the 2 best ones :)

I thought the Doom3 engine was just Quake with a corny plastic shader.
Basically Tenebrae with new content.

No, I'd rather look at Planet Risk.

Scali: here's not the place to discuss Doom3, anyway take it a more deeper look, it's not just that simple as you describe.
Anyway PlanetRisk kick ass :D