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Hello there. I'm too new in the world of demoscene and I want to ask ourselves how to sta... nah, I know that I need to cook my own prods in a very freestyle way (and fail miserably 0xFF times haha). But that's not the topic! I'm here beacuse I have a particular question about wild category in demoparties.

Seeing some FAQs and party rules, that says that can be everything that can be capable of run a demo (or anything else that doesn't fit in any category of a party). And yes, I saw some prods in really weird platforms, but also another ones that can be fitted in categories like oldschool demo or even PC-Demo (Some IRC demo, or even, DOS 256b and JS based demos at last revision, who in my opinion (maybe I'm wrong, of course) it fits better in another categories... i dunno).

So, there's anything "special" that some X prod can be classified as "wild" or not? I'm asking that beacuse I'm just trying to do a strange demo with Windows and I don't know it fits well in wild or, in defect, that will be just a PC-demo (and then, compete with the titanic prods). There's something more about wild demos that party rules don't mention?

Thanks.
PD1: I was trying to find some demosceners here in Chile, but I can't find any, even in southamerica. Boo (That's why I'm enthusiasted about make prods :D )
PD2: I'm just little tired. >4.0 earthquakes everyday here =( .

You can even make a cake as wild entry or knit something. In the end you could ask the compo team at/of a party where the prod would fit into. I won't waste too much thoughts on that matter since it seems you don't have the demo finished ...

If your demo is strange (odd music, weird colorscheme) but still complies to the standard PC demo rules I would advise to put it in the PC demo compo.

On two of your other points:
- Enter some of the smaller demoparties first --- they don't attract the giants of the field in the way Revision or Evoke does :) .
- On http://www.cvgm.net I know there are at least a few folks from various places in South America. Some of them might be or know sceners. E.g., HaCKa is a Brazilian scener who is on CVGM fairly regularly. (Also try https://www.scenemusic.net.)

'wild' is any entry that doesn't fit any of the other competitions. it could be a demo on a photocopier, or a homebrew beer. it's not complicated :)

Photocopy cubes, not butts.

A consequence is that the "wild" definition varies by party. For example, if you enter the compos at the Forever party, the wild category is "anything that does not run on an 8-bit machine", because all the other compos are dedicated to 8-bit hardware. At Revision, DOS demos will be wild. As to wether mIRC is a platform on its own, well, I don't know why.

There were some parties in Brazil / Argentina, although they've been a long time ago. I don't know if Panoramix and Danguafer are still around-ish, but there are a few people at least.

PVM from argentina is back again: http://csdb.dk/group/?id=8337

Because I've made enough demos for it to qualify as such, and it doesn't really fit in the rules of PC demo at most parties as far as I've checked.

Sometimes also when you make a demo or something that may look like demo but you do not code at all, just use animation programs, then it will be considered fitting to Wild category. Depends on the rules as it was mentioned. Personally I feel that Wild category fits to those prods which were made with computers or any electronic equipment which is not standard mentioned in other categories, eventually made with few different platforms at once. Some go even more far and put into the Wild category their family videos (which I do not like).
Watch some of the old entries to understand what Wild category is.
And as cxw said, you are welcome to see and stay at cvgm.net in your searching for South America scene.

Daguafer is "around" but probably not so much demoscene-wise lately. I've pointed him to this topic. A quick stroll across Bolivia, and you're practically neighbours :-p

Hey, Punqtured!

Hey, EN.I! Que tal?

I've been away from the community for a while.

The south american demoscene had an interesting moment in the 90's. I met some oldschool guys from Brazil and Argentina and also discovered another guys from the 2000's and 2010's generation. Currently, here in Brazil, we have rbz, blacksheep8bit, imerso and vgs producing demos.

I have created a Facebook group (called brazilian demoscene) back in 2012 that served pretty well to get the brazilian community together. There is always someone completely out of the circle joining the group.

I don't know much about other south american communities. But I am pretty sure there is always someone producing something somewhere.