Where are all old sceners gone?
category: general [glöplog]
Have they all got married and disappeared? Does anyone know what old Amiga guys like Azatoth, Lone Starr, Celebrandil, Promax and Delta are doing today? I tried to contact some of them, but they never answer. By the way, where is In Medias Res? I found one cool thing at cogvis.nada.kth.se/celle/index.html , but I have no idea what that is. Looks like Celebrandil.
By the way, I lost Ra's email a few years ago and nobody seems to have it. If anyone can help...
old people ?
i'm married but i stay here :)
i'm married but i stay here :)
Concerning old famous (even legendary for some of them) Atari sceners, here is a post by Alex Holland (Thalion Software):
Another one by Alien / ST Connexion:
Some info can be found there as well: http://www.stniccc.com/
Quote:
Erik Simon (ES of TEX) is one of top developers in JoWood
Richard Karsmakers (Cronos of Quartermass Experiment) is now a Teacher of I.T.
Michael Raasch (Daryl of TEX) works as a programmer for a large german bank (although on last talking to him he's now in England)
Stefan Posthume (Digital Insanity of TLB) was working for E.A. in America
Tim Moss (Manikin of TLB) was/is working for what was 989 Studios and is now Sony Interactive in America
David Moss (Spaz of TLB) was working freelance gfx for games and for Argonaut Games until they closed before christmas.
Marc Rosocha (Marc of Gigabyte Crew) has his own company called Eclipse they did work on Atari Jaguar, PSOne and Nuon (grandson of Jaguar) and now are doing something in mobile phones or something.
Jochen Hippel (Mad Max) was working in accounting or something, nothing in music except for private work. Although I think things might have changed since 2000 when he came to STNICCC2k
Another one by Alien / ST Connexion:
Quote:
ST-CNX:
- Alien works for AMD in the US, got a PhD in AI
- Ajrarn is working for a document management company in England, got a PhD in Document Management
- Belzebub works for Siemens in Germany, making cell phones
- Marlon has his own company making Palm software in France
- Krazy Rex has his own gfx company (Fly Bumbax) in Brazil
- Vantage works for Philip Morris, in France
Delta Force:
- Flix now has a PhD
TCB:
- Nic's working for a physics company IIRC
Some info can be found there as well: http://www.stniccc.com/
Quote:
...and Nuon (grandson of Jaguar)
...which isn't the grandson of Jaguar or in any way connected to Atari. :)
all old sceners gone in hell. they just F8 themselves.
we always ruled hell anyway.
I found celebrandil one day on nectarine. he responded to my adjulation a few months later. other oldschoolers are about there and other message boards with lower pouetizing in posts.
i tend to like to keep track of where folks are but often it is not a matter of public stuff so best to ask in person.
I found celebrandil one day on nectarine. he responded to my adjulation a few months later. other oldschoolers are about there and other message boards with lower pouetizing in posts.
i tend to like to keep track of where folks are but often it is not a matter of public stuff so best to ask in person.
Azatoth (Olof Lindroth) of Phenomena started off studying for a PhD at Uppsala university working with the company Ericsson's logic programming language "Erlang". It seems he left computer science for math and presented his licenciate thesis last year (2004) -- "A random formula lower bound for ordered DLL extended with local symmetry recognition". I don't know if he's still there.
Celebrandil (Mårten Björkman) of Phenomena went to the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden (KTH) and after his PhD he is doing reasearch in "stereo vision, fixation, smooth pursuit of moving objects and attention".
Jas (Jacob Ström) of Phenomena went to Linköping university and got his PhD in Image coding in 2002. His dissertation is called "Model-Based Head Tracking and Coding".
Mr. H (Fredrik Huss) and Vouge (Magnus Högdahl) of Triton both studied engineering in Linköping. Vouge left without graduating and started Starbreeze Studios (see starbreeze.com) and Mr. H graduated and was teaching linear algebra here when I was studying myself ;-).
I myself have been a scener since the late 80's and we released our latest demo on The Gathering a few days ago -- Dope: Reflections.
/ManJIT
Celebrandil (Mårten Björkman) of Phenomena went to the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden (KTH) and after his PhD he is doing reasearch in "stereo vision, fixation, smooth pursuit of moving objects and attention".
Jas (Jacob Ström) of Phenomena went to Linköping university and got his PhD in Image coding in 2002. His dissertation is called "Model-Based Head Tracking and Coding".
Mr. H (Fredrik Huss) and Vouge (Magnus Högdahl) of Triton both studied engineering in Linköping. Vouge left without graduating and started Starbreeze Studios (see starbreeze.com) and Mr. H graduated and was teaching linear algebra here when I was studying myself ;-).
I myself have been a scener since the late 80's and we released our latest demo on The Gathering a few days ago -- Dope: Reflections.
/ManJIT
People say that PROMAX is an estate agent on a Danish island called Bornholm.
Laxity (Kefrens) is a games programmer at Mediamobsters.
Vention (Kefrens) also does games, but I can't remember for which company.
Hannibal (Lemon & Anarchy) is a games programmer for Shiny Entertainment. He did coding for "Enter the matrix"
Buck (Static Bytes) is also involved in the game industri.
Perhaps we could create a baseline by shooting all retired sceners into the sun.
Shifter: you know, in 10 years people might ask
"what has the famous Shifter become?" :)
then someone will gladly spread the word:
"Shifter (Limp Ninja) is a Lobstermonger on the Olde Clue Island"
"what has the famous Shifter become?" :)
then someone will gladly spread the word:
"Shifter (Limp Ninja) is a Lobstermonger on the Olde Clue Island"
hi keops, can you tell us what you doing in real life, I mean what is your job? You are active at demoscene for at least 17 years, right?
Calimero: well no, I was too young to be an active scener 17 years ago (13 y/o) ;)
Like most sceners I took a few breaks, from 1994 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2003 for instance.
The actual active years for me have only been 90-93, 99 and 2004 (and 2005 because I have a few things to sort out with some CNS people!!)
As PS once emphasized it, I guess you have enough with it once in a while or you're too busy with personal stuff and then from time to time you come back because demoscene is fun after all ;)
Like most sceners I took a few breaks, from 1994 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2003 for instance.
The actual active years for me have only been 90-93, 99 and 2004 (and 2005 because I have a few things to sort out with some CNS people!!)
As PS once emphasized it, I guess you have enough with it once in a while or you're too busy with personal stuff and then from time to time you come back because demoscene is fun after all ;)
yeah actually keops. what are you up to, you have been in the game longer than most of us? :)
Oh i think we posted at the same time.
I'm in the demoscene since 1986...old enough?
for what? :)
Haha.. the big black hole of game programming.
Sometimes the black hole is used to great effect (cf. tbl work ;)
Raven: Yup, that counts for me (:
If the scene is in your blood, it's in your blood.
If the scene is in your blood, it's in your blood.