A Brief History of (disappeared) Demoscene in China
category: general [glöplog]
First link fixed here:https://web.archive.org/web/20170719033522/http://www.vice.cn/read/demoscene-and-media-stories.
Nice read. 谢谢你!
Nice read. 谢谢你!
I'm sure that everything is fine with the Chinese demoscene. It's the Europeans who don't know Chinese language and have cocooned themselves in their narrow English-speaking world. China isn't only the world's number one economy, but also the country that created TikTok!
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China isn't only the world's number one economy, but also the country that created TikTok!
dubious achievement ;)
In any case, the USA has created a lot of things, but what about the demoscene?
Thank you for sharing, that's interesting.
I have lived in china for about a year and a half in a fairly big city (Changsha / Hunan). When I was there I wondered if there were demoparties around but could not find any so instead I attended some kind of game / coding jam which was organized by a private company and which looked more like a way to recruit people than anything else.
So I had no success connecting with the demoscene in China. I don't really speak chinese so the language barrier did not help.
Now my wife is Chinese and she went to her first demoparty last year (Revision). she really loved it !
Her theory to explain the "absence" of demoscene in China is that we european have a more "creative mind" with more free time than people in china to do "these kind of things" while people in china are more "pragmatic" they won't do anything unless it can bring money.
I have lived in china for about a year and a half in a fairly big city (Changsha / Hunan). When I was there I wondered if there were demoparties around but could not find any so instead I attended some kind of game / coding jam which was organized by a private company and which looked more like a way to recruit people than anything else.
So I had no success connecting with the demoscene in China. I don't really speak chinese so the language barrier did not help.
Now my wife is Chinese and she went to her first demoparty last year (Revision). she really loved it !
Her theory to explain the "absence" of demoscene in China is that we european have a more "creative mind" with more free time than people in china to do "these kind of things" while people in china are more "pragmatic" they won't do anything unless it can bring money.
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Wx thinks it is the pressure of secular success on young people: "There is still no economic benefit, this thing cannot make money, after all, the domestic society with such an environment, a good school and a good job are obviously more important things. "
@pengan: I really enjoyed your take on the history of the Chinese demoscene. Thanks for sharing that interesting story.
I was wondering. Did China's decision to make its own computers in the 1980s and 1990s shape how the demoscene developed there? I remember Jack Tramiel once said in an interview that China decided to build its own machines instead of importing popular ones like the Commodore 64 or Amiga. Maybe that decision might also have influenced the growth of the demoscene in China? It might depend on many othe factors as well, but in Europe, the widespread copy-parties played a big role in building the demoscene culture.
Finding out the reason why the demoscene didn’t grow as much in China compared to other countries is an interesting research project.
I was wondering. Did China's decision to make its own computers in the 1980s and 1990s shape how the demoscene developed there? I remember Jack Tramiel once said in an interview that China decided to build its own machines instead of importing popular ones like the Commodore 64 or Amiga. Maybe that decision might also have influenced the growth of the demoscene in China? It might depend on many othe factors as well, but in Europe, the widespread copy-parties played a big role in building the demoscene culture.
Finding out the reason why the demoscene didn’t grow as much in China compared to other countries is an interesting research project.
Aggressor, don’t confuse China with anti-communist Taiwan and British Hong-Kong. China only succeed in economics after capturing Taiwan and Hong-Kong, taking credit for their economic miracle.
