SoCal Demoscene coming to Southern California
category: parties [glöplog]
Hi, all! Just letting you know we're having a demo party in Southern California coming in 2019. It'll be a big venue with talks, vendors, workshops, console game room all taking place at the Pinball Museum in Banning, California. Home of over 1100 pinball machines and over 200 video arcade games.
If you're interested in coming or you'd like to participate somehow, please go to www.socaldemoscene.com and contact me.
Thanks,
Juan
If you're interested in coming or you'd like to participate somehow, please go to www.socaldemoscene.com and contact me.
Thanks,
Juan
Awesome! Hope it goes well!
seems HYUUUUUGE. right on!
great to hear!
2019 feels a bit far away though
2019 feels a bit far away though
closer than you think. almost 2018 now
This could well be interesting but it does depend on a suitable date.
My wife and I travel to SoCal fairly frequently and we know of the city of Banning, as it's on the route towards Palm Springs (about an hour or so's drive from Los Angeles) and also close to an excellent discount shopping area called Cabazon / Desert Hills Premium Outlets.
Please keep us all informed :)
My wife and I travel to SoCal fairly frequently and we know of the city of Banning, as it's on the route towards Palm Springs (about an hour or so's drive from Los Angeles) and also close to an excellent discount shopping area called Cabazon / Desert Hills Premium Outlets.
Please keep us all informed :)
Great to see another party popping up in NA! Feel free to bug me about anything WRT NA party organizing, and I'll be sure to give a shout out at the next Boston Khronos meetup and the next @party
omg YEAS
2019 is the future
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great to hear!
2019 feels a bit far away though
HA! Yeah.... 2019 does seem a bit far off but I'll be having a few pre-party get-togethers to get my gear together. Love the Blade Runner reference, ham! :)
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Thanks, man. I really wanted a sweet fragment shader webGL thing going on but I settled for the low-rent CSS hack for now. :)
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This could well be interesting but it does depend on a suitable date.
My wife and I travel to SoCal fairly frequently and we know of the city of Banning, as it's on the route towards Palm Springs (about an hour or so's drive from Los Angeles) and also close to an excellent discount shopping area called Cabazon / Desert Hills Premium Outlets.
Please keep us all informed :)
I know... that's why I haven't set a hard date yet. I'd like to consider the big yearly shows and events in SoCal before I decide on a date. (E3, ComicCon, GDC, SC3, CAX, etc.)
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Great to see another party popping up in NA! Feel free to bug me about anything WRT NA party organizing, and I'll be sure to give a shout out at the next Boston Khronos meetup and the next @party
Thanks, DrClaw! I need all the help I can get.
I really want to run the demos on the original hardware so I gotta a lot on my hands. I'll keep you all posted. Sorry I haven't posted sooner. I got sick over the Thanksgiving holiday and am just recovering.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks a ton everyone!
Juan
That's great news! I'm in NorCal (and I expect to still be here by 2019), and unless there's a date conflict I would love to attend :D
Interesting!
The party seems to be very focused on retro hardware, electronics, old console manuals, and olschool demos. How do you see modern Demoscene productions and lectures fitting in this particular party? Thanks!
The party seems to be very focused on retro hardware, electronics, old console manuals, and olschool demos. How do you see modern Demoscene productions and lectures fitting in this particular party? Thanks!
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was about to comment on this myself :)The party seems to be very focused on retro hardware, electronics, old console manuals, and olschool demos. How do you see modern Demoscene productions and lectures fitting in this particular party? Thanks!
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Interesting!
The party seems to be very focused on retro hardware, electronics, old console manuals, and olschool demos. How do you see modern Demoscene productions and lectures fitting in this particular party? Thanks!
Hi. I apologize if anyone thought it was strictly a retro party. I'd like it to be for anyone interested in old and new software and hardware development and entertainment. I would love if both were represented at the event. I'm planning so there'll be enough going on for everyone to enjoy the venue regardless of their preference. Please keep in mind that the talks, exhibits, vendors etc. is during the day and the demo parties will be in the evening.
Maybe you should visit Revision - to have a look how a big EU demoparty is like. ;)
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Maybe you should visit Revision - to have a look how a big EU demoparty is like. ;)
Please keep in mind that the demo parties are during the day and night and the morning and all the goddamn time.
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Maybe you should visit Revision - to have a look how a big EU demoparty is like. ;)
Hey, las. Yep. I've seen those a while ago. I'm going to try a different approach. I don't think that format would work well over here.
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Please keep in mind that the demo parties are during the day and night and the morning and all the goddamn time.
Deep breaths, okkie. Everything will be just fine.
Fair enough if you want to "try a different approach". However, if that approach is to organise a one-day event where the "demoparty" starts in the evening (which seems your goal given wording in your messages here and on the site, correct me if I'm wrong plz) that is cool no doubt but, at the same time, nothing like the traditional demoparties as we know them since the 80s here in Europe, those are always multiple days (usually 3 or 4). "Demoscreening" or such would probably be a more fitting term :)
3-4 days is proper for ~1000 scene-only attendees
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Fair enough if you want to "try a different approach". However, if that approach is to organise a one-day event where the "demoparty" starts in the evening (which seems your goal given wording in your messages here and on the site, correct me if I'm wrong plz) that is cool no doubt but, at the same time, nothing like the traditional demoparties as we know them since the 80s here in Europe, those are always multiple days (usually 3 or 4). "Demoscreening" or such would probably be a more fitting term :)
The event will be Friday to Sunday and it'll have a lot of great stuff to see, do and hang out with other cool people who enjoy electronic entertainment.
I wasn't planning for it to be like the parties in Europe. I can't get enough people engaged out here to commit to that type of event. People were like, 'You want me to spend my weekend to do what where? FUCK THAT!' Although I'm working on it.
I don't expect you to get it. What I do know is it'll be a lot of fun with what I'm planning! :)
Thanks,
Juan
And for what it's worth, there are also smaller single-day demoparty events in Europe. It's not a format that is completely unknown here. :)
Juan: Thanks for the explanation, I'm glad I was wrong about the duration of the party. I reckon it's always good idea to adapt the demoparty concept to your local audience's preferences, and the plans that you propose make sense to me based on the few things I learned about the American scene by visiting @Party. If everything works out, maybe I could combine a visit to your party with a holiday on the west coast and visiting friends and family. So I wish you the best of luck and look forward to future updates :)