Revision 2025 Demo party
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All on Tue Apr 22 22:20:36 2025
The Revision Demoparty was over Easter weekend, as is traditional, and while I'm not going to do a full review, I felt like mentioning a couple things I found interesting.
1) As always, it's nice to get something up on screen. My entry was a _bit_ political, so I won't share it here, but I was shown 20th of 25 (being shown later is generally better / means that the organizer thought it was good), and finished 8th.
Given the level of competition, and an evident preference for petscii, I think this was solid for me. Even in my own biased opinion, I would have had a hard time placing my entry higher than 5th, at best. It's nice to have an excuse for making something, and a deadline that makes me get it done, even if I'm not entirely feeling it.
2) The combo Meatup/Revision watch party on MRC on Saturday night was _epic_. We had a good group of people together, and it was fun to watch everything with the BBSing crowd. It was easier to keep up with the chats, too, over Discord, and a slightly different flavor from IRC (even if SoDa7 was hitting all three chats).
But hopefully some of you stop by for the Meatups when you're free on Saturdays. When I do stop by, it's a good time, even if it's not a watch party.
3) The post-party chat was interesting, because of the constant genAI discussions. Mind you, genAI, as a topic, might get up there with politics and religion, given how heated the discussions can get.
But the intersection of computers, art, and rules is pretty fascinating, when I'm able to remove myself from the nonsense parts of it all (e.g., ignore copyright implications, just view them as the tools they are, rather than what the people-with-something-to-sell-you claim it can or will shortly be able to do, etc.).
But, for demoscene rules in particular, Revision was interesting because of fully allowing genAI, but requiring people to mention how they used it, with a dropdown and text box specifically for it.
And anyone who _did_ declare their usage paid a price on vote results.
Anyway, hopefully that doesn't create too much of a firestorm here; I don't really mean to get into the pros and cons; just that it's an ongoing and very impassioned debate in the scene.
4) Juggling, passing a frisbee around, and sitting around a campfire are fun.
Those are some of the activities I engaged in while escaping from the oftentimes-very-loud inside hall.
Not sure if doing those sorts of activities will ever rank up there as something as popular as having concerts where people are dancing to loud music, but it's a nice break.
And kind of makes me wonder if I could ever do some sort of wild compo entry that combined something programmatic with live juggling.
But I have only inklings of an idea on that, and most of my ideas with that are not things that would be _quick_ to get to performance level.
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