Category Archives: Demoscene

AteBitVJ spotted in the wild

Posted on September 24, 2013 by evilpaul

Two weeks ago, at the Sundown demoparty in southern England, I took AteBitVJ out for a spin. Actually, it was two spins.. VJing for Hoffman and then Savannah, both of Unstable Label. Both played pretty hard breaks, with Hoffman demonstrating … Continue reading →

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Demoscene at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Posted on July 1, 2013 by evilpaul

On Saturday the June 29th, at 11am, in a small basement room at Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre I gave a talk on the demoscene at the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival. Entitled “An Introduction To The Demoscene – The Best Digital … Continue reading →

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Shall we play a game?

Posted on July 12, 2012 by evilpaul

Way back in December of last year I was honoured to be asked by Abyss, one of the main organisers behind the massive Assembly demoparty, if I would be interested in creating an invitation demo for them this year. Of … Continue reading →

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Pimp My Actual Spectrum

Posted on September 30, 2010 by evilpaul

Well who’d have thought it? My Pimp My Spectrum demo has actually been ported to run on a real Spectrum! Here’s the video of it being shown at the Sundown 2010 UK demoparty where it took second place in the … Continue reading →

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64KVJ Preview

Posted on July 9, 2010 by evilpaul

Recently I’ve been playing around with writing some VJ software for the PC. I decided to do this after enjoying writing a handful of audio reactive sketches in Processing but then wanting to have something with more control. The other … Continue reading →

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Game Developer Magazine

Posted on June 16, 2010 by evilpaul

Yay. Grab the May edition of Game Developer Magazine and turn to page 5. There you’ll see an editorial piece on the 2010 scene.org awards written by me :) I’m really pleased that this has come about as I’ve been … Continue reading →

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The 8th Annual Scene.org Awards

Posted on March 17, 2010 by evilpaul

My 64k intro from last year, Transform, has been nominated in the category of “Best 64k Intro” at this year’s Scene.org Awards. Yay! :) Edit: Hang on! Just the one nomination this year? We must be slipping… ;)

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decode_recode

Posted on March 8, 2010 by evilpaul

At the end of last year I visited the Decode: Digital Design Sensations exhibtion, held at the V&A in London. The event “showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations”. There … Continue reading →

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Bite This!

Posted on February 12, 2010 by evilpaul

Whenever I’m writing a demo (or a game, or anything) I usually collect copious amounts of reference material. Some of this directly influences my work, some of it doesn’t. The stuff that isn’t of immediate use often gets lost and … Continue reading →

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Best of the 2009 Demoscene

Posted on February 3, 2010 by evilpaul

I’ve been writing the odd small piece for GameSetWatch recently. This site is a weblog run by the staff of Think Services Game Group. No, I don’t recognise the name either. But I do know the names of two of … Continue reading →

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