After the party

With quite a lot of quality releases, lots of visitors and a really good atmosphere at the party place, Buenzli 17 was a great success! From the organizational point of view, the event went totally flawless and smooth. And we had fun. We would like to thank all our visitors, sponsors and contributors for the great experience. Here comes what’s left after the party: The Buenzli 17 after the party page. If you have made photos, wrote a report or have anything else to contribute, we’re happy about an email-notification.

Also, all releases from Buenzli 17 are now available from scene.org.

Evoke 2008 at 3sat neues

The German computer show "3sat neues" featured Evoke 2008 on Sunday. For those who missed it it is available as a video.

Releases available

The party is almost over, and we’re soon going to have the prize giving ceremony. In the meantime, we managed to provide you with two mirrors supplying download for all Buenzli 17 releases until scene.org is ready. Thanks to back2roots and Manx!

Mirror b2r FTP
Mirror b2r HTTP
Mirror Manx HTTP (temporary mirror for 2 weeks)

Deadline for Remote Entries

Most of the competitions at Buenzli are open to ‘remote entries’. As a deadline, we have set Friday, 15th of August at 23:59 CET. Make sure you send your remote entries to us by that time - just as indicated in the competition rules. If you have questions or problems, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Travelling & Hotline

Now, it’s only one day left to Buenzli 17. We are already heavily preparing everything for you and while doing so, we thought it might be a good idea for you to read our travelling guides. If you’re lost somewhere on your way to Buenzli, or if you need other advises or help, make use of our hotline which will be callable starting from Friday in the morning: +41 52 202 4685. We’ll glady also answer every question coming trough our contact form.

Also, don’t forget to bring warm clothes: The forecast for Friday predicts 17°C with rain. For Saturday and Sunday it looks a bit better by now. Check the up to date weather forecast on this meteo page.

After the party: Reports, Photos and Releases

Thanks to all the visitors for making it such a nice event! As in the previous years we set up a page with links to all reports, photos and releases we came across. It would be nice if you could drop us a note if something is missing. See you Buenzli, 0a000h, tUM, Breakpoint or Evoke 2009!

Results & Releases

After cleaning up the location: you can take a look at the results and the first releases. Expect more within the next days.

Evoke 2008

Here is the first big batch of photos from Evoke 2008 (including the Evoke Tracks side-event), taken by myself. Enjoy these pics and regret you haven't been there!

Get the Invitation Game

At Evoke 2008, Nuance released the Buenzli 17 Invitation. Not a demo, not an intro but a game: The Buenzli 17 frogger clone allows you to play alone or against an opponent, gain and lose points. Thank you, Nuance, for creating this production. Download the invitation now, and do not forget to join us in Winterthur the next weekend.

Update: Nuance feat. Genox placed 2nd in the real wild competition at Evoke with our invitation game. Congratulations!

Even more ASM08

And some more Assembly 2008 provided by DiamonDie - thanks! In a related note, a lot of question marks here, help us out in the comments, guys!

Demoshows, Live Act & Compo update

We are very proud to announce our Saturday evening life act: Mr. ADAN (also known as Gol/demoscene.tv) will present an 1h show accompanied by live visuals from the computers of Psykon/mydriasis. This duo promises good entertainment!

On Friday night, three interesting shows will catch your attention: The “Open Video Show” where you decide what you want to see, Nightmare/Nuance’s “Multimedia Show” with new and old demos and animations and last but not least the “c64.ch demoshow”. Further information on these and more on our timetable page.

And as a little reminder: All our competitions are open for remote entries (where is makes sense): You can check the rules for remote entries on our competition page. Also, another small rule change: XNA is allowed in all competitions (again, where it makes sense).

Do not forget to check http://www.buenz.li for all the latest news, and the Pouet thread for discussions, questions and last-minute news.

Summer Parties, round 1

...so to catch up with some of the parties we lagged behind with because of the downtime, here are some pics from SceneCON 2008 (courtesy of Zoom), Solskogen 2008 and Assembly 2008! More to come!

Slengpung is back!

Yay! After the technical mishap, we have moved servers, so we're back with full force and soon-busy to catch up with all the summer parties we missed out on! Again, we'd like to give big big thanks and extra hugs for Baffle for our previous hosting and to Steam for our new one!

Timetable and some specials

Just some days before the party we put up a preliminary timetable. Not only listing the "usual suspects" (compos and deadlines, that is) but also some specials: * Jerome Muffat-Meridol from Intel will hold two seminars on multi-threaded und multi-core development * After the demo compo there will be a live-act by Roquette Science & Looza * Friday evening we will show a selection of the finest demos in memoriam of Crest.

Evoke goes 16:9 and HD ready!

Evoke will feature a 16:9 bigscreen with HD ready resolution this year! If you want your demo to be shown in full size you have to make sure it runs in 1280x720 resolution. Best way to achieve this is to include a resolution and aspect selector in your demo/intro. You can also deliver different executables of your 4k/64k intro if you have filesize troubles.

Double News Feature: Remote Entries & Timetable

Remote Entries: We decided to allow so called remote entries to all our competitions. This means, that you don’t have to be at the party place to take part in our competitions (except for the OHP compo). On our compo page, we have enlisted the extended rules for remote entries for you. Be sure to enter that demo, game, image, tune or whatever you’ve got there in one of our competitions!

Timetable: A pretty evolved version of the timetable is now online. We’ll adjust it further as needed. However, the deadlines seems fixed already. The deadline for all remote entries is the 15th of August. We’ll soon announce a few events in detail that can already be found on the timetable.