The rumours are correct: Buenzli 18 will take place on the 14/15/16 August 2009 - go and mark the date in your calendar now. You surely don’t want to miss Buenzli 18.
Finally, the entries of the OHP competition are available on scene.org. Thanks to demoscene.tv for recording these unique pieces of analog demoscene effects. The whole competition can be viewed online on demoscene.tv, too. Download the competition entries from scene.org now.
Kind of unexpected and unannounced, we were able to give away a jury prize at Buenzli 17 again. The jury consisted of seven reputated party visitors. The prize was sponsored by the TUM organizing, Echtzeit and Sky-Consulting (Thank you!). The prize was presented to the audience and handed out to the winners at the beginning of the prizegiving ceremony.
Winner #1, 300€
Ungol by Nuance (PC Demo). Nuance announced to organize a heavy duty barbecue at TUM 08.
Winner #2, 200€
Photon Race by Archee (4k Procedural Graphics)
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.
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)
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
The Buenzli Poker Tournament was introduced last year - and this year we’re going professional: A pro dealer and nice prizes. Again, we’ll held a friendly poker round on Saturday afternoon. Every party visitor can contribute, just don’t miss the deadline for the inscription. The rules are almost the same as last year (read the full news post for details). Win a full poker set, a poker tablecloth, poker dvds and card sets. This competition is sponsored by Swiss-Gamblers and Sky-Consulting.
Today, we have announced the specifications of our competition PC. As promised, it will be a pretty powerful machine. The detail specifications are available on our competition page. You think it looks like a Nvidia Demokit PC? You’re right, it is one. For competition entries that are not intended to run on PC hardware with Windows, you are asked to bring your own hardware with you - just as we did it in the past few years.
Our sponsor Stonetrip donates valuable licenses of his ShiVa 3D authoring suite as prizes for our Open Game Competition. For the first placed winner, a license of the STON3D Indie server will be available additionally. ShiVa, a platform for 3D real time development, allows you to make games, but also 3D real time applications for professional use. It’s a 3D authoring tool with a game engine - maybe you can even create demos with it? If you have a game ready somewhere on your computer, be sure to enter it to the Buenzli Open Game Competition and win! The competition rules can be found on our competition page.
August 2008 - time for two traditional SwissGerman demoparties: Just as in the previous few years, Evoke and Buenzli are supporting double-party-visitors, demoscene-summer-trippers and i-can’t-get-enough sceners with a combined ticket. Evoke takes place just one week before Buenzli and is the place where you can buy our doubletrouble tickets which are then valid for Buenzli, too. The best thing about it: You get a discount on the regular entrance fee of both parties: The combined ticket is available for EUR 43.-.
How it works: At the Evoke entrance desk, you ask for the combined ticket instead of the regular Evoke ticket. One week later, at Buenzli, you show your ticket (which has a unique code printed on it) together with the Evoke bracelet and you’re in.
Register yourself for Evoke & Buenzli now:
http://www.buenz.li/pages/register.html
http://www.evoke.eu/2008/8307,registration.html
This year, we prepare a fine new thing for our visitor: Buenzli 17 will not only be a demoparty, but also feature a mini art exhibition. The exhibition consists of two areas, one featuring paintings and home made trash art on the topic of airplanes. The other area will contain a musical experience object called “Wechselsaiting” - a real time real life sound synthesis curtain. Read more about “Wechselsaiting” on the news pages of “Echtzeit - Digitale Kultur”. These art areas aim to extend the experience of Buenzli 17 and will, last but not least, increase the attractivity of the entrance hall. Be sure to check that awesome stuff out!