Subj : Deadline 2025 Demo Party
To   : All
From : Adept
Date : Tue Oct 07 2025 06:24 pm

I enjoyed being a sofa scener for the Deadline 2025 demo party, in Berlin, though I didn't wind up watching the demo competition that wrapped up after 3a local time.

It's interesting on my level of engagement with it, as after a while my brain kinda felt overloaded, and I did other things. Which I probably would have done in person, too, but with juggling or socializing. And possibly still would have felt overloaded.

Anyway, I did have a remote entry in the Textmode Graphics compo:
demozoo.org/graphics/378251/

The theme of the party was "B-Movie", and I was attempting to draw a femme fatale. It was the first time I've done a work of any size using iCE colors, which is why I'm not posting it somewhere on FSXnet.

It placed 17th of 20th, and I... really have no idea why. I'm assuming a combo of remote entry, people just liking Petscii/Commodore/Amiga stuff more, people not liking an oversex'd entry, people not knowing me, and, for all I know, people not liking me.

I think there might also have been some display troubles at the party, but I didn't see it in the feed, so I think what I heard may have been about something else.

It was one of the last entries shown, too.

Anyway, there were plenty of nice entries, and I'll give a special shout out to Revengeday, with a solid 6th-place entry (demozoo.org/graphics/378253), who directly mentioned coming from a BBS background, and who made it to the party.

I don't know if they're on here, though.

Regardless, this was the first time I more-directly followed Deadline, and maybe one day I'll add it as a demo party I actually make it to, if Essen Spiel (boardgame convention) doesn't get in the way.

Anyone else up to anything interesting on a creative project?

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