Assembly (demo party)
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The Assembly demo party is a demoscene event in Finland. The main organizers of the event are Pekka Aakko (Pehu of Accession) and Jussi Laakkonen (Abyss of Future Crew). The event takes place every year between late July and early August, and lasts three to four days. The most recent Assembly was held on 3rd-6th August 2006 at Hartwall Areena in Helsinki.
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[edit] History
The first Assembly was held in July 1992, in Kauniainen. It was organized by the Amiga demo groups Complex and Rebels, and the PC demo group Future Crew. The staff grew into a large non-profit group of individuals known as Assembly Organizing. Through the 1990s, Assembly grew so large that even exposition halls no longer sufficed, and only the largest of sports arenas met the partygoers' needs. In 1999 they rented the largest sports arena in the country, Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, with over 5000 visitors and 3500 computers on the ice rink.
The 2004 edition of the party also set up an interesting record: In the July of 2004, QuakeCon announced to hold the world's first Doom 3 competitions on the event starting at August 12-14, roughly a week after the game's release on August 3. Assembly, however, managed to snatch the first place after acquiring copies of the game via FedEx with the help of some contacts in the United States and holding the competition during August 5-8.
As of 2006 the party has been held for 15 consecutive years.
[edit] Competitions
The party includes multiple competitions, including but not limited to:
- combined demo
- 64k intro
- 4k intro
- vocal music
- instrumental music
- drawn graphics
- oldskool music/graphics/demo
- fast graphics
- short film (which replaced the wild compo and animation compo in 2004)
- video game developing compo
Entries are submitted by demogroups and individual artists and are rated by judges. All demos which are deemed to be of a high enough standard are then shown on a big screen. Entries which break the competition rules (e.g. use copyrighted material, aren't suitable for the category to which they are entered) are disqualified. People who are present at the arena vote for the entries, and the results are published on the Assembly website. The entries are usually made available by the artists at scene.org or on the artists own website.
In recent years, Assembly has broadcast content from its in-house media effort AssemblyTV to local and national TV networks, as well as producing web streams for people to watch live over the internet - spots for hundreds, if not thousands of viewers are catered for and these streams have been watched all over the world, not just in Finland.
[edit] Demo and intro competition winners
| Year | Amiga demo | PC demo | C64 demo | Amiga intro | PC 64K intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Sound Vision (Reflect) | Unreal (Future Crew) | Gunnar 2 (Dual Crew) | Repo (Vectra) | N/A |
| 1993 | Extension (Pygmy Projects) | Second Reality (Future Crew) | Four years (Origo Dreamline) | Bananamen (Stellar) | Eclipse (EMF) |
| 1994 | Mindflow (Stellar) | Verses (EMF) | Attack of Stubidos 3 (Beyond Force) | G-Force (Pygmy Projects) | Airframe (Prime) |
| 1995 | ZIF (Parallax) | Stars (Nooon) | Extremes (Byterapers) | Fad (Sonik Clique) | Drift (Wild Light) |
| 1996 | Sumea (Virtual Dreams) | Machines of Madness (Dubius) | Follow the Sign 3 (Byterapers) | Pure (Sonik Clique) | Blind (Eufrosyne) |
| 1997 | Pulse (Nerve Axis) | Boost (Doomsday) | Speedway (Panic) | 911 (Limbo) | Mainstream (Moottori) |
| 1998 | Relic (Nerve Axis) | Gateways (Trauma) | Speedway 2 (Panic) | Edit 0.5 (Haujobb) | Oxygen (Coral) |
| 1999 | Beats (Loveboat) | Non-3D:Gasoline (Recreation) | Speedway 3 (Panic) | älä ota sitä vakavasti (Da Jormas) | Viagra (Mewlers) |
| 3D:Virhe (Maturefurk) | |||||
| Year | Combined demo | Oldskool demo | Combined 64K intro | ||
| 2000 | Spot (Exceed) | Oldskool Trippin (Haujobb) | Dead Flowers (Haujobb) | ||
| 2001 | Lapsuus (Maturefurk) | Riyadh (Bandwagon) | Sonnet (Threestate) | ||
| 2002 | Liquid... Wen? (Haujobb) | Impossiblator 2 (PWP) | Squish (AND) | ||
| 2003 | Legomania (Doomsday) | Robotic Liberation (PWP) | Zoom 3 (AND) | ||
| 2004 | Obsoleet (Unreal Voodoo) | Halfway There (Dekadence) | The Prophecy - Project Nemesis (Conspiracy) | ||
| 2005 | Iconoclast (ASD) | Boogie Factor (Fairlight) | Che Guevara (Fairlight) | ||
| 2006 | Starstruck (The Black Lotus) | Fruitcake (RNO) | Deadringer (Fairlight) | ||
[edit] See also
[edit] In the press
- "Girls Dig Demos Too" by Steve Kettmann of Wired magazine. (August 3, 2001)
[edit] External links
- Assembly.org - Official website
- Assemblytv.net - Official media
- Assembly 2006 - MBnet The Official Ezine of Assembly 2006.
- Assembly on Pouët
- The ARTS Radio (MP3) contains an interview with the primary organizer of Assembly, Abyss of Future Crew.de:Assembly Demo Party
