Tokyo Demo Fest 2013
Last Sunday I went to Tokyo Demo Fest 2013!
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Homemade welcome |
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| Here’s the venue of Tokyo Demo Fest 2013. Institut Francais in Iidabashi. I like the fact that there’s little shrine next to French building, this represent well about this franco-nippon area. |
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| At the entrance they put pink handcuffs that “once you put, you can never take it off’ |
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Inside the venue |
Checking the past demoparty journal, I personally relate demoparty with pizza/beer/cola. Here in TDF, the venue is normally a proper French restaurant, there were many kinds of drinks, cakes, sandwiches and pizza. According to Umeboshi-san who conquered almost all the menu, “Pizza and Croque-Monsieur got very rich cheese taste and it was delicious. For the cake ‘Far Breton’, it was quite good for raisins fan like me. It had light sweetness.” (Ahhh, it was such a big mistake not to have pizza on demoparty…)
Spending some time to find a seat and then looked around, it was very interesting view: I can hear Japanese but doesn
’t seem like we’re in Japan. (so many guests from other countries!) People are all opening their laptops and chatting, smiling each other. When I look up, there’s a guy standing with an unidentifiable 3D object…:) No matter what they do (if you ask, the answer is always surprising), it seems like they use ‘demo’ as a common language and having good conversation. (And they also communicate with code!)
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Moomin candy I got from gentleman from Finland. D’aww… so cute.. I still can’t open it… (thank you!) |
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Name card I got from Syoyo-san (he gave a seminar about aobench.) I have no idea what this means, but to me this looks so cool as a design! |
Quite a lot of people in the venue told me that past TDF had been more session-oriented study meeting. Even at the compo, they tend to appreciate it quietly, while people at European demoparty express what they think very directly. (hmm, national traits??) However in TDF 2013, with more than 120 people signing up, they said that the atmosphere was very close to European party. As far as I’ve seen, it wasn’t that quiet at all 😀
Japan is known to be a country which is good at making its own culture out of something.. so as more and more domestic and international people participate in TDF, it may build up unique ‘Japanese demoparty’ style. (I don’t know… like having pizza and onigiri in the party?? no no, not just that…:D)
Here’s what happened at Tokyo Demo Fest. For more details, please check their official website.
(1st Day)
– Seminar “Let’s make media art with Unity” by Hiroki Omae
Unity was one of the official sponsor of TDF.
– Demo production workshop (Unity) by Gyabo, Tomohiro
Workshop for demo making beginners. Some of the new demosceners were born from here.
– Seminar “Programming demos in .NET/C# and Direct3D11” by xoofx/Frequency
He shares his presentation slides in here. Though the seminar was given in English, people seems to be understood from his slide and code. (I saw a comment that one of the listeners are convinced to switch Windows model after this.)
– Demoshow
Using the venue’s movie theater facility, they showed some of the fine pieces released in the past. Imagine watching demo with the movie theater screen and speaker…
– Liveact
DJ + VJ event by RTX1911, Gorakubu, Seitokai. They used their improved live coding tool for VJ.
(2nd Day)
– Seminar “Agni’s Philosophy ～The Future of Realtime CG Imaging Technology～” by Yoshihisa Hashimoto (Square-Enix)
So called “high-end game development”… I heard they played with their code on laptop to change charatcter’s color.
– Seminar “Extreme aobench” by Syoyo Fujita
This was where that unidentifiable 3D object kicks in. Seminar’s video is here.
– Seminar “Hitchhiker’s guide to a demoparty” by Zavie/Ctrl-Alt-Test
He gave an English lesson about how to communicate with sceners at European demoparty. Not sure what exactly he taught because I wasn’t there, but the TDF twitter feed was flooded with the phrase “one beer please”. (Update: Video was uploaded!)
– Compo (Combined Graphics, Combined Music, Wild, PC Intro, PC Demo)
I’ve heard that “Wild”demo can be anything, but it was way beyond my expectations. Someone shouted “this is too wild!” during the compo… yeah… it was… 🙂
And the compo’s result is Here！So many entries! (Files are here)
If you want to know more about Japanese demoscene, there’s a portal site called Demoscene.jp Here, JP sceners publish some useful information/document for fellow sceners (in Japanese though).
And here’s the TDF2013 report from Zavie, who has been joining and organizing this party from 1st edition. It’s interesting to see how this party evolved and the comparison with the European parties. 🙂
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– Interview with Japanese demoscener q from nonoil/gorakubu is here.
– Interview with Szilárd Matusik, the director of “Moleman 2” is here. This is the documentary which strongly motivated me to join demoparty. (Thank you Szilárd and team!)
Thanks for very well written party report and interesting insights.
120 that's quite a number!
greetz again 🙂
Thank you!! Yes, there was a lot of people (including some girls, of course)! It looked and it was a real "party" 🙂
What can one say? Welcome, hope you enjoy your stay 😀
Gargaj!! Thanks very much, it was fuuun. Your words in Moleman2 were endlessly coming back while I was there… btw, can I send you some questions sometime?
Sure, feel free.
Yay, thank you! I'll gather up and send you later, be my next interview guest.
Gargaj, I sent you a mail to your Conspiracy address. Thank you and I'm sorry in advance. (You'll understand why..)
Good report, party place looks interesting
Thanks for your kind words! It was interesting place, so many cultures were blending in. I loved it, but I felt jetlag afterward for some reason!
Thanks for one's marvelous posting and it was something new to know.
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Thanks for your comment Ricky!