Everything about Assembly Demoparty totally explained
The
Assembly demo party is a
demoscene and gaming
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 from the 2nd to 5 August 2007 at
Hartwall Areena in
Helsinki.
In the beginning of the year 2007 Assembly Winter was announced. The new winter party is a more gaming oriented event in
Tampere where the summer events continues the traditions of the original
demoparty in
Helsinki under the name Assembly Summer. Both parties will be held once a year.
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 a record: in July 2004,
QuakeCon announced
it was holding 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 2007 the party has been held for sixteen consecutive years.
Competitions
The party includes multiple competitions, or
compos including but not limited to:
For the first eight years of Assembly, the demo and intro competitions were split into separate
PC and
Amiga categories. Starting in 2000, the
platforms have been combined, with PC (Windows or
Linux), Amiga,
Mac and even high-end
consoles competing in the same demo and intro competitions. Similarly,
Commodore 64 competitions were replaced with "oldskool" competitions that also allow entries for some other old platforms, such as various
8-bit systems and older Amigas.
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 (for example use
copyrighted material, or aren't suitable for the category to which they're 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.
Demo and intro competition winners
| Year |
miga demo |
C demo |
64 demo |
miga intro |
C 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 |
ldskool 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) |
Dead Ringer (Fairlight) |
| 2007 |
LifeForce (ASD) |
High Hopes (Aspekt) |
Basic Facts About Design (Immersion) |
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