The Meteoriks at a glance All you need to know in a nutshell

The Meteoriks

The Meteoriks are an award to honor the best demoscene productions of 2017. They have been presented at the Revision demoparty in April 2018.

The Demoscene

The demoscene is a computer subculture consisting of creative minds with passions of creating realtime art. Learn more here and visit a demoparty!

Meteoriks 2017 Laureates

You can review the laureates and nominees of all thirteen categories from last year, or watch the awards ceremony here! Thanks to the Revision Team to let us host our show.

Categories

We will award productions in nine categories this year, drawing from your suggestions of previous years! Our juries have decided on a list of nominees, you can review them here!

Call for jurors

The winner of each category will be determined by three judges. That’s a lot of judges you say? Well, you’re right and you should consider applying.

Juror application deadline has passed.

Recommend a production

The jurors are in session and starting to make sense of the huge amount of things that have been released in 2017. They are working hard not to overlook worthy entries, but we want to make extra sure that everything gets considered.

So if you have any special production in mind for one of our categories, that you think deserves the jury's attention, submit it here!

The deadline for recommendation has passed.

Categories There's something for everybody

New Talent

The group or individual scener that made their most memorable entrance in 2017

This category is for everybody who has either made a memorable entrance into the demoscene in the past year (with their first productions), or suddenly came to full glory in 2017 (breakthrough improvement, new platform or discipline)

Best Soundtrack

The production with the best soundtrack

There are a lot of talented musicians in the scene. Lets honor them.

Best Visuals

The production with the most beautiful and impressive art style, graphics, effects, modeling, texturing, color scheme, ...

The best art direction category honors demoscene productions that excel in the fields of design, direction and graphical talent. While previous scene awards have also honored these fields their impact has rarely been considered in a more holistic sense. In this context art direction concerns the overall visual appearance of a demo, how it communicates visually and how do these factors complement the concept of the demo. These productions are aesthetically significant even outside their demoscene context.

Best Direction

The production with the best overall cohesion, camerawork, atmosphere, pacing, story, ...

Direction is the art of choosing the right camera angle, the right framing, and getting the sequence and timing of scenes just right to convey a specific message, or evoke a specific feeling.

Outstanding Technical Achievement

The production that most dropped our jaws as it was previously deemed impossible

"Faking it" has been part of the demoscene forever. And faking it so convincingly that jaws drop is what this category is supposed to honor. It is all about making the impossible possible, and doing things that you would not believe your machine is capable of.

Best Low-End Production

The overall best production on a low-end platform

Best Small High-End Intro

The overall best production in 8k or less

Best High-End 64k Intro

The overall best production in 64k or less

Best High-End Demo

The overall best production between 64k and INFINITY!

there all different kind of ways to make a demo, you don't have to make it in one month, some take a lifetime to perfect. this is an award for groups reviving their on-hold projects, finally finishing them, new technologies found on very old platforms, or ports of old entries to new systems. To qualify, releases have to have some indication (in a scroller / an nfo file or otherwise) that they have been in the works for multiple years.

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