ZINE: The Radio Show

Everyone loves themselves a good movie, just like a good realtime-rendered scene - and as we do with the latter, some people take their passion obscenely far in making their favourite movies the best they can be. We talk with Bobson Dugnutt about fanedits, a small scene that might seem familiar in all but its final products. Links for this Episode: Fanedit.org: https://ifdb.fanedit.org/ (they also...

As we learn in this episode, the executable graphics competition just celebrated their 18th birthday! High time we talk to one of the most regarded creators of those little programs - yx is joining us to talk about the creation process and the community behind it. Links for this Episode: in4k on Github: https://in4k.github.io/wiki/about Selection of 4k Executable Graphics: https://executable.graph...

Whether it is to divert expectations, provoke, bend the rules or simply have a good time and be creative: humour, satire and gimmicks are a long-standing tradition in the demoscene. But is there more to it than just blatant knee-slappers and cheap audience-pleasing? Does humour free oneself from too many expectations and limitations? Or is it limiting in its own ways? With the topic so close to hi...

It was the end of the year, so our producers joined the hosts to wind down, have some fun and reminisce about their first year as part of the team. We give some insights and thoughts from behind the scenes, talk about our favourite episodes, parties and anything that happened in 2022 - and give some first hints what's to come for 2023. Credits: Hosts: Axel, Okkie and Ziphoid Producer: Shana Editin...

After long summer nights, it's getting cold outside again and the demoparty calendar gets sparser. In this special, we invite two guests to discuss a topic intimately, as you might catch the conversation close to a bonfire after a good compo night: Our two guests hardly need an introduction - Kiero (MadWizards, Elude) and H0ffman (Logicoma, Unstable Label) share their experiences, feelings and ane...

Welcome to our biggest episode yet! We can all agree sceners are a peculiar bunch, and our scene is a community like no other, juggling creativity and technical prowess, often even within the same individuals. What does it do with us to create, compete and socialise in this environment, and how can we take care of our own and others’ wellbeing? We explore the psychology behind the demoscene, demop...

The Scene is Dead! Or is it? How do newcomers experience the demoscene when joining these days, and how did the pandemic and lack of physical events impact them? We are talking to Tobach, famed for sheep and fantastic demos on exotic devices - and give Okkie a good while to talk about the release of his first demo (he did it, people!!) Links in the episode: Demoscene Discord Server: https://discor...

For the past couple of years, demos in JS, running in Web Browsers have become a fixed part of the demo compos. We invite Ninjadev to chat about their work, their own tool nin and other groups and productions. Join us for an all-new episode after our longer break - it's great to be back! Links from the episode: PS’ Webdemo Presentation ( http://tinyurl.com/webdemos , https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

25 years ago in Northern Germany, an Amiga/C64 demoparty called "Symposium" and a PC demoparty called "Mekka" decided to merge into one common demoscene event on Easter, bringing the home computer and PC demoscene under one roof - Something almost unthinkable at the time. This was the beginning of a tradition that was eventually carried on by Breakpoint and resulted in Revision, the world's bigges...

For the first time in a long while, we are venturing beyond our own realms, and invite a guest from a scene not so different from ours: We have a chat with Alex McLean, a key figure of the Algorave movement, about the similarities and differences of our scenes and creative process. Let's see if we can draw some inspiration from each other! Algoraves have been an ever-growing trend over the past te...

As David Attenborough would put it: Today, we look at life at the smallest scale. Superogue from Marquee Design joins us to tell us more about Tiny Intros, the pleasures of hunting that last byte, and why it is not just for hardcore coders. Also, we finally get an answer to okkie’s burning question on the origins of TPOLM’s group name and wallow in memories of a time where we were not only immatur...

Welcome to Season 3! After the success in Finland and Germany, Poland just enlisted the Demoscene as Intangible Cultural Heritage - in this episode, we learn more what all of that means, about the process behind it and how this can help our scene and future adventures. Send us questions, suggestions or voice messages to zineradioshow@scene.org Join the discussions on the Demoscene Discord Ser...

We have delivered the 12th episode this year, as we promised: Our producers, now having satisfied their promise, join for the last episode to explain their motivations, their view on effort and discipline, and share their approach for creating and delivering projects. Send us your questions, suggestions and voice messages to zineradioshow@scene.org Join the discussion on the Demoscene Discord serv...

We kick off this month with an audience question: Are themed music compos a net positive or net negative? Is there a loss of interest in music compos in general? After that, a discussion about demos using stock assets and commercial engines - is it worth it? Should it be shunned upon? Finally, the legend himself, IQ joins us to tell us the story and beginnings of Shadertoy, how he views the growth...

The versatility of the scene can be overwhelming, but also a sprawling playground for those who want to experience more and more of the possibilities of it all, and none has done more sweeping work across many areas than Ferris, who joins us to talk about his beginnings, his motivation to oscillate between oldschool and newschool platforms, his struggle to give up artistic control, and his desire...

The scene is nothing if not a giant ball of sobbing about how everything was better when computers were just growing their eighth bit - but is that a good thing? Are we taking up the space from the future with the past? What's better, to make a fresh demo on an old platform, or an old demo on a fresh platform? The show dives into these weighty questions while, naturally, reminiscing about old time...

There's just no denying it: over the last few years the livecoding craze took the demoscene by storm - but what is it? Is it part of the scene? How does it project onto the scene? Where does it meet the scene and where does it avoid it? We sit down with Flopine, the perhaps most prominent personality of the livecoding community, to gain more understanding of what it is and what it isn't, and what...

Most of us have been in the scene for a decade or more - so much that it's become second nature. But in 2021, with the massive reach of social media and various other computer art outlets gaining popularity - why would anyone else start making demos? Are we just doing it out of nostalgia and muscle memory? The show takes a look at the shifting relevance of the scene! Send us your questions, sugges...

The turn of the millennium pushed the demoscene to cover a lot of online ground, but now 20 years later modern Internet habits and centralization is putting undue pressure on the actively used websites, while other sites just wither out once the maintainers leave. The show discusses the reasons, the problems, the prospects, and possible solutions to this ongoing conundrum. Send us your questions,...

The curve of vaccinations slowly gives us hope of crawling back to regular party season as we look at yet another wave of online parties, and a few potentially IRL ones as well; we also discuss the aging out of demoscene websites, some cool new projects and why it’s so hard to find people to help with such projects. Then, Noby joins the show to talk about what direction means in the demoscene, wha...

The event we’ve been waiting for for a whole year is now behind us, so it’s time to dissect it: The show takes aim at Revision 2021 Online, discusses the competitions, the highlights, the events, how it felt to be once again stuck at home for Easter - and of course, a debate about the notorious Twitch ban, whether it was justified, how it affected the event, and what can be done to avoid it in the...

As we slowly crawl out of winter and head into spring, the show takes a look at the various upcoming online events, discusses the appeal (or lack thereof) of tiny intros, as well as a peek at the major awards being handed out to the demos, intros, and other projects achieved last year. Then, Rimina joins us for a weighty talk about the minority demoscene experience, how cultural and demographic di...

As promised, the show is back on track on our new regular schedule! This episode starts by reviewing some of the reactions of our reappearance and takes a look at who actually listened to the show. Then, after a quick peek at the demoscene news of the month, the show briefly discusses the hot topic of demoscene ethics, and finally, Revision head honcho D.Fox joins us to discuss his experience with...

The ZINE Radio Show is back! After a 10 year hiatus, Okkie and Axel return to dissect and discuss the news and hot topics of the demoscene, and they are now joined by new co-host Ziphoid for some PROFOUND BANTER! In this episode revolving around making old things new again, they obviously explain the sudden unexpected return of the podcast, what took so long, why they’re back again, and what to ex...

Another near two year pause, but Okkie and Axel return to talk about the last Breakpoint, and the new Easter party Revision, fanboy over glxblt, Jester and Ferris, share Okkie's TRSAC adventures, and talk about the upcoming Moleman 2 demoscene documentary, as well as the third and final Mindcandy DVD / Blu-ray. Note: this episode originally aired in 2008 and is fetched from the BitFellas archive....