LINGER IN SHADOWS DEVS AMONG SCENE.ORG AWARD FINALISTS

Longtime demoscene institution scene.org has announced the finalists for its 7th annual Scene.org Awards, “honoring the previous year of demoscene releases in a more formal setting, and disregarding their ranks in other competitions.”

In the main competition, my money’s on the rhythmic ribbon of Still’s “The Seeker” (above), which placed first in Intel’s 2008 Demo Competition, though all the nominees were slick in their own right.

Your games connection? “Into the Pink,” which took 2nd place at Nvidia’s NVscene competition, was put together by Plastic, the same demo group that did Linger in Shadows, the PS3 demo released on the PlayStation Network late last year.

If you don’t have the hardware to run any individual demo, be sure to click on the ‘Pouet comments’ link for each, which will link you to streaming/YouTube versions of each.

Don’t miss the other categories, either, particularly the Oldschool Platform demos, where teams are still breaking through the silicon ceilings of ZX Spectrums, C64s and Vic 20s. PwP’s fantastic Vic 20 demo “The Next Level” (above) is my favorite of the bunch.

The 7th Annual Scene.org Awards [scene.org]