This weekend featured one of the first japanese demo events with lectures, competitions and socializing. I didn’t personally attend, but I created a demo with Klaus Lunde and Mogens Skjold.
When building a demo I tend to follow an unusual path (atleast from what I can read on the blogs of Smash/Fairlight and Navis/ASD). The process is usually like this:

1. I contact a musician that has the genre of music that I’d like to build a demo for
2. If I get an accept - I ask for music that I can use. Preferably ready made music.
3. Download the music to my mp3-player and listen to the tune 100 times imagining the visual party in my head
4. Contact a graphician that either has or can make the stuff which is needed (e.g. 2D pixel graphics, 3D objects/scenes or similar)
5. Code and design iteration untill satisfied or out of time

So, the Aurum demo has music composed by legendary Xerxes of Brainstorm aka Klaus Lunde and 2D pixel graphics by the best active 2D pixel graphician in Scandinavia Farfar of Loonies aka Mogens Skjold.

The project was originally intended for the Evoke 2010 party held in August 2010, but due to lack of time and inspiration the project stranded. It was later picked up for submission at TUM party in late december 2010. However, the rules of the party didn’t allow for remote entries in the competition (which resulted in a thin competition with 5 entries or so).

Finally I decided to contribute to the Tokyo Demo Fest where it ranked 5th. I suspect the low ranking to be due to an organizer “problem” that resulted in the demo to be shown muted.

Links

• Aurum by Loonies and Brainstorm on Youtube
• Aurum by Loonies and Brainstorm on Pouet