I always found Demoscene to be a curious phenomena. A combination of fascination and not understanding the point.

Seems to be mostly a European thing, too.

They're talented hobbyists who are not interested in monetizing their passion. Such people exist in US too, although perhaps are more rare.

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ptek 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There were a lot of global crews during c64 days and a few crews on the Amiga. In New Zealand on the Amiga a lot of the warez and compilations had importros on them. So was a small coding scene here but not as big as Europe or during C64 days.

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squigz 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the point is to create fracking cool art - and show off your skills

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userbinator 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

From what I've seen, mostly East-European and former USSR.

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anyfoo 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Assembly, arguably the most known demo party, was famously Finnish. Future Crew (who made Second Reality) were (are?) Finnish as well. Lots of demo scene in Germany, also.

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skrebbel 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

About evenly spread both sides of the Iron curtain, I’d say. Lots of demoscene in eg Germany, Scandinavia too. Netherlands, UK and France also have sizeable (though smaller) scenes.

	▲	pjmlp 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		And to lesser extent Iberian Penisula, where sceners like shader toy creators come from.