Assembly 2006

This year, I've finally been able to go to the Assembly2006 demo party. Years ago, I used to follow the demo scene and even went to some party in Holland. Though the last years, I lost track of it due to other things. Currently I happened to live in Finland so decided to go there this year.

Asm2006 was really kewl. There were about 4000 people and a great atmosphere. The whole event is in the icehockey stadium in Helsinki. I took some photo from it:

I've spend a lot of time in the seminar's that were organized. Most of them were really good and learned a lot from them. Many thanks to the organizers for organizing Asm and getting these speakers there.

One of the things that surprised me was the amount of gamers though. I had expected more people who were writing code, making music or making art. After all, it's a demo competition. No, most of the people seemed not too interested in the demo's but more interested in playing games. That's too bad...