Scamp at Pouet:
And now for something completely different:
Financially-wise, Breakpoint is pretty fucked this year. As you may know, ATI won't sponsor anymore, as they got bought by AMD... which basically means 1/3 of Breakpoint's total budget is gone.
I've tried my very best to find replacement sponsors during the last weeks and months, but without any real luck so far.
So, if anyone in here has good personal industry contacts to something that might be relevant to the demoscene (creators and distributors of Audio Software- and Hardware, Graphics software and hardware, Game development companies, etc), please see if there is something you can do for Breakpoint. In case you are able to create such a contact, we have a pretty detailed Sponsor info folder to hand over etc, so contact me in private. We are also interested in smaller Sponsors who might be able to donate hardware prizes etc.
Breakpoint 07 will take place even without additional sponsors, but it will result in a quite drastic increase on the entrance fee side - keep in mind that 2/3 of the party costs in the past have been paid by our sponsors.
(The good news is that lack of money makes creative - you'll see a lot of improvements at Breakpoint this year in areas where we've always lacked - there finally will be lots of creative fun compos for example)
(Oh, and please - "how about writing to company xy?" kind of hints won't really help - we already did a huge paper mailing sessions and mailed most companys for who the demoscene might be relevant. This doesn't work out. The only thing that will work is a personal, direct contact with someone inside such a company to make things move. So, if you are able to help, contact me directly at
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