Welcome to Breakpoint 2008, world's biggest pure demoscene event. For the 6th time, up to 1000 creative participants from more than 30 nations are once again expected to gather in the beautiful town of Bingen am Rhein, Germany, from the 21st to the 24th of March 2008 (Easter weekend), enjoying 4 days of round-the-clock activities in arts, technology and international socializing.
In case you've never been to a demoparty before, we suggest you have a look at our New Visitors section now - else read on.
We are back once again to provide you a stunning but friendly party atmosphere. Obviously all the features from the past 5 years will remain - there will be a extremely wide range of competitions for each and every taste, the biggest selection of food & drinks stands ever seen at a demoparty, cool music liveacts to dance to, enlightening seminars, a seperate beer/party-tent, a meadow with a warming bonfire for long outside nights... and so much more. Everything a scener could wish for comes true at Breakpoint. As a special feature Breakpoint 2008 for the first time in demoparty history will be featuring a gigantic 16:9 FullHD big screen, over 70 square meters big, 12 meters wide, running a full 1920x1080 resolution - expect the best demo experience ever seen with insanely sharp and bright picture.
2008 is a very special year for the town of Bingen am Rhein, where our party is held: Just 3 weeks after Breakpoint 2008 ends, the Rhineland-Palatinate Garden Show will open for the summer in the town center near the rivers Rhein and Nahe. With the garden show covering over 24 hectars and a length of 2.7 kilometres, this is going to change Bingen's face forever. Breakpoint is going to start the party early - with the whole city being visually dominated by flowers, we just can't stand back. And that's why Breakpoint 2008 is going to be a Digital Garden. We'll make nature and technology compete in sweet harmony - wear a flower in your hair while kicking those bits' butts.
You just can't afford to miss the party event of the year, so make sure to visit Breakpoint 2008 and register now.
You might also want to check out the invitation demo by Rebels; any reasonably machine with OpenGL 1.4 compliant video card and 128MB of VRAM should be able to run it. The Windows version of the invitation works with Wine, and a MacOS X port is included. And if your machine still isn't supported, you can at least try one of the video versions.
- Download the Windows/OS X invitation (17.5MB)
- Download the video version (640x480 XVid, 60MB)
- Download the video version (DVD ISO image, 179MB)
- Discuss on pouet.net
Or watch the C64 invitation intro created by Resource and The Dreams:
Any questions left? Don't hesitate to ask - contact the organizing team by mailing to our hotline mail address , or join the irc channel #breakpoint on the IRCnet network.
However, one thing is clear already, which affects anyone buying long-distance travel tickets (flights etc): Unlike the previous years, for Breakpoint 2009 it will NOT be possible for long-distance travelers to unofficially enter the location on Thursday evening already. Due to reasons which we will explain later, the whole Breakpoint location area (including the parking space) may not be entered before Friday, 12:00, and there won't be any exceptions. Also there won't be airport shuttles on Thursday evening this time. In other words: If you are going long-distance to Breakpoint and your flight arrives on Thursday, make sure you either get yourself a hotel room at the airport, or a way to get to Bingen and a hotel room there.
Organizers of bus trips to BP2009 also are advised not to schedule bus arrival at Bingen before Friday 12:00.
Intel and Breakpoint are very sorry about how this worked out. Intel is going to replace all licenses that have been given out as competition prizes. They sadly are unable to replace the licenses that were given out to non-competition-winners though.
So: If you've received one or multiple Intel license sheets as part of a competition prize at Breakpoint, please check if your serial number on it starts with the letter "V". If it does, you've received a trial license in error, and it needs to be replaced. In this case, please contact scamp of BP organizing by mail at scamp@untergrund.net, including a scan of your license sheet, your handle and which compo entry you've won the license for. In case your serial number starts with the letter "C" then everything is all right and you've got a full version license (and you don't need to do anything else than enjoying the software).
Again big thanks to all involved in BreakpointTV and all other people involved (and sorry to Pasy for the team not getting your name spelled right ;)
(And as we are expecting a hell lots of downloads: Please do not directly link to the files on individual mirrors, but link to the download page so we are able to distribute the traffic. Thanks.)
We're not done with our post-party work for BP08 yet, but one thing has become perfectly clear already:
Breakpoint 2009
April 10th to April 13th, 2009 (Easter weekend)
Bingen, Germany
Mark your calendars and feel free to book your flights :)
Also, the seminars page has been updated with links to the video files where available (sorry about the delays again; we're working on the remaining videos and will add them as soon as possible, promise!)
Also, we are looking for links to Breakpoint 2008 photo galleries and press reports. If you got those, please mail us. Alternatively, good selections of party pictures can be submitted to slengpung - but keep in mind you only send them selections, with description on which sceners can be seen on the photos.
Finally, the main untergrund.net ftp mirror network, ftp.untergrund.net is completely overloaded by people downloading releases. If you wish to download Breakpoint release, please DON'T use the direct ftp-links at pouet.net et al, but instead select the file on our Download-Pages, and choose one of the many Breakpoint-specific mirrors there (again a big thank you to those providing these mirrors: scene.org, rhonda, back2roots.org, carp, cyraxx).