Blip Festival 2008

Posted by David Pescovitz, November 19, 2008 3:21 PM | permalink

Blip Festival 2008, a celebration of low-res visuals and chipmusic, hits New York City on December 4. Brandon Boyer has the details and a promo video over at Boing Boing Offworld! Blip Festival 2008: The Promo

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#1 posted by Anonymous , November 19, 2008 4:22 PM

I wanna go. But I live about 600 miles away... :c

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#2 posted by giantnegro , November 19, 2008 6:03 PM

Glad you reminded me; now I can get hotel reservations!

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#3 posted by airship , November 20, 2008 7:09 AM

The Commodore 64 Lives! SID & VIC Forever!!!

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#4 posted by Anonymous , November 21, 2008 4:03 AM

This video is cute, but, it would likely never play on an actual 4-color CGA IBM monitor.

The biggest problem of old school graphics editing was the lack of good tools. We didn't have vectorized object-oriented editors, object grouping, free resize, free scale, free skew, etc etc. Most of the time it was paint one dot at a time, using some imprecise and difficult to manipulate input control like a joystick.

This video's awesomeness is heavily dependent on the multilayer sky/ground side-scrolling -- for which support was nonexistent in the early days.

This would have to be done full-frame for CGA, so next it's a question of whether all these frames could even fit into 620k of an IBM PC.

But, nice video anyway.