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Seeing stuff like this always makes me giddy. Why aren't Americans more involved in the demoscene? I always wanted to find a way into it, but never found people willing to give it a shot.

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There are tons! And lots of parties as well (one coming up soon at MIT). It's almost entirely an East Coast phenomenon though.

Here's a FB page for them https://www.facebook.com/groups/NAScene/

I think it's a side-effect of things like the huge US startup scene. People are less inclined to pursue "academic" things like 64k demos, and more likely to try and launch a less technically impressive but more money-oriented startup.

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