This whole thing has been a game of adventure. Andrew goes to NVScene, meets a couple of sceners. A month later, he contacts one of them and says he's inspired to create a demo. That guy sends some source code, and the source code opens the first door: a glimpse of what demo code looks like. Andrew begins work, works daily, sometimes surfacing to tell people he's working. Eventually, he gets a bit more source code, a few more tips. He announces he's going to Breakpoint and someone invites him to the Breakpoint irc channel. He meets more people. He finishes the demo and we go to Breakpoint. We meet people. Did you bring something? they say. He did. Then he tries it in the compo machine and it doesn't work. But just having a baked demo garners some good assistance. He gets good tips from the people who discovered the tricks in the first place, works the next 20 hours to rebuild ithe demo for the compo machine. Tests it again: it works. He turns it in. Then the compo starts. A note about compos: often the demos are preselected and played in the rough order of worst to best. So we watch, excited to see Diatom run but hoping that it won't appear in the line-up too soon. The first one comes up on screen: it's not Diatom. Then the next and the next and the next. We wonder how many demos are in this category. Andrew's paralyzed with nervousness. Finally, his, and it runs! It runs and it is huge and the bass is enveloping. I'm watching the crowd: They're mostly quiet. Some cheer when the icosohedrons pop. When it ends, people clap and cheer. Not the biggest roar, but at least some people liked it. Only two more demos follow in the compo, and they're both technically sophisticated even if a bit immemorable because they look like so many other demos. When the compo is over, Truck drags us outside. He says, Outside they're saying good things about your demo. He hands Andrew a Belgian beer that one of the Belgian sceners brought. One of his special stash. So we go outside and Preacher's the first person we see. He gives good, specific feedback and says Andrew should meet a guy from a big group, says Andrew should join the group. Then it's Gargaj. He has nice things to say and he's a bit effusive, perhaps a bit drunk. He says first demos don't usually have a coherent theme, or transitions, or any of the other polishing work Andrew did. He says that he thinks it could take second. I figure that's about the best thing we could hear. A few minutes later, another guy comes up, says, You're Andr00 right? He says he really liked the demo, that it wasn't technically spectacular, but it was totally pleasant to watch. And it was. It's all been pretty awesome. Now he's in.