Competitions

Remote entries Compo machines Compos "Best Effect" Browser Demo: One Effect "Best Effect" Browser Demo: Multiple Effects Demo Intro Oldschool Freestyle Music 8-Bit Music Freestyle Graphics Interactive Fiction Wild Wild Demo Hardware Available Upon Request

Remote Entries

Remote entries (i.e. those sent in by groups or soloists without a representative present) will place, although as at Buenzli and other parties, they cannot receive prizes per se. Remote entry deadline is June 13, 2011. Email us to submit.

Live Stream!

We are planning to have a live stream of the compos and performances, stay tuned for further information!

Projector

Last year we had an HD projector, an Epson 8100, 1920x1080 max res, 3 lcd, 1800 lumens. We are likely to use it again if the person who so kindly lent it to us does so once more.

Compo machines

Main Compo Machine:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.6 GHz
4 GB RAM
Windows 7 64-bit
Latest DirectX and runtime DLLs
NVIDIA gtx460
Backup Compo Machine:
2.2GHz Core 2 Duo w/ an overclocked GeForce
7900gs running a pristine install of XPproSP3

Linux: usb drives running Debian "Squeeze"
Please inform us before the party if you need an AMD/ATI based system for your demo as we have access to a few mid-range AMD/ATI cards.

Compos

These rules may be changed without notice, but will be time-stamped and available at this website: http://atparty-demoscene.net/compos.html.

Updated on June 6, 2011.

• * no copyrighted material can be used
• * there must be at least two entries per compo
• * no one may submit more than one entry in any compo
• * all entries by attendees will be due to the organizers at 5 PM on SATURDAY JUNE 18 (this does not apply to interactive fiction or remote entries, see below)
• * related compos may be merged (e.g. demo and intro) if not enough entries are received
• * remote entries are accepted, but a representative must be present at the party to claim a prize
• * organizers may reject any entry deemed offensive
• * If Virt and Necros submit music entries, Metoikos owes each of them a dozen homemade cookies. Oof. (Phoenix made me do it!)

Categories

• "Best Effect" Browser Demo: One Effect
  • Open Web technologies only. No plug-ins, no extras. Testing platform: Firefox (if it runs cross-browser you get extra applause). One screen, one effect, showtime max 60 seconds; blow us away!


• "Best Effect" Browser Demo: Multiple Effects
  • Open Web technologies only. No plug-ins, no extras. Testing platform: Firefox (if it runs cross-browser you get extra applause). More than one effect.


• Demo
  • The compo machine will run WinXP, Win7, and Linux. We also have one MacBook and one PowerPC around, but you may be better served by bringing your own hardware for a Mac entry. We will publish detailed machine specs sometime before the party, and mention latest DirectX/driver installs.


• Intro
  • The entire demo and all necessary resources should fit in either 64k or 4k.


• Oldschool
  • Must run on a commercially available hardware/OS platform from 1992 or earlier


• Freestyle Music
  • Max runtime 3 minutes and 30 seconds
  • intended for modern trackers, sequencers, VSTi and other software synths, and that voice/acoustic samples are allowed
  • Must be in .wav, .ogg, .mp3, .mod, .s3m, .xm, .flac, or .it format


• 8-Bit Music
  • Max runtime 3 minutes and 30 seconds
  • Must either run on 8-bit hardware or be written as an oldschool, SoundTracker-style mod (4 channels, 15 8-bit samples/instruments)


• Freestyle Graphics
  • (likely) projector info: Epson 8100, 1920x1080 max res, 3 lcd, 1800 lumens
  • No scans or photos
  • Submit 3 in-progress images
  • Max resolution for any raster graphics will be announced once we know what kind of projector we have.
  • Must be in .png, .tif, or .jpg format (.png preferred)
  • ASCII/ANSI/XBIN/RIP-Script are all okay made of win
  • Max res for ASCII/ANSI/XBIN is 80 columns x 1000 lines


• Interactive Fiction
  • All interactive fiction prods by attendees are due by 12:30 PM on Saturday, June 18, so that people may have some time to play them.
  • Games cannot be more than approximately a half-hour in play length.
  • Most formats are acceptable, but Z-Machine is preferred.


• Wild Demo
  • Demos that are not oldschool and are not standard PC, but are definitely demos, i.e. realtime and require an automated computation device.


• Wild
  • Whatever you want. Films, devices, programs, etc. Don't know what a wild compo is? Check out scene.org.