General rules
- Obviously, entries must not violate the law
- You must own the rights of the entries you submit
- All shown entries will be spread (on Scene.org); they must therefore allow distribution
- Entries must have not been previously released
- All entries must work on the compo machine
- Demos are required to run at the native resolution of the bigscreen, or support a resolution selector
- All demos are required to exit immediately upon pressing the Esc key or Alt-F4
- If any of the above requirements are not met, or if the organizers detect unfair play, then that entry will be disqualified
- While this is not mandatory, entries should include a .NFO file and a screenshot
Competitions
PC Demo
- A realtime video clip running on PC
- The uncompressed total size of all files must not exceed 256MB
- Maximum running time: 10 minutes
- Maximum loading time: 1 minute
Combined PC Intro
- A size limited realtime graphics and music animation running on PC
- The intro must fit within a single executable file (.exe) not exceeding 65536 bytes
- Maximum running time: 10 minutes for 64k, 5 minutes for 4k and under
- Maximum loading time: 1 minute
Combined Oldschool Demo
- A realtime video clip running on legacy hardware
- Platforms include MSX, AMIGA and any hardware of 16bits and less
- Entry must include a binary working on the target hardware as well as a video capture
- Maximum running time: 5 minutes
- Maximum loading time: 1 minute
Combined Graphics
You can enter the Combined Graphics Competition with any kind of graphic artwork: handdrawn, oldschool or newschool graphics, photo, ASCII/ANSI, 4kB executable...
- Freestyle graphics
- You must provide at least four steps of the creation process (they will be shown)
- Allowed formats: Jpeg, PNG, TIFF
- Pictures will be shown with latest Irfanview
- Executable graphics
- The entry must fit within a single executable file (.exe) not exceeding 4096 bytes
- Maximum loading time: 1 minute
- ASCII/ANSI
- Maximum size: 80x1000
- Entries will be shown with Acid View 6.0, in VGA mode 80x25, with the Topaz font
- Animations are not allowed
- Photo
- Postproduction is allowed
- You must include the original photo
- Allowed formats: Jpeg, PNG, TIFF
- Photos will be shown with latest Irfanview
Combined Music
You can enter the Combined Music Competition with any kind of music entry: streamed, tracked, 32kB executable...
- Streamed music supported playback formats: MP3, OGG; a bitrate of at least 192kbps is recommended
- Tracked music supported playback formats: XM, IT, S3M, MOD
- Executable music must fit within a single executable file (.exe) not exceeding 32768 bytes
- Tracked music entries will be played using the latest XMPlay
- Unless you want specific playback settings, the following will
be used:
- MOD: No Interpolation, No Ramping, 50% Stereo Separation, normal MOD playback mode
- S3M/XM/IT: Sinc Interpolation, Sensitive Ramping, 50% Stereo Separation
- Maximum playing time: 5 minutes, longer entries will be faded out from 5'00 to 5'10
Wild
Enter this competition with anything that doesn't fit into the other compos: demo on other platforms, on custom hardware, animation, etc.
- Platform: anything
- Submissions must include a video (AVI, MP4)
- Videos will be shown using VLC
- Maximum showing time: 5 minutes
Compo machine
The entries of the PC Demo, Combined PC Intro and the Executable Graphics will be run on the following machine:
Hardware
- Intel Core i7-2600 (Quad-core 3.4GHz)
- 8GB DDR3 RAM
- GeForce GTX580
- Native resolution: 1280x720 (16/9), 60Hz
Software
- Windows 7 x64 Home Edition
- The latest (at the time of the competition) video card driver will be installed
- The latest DirectX 11 runtime (not the SDK) will be installed
- The latest version of .NET Framework 4 runtime will be installed
- No other extra runtimes or drivers will be installed
- All folders below the Windows 7 Library folder (My Pictures, My Music, My Videos, My Documents, etc.) will be deleted before running any demo
- Network access will be disabled
Submission and deadline
Graphics, music and demo competitions will take place on Sunday. Remote entries are allowed and will be voted upon along with all other entries submitted at the party place, but you can win a prize only if you can attend the ceremony.
Submissions at the party place
Visitors will be able to submit their entries through the intranet. Deadline for on site submissions is set at Sunday 2013/02/10, 12:00.
Remote submissions
Remote submissions are allowed for all competitions. If you want to submit a remote entry, please contact us so we can provide you with the details for uploading your entry. Dealine for remote submissions is set at Saturday 2013/02/09, 23:59.