Competitions

Tokyo Demo Fest is accepting entries for many different competion categories. Each category will have its own separate compo, and all entries will be shown at the party. Not only will there be entries from overseas to watch, but there will also be a chance to see Japanese demos as well. Let's make a demo!

The following compos will be held:

• Combined Graphics Compo
• Combined Music Compo
• Wild Compo
• GLSL Graphics Compo
• Combined PC Demo Compo

Please see the timetable for the deadlines and when the competitions will be held. Visitors will be able to submit their entries through the party intranet.

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. If you are interested in submitting a remote entry, please request an access key from the Remote Entry Submission page.

General Rules

• The work must be your own original creations. No arranged or covers of others works without permission will not be accepted.
• All entries will be published to the demoscene sites Scene.org and Pouet.net. If you do not give us permission to publish your work, your entry will not be shown at the party.
• All entries must work on the compo machine.
• All entries must work with the projection system at the party.
• All demos are required to exit immediately upon pressing either the Esc key or Alt-F4.
• The latest video drivers available at the time will be installed on the compo machine.
• The latest DirectX 11 runtime will be installed on the compo machine.
• The DirectX SDK will NOT be installed -- only the runtime.
• The latest .NET Framework 4.5 runtime will be installed on the compo machine.
• Any folders below the "Library" folder (My Pictures, My Music, My Documents, etc.) will be deleted from the compo machine.
• No extra runtimes or libraries will be installed on the compo machine.
• DOS, Linux, or Mac demos are not supported and will not be run in a VM. However, you can submit them to the Wild compo (along with a video capture, please).
• If any of the above requirements are not met, or if the organizers detect unfair play, then that entry will be disqualified.
• Please include at least a screenshot of your entry to be used during the voting, and for publishing.

Compo Machine

The compo entries will be run on the following hardware:

• Windows7 64bit Professional
• Intel Core i7-4770K (Quad-core 3.5GHz)
• 32GB RAM (DDR3-1600)
• GeForce GTX780 (VRAM 3GB)
• Native resolution: 1920x1080 (16:9)

The competition for the highest-performing Windows-based demos.

PC Demo

• A video/audio animation rendered in realtime running on PC.
• The uncompressed total size of all files must not exceed 256MB.
• Maximum running time (minus load time): 10 minutes
• Maximum loading time: 1 minute
• Simply displaying a pre-rendered movie is not acceptable.

PC 64K Intro

• The intro file size must fit within 65536 bytes.
• Maximum running time (minus load time): 10 minutes
• Maximum loading time: 1 minute
• Simply displaying a pre-rendered movie is not acceptable.

PC 4K Intro

• The intro file size must fit within 4096 bytes.
• Maximum loading/precalculation time: 1 minute
• Maximum running time (minus load/precalc time): 5 minutes. Anything lasting over 5 minutes will be terminated early.
• Any other smaller entries (PC 1K Intro, etc.) will be combined into this compo.

WebGL Demo

• A video/audio animation rendered in realtime running in a web browser (latest Chrome).
• The uncompressed total size of all files must not exceed 256MB.
• Maximum running time (minus load time): 10 minutes
• Maximum loading time: 1 minute
• Simply displaying a pre-rendered movie is not acceptable.
• Fullscreen mode must be supported.

A competition for entries that do not fit within the Combined PC Compo, the Graphics Compo, or the Music Compo.

• A video capture (AVI, MPG, MP4, whatever is playable with VLC) is required.
  
• Maximum showing time: 5 minutes. Any entries over 5 minutes will be terminated early, so providing an additional shortened video is acceptable.
• Highest resolution: 1920x1080

Animation / Movie

• Short films, or any pre-rendered movies.

Customized / Oldskool Hardware

• Demos running on custom-built or older hardware.

iOS/Android Demos

• Bring either the actual device, or a video capture of the demo.

A GLSL fragment Shader displaying a graphical demo.

• All entries will be shown using GLSL sandbox.
• The latest version of the Chrome browser will be used.
• Including animation via 'uniform float time;' is allowed.
• There is no limit to the number of lines of code.
• Please include the following three lines at the beginning of the shader (these cannot be modified!):

  #ifdef GL_ES
  precision mediump float;
  #endif

  
  
• Please submit your entry as a text file (.txt) inside a zip.

This is the compo for musical entries.

• Any genre of music is allowed.
• Maximum playing time: 5 minutes. Any entries over 5 minutes will be terminated early, so providing an additional shortened music version is acceptable.

Tracked Music

• Supported playback formats: XM, IT, S3M, MOD
• Maximum file size: 2MB
• 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

Streaming Music

• Supported playback formats: MP3, OGG
• A bitrate of at least 192kbps is recommended.

Executable Music

• Executable music must fit within a single executable file (.exe).
• Maximum file size: 32KB

The competition for single-image graphics entries.

PC 4k graphics

• Entries must consist of a single 4KB executable file (.exe) and render a graphical image.
• Only this single executable file may be used.
• Resources/data cannot be loaded from outside the executable.
• Maximum file size: 4096 bytes
• Maximum loading/precalculation time: 1 minute

Freestyle Graphics

• Entries are welcome to use any tools necessary to create the image.
• All entries will be displayed using the latest version of irfanview.
• Lossless compression formats (such as PNG) are recommended.
• Any steps of the creation process leading up to the final image can be included with the entry.

Photo

• Entries are limited to photographs taken with a camera.
• Interesting photos will have good results. Your average snap won't make the cut.
• If you make a collage, please include all original photo files along with the entry.