Tokyo Demo Fest 2017

Registration

Ticket

General

Prepaid

¥3500¹
General

Prepaid + T-shirts

¥5000^1,²
General

Entrance

¥4000
Student

Entrance

¥2000³
Ladies,
junior high school students,
younger children

Free⁴

A single ticket is valid for entrance for both days to the event.
There is no one-day ticket.

¹ Payments made through PayPal are handled by Cold Fusion, a supporting sponsor of Tokyo Demo Fest.
² Until 2017.01.15
³ For students, simply register for a student ticket above, and pay at the entrance. (Be sure to bring your student ID!)
⁴ Ladies will be allowed in for free.

How to Purchase a Ticket

You can buy a ticket online with the form above (using a credit card) through PayPal.
For students, simply register for a student ticket above, and pay at the entrance. (Again, be sure to bring your student ID.)
If you don't have a credit card, convenience stores in Japan sell prepaid Visa cards, or you can purchase a prepaid Visa card online with V Purika (Japanese only)

How to Cancel Your Registration

First, send an email to the organizing team before the day of the event.
If you've already prepaid with PayPal, you can request a refund. We will give instructions on how to do that once we receive your email.

Coming Without a Ticket

Any remaining tickets not prepaid for by opening day will be sold at the entrance for 4000 yen.
Once those tickets are all gone, that's it, so be sure to register as soon as you can!

Visitors Coming to the Party

__mtm	nami
__tai2__	NaotoSaiki
15milk	natade
9ballsyndrome	neguse
ailadi	nekokami sama
ando_takahiro	NekoX
aonoro_	nikq
AquaLamp	NTSC_J
Bill Jambon	numpad0
c5h12	odako
callmekeita	oho-sugu
Creonix / Brain Wave ^ Mistigris	ototoi
cytlan	peerke^poobrain
D_becchi	petsciicola
demotomohiro	Pheema
dgtanaka	qei
doxas	RICO SERIGRAFIA
dropkickmonk3y	sakaguchi_yuka
Esteban Sebastiani	sees^poobrain
Falken / brainstorm	seventeen_agent
FL1NE / RTX1911	sgkz
FMS_Cat	shizuki
FURUY	Shuto
gam0022	sm0kym0nkey
gamae	snowdoke
gaz	soma_arc
GB/Razor1911	star_trip
gyabo	suzaku3104
gyoh_k	t_bunny
h013	tatmos
hamuha	thehat ^ poobrain
Hatsuka	tobimikesan
Homare	tokkyo
hrk_tnk1Q84	tokyo88
i_saint	TropicalTrevor
IPERA	tsukky528
Ixion	tutdo
Jugem-T (DSdA / Atmosphere)	TYA-PA-
K_U_2143	tyler
Karaki / UGO	uimac
kazpulse	ukkari_ukachan
kemas / System K	UMU____
ken	viperbjpn
kensukeShimoda	Wilsynth
kioku / System K	yama72_U_inaba
Lio	yayoi_hachinohe
ls_cat	yitabashi
MachiaWorx	yohawing
makozones	yosshin4004
marcan	yutaro_mt
marubinotto	Zavie/Ctrl-Alt-Test
masaru1201	あやこ
Mi-2（Cutting Nation）	にぼし
miyabin	はどはど hadhad @ Had2Apps
mratassyu	佐藤太一
muripo_life

Registration Counts by Country

Japan	95
Netherlands	5
Argentina	3
France	2
Hong Kong	2
China	1
Norway	1
Poland	1
Sweden	1

Total	111

Seminars

Tokyo Demo Fest Tutorial

Speaker: Tokyo Demo Fest Organizer

Topic:
Aimed at the TDF first time visitors, this talk will present the events to expect at the party, how to participate to the competitions and how to vote for them.

GLSL music course

Speaker: @notargs

Topic:
This seminar will give an introduction to techniques for music with GLSL. We will have a quick look at the theory, using these slides already available, and start experimenting.

Designing a full body VR experience

Speaker: Akihiro Ando / Hashilus K.K

Topic:
VR is only a visual experience. If we add tactile together with full body sensation, we can create impressive experiences of an entire new level. It becomes possible to make them even more enjoyable, even more thrilling. This talk will introduce techniques to design such an experience.

Secrets of Parthenon Renderer

Speaker: Toshiya Hachisuka / The University of Tokyo

Topic:
Parthenon Renderer, released first in 2002, is one of the earliest GPU renderers that achieved acceleration of photorealistic offline rendering using a GPU. There are two key technical elements in Parthenon Renderer that enabled this early adoption of a GPU in photorealistic rendering: the replacement of ray tracing over hemispheres by rasterization and distribution of various computation steps in photorealistic rendering to a CPU and a GPU. By revealing the internals of Parthenon Renderer, I will show you some examples of engineering choices that make (or made) sense when developing a photorealistic renderer using a GPU.

Compos

Combined Graphics compo
Combined Music compo
Wild compo
GLSL Graphics compo
Combined 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 upload your entry here.

Compo Rules

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

Windows 7 64bit Professional (English)
Intel Core i7-4770K (Quad-core 3.5GHz)
32GB RAM (DDR3-1600)
GeForce GTX980 Ti (VRAM 6GB)
Native resolution: 1920x1080 (16:9)

Combined PC Demo Compo

The competition for the highest-performing Windows-based demos. These are the following subcategories:

PC Demo

A video/audio animation rendered in realtime running on PC.
The uncompressed total size of all files must not exceed 1GB.
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

A video/audio animation rendered in realtime running on PC.
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

A video/audio animation rendered in realtime running on PC.
The intro file size must fit within 4096 bytes.
Maximum loading/precalculation time: 1 minute
Maximum running time (minus load/precalc time): 10 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 1GB.
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.

Wild Compo

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

These are the following subcategories:

Animation / Movie

Short films, or any pre-rendered movies.

Customized / Oldskool Hardware

Demos running on custom-built or older hardware.

iOS / Android demo

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

Amiga Demo

Bring either the actual device, or a video capture of the demo. Organizers will have a Amiga 1200 + Blizzard card available. If your production works on an Amiga 1200, we will use it.

GLSL Graphics Compo

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

Here are some tutorials on getting started with GLSL if you need:

Combined Music Compo

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.
Entries will be played using the latest VLC.

Executable Music

Executable music must fit within a single executable file (.exe).
Maximum file size: 64KB

Combined Graphics Compo

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.

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