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:

• Introduction to GLSL and Fragment Pixel Shaders
• GLSL Graphics Compo Raymarching Tutorial (Japanese)
• Let's Try the 7 Lines GLSL Compo! (Japanese)

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.