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Competitions

Remote entries Compo machines Compos Demo Intro Oldschool Freestyle Music 8-Bit Music Freestyle Graphics Interactive Fiction Wild Wild Demo Onsite-only compos Logo contest Data Relay MaizeMaze TimeTrial @chef Gear available

Download Interactive Fiction Entries

To play them, you need a Z Machine interpeter. Google the term to find one.

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home

Every Day the Same Dream

Compo results

1. @chef
secret ingredient - tealuxe #157 decaf apricot tea

1. Gina (The Kat) - ice cream
2. Jimmy the Horn - lamb burger with apricot preserves
3. Tod - lobster & greens with tea vinaigrette


Wild
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01 97 Digitalis - Hebali
02 57 Laptopograms - Aditiya Mandayam
03 55 Cabbage Flash - Krue


8-Bit Music
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01 91 The Changeling - cTrix
02 85 Mixed Module Arts - Coda and Madbrain
03 77 Hadron Collider - Animalstyle
04 69 Cloud Cruiser - smh
05 56 Suddenly - Krue
06 52 Italian Violin - Fabio Barzagli


Interactive Fiction
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01 78 Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home - Zarf
02 57 Every Day the Same Dream - Luis Gonzalez


Oldschool Demo
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01 94 @party Party demo - Syntax Party Crew
02 87 Scrollorama - DC5
03 82 Hardcore Petting - Shadow/Noice
04 74 Thread - Nom de nom, Le Colonia, rv6502
05 61 BITS1503 - Bits
06 36 SE Scroller - galt


Freestyle Graphics
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01 109 Camel Mountain - Tims
02 78 Web - Kirill of VRTX
03 71 Quit Trying to Fix Things, You're Done - Sigflup
04 65 Trench Vent EP Art - Animalstyle
05 65 She Lives Under the Cube Clouds - Calypso
06 58 VRTX Logo - Blackpawn and Guybrush
07 40 Beach - The Kat


Freestyle Music
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01 92 Human Nature - cTrix
02 81 Aquashock HD Turbo - coda and Cancel
03 76 Wake Up Sleeper - CONS, featuring Ellina
04 75 My Ghostly Friend - shm
05 63 Unopinionated - Oxygenstar
06 62 Four Seasons of Tracking - madbrain
07 55 Mixed Out - GD
08 42 Waterdrain - bw
09 42 Synaethesia - Shit Factory


Wild Demo
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01 102 Duino Demo - Luis Gonzalez, Music by Blue Reverberance
02 91 I'll Get the Beer - Sigflup
03 76 A Dawg's Bitches - Barzoule K90 Salikitzor GP2X


Demo
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01 112 Computer Candy Overload - United Force and Digital Dynamite
02 109 Youth Uprising - Ethos
03 67 Awesometastic - Madbrain

REMOTE ENTRIES NOW CLOSED.

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 recieve prizes per se.

Live Stream!

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

Projector

Epson 8100, 1920x1080 max res, 3 lcd, 1800 lumens. We can show entries in HD (1920x1080).

Compo machines

Main:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.6 GHz
2 GB RAM
Windows 7 64-bit
Latest DirectX and runtime DLLs

Dual ATI Radeon 4850 (Crossfire), 512 MB VRAM

Backup:
XP-only
or NVIDIA-only demos is a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo w/ an overclocked GeForce
7900gs running a pristine install of XPproSP3


Linux: usb drives running Debian "Squeeze"

Compos

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

Rules updated to reflect revised due time for entries at the party June 8, 2010. Rules updated at the stroke of midnight, June 6th, 2010, to add the projector specifications. Rules updated at noon 5/5/2010 w/ interactive fiction length limit, format, and remote entry representative prize requirement. Rules updated 8:00pm Monday May 3rd w/ notices regarding 1 submission per person per compo, on-site deadline, and the new interactive fiction compo. Rules updated 4:20pm Thursday March 25th w/ remote submission deadline. Rules updated 8am Sat Jan 2. Revised runtime for 8bit music, added file type to Freestyle Music, removed mention of preferred player.

General rules

• * 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 19 (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!)

Remote Submission Deadline: Midnight June 7th 2010
Local deadline/submission guidelines to come.

Categories

• 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
  • 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 19, 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.


• Onsite only Compos
• • 2011 Logo Contest
    • Produce a vector graphic that will work as a one-color design for us to use as our 2011 logo. Must include an @ symbol somehow. Due 5pm Saturday. Ultimately chosen by organizers, but shown during the compos Sat night.
  
  
  
  • Data Relay
    • Across the room, around the house, through the arch, do the silly dance, and back to the machine. Sneakernet relay race. What it sounds like. Winners announced right after; not part of the main compos.
  
  
  • MaizeMaze Time Trial
    • Phoenix got a very silly CD-ROM when we visited Davis MegaMaze (near Friendly Crossways) last summer. This compo will utilize said CD-ROM. Winners announced right after; not part of the main compos.
  
  
  • @chef
    • Entrants will sign up on Friday night. They, and only they, will then be told the secret ingredient Friday night so that they can go shopping for your other ingredients at a nearby supermarket that night or the following morning. The compo starts at 12:45 PM on Saturday. Your challenge: use the secret ingredient in a recipe of your choosing or invention. Winners announced right after; not part of the main compos. Suggestions: You only need to make one portion of this recipe, enough for each of the four judges to get one mouthful. If you want to make more, that's fine. Grillables may be win for this one. Allez cuisine!