Competitions

General Compo Rules (All Competitions)

  • Only one entry per person / category
  • A minimum of 3 entries per competition is required for it to happen, else it may be combined / cancelled
  • You, your group and your entry must not be registered with a copyright society (GEMA, BIEM etc)
  • Fees charged by a copyright society caused due to ignoring above rule will be passed on to the artist who submitted the entry
  • All single artist competitions will be held anonymously, all names will be shown alphabetically after each competition
  • Only original works which you hold all rights to are allowed, don’t bother submitting unlicensed / protected material!
  • Racism, child pornography, any kind of content that violates german law will be disqualified
  • Your entry must not have been released at another party or anywhere else previously
  • There is no filesize limit for your entry unless stated otherwise, please use common sense here
  • Please .zip or .rar your entry and include an id.diz file in your archive, this helps us identify your production
  • Optionally, provide a message / greetings for us to show on the bigscreen during compos
  • Only visitors at the party can win compo prizes, they will not be posted in the mail afterwards
  • We reserve the right to disqualify any submission that we deem inappropriate for any reason
  • All released entries will be made available on scene.org after the party

 

GFX Compo (Oldschool)

  • Entry must run on oldschool hardware (C64, OCS Amiga, NES, SNES, Genesis etc.)
  • Entries for platforms without standardized image formats (Atari XL, C64 etc.) must be submitted
    as executable program, otherwise standard formats such as .IFF for Amiga are fine
  • Include at least 4 “plausible” work stages for your submission and some background
    information about how it was created e.g. which system and tools used
  • Remote entries accepted for this category

GFX Compo (Newschool)

  • Use any graphics tool you want, rendered or drawn images
  • Hand-drawn pictures must be scanned with at least 300dpi, NO photographs!
  • Include at least 4 work stages for your submission and some background
    information about how it was created e.g. which system and tools used
  • Remote entries accepted for this category

Photo Compo

  • Up to 1920×1080 pixels in 32-bit color, larger photos will be scaled down
  • Slight retouching allowed, please provide the original photo too!
  • Remote entries accepted for this category

Gravedigger Compo

  • Dig out one of your century-old, unfinished works from the past
  • Pictures, music, animations, games … surprise us!
  • Provide some background information about your entry, e.g. how and when
  • Maximum showing time: 5:00 minutes
  • Remote entries accepted for this category (music or GFX only!)

Executable Music Compo

  • Maximum filesize: 32 kilobytes
  • Please also include a pre-recorded audio file for your track (.ogg / .mp3 or .flac)
  • Music only, no visuals will be shown on the big screen
  • Maximum precalc time: 30 seconds, music must end in silence (no looping)
  • Maximum song length: 4:00 minutes
  • Must provide own hardware if not running on Windows PC, Amiga or C64 (.sid)
  • Remote entries accepted for this category

Tracked Music Compo (Oldschool)

  • Submit your entry as .ahx .mod .it .xm or .s3m
  • Maximum file size: 2 MB (2048 kilobytes)
  • Maximum song length: 4:00 minutes
  • Songs will be played back in XMPlay, Deliplayer or “ProTracker on real hardware”
  • XMPlay set to “sinc” and “sensitive” by default, tell us if you need different settings
  • Remote entries accepted for this category

Streaming Music Compo (Newschool)

  • Submit your entry as .flac .wav .ogg or .mp3
  • .mp3 or .ogg files must be at least 192 kbps (lossless formats preferred!)
  • Maximum song length: 5:00 minutes
  • Songs will be played back in WinAmp 5
  • Remote entries accepted for this category

Realtime Demo Compo (Oldschool)

  • No maximum filesize, but please use common sense here
  • C64, Amiga, Atari, GP2X, GameBoy, DTV and others, if in doubt – ask!
  • Use our C64, Amiga and PC-DOS compo machines or bring your own hardware!
  • RCA, VGA, DVI and HDMI inputs supported, if unsure provide a video for your entry!
  • Maximum showing time: 8:00 minutes
  • Don’t forget to include any custom libraries your production may require!
  • Remote entries accepted for this category

Realtime Demo Compo (Size-Restricted)

  • Maximum filesize: 64 kilobytes
  • C64, Amiga, Atari, GP2X, PC-Win 32/64 or PC-Linux 32/64 (for others, get in touch!)
  • Use our PC, C64 and Amiga compo machines or bring your own hardware!
  • RCA, VGA, DVI and HDMI inputs supported, if unsure provide a video for your entry!
  • Maximum showing time: 5:00 minutes
  • Don’t forget to include any custom libraries your production may require!
  • Remote entries accepted for this category

Realtime Demo Compo (Newschool)

  • PC-Win 32/64 or PC-Linux 32/64 (for others, get in touch!)
  • RCA, VGA, DVI and HDMI inputs supported, if unsure provide a video for your entry!
  • Maximum showing time: 8:00 minutes
  • Don’t forget to include any custom libraries your production may require!
  • Remote entries accepted for this category

Wild Compo

  • Anything that doesn’t fit in any of the other categories goes here
  • Maximum showing time: 5 minutes
  • Live performances accepted (Make it good or we’ll throw bananas at you ;) )
  • Material should somehow fit with the demoscene spirit (here’s a good example)
  • Remote entries allowed, make sure we can easily play it back on our hardware!

Undisclosed Compo

  • TBA
  • TBA
  • TBA
  • This competition does not have any prizes to be won, it is just for fun
  • Remote entries NOT accepted for this category

 

Final deadline for all remote submissions is Wednesday, 17th July 2013, at 23:59 GMT.

Compos may be combined / cancelled if there are not enough entries in one of the categories.
If there are too many entries in a category, preselection will apply (remote entries to be preselected first).