We are very proud to announce our Saturday evening life act: Mr. ADAN (also known as Gol/demoscene.tv) will present an 1h show accompanied by live visuals from the computers of Psykon/mydriasis. This duo promises good entertainment!

On Friday night, three interesting shows will catch your attention: The “Open Video Show” where you decide what you want to see, Nightmare/Nuance’s “Multimedia Show” with new and old demos and animations and last but not least the “c64.ch demoshow”. Further information on these and more on our timetable page.

And as a little reminder: All our competitions are open for remote entries (where is makes sense): You can check the rules for remote entries on our competition page. Also, another small rule change: XNA is allowed in all competitions (again, where it makes sense).

Do not forget to check http://www.buenz.li for all the latest news, and the Pouet thread for discussions, questions and last-minute news.

Remote Entries: We decided to allow so called remote entries to all our competitions. This means, that you don’t have to be at the party place to take part in our competitions (except for the OHP compo). On our compo page, we have enlisted the extended rules for remote entries for you. Be sure to enter that demo, game, image, tune or whatever you’ve got there in one of our competitions!

Timetable: A pretty evolved version of the timetable is now online. We’ll adjust it further as needed. However, the deadlines seems fixed already. The deadline for all remote entries is the 15th of August. We’ll soon announce a few events in detail that can already be found on the timetable.

The Buenzli Poker Tournament was introduced last year - and this year we’re going professional: A pro dealer and nice prizes. Again, we’ll held a friendly poker round on Saturday afternoon. Every party visitor can contribute, just don’t miss the deadline for the inscription. The rules are almost the same as last year (read the full news post for details). Win a full poker set, a poker tablecloth, poker dvds and card sets. This competition is sponsored by Swiss-Gamblers and Sky-Consulting.

Today, we have announced the specifications of our competition PC. As promised, it will be a pretty powerful machine. The detail specifications are available on our competition page. You think it looks like a Nvidia Demokit PC? You’re right, it is one. For competition entries that are not intended to run on PC hardware with Windows, you are asked to bring your own hardware with you - just as we did it in the past few years.

Our sponsor Stonetrip donates valuable licenses of his ShiVa 3D authoring suite as prizes for our Open Game Competition. For the first placed winner, a license of the STON3D Indie server will be available additionally. ShiVa, a platform for 3D real time development, allows you to make games, but also 3D real time applications for professional use. It’s a 3D authoring tool with a game engine - maybe you can even create demos with it? If you have a game ready somewhere on your computer, be sure to enter it to the Buenzli Open Game Competition and win! The competition rules can be found on our competition page.

August 2008 - time for two traditional SwissGerman demoparties: Just as in the previous few years, Evoke and Buenzli are supporting double-party-visitors, demoscene-summer-trippers and i-can’t-get-enough sceners with a combined ticket. Evoke takes place just one week before Buenzli and is the place where you can buy our doubletrouble tickets which are then valid for Buenzli, too. The best thing about it: You get a discount on the regular entrance fee of both parties: The combined ticket is available for EUR 43.-.

How it works: At the Evoke entrance desk, you ask for the combined ticket instead of the regular Evoke ticket. One week later, at Buenzli, you show your ticket (which has a unique code printed on it) together with the Evoke bracelet and you’re in.

Register yourself for Evoke & Buenzli now:
http://www.buenz.li/pages/register.html
http://www.evoke.eu/2008/8307,registration.html

This year, we prepare a fine new thing for our visitor: Buenzli 17 will not only be a demoparty, but also feature a mini art exhibition. The exhibition consists of two areas, one featuring paintings and home made trash art on the topic of airplanes. The other area will contain a musical experience object called “Wechselsaiting” - a real time real life sound synthesis curtain. Read more about “Wechselsaiting” on the news pages of “Echtzeit - Digitale Kultur”. These art areas aim to extend the experience of Buenzli 17 and will, last but not least, increase the attractivity of the entrance hall. Be sure to check that awesome stuff out!

We just have decided to have another ANSI/ASCII competition this year - and it’s even “official” now. The compo rules are available at our competition page. This competition is open to remote entries sent in by email (though there are no prizes for remote entries planned). Get your keyboard started and show the world that ANSI and ASCII art is not obsolete at all!