Competitions are the salt of every demoparty - no wonder, Buenzli 17 will host plenty of them. Just as like at a motion picture festival, productions will be shown in various categories. A jury (the audience) is voting and selecting the winners. That’s your chance! Come and compete! Our competitions responsible is Pro/Nuance. Use our contact form to get in touch with him if you have any questions or suggestions.

A few more competitions will be announced in the next days!

Remote Entries

We decided to allow so called remote entries to all the competitions. This means, that you don’t have to be at the party place to take part in our competitions. Instead, you could also watch the party on demoscene.tv, for example. Here are the extended rules for remote entries:

• These compos are open to contributions from people who can not be present at the party. Send your work to t.obermaier(at)gmx.de until the 15th of August 2008, at 23:59 CET.
• Remote entries can win (as in receive a top 3 ranking) but can’t win prizes (the prizes will be given to the other winners
• In case of too many entries for a single competition, entries by visitors are shown/played while remote entries might get preselected. In case of any preselection we will not spread your contribution.

Buenzli 17 Competitions

Click-click on the competition name to see the rules for a specific competition.

• PC Demo
• Alternative Demo/Intro (all other platforms)
• PC 64k  Intro
• PC 4k Intro
• OHP Demo
• Open Game Development
• Wild
• Suprise
• 4k Procedural Graphics
• Graphic
• Streamed Music
• Tracked Music
• ANSI/ASCII

General competition rules

• Every contributor may contribute once per competition.
• Entries to competitions have to be previously unreleased. This means: If it is already officially released (Scene.org, Pouet, your website, other parties...) the entry will not be accepted.
• If a competition has less than 3 entries, we might cancel it (or we will pool it together with another suitable competition). Of course we will talk to you about it before any decisions are made so that you have the chance to hold your entry back.
• If there are too many entries in a particular category, we preserve the right to do a preselection based on the subjective impression by an ad hoc jury.
• Entries that violate Swiss law, heavy pornography, racism, etc. are not allowed and will be rejected and deleted without further notice.
• Make sure your entry does not violate any third party rights (copyrights, etc.).
• Every entry will be released at scene.org and possibily other FTP sites, unless it was preselected /disqualified, or the competition was canceled.
• Voting will be public. if we are able to hand out a jury prize again, this specific price will be given away by a jury, which will be formed at the party.
• The rules may be modified and/or extended by the Buenzli staff any time.
• Please keep in mind: We all want to see your releases. So if you are not sure if your production is matching those rules, please contact us in advance or directly at the party. We will find a solution for sure .
• Our videomixers/beamers are capable of a maximum resolution of 1024x768.

PC Demo Competition

• Sizelimit: 64MB
• Pure animation players will be rejected.
• Maximum playing time: 10 minutes

Alternative Demo/Intro Competition

• Bring your own hardware to run your production.
• The more alternative the better!
• Make sure your hardware has either video/composite output or can provide an VGA-signal. In heavy cases, we might capture your entry from your machine’s screen or run it in an emulator.
• Maximum playing time: 10 minutes

PC 64k Intro

• Size limit: 64Kb (65536 Byte)
• Maximum playing time: 10 minutes

PC 4k Intro

• Size limit: 4Kb (4096 Byte)
• Maximum playing time: 6 minutes

Wild Competition

• Allowed Formats (when video): DVD, DIVX, MPEG, AVI or MOV
• Alternatively, you can bring your own equipment in or perform live on stage.
• Maximum playing time: 10 minutes

OHP Demo Competition

• What is that? Download last year’s entries from scene.org
• We provide an OHP and you do the production for it
• Don’t exceed 6 minutes playing time
• You’re allowed to do whatever you want, except for the use of OHP-LCD screens and the like.
• Take care with liquid - the OHP must be dry after your entry was shown.
• There will be material available at Buenzli to create an entry, but you’re asked to prepare everything at home.
• Bring the music you want being played during you perform your entry with you, either as Audio CD or as PC-playable track. Don’t use commercial music!

Game Development Competition

• No size limit
• Pure mods for commercial games are not allowed
• Open for all platforms and developers
• You may choose if you want to play your game by yourself or with/against an organizer :-)

If you contribute to our Game Development Competition, you have the chance to win lincens of Stonetrip’s STON3D Servcer and ShiVa Licenses. More information.

Surprise Competition

• The topic will be announced during the party.
• You’ll have enough time to contribute with your own fast made entry.

4k Procedural Graphics

• Show one impressive still image, completely generated by your application.
• Display the image in fullscreen.
• Size Limit: 4Kb (4096 Byte) unpacked executable.
• The precalculation will be done live, so try to optimize your code.
• All platforms allowed.
• Resolution: 1024x768 (beamer limit)
• A screenshot of your still image has to be provided.
• Notes
  • If you are not sure about the precalculation length please mail us in advance.
  • If possible, provide a status bar (not enforced)
  • If possible, provide a write-to-disk option (for example TGA, not enforced)

Graphics

• Allowed Formats: JPG, GIF or PNG
• Max. 1024x768 (beamer limit)
• Please provide at least 3 work steps, pure scans are not allowed!
• The entries will be shown with the latest version of IrfanView
• Note that traced, “photoshoped” and pixelled pictures are in the same competition.

Streamed Music

• Your tune has to be MP3/OGG-encoded.
• Your audience wants to be able to dance to your music, so make it rock!
• Maximum playing time: 4 minutes

Tracked Music

• Allowed formats: MOD, S3M, XM, SKM, IT, MT2, MTM, RNS & XRNS (Renoise), SID
• Size limit: 1.44MB (ZIP-packed)
• No external VST-Plugins allowed (for Renoise: Standard player will be used)
• Players: XMPlay, MadTracker, Renoise, WinAmp (free available players)
• Standard Soundcard or HardSID
• Maximum playing time: 4 minutes

ANSI/ASCII

• Maximum size: 80 * 1000
• The entries will be shown with Acid View in 80*25 and in VGA-mode
• Acid View’s built-in Topaz font will be used for displaying Amiga style ASCIIs
• Ansimations/converters will not be allowed
• Supply at least 3 work steps