What competitions are there?
The following competitions are open - meaning you do not have to be at the party to enter a production:
NOTE:
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO COMBINE OR CANCEL COMPETITIONS IF THERE ARE TOO FEW ENTRIES.
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO PRESELECT OR NOT SHOW A PRODUCTION WITHOUT NOTICE.
YOU CAN ONLY ENTER ONE ENTRY PER COMPETITION.
COLLABORATIVE WORKS MUST BE DECLARED AS SUCH.
GROSSLY OFFENSIVE, RACIST OR ILLEGAL WORKS WLL BE DISQUALIFIED.
- Open Newschool Demo
- Open Newschool Intro
- Open Oldschool Demo
- BitFellas Open 4ch MOD Competition
- BitFellas Open Synth Chiptune Competition
- Open ANSI Graphics Competition (Cancelled)
- Open ASCII Graphics Competition
- Open Old School Graphics Competition
- Open New School Graphics Competition
The following competitions require party attendance to enter:
We are also strongly considering running FAST compos also. Party atendees are encouraged to add their own ideas to Sundown, so if you're up for running something competitive and fun, make a post in the forums or speak to an organiser directly! :)
Open Newschool Demo
Compo machines:
- PC: TBC - expect a high end system. Windows and Ubuntu Linux entries welcomed.
- PC: D3DX extensions allowed.
- Amiga: Amiga 1200 + Blizzard 060 50Mhz Accellerator, Scan Doubler. (Supports USB transfer also). Standard Amiga 1200 also available. Thanks to Bonkers / Tolou for this.
Compo rules:
- Windows demos must use ONLY the latest RELEASED directx runtimes.
- Maximum file size is 64MB.
- Entries must be submitted at the party or via e-mail to Ne7 at ne7sundown@gmail.com.
- For entries above 2MB, please upload somewhere and provide us with a way we can access the file.
- If you require a location to upload to, please contact us.
Open Newschool Intro
As Newschool demo except:
- Maximum file size is 64KB (65,536 bytes) in one executable file.
- D3DX extensions allowed
- Entries must be submitted at the party or via e-mail to Ne7 at ne7sundown@gmail.com.
Open Oldschool demo
Platforms:
- Commodore C64, Spectrum, Atari STE 1040 / Falcon, Amiga ECS/OCS/AGA, any pre-1992 platform considered.
- Platforms must be supplied at the party unless listed below or risk having them run under an emulator!
- Current platforms confirmed are Spectrum (gasman) & Amiga (bonkers).
- Entries must be submitted at the party or via e-mail to Ne7 at ne7sundown@gmail.com.
- For entries above 2MB, please upload somewhere and provide us with a way we can access the file.
- If you require a location to upload to, please contact us.
BitFellas Open 4ch MOD Competition
A special and unique competition organised by NE7 and Syphus/BDSE on behalf of BitFellas - the home of ZINE, BitJam radio, BitFellas Scene City and the BitFellas community.
- Must be 64KB maximum. (65,535 bytes)
- Must be 4-channel Protracker / Soundtracker M.K. Module
- Make sure to advise your playback requirements
- Must be a maximum of 5 minutes
- Songs are subject to preselection, non-played songs will not be released and you will be notified
- The songs will be played using Protracker on an Amiga 1200
- You can specify a particular version of Protracker if required
- We reserve the right as a last resort to play your songs under emulation
- Open to everyone, BitFellas or not! :)
- Entries must be submitted at the party or via e-mail to Ne7 at ne7sundown@gmail.com
BitFellas Open Synth Chiptune Competition
A special and unique competition organised by NE7 and Syphus/BDSE on behalf of BitFellas - the home of ZINE, BitJam radio, BitFellas Scene City and the BitFellas community.
- Must be a pure chip tune (adlib / ahx / sid / hively / snd / sndh / nsf - any synthtracker but no samples. Not V2!)
- NO SAMPLES or DIGIDRUMS for YM TRACKS!
- Make sure to advise your playback requirements
- Must be a maximum of 5 minutes.
- Songs are subject to preselection, non-played songs will not be released and you will be notified.
- We reserve the right as a last resort to play your songs under emulation.
- For any specific enquiries about formats not listed here, please ask in the forums.
- Open to everyone, BitFellas or not! :)
- Entries must be submitted at the party or via e-mail to Ne7 at ne7sundown@gmail.com.
Open ASCII Graphics Competition
- Entries must state whether its Amiga or PC.
- Amiga Entries will be shown using Topaz or Pot Noodle.
- PC entries will use Acidview with internal fonts.
- 54 Lines Maximum.
- 76 Columns Maximum.
- Entries must be submitted at the party or via e-mail to Ne7 at ne7sundown@gmail.com.
Open Old School Graphics Competition
- We aim to cover any old school graphics format, even multiframe / interlace graphics.
- We do reserve the right as a last resort to run graphics under emulation.
- We require that the image has no animated elements.
- Please advise us in advance of your presentation requirements.
- Old School Platforms include any 8 or 16 bit system, Amiga OCS/ECS but not AGA.
- Entries must be submitted at the party or via e-mail to Ne7 at ne7sundown@gmail.com.
Open New School Graphics Competition
- The entry has to be delivered in .bmp, .iff, .png or .tga format. Jpeg or any lossy format is HIGHLY DISCOURAGED.
- Recommended resolution is 1024x768 pixels, any other resolution will very likely be bicubically resized to 1024x768, maintaining aspect ratio.
- The entries will be shown once on the bigscreen and uploaded to the party intranet directly after the compo, so visitors can judge the entries on their own screens.
- You may optionally include up to 4 (four) logically named working stages of your entry.
- You must also include a list of the tools used, to be displayed on the big screen.
- Only still images are allowed, no animations.
- Please make sure that your entry is free of third-party rights! (For example, you may not include photographs if you don't own the copyright or have a legal license for it).
- Entries must be submitted at the party or via e-mail to Ne7 at ne7sundown@gmail.com.
- For entries above 2MB, please upload somewhere and provide us with a way we can access the file.
- If you require a location to upload to, please contact us.
Streaming Music
- You Must Be At The Party To Enter Or Have A Member Of Your Demogroup Present!
- Allowed Formats: MP3, OGG, Mpeg-4 or MusePack.
- Renoise RNS or XRNS only if there are NO VST's (if they are used, encode to another format).
- We support Renoise up to version 1.9 (latest beta at competition time), and 1.8 stable.
- 5 Minutes Maximum.
- We reserve the right to fade tracks that are highly repetitive.
- We reserve the right to preselect works and disqualify them from party presentation (but we will NOT release your works publicly).
Themed Photo Competition
Must be supplied as a JPEG. Competition visitors only.
Theme to follow.
Party Only Wii Sports Tournament
- TBC
Party Only Meteorik's Demoscene Quiz
- God knows.
- Fingers on buzzers!
- Bring ham, sliced.