We have lotsa great competitions
for you, like the Demo
Compo, Intro
Compo, Tracked
Music Compo, Streamed
Music Compo, Graphics
Compo, Wild
Compo, Fun Compos and a Surprise
Compo at the partyplace. For the first time
in the history of Buenzli, we also offer a competition
for alternative
platforms (not PCs). For gaming freaks we offer
an official game related competition: Leveldesign
Compo.
Attention: The PC-specs are
probably subject to change (they will not go lower
though). |
The
PC Demo Competition [what
is a demo?]
Hardware: AMD Athlon 1900 XP+ (1.66Ghz) computer,
256 MB RAM, GeForce 4mx or Radeon 9500pro class
graphics card, Soundblaster sound card
Supported operating system: Win32 (Win98/Win2k).
If this doesn't suit you, bring along your equipment.
But remember to have either a VGA-output, a cinch
or a scart connector to connect to the beamer
The demo must have a title, a file_id.diz and
an infofile.
Pure animation players will be rejected.
Note that you may do test runs on the competition
machine

The
PC 64k-Intro Competition [what
is an intro?]
Size limit: 64kb
Hardware: AMD Athlon 1900 XP+ (1.66Ghz) computer,
256 MB RAM, GeForce 4mx or Radeon 9500pro class
graphics card, Soundblaster sound card
Supported operating system: Win32 (Win98/Win2k).
If this doesn't suit you, bring along your equipment.
But remember to have either a VGA-output, a cinch
or a scart connector to connect to the beamer
The intro must have a title, a file_id.diz and
an infofile
Note that you may do test runs on the competition
machine

The
Wild Competition [what
could a wild demo be?]
In case you're doing some kind of animation, the
following formats are allowed: DVD, DIVX, MPEG,
AVI or MOV (preferably not, this sucks)
If this doesn't suit you, bring along your own
equipment.
It must have a title
Everything is allowed (you could for example get
on stage and sing a song).

The
Alternative Demo/Intro Competition [info]
Hardware: Bring your own hardware to run your
demo/intro production. The more alternative the
better! But remember to have either a VGA-output
or provide something like an SVideo- or composite
connector to connect to the beamer
The production must have a title, a file_id.diz
and an infofile.
Note that you may do test runs with your machine
connected to the beamer. |
The Graphics Competition
[what
graphics do you want?]
Allowed formats: JPG, GIF or PNG
If you have alternative formats (like C64-pictures
etc.) you should bring your own hardware. But
remember to have either a VGA-output or provide
something like an SVideo- or composite connector
to connect to the beamer.
Max. 800*600 (beamer limit) 24 Bit
You'll need to bring at least three significat
steps of the modeling/painting process
The picture must have a title, a file_id.diz and
you have to declare which programs you used to
make the picture
Pure scans are not allowed!
Note that traced, "photoshoped" and
pixelled pictures are in the same competition.

The
Tracked Music Competition [what
is tracked music?]
Size limit: 1.44MB [contact Unlock if you don't like that]
Allowed formats: MOD, S3M, XM, SKM, IT, MT2, MTM,
RNS (Renoise), SID, ..
No VST-Plugins allowed
It has to be playable with a free available player
(f.e. NO Rebirth). We'll use the latest XMPlay,
MadTracker, Renoise or WinAmp for replaying (format
dependant)
If the format isn't supported by us (we support
SKM, XM, MOD, S3M and IT), you have to bring along
your own (but free available) player.
Must be playable on standard hardware. For chiptunes
(f.e. SID or AdLib) you should bring the necessary
hardware.
Songs that exceed 5 minutes will be faded out
after that time
Your tune must have a title, a file_id.diz and
you have to declare which programs you used to
make the song

The
Streamed Music Competition [tell
me more]
Your tune has to be MP3/OGG-encoded.
If this doesn't suit you, bring along your equipment
(like a different freely available player or something).
Songs that exceed 5 minutes will be faded out
after that time
It must have a title, a file_id.diz and you have
to declare which programs you used to make the
song
Your audience wants to be able to dance to your
music, so make it rock.

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The prizes depend a lot
on our sponsors,
but you can be sure to get nice things like hardware,
money and fame - if you win. Money prizes will
be paid out in Euro. Remember: You don't take
part because of the prize money, do you? |
There are some general
rules about the compo, please make sure you read
them:
If a competition has less than 3 entries, we might
cancel it.
The rules may be modified any time by the Buenzli
staff.
We will release every entry at the party (upload
to scene.org and various other FTP sites) unless
the competition where your entry was supposed
to take part in is cancelled.
It's good if the creator of an entry is a visitor
of Buenzli (to give us the possibility to contact
him in case of troubles with the entry), however,
it's not necessary. We take email submissions.
Email submission will be disqualfied in case of
troubles and errors with replaying the entry.
If a competition has too many entries, we'll do
a preselection based on the subjective quality. |
Send your entries to our
competitions by email to unlock@vantage.ch!
If you have bigger stuff like Wild-Videos and
such, contact Unlock and think of a way on how
to transfer your entry.
Email submission will be disqualfied in case
of troubles and errors with replaying the entry.
In case your email submitted entry wins a price
and you're not at the partyplace, we won't give
the price away and you can't get it later or something. |
Leveldesign
[what's
that?]
Design a level for your favourite game (doesn't
have to be a 3D-egoshooter, there are also level
designer for other games, like Tony Hawks 3, ...)
You will play your level on the bigscreen
Supply us with an easy-to-install version of your
game (or bring your own computer which has everything
installed). If you need hardware other than a
PC, bring it with you.
Provide at least 3 steps of the design process.
We need to be sure that it was you creating the
level.

Surprise
Competition
The topic of this competition will be given out
somewhen during the party. Remember, it's a surprise
competition. You will have enough time to create
a nice entry that will make you famous. |
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