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We will have 4 kb intro, 64 kb intro, Demo, 2D graphics, 3D graphics, Streamed music (MP3 / OGG) and Wild compos. Improvised compos will be welcome, we are always open to suggestions; tell us. We might open "4k procedural gfx", or "96k game" compos is necesary. In the other hand, we reserve the right to anulate a given competition. Shall you have any sort of doubt, don't hesitate to send a mail to info@inspire-demoscene.org.

Compo machine will be:

• CPU: Intel Core2 Duo 6600
• GPU: Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB
• Memory: 2 GB DDR2
• OS: Windows XP 32 bit, Service Pack 2
• Libraries: Directx 9.0c (d3d9_30.dll)

Note, if your production runs on Linux please send an e-mail to info@inspire-demoscene.org before coming to the event so we evaluate if it worths to set up an official Linux machine (just be reasonable and do not tell us the day before). For Mac, PSP, Amiga or any other kind of machine, please bring your production machine to use in the competition.

General competition rules:

• Remote entries are allowed but no physical price will be given to the authors.
• Your production may not have been presented to any other compo before, only first releases are allowed.
• Only the first 8 minutes of each entry will be shown.
• The organization reserves the right to disqualify any production that breaks spanish/european law or we find violent or humiliating. We are very open minded though. Just use your common sense.
• We might skip long and repetitive parts of your production if the organization thinks it is boring for the audience.
• If there are less than 3 productions in a competition the organization reserves the right to cancel the competition or to join it with another one (we will ask the authors of the productions first for consent)
• All entries will be spread thru ftp.

4 kb intro competition:

• The intro must be a native executable application for the given platform. No Java, .NET, flash entries allowed in this category.
• Maximum size is 4096 bytes. All the files but the executable will be deleted for the show.
• Please note that neither msvcr70.dll, msvcr71.dll nor msvcr80.dll will be available on the compo machine!
• You may assume d3dx9_30.dll to d3dx9_36.dll are installed.
• Consider using Crinkler for linking your intro executable. If you don't do so and your intro crashes, don't complain at compo time :)
Should you want to learn how to make 4k intros, visit the following usefull links:
• in4k, a site dedicated to 4k intro development.
• ready to use 4k intro codes, for different platforms.
• Auld's page, with some intros, and source code.

64 kb intro competition:

• The intro must be a native executable application for the given platform. No Java, .NET, flash entries allowed in this category.
• Maximum size is 65536 bytes. All the files but the executable will be deleted for the show.
• Please note that neither msvcr70.dll, msvcr71.dll nor msvcr80.dll will be available on the compo machine!
• You may assume d3dx9_30.dll to d3dx9_36.dll are installed.
• Consider using Kkrunchy rather than Upx.
  Should you want to learn how to make 64k intros, visit the following usefull links:
  • a 64k framework
  • some help to get rid of the default libs of Visual Studio
  • compiler options tricks

Demo competition:

• The demo must be a native executable application for the given platform. Both .NET and Java demos are allowed in the demo compo. No Flash entries allowed in this category.
• Maximum size is 48 Megabytes compressed (zip, rar, tar.gz, whatever).
• You may assume d3dx9_30.dll to d3dx9_36.dll are installed.
• We will not have any non standard library instaled, your demo should be self contained (you must provided all the needed dlls next to your exe).

Streamed music:

• Only one entry per artist is allowed in each compo.
• Only the first 4 minutes of the song will be played, the song may be larger.
• Formats: MP3, OGG, CD-A (single track).
• Player: Winamp.

Graphics

The following rules apply to both graphics competitions:

• The only supported image format is PNG. If you have problems to provide your work in this format, please choose one that is lossless (not JPG please). Only RGB colour space allowed - no CMYK images.
• Pictures will be shown in 1024 by 768 resolution with full 24bit color depth but can be also at 1280*1024.
• Only 1 draw per author.

2D:

• You must submit evidence of the process of creating the picture. This means that the different steps of the process are shown in different files (10 at least), in a growing evolution of the final graphic. You can name those xxx01 XXX02...
• You can't add post editing to the graphic, or include elements generated on 3D aplications such as ·DS, lighwave etc.
• Pictures based on, or that are suspected to be based on a scan or digitalization won't be allowed. Neither will be photos nor photocompositions.

3D:

• Besides the final graphic, the author must present the wireframe (.3DS, .MAX, etc.), wireframe screenshot and the final render. If a production does not fulfill this, it will be automatically disqualified. It is allowed to present the steps and wireframe compressed in a file (ZIP or TGZ).
• To show it in the bigscreen, first we'll show the wireframe and then the final render.
• Pictures based on, or that are suspected to be based on a scan or digitalization won't be allowed. Neither will be photos nor photocompositions.

Wild compo:

• Please note this is a demoscene event meeting, and so we reserve the right to disqualify any video we think is not computer graphics art/demoscene related. Be reasonable, try to make people enjoy, not get bored.
• Maximum show time: 8 minutes.
• Productions may be in video format or an executable on any platform (drop us a word to info@inspire-demoscene.org) and let us know what platform you'll use).