Demo competition rules

Each competition’s rules are regulated by the following general rules as well as specific rules as specified in the following pages. General rules always apply except if overriden by specific rules.

The rules are intended to be compact and precise. We advise you to read them carefully and use conservative planning with respect to deadlines and other limits. If in doubt, please contact CompoCrew for clarification.

• The author of an entry or his designated proxy must be present at the party to be eligible to participate in graphics or music compos and to receive any prizes the entry might win.

• Remote entries are accepted for real time compos. Purchase of a ticket is required to vote.

• Competition entries must be uploaded to the competition system before the given deadline.

• All deadlines are hard deadlines. There is no update deadline anymore. However, if you are in trouble and need more time, contact the compo organizer.

• All material constituting an entry must be previously unreleased. This means that the material in the demo (e.g. graphics, music) has not been used in any previously released production.

  • You may, however, include material in your realtime or development entries that participates at the same event in the music or graphics competitions.
  • Also, you can include some previously released components in your work if they do not constitute the main portion of the work. For example you can use previously released fonts and samples in creating your work if you have permission to use them.

• No purely AI generated content is allowed, unless it is specifically allowed by individual competition rules. While we do recognize that AI generated content can provide assistance or inspiration, the majority of the submitted entry must exist out of own/group work.

• You must own or have permission to use all the material present in your production. In case of a potential copyright infringement problem it is your duty to prove this. Please read the copyright FAQ.

• Don’t use trademark or copyrighted content such as logos without permission. If you believe your use of trademark of copyright content falls under fair use rules according to Finnish copyright law, contact us in advance to verify this.

• You must accept the competition contract when submitting your entry. This contract governs the rights and responsibilities of you and the event organizers.

• Organizers reserve the right to disqualify a production containing explicit sexual, racist, or disturbing material or breaking any rule applicable to the particular competition.

• Organizers reserve the right to change any and all prizes and prize principles in any competition. This applies especially to competitions where the quality or number of productions is too low to justify the full prize amount.

• Organizers reserve the right to augment or modify the competition rules if deemed necessary, especially to clarify ambiguities or resolve contradictions in the rules.

• Note that you MAY NOT use ANY music which you haven’t acquired necessary copyrights and permissions. This means that you have either composed the music by yourself or have got a permission from the original author, who is not a member of any copyright association such as Teosto or Gramex. If the music has been published on a record label it is then most probably controlled by Teosto and Gramex thus it is impossible for you to get any permission to use it in your work for free. You will be liable for any and all possible copyright infringements caused by your work.

• Shown entries are preselected by a jury and/or compo organizers. If your entry is not shown, it will not be released by Assembly.

• Entry must be in an executable form. Pure animation files are not allowed in real-time competitions. Also executables only including an animation and an animation player will not be accepted.
• Every competition has their own maximum duration shown but organizers may choose to stop the production before the end.
• The production must work from read-only media and must not modify system settings (for example: Windows registry). However, you may use the platform’s standard temporary directory during the execution of your entry for storing data if such a service is available.
• The demo must show in a similar manner every time executed.
• Entries which we cannot be run on the compo machines will be disqualified. To prevent this you can ask us to test your production on the compo machines. Do this early and you will even have time to fix any problems that might pop up.
• A screenshot image must be submitted with the entry to the competition management system.
• You must hide the mouse cursor.
• You do not have to be present at the party place to compete! Remote entries are welcome!
• Although not forbidden, we recommend not using import by ordinal for DLLs with non-fixed ordinals to ensure better compatibility.
• Entries will be recorded at 1080p60 (or possibly 1080p50) resolution.

• Demo may not last longer than 8 minutes.
• Entry must run on a Desktop platform.
• The user has to be able to exit at any time by pressing a key. On PC this key must be ESC.
• While there is no specified size limit, we still expect it to be reasonable (i.e. something that fits on an average USB stick). As long as you can deliver it to us either by uploading through the party system or on a physical medium.

This competition is only for beginners. Remember that this competition is more about taking part, learning, and cheering for everyone than taking it too serious!

General and Demo competition rules apply with the following addition:

• The creator(s) must be beginners in demo making, i.e. to not have published any demos (procedural art) at demo parties before this. Groups must have a previously unused name to prevent name bias in voting (“namevoting”).

“One scene” is only a name and a recommendation – you can have two or more scenes if they fit in the 1 minute running time. This competition is especially intended for newcomers but is open for everyone. Just remember that this competition is more about taking part, learning, and cheering for everyone than taking it too serious!

General and Demo competition rules apply with the following addition:

• The scene will be shown for at most 1 minute. It may either loop over the same contents or finish at any time before the 1 minute maximum running time.

General rules apply with the following additions:

• Entry can be anything (including video, demo, audio, etc.).
• Entry may not last longer than 5 minutes.
• Entry must be presentable from the provided compomachine(s). At least a high-end Nvidia PC running Windows provided.
• Entry’s size must be reasonable, can be delivered on USB stick or via Partyman, the party management system.