Creative Competitions

The annual creative competitions at The Gathering is your unique chance to show or play your masterpiece to a large audience on one of the best audio and video systems in the country. You'll get a live reaction and feedback from a crowd of inspired fans, and have a chance to win prizes and awards.

To submit an entry to the creative competitions, visit http://compo.tg11.gathering.org

This is a list of the creative competitions that will be held at The Gathering 2011. You can start working on your entry right away (except in Fast- and Themed-compos)! Detailed descriptions of the compos and rules will be published later.

Demo

• Demo
  Where teamwork, adept skills and long night hours become mindblowing entertainment. Create an executable showdown of your graphics, music and programming skills combined and become demoscene legends.
• Intro
  Where demos go really tiny, 64 KB or less. How many bytes do you need to rock the big screen? Is 4 the new 64?
• Fast Intro
  8 hours, 3 wicked themes, 137 warnings, 0 errors.

Graphics

• Freestyle Graphics
  Art by pixel, all tools allowed.
• Rendered Graphics
  Art by 3D modelling, texturing, lighting and rendering.
• Themed Graphics
  Create a piece of freestyle graphics art for a given theme.
  Information about this competition will be published later.
• MS Paint
  Because brushes, layers and fancy effects are for pussies!

Music

• Freestyle Music
  Your original track, played out loud for the first time to a large audience.
• Fast Remix
  We'll provide a track, you'll do a remix - in 6 hours.

Programming

• Game Development
  Develop a game and present it to the TG audience. Details pending.
• Hardcore Programming
  Create an artificial intelligence and let it battle your contestants on the big screen. The compo case and development kit will be released before the party.
• Small HTML
  Dirty hacks beyond quirks mode. Make an HTML-page as small as you can (in terms of bytes) while it still displays the same image in the browser. Assignment is released at the party.
• Useless Utility
  Usable, but useless

Other

• Freestyle Video
  For animation, editing, direction and innovation worthy of more than YouTube.
• Photo
  Capture a moment in time for everyone to enjoy.