Creative Competitions

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.

This is a list of the creative competitions that will be held at The Gathering 2012. 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.

To deliver contributions and voting: compo.tg12.gathering.org 

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 about a given theme.
  This year's theme is "Everyday life in space".
• MS Paint
   Because brushes, layers and fancy effects are for wimps!

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.
• Sanestation Music
  We provide you with a software synth (VSTi), and you make a track with it.

Programming

• NGA Game Development
  Develop a game and present it to the TG audience.
• NGA Themed Game Development
  Develop a game in one week according to a given theme and release it to the world at TG.
• 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.

Other

• Freestyle Video
  For animation, editing, direction and innovation worthy of more than YouTube.
• Themed Photo
  Capture a moment in time for everyone to enjoy. This year's theme is "Wildlife".