Competitions

The annual creative competitions at The Gathering are 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 great prizes.

This is a list of the creative competitions that will be held at The Gathering 2014. You can start working on your entry right away (except in the Fast and Themed compos)!

Detailed descriptions of the compos and rules will be published later.

More compos may be announced later.

Multidiscipline:

•  Combined Demo/Intro
  Where teamwork, adept skills and long nights become mindblowing entertainment. Create an executable showdown of your graphic, music and programming skills combined.
• Fast Demo
  Make a quick and dirty demo in only eight short hours based on three crazy themes.
•  Game Development
  Develop a game and present it on the stage.
•  Fast Game Development
  Create a small game based on some themes during TG14.

Video:

• Capture the spirit of The Gathering
  (Pre-TG competition) Show us what TG is for you in a short movie.
•  Freestyle Video
  For animation, editing, direction and innovation worthy of more than YouTube.
• Ten Second Movie
  Make an entertaining summary of a longer movie where you present a message in just ten seconds!
• Visual Effects
  Show us your awesome skills in visual film effects that is Hollywood worthy!

Graphics:

•  Freestyle Graphics 
  Art by pixel, all tools allowed.
•  Rendered Graphics
  Art by 3D modelling, texturing, lighting and rendering.
•  MS Paint 
  Because brushes, layers and fancy effects are for wimps!
•  Fast Graphics 
  Three themes, three hours, millions of pixels.
• Themed Photo Manipulation
  We give you six stock photos, you use at least three of them to create an image.
•  Photo 
  Capture a moment in time for everyone to enjoy.

Programming:

• AI Programming
  Create an artificial intelligence and let it battle your contestants on the big screen. The compo case and development kit can be found here: AI Compo Case .
• TG Programming Championship 
  Flex your biggest algorithmic muscles in order to solve a difficult problem.
• Hacking competitionThe competition consists of many different tasks in information security. Can you hack your way through?
• 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. To be truly useless, an entry must have no possibilities for benificial use.
• Useful Utility
  Create an app that will make the users' lives easier and/or more fun.

Music:

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

Other:

• Game Level Design
  Show us your cool mod!
• Cosplay
  Compete with your amazing costume in four different and exciting categories