Dark Bit Factory & Gravity

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• Your Demo must be associated with some element of Christmas.
• You can use any platform that is compatible with windows XP+Win7.
• You may write something for web browsers as long as it works in IE9, Chrome or FF (on current stable version).
• Wild (Video / Animated) entries are allowed.
• Procedural graphics entries are allowed as long as it is one single file <16kb no animations allowed, file must not permanently write on hard drive.
• The following emulators are welcome: Vice, Winuae, Saint, PS2 Yabasic
• Please give credit if you use ripped sound/gfx, or even better credit the original artist.
• Please write something new for the challenge, no previously released stuff.
• Do not use ripped routines. (dlls, libs, fmod, sdl, frameworks etc are fine but say what you used please!).
• One entry per person maximum.
• Entries to be posted in this forum please with the title [XMAS_2013] entry name
• Entries may be posted between NOW and Midnight of [25th December 2013]
• The winner [S?] will be decided by a poll of forum users
• If 1st place is tied there will be a vote-off to decide the winner.
• Late entries will not be counted for voting.
• Please PM any correspondance regarding rules to me, don't discuss them here such posts will be removed and not answered.
• Please include a screenshot of your entry in your post.
• Please only post finished work, if you update your entry the final one will be voted on.
• After the submission deadline You may NOT post ANY further attachments to final or other versions of your entry ANYWHERE on this forum until voting has closed.
• You may post a video of the entry along with the binaries (useful if you use shaders etc).
• The prizes will be in form of Santa's good "Karma" ;)

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I'm in.  You read it here first. \o/  :xmas:

Good to see the Competions is Coming Back :D

Good Luck Everyone!

Brilliant!

I hope everybody is being extra good this year because things are extra tight at the North Pole this year and the IMF are forcing the big man to recheck his list a third and fourth time to identify extra savings.

Awesome, another compo at last :) I'll try to do something...

I am in to  :updance: Hopefully this time i make the deadline. I guess if i sell my soul to the >:D ...
GLHF for the others :)

Very nice!

I don't have a lot of time but ill give a go  ;D

:xmas: I'll definitely give this a try.

I'll have to come up with some ideas. Wireframe Snowflakes seem to be the only things that come to mind, but I'll try harder.

Don't know if I will be able to do something about this. There are other things pending (like my CPC part for 30 years megademo, end of the year deadline, but I don't want to code this after xmas) and not enough time and mood.

Though, I just remembered an effect idea I wanted to try since last xmas compos, maybe maybe.

Also not sure if I'll get time for this one, if I get the other things out the way I might be able to do a little something snow related maybe :)

OK, I've got an idea - something I'm sure nobody else will have thought of. Now to flesh it out...

I offer a $20 prize to the winning entry.
Method of payment would be trasfer, if that is ok :)

Awesome!
Thank you very much!

awesome stuff guys!

ive been working on something a bit different the last few nights.

i want too expand my lcd project i done a few months ago for this so ive glued 3x3(8x8 leds) led matrixes together to make a large screen. ive ordered loads of max led driver chips/wires and capacitors to drive everything.

so basically i want too run my christmas demo on my own aurdino microcontroller hardware and upload via youtube when im done is this ok/permisable i will obviously post all the source code for the project as well.

Yeah will try something this time!

Hi my friends...  :cheers:
It sounds cool, i hope i find some Time to code a christro for the competition. 

Good news Rbz, thanks for organising the compo :)

I have an idea, so hopefully I'll get it sorted in plenty of time. There seems to be a lot of interest in the compo, so should turn out to be good one!

 :goodpost: I'm in

To verify this has to run on Windows right? If I make a Mac demo , that won't be accepted however I can record and submit the recording ?

Yep, that would be OK.
Jim

This looks like a very wide and varied set of prospective entries.

I'll be using PHP as one of a handful of languages in my entry this time around.

I've just started with pureBasic and after lots of pestering on their forums(nice friendly crew) I've gotten a couple of the basics together. Progress  :xmas:

as may have been spotted in another thread.. i had a quick bash at getting something together, but ironically, my free time over the xmas period begins on boxing day, and i'm free till 6th jan so i won't make the deadline :(

i was going to have at progressing the Render To Texture code I've been working on for a while to make a starfield with wireframe glow effect stars that spin around their vertical axis

@Canopy, aww that's a real shame  :(

but i fully understand mate i am flat out with the wife/kids/school/work/shops atm. its just one of those things really... if you do manage too fix out your lib after the comp please still post your little demo. it would be nice too have some new stuff coming in too the forum.

cheers mate.

Hmmmm for the second time, began something and not enought time to finish...  :whack:

(I hate end-year-speed-time)

I can see I'm up against the finest minds on the internet - may the best code win!

indeed +1 :cheers:

this comp has really brought out the best in this place! thank you rbz for the organization of everything!

may the best dude or dude-et win cheers guys

May the best intro win :)
cheers  :cheers: 

Three cheers for rbz and all entrants!

Thank you all for joining this compo, it was a blast!

I hope you enjoyed making or watching all those little pieces of demoscene art and helping keep this forum alive!

I'm going to setup a voting page, so be prepared to vote on your favorite entry!

nice one guys - my votes are cast, really wanted to be able to cast 4

Congratulations to Gore Motel, Nino, Raizor and RBZ - there was a lot of stylistic presentation in your entries.

Congratulations to everyone who entered this compo, it was a blast!

:cheers: