On SceneCON 2009 party the following compos will be held:

combined 4k intro (pc, mac, pocketpc, amiga, console)
combined 64k intro (pc, mac, pocketpc, amiga, console)
combined Demo (pc, mac, pocketpc, amiga, console)
Game development (a cooperation with jatekfejlesztes.hu)
Tracked/Streaming Music
Photo
Graphics
Animation/Wild
Fun compo: Rock Band

The entries are accepted on the following media (you will get them back):

PC/console: pendrive, CD, DVD, memorycard, 3,5" IDE hdd, e-mail
Amiga: pendrive, CD, 3,5" DD floppy, e-mail

Competition prizes

The winner of the demo(*) competition will receive an ASUS EEE PC 701 subnote. (* Please note that if the quality of the winner entry in the demo competition doesn't match our expectations, we will move this prize to the 64k or 4k intro competitions. So please go for quality, not quantity.)

What's changed since last year?

No more 8 bit compos. After the great success of year 2007's 8 bit democompo, unfortunately we had no entries in 2008... So we decided to not to do an 8 bit compo this year. If you still want to create an 8 bit demo, we recommend Árok Party, which is an excellent 8 bit meeting, and hence a perfect place to enter your contribution.

General rules applied for all compos

entries will be preselected in all categories
if a production violates Hungarian or European law, it will be disqualified
if the production has unsure copyright status (ripped music, etc), it will be disqualified
it's possible to send your entry on the net, but if you're not present on the party during the prizegiving, fame is all you get, because we will not send the prizes after you.
releases containing destructive code, trojan or virus will be revenged and disqualified

Intro/demo general rules:

If your program doesn't run on the compo machine, it will be disqualified automatically. Of course you'll have a chance to try it out and fix, if you are able to. If you bring your own hardware you will still have to give us a binary of your release, which will be published, and no, there won't be any exceptions. As Windows Vista came out, in case of PC entry try to be compatible (however there will be no Vista on the compo machine), the same stands for nVidia/ATI videocards, if possible try to make it work on both. Max resolution is 1024x768, if you support more modes, we will choose this.

Detailed rules:

4k intro:

playing time max. 5 min
precalc time max. 1 min
the intro must quit on key ESC (pc)
the intro must quit on pressing the mouse button (amiga)
the intro is one file, max 4096 byte long, before playing we will delete all other files (nfo,txt,diz)
writing on disk permanently is not permitted, using a dropper is allowed
the day before the party we will update to the latest End-User DirectX, don't expect any other DLL's

64k intro:

playing time max. 10 min
precalc time max. 1 min
the intro must quit on key ESC (pc)
the intro must quit on pressing the mouse button (amiga)
the intro is one file, max 65536 byte long, before playing we will delete all other files (nfo,txt,diz)
writing on disk permanently is not permitted
the day before the party we will update to the latest End-User DirectX, don't expect any other DLL's

Demo:

playing time max. 10 min
the demo must quit on key ESC (pc)
the demo must quit on pressing the mouse button (amiga)
the compressed demo (zip/rar) can't exceed 32 Mbytes
writing on disk permanently is not permitted

Game development:

This competition is organized by the Hungarian game development site: jatekfejlesztes.hu. Read the rules on on their site (in Hungarian only).

Tracked/Streaming Music:

There will be no separate tracked and streaming category, everything will be combined. Only one entry per musician is allowed. The maximum playing time is 4 min. The music compo organizer is Vincenzo/Fresh!Mindworkz (vincenzo (at) freshmindworkz.hu), send your questions, suggestions and also your remote music entries to him.

allowed tracked formats: xm, it, s3m, mod
allowed streaming formats: mp3, ogg
player: latest release of XmPlay
we highly recommend at least 192kbit rate mp3/ogg as minimum
please fill mp3/ogg id tags
you can place infos in sample/instrument text in case of tracked music
size limits: tracked 5MB, streaming 10MB

Photo:

Inspired by the great success of the photo competition at Breakpoint party we decided to hold our own photo competition. The rules are the followings:

the entry has to be a photo taken by yourself
retouching (color correction, crop, etc.) is allowed, drastic changes aren't
we need the untouched version of the image (in decent quality JPG, with EXIF info included), to accept your entry (we won't spread the original image)
highest resolution: 1024x768, (bigger ones will be scaled)
any formats known by the widespread image viewers are accepted (we recommend: PNG or JPG)
animations not allowed (that includes animated GIF's)
only one entry per photographer allowed
viewer: IrfanView on PC
organizer of the photo competition is Remage/Fresh!Mindworkz (remage (at) gmail.com). Send your questions, suggestions, and also your remote entries to him.

Graphics:

the combined competition for pixelled, rendered, photoshopped, etc. images
highest resolution: 1024x768, (bigger ones will be scaled)
any formats known by the widespread image viewers are accepted (we recommend: TGA, PNG or BMP)
animations not allowed (that includes animated GIF's)
only one entry per graphics artist allowed
we need at least 3 (three) in-work phases of the image, to accept your entry (we won't spread the phases, if you request that)
viewer: IrfanView on PC

Animation/Wild:

playing time: max. 5 min. if it's boring, or if the audience complains, we will stop it.
highest resolution: 1024x768 (PAL 720x576 25fps recommended)
AVI, MPG, or DVD format allowed
supported video codecs mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4 (DiVX, XViD, h264)
supported sound codecs: uncompressed PCM, MP2, MP3
if you make subtitles, we suggest to put it on the top of the screen so it will be visible even from the last rows

Compo machines

PC:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2Ghz, 4GB RAM, nVidia 9800GX2 1024MB, SoundBlaster Live! 24, Windows XP SP3

Mac:

Apple MacBook, Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83Ghz, 2GB RAM, Intel GMA950, OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Amiga:

Amiga 1200, Blizzard 1260 / 60Mhz, 64MB RAM, OS 3.1
The entries will be run without the system (BootWithNostartup), OxyPatcher is available on request. We also accept PowerPC Amiga entries, both for AmigaOS4 and for MorphOS. If you plan to release such a production, bring your own hardware with you, or if you want us to provide hardware, contact with the orgas at least three days before the party!