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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 620 |
Event id #3140 : Intro Creation Compo 2021
I am very happy to announce that The annual Intro Creation Compo is here once again. There will be an entry to kick off the competition from me some time later on this or next week.
Didi currently has no time, and has allowed me to step in as host for this year's competition.
The competition runs from December 4th, 2021, until January 31st, 2021. So you have just under 2 months to deliver your creations. This should be enough for an intro.
RULES for both categories: (Same as last year's compo)
Your intro entry...
- has to work on a plain stock C64 (PAL standard) without any extensions.
- has to be a one-part intro. Short fade-ins and fade-outs are OK.
- has to contain at least one Logo at whatever size you like.
- has to contain a changing or moving text message (e.g. scrolling text, different lines fading in & out, etc.)
- has to be interruptable any time by pressing SPACE-key (exception are the short fade-in and fade-out).
- does not need to have exclusive graphics, charsets or music. But the code should be exclusive, so reuse of existing code with just exchanged graphics and music is not allowed.
- has not been publicly used before entering the competition.
- has to be handed in as executable format startable with RUN (.prg or embedded in .t64 or .d64).
Your 16kB intro...
- has a maximum RAM footprint of $4000 bytes at one block, at whatever location you like. Screen RAM counts as used memory. Exclusions are system addresses like VIC (inkl. Color RAM), SID, CIA, Stack, Zero-page, IRQ vectors. This means RAM besides chosen $4000 bytes area and exceptions has to be the same before and after running the intro. What happens during runtime is up to you.
- has to contain music (not just a humming sound, please).
- is linked to this competition as "C64 Demo" entry (sorry, no other fitting entry exists).
Your 4kB intro...
- has a maximum RAM footprint of $1000 bytes at one block, at whatever location you like. Screen RAM counts as used memory. Exclusions are system addresses like VIC (inkl. Color RAM), SID, CIA, Stack, Zero-page, IRQ vectors. This means RAM besides chosen $1000 bytes area and exceptions has to be the same before and after running the intro. What happens during runtime is up to you.
- does not have to contain any sound, but feel free to add some.
- is linked to this competition as "C64 4k Intro" entry.
You are allowed to enter maximum 3 entries per participant and category, so you can enter 6 entries at best. Entries might be taken back from the compo until deadline. That means if you want to remove one of your works from the compo to make space for another entry from you, this can be done until deadline.
Deadline for entry submission is 31st January 2022 at 00:00:00 GMT+0 (UK).
Voting closes 28 February 2022 at 00:00:00 GMT+0 (UK)
Voting platform is CSDb (with all disadvantages it may have), therefore entries have to be posted here.
Entries will be ranked by weighted average of CSDb votes. Entries with the same weighted average are ranked by their percentages of 10s, 9s, etc.
No prizes to win, all just for fun, and to share around the scene.
Have loads of fun.
PS: Please do not lock your entries on submission. This is because the problems I had with the CSDB Fun Compo 2021 when setting the results for each entry. |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3142 |
well done Richard, thx! |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2107 |
what iAN sez, thx Rich
maybe sorting the releases bottom-up would make sense to force ppl viewing everything (just an idea), also adding Fire Joy #2 to SPC CIA call would be welcome
But overall, thx for hosting and also linking, these results collections saved my evening |
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DKT
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 98 |
Thx Richard! You made my evening :) |
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Cruzer
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048 |
Idea: If there'll be an ICC 2022, start it earlier so the whole compo has a chance of being within 2022. |
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anonym
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 250 |
Quote: Idea: If there'll be an ICC 2022, start it earlier so the whole compo has a chance of being within 2022.
I'm all for starting it earlier, but there's lots of parties/competitions in the last months of 2022 already, I need extra time. Maybe I'll finish this time ;-) |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2870 |
Quoting CruzerIdea: If there'll be an ICC 2022, start it earlier so the whole compo has a chance of being within 2022. That was always a bit weird but charming. =) |
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Dwangi
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 129 |
I would like to see a DOTY 2022/2023 compo instead of ICC this year (or next year).
But this idea might be of self-interest.
I suck at putting stuff into 16K memory blocks :) |
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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 620 |
Don't worry. I won't be hosting ICC 2022 this year. I only stepped in for Didi ;) - Too busy. |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1390 |
Getting in early with a request that ICC 2022 have a category that better reflects actual intro restrictions - whatever the size restriction on disk, demo must load to start of basic, then not trample any ram between end-of-load and $d000 unless it restores it on exit.
Eg, a 2k category that loads from 0801 to 0fff inclusive, then is free to use 0000-0fff and d000-ffff, leaving 50k for an appended payload that can be loaded with any fastload that can handle files up to the usual 51199 byte limit. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5034 |
not not trampling ram between end of load and d000 is unrealistic, as we all know game is crunched then intro is crunched with the game, so the first thing every intro does is trampling that ram while decrunching it so it is runable.
a typical intro would be something like
$0800-$1000 logo font
$1000-$2000 msx
$2000-$2800 scroller font
$2800-30000 code, text
$2800-$3000 bytes must be enough for everyone :) if we are more to see intros than single demo parts. |
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