Demo Chronicles [-= Participate In The Demo Challenge =-]

-= Participate In The Demo Challenge =-

What is the Demo Challenge?

The Demo Challenge is a fun and risk-free environment for demo coders of all abilities. It is built around a mentoring system where both beginners and accomplished producers (the mentors) agree to release the source code for their demos so that new demo producers have a pool of source code to learn new techniques from. Demo Chronicles offers a way to ease into the demo scene through an open venue where producers of all abilities can release demos in the spirit of fun while experimenting with new coding techniques.

June 2013: Fireworks

	Challenge Theme:	Fireworks
	Submission Period:	June 1 - June 30
	Voting Period:	July 1 - July 15
	Challenge Type:	Monthly

Use the example above as a guide to this Demo Challenge [Download the project file here.]. You can also check out the Challenge Archive for more ideas.

How To Enter:

1) (optional) Download the challenge pack: Code::Blocks (OpenGL) package or the Visual Studio (OpenGL) package. Using the challenge pack is not required. Feel free to use your own framework. Demos can be buit for ANY platform.

2) Fill in the Info.txt file with all the relevant info about yourself and your visual effect (also included in the challenge pack).

3) Submit your zip package using the upload form by midnight on June 30.

Late submissions can be emailed to Godvalve.

Note: If you need a little help getting started, check out this tutorial.

Get announcements about new demo submissions by following the Demo Challenge on Twitter

Challenge Description:

The new year is a time of great celebration that is often inaugurated with fireworks. These fascinating and colorful explosions of light can be quite tricky to model because each particle in the explosion needs to follow a parabolic arc that accounts for an initial speed and direction and then falls naturally. Your challenge this month is to produce realistic looking fireworks. As an added challenge, have the fireworks leave a sooty residue in the sky after the explosion is completed and affect the falling particles with different wind conditions.

Challenge Guidelines: Your demo must be a minimum of one minute long, it must address the theme for this challenge, and it must terminate when the user hits the ESC key. Your demo can be built for any platform and the upload area has a spot to link to a YouTube version of your demo so that all users can view your demo without needing to have the same operating system or hardware that you have. Use .kkapture or other video capture software to encode your video.

Other than that, your task is to produce a demo that showcases your creativity. Remember to include your source code and project files when you upload your submission so that others can learn from what you have accomplished. By submitting your production to the Demo Challenge, you are committing all your visual effect source code to the public domain.

Please note: You must be a registered member of Demo Chronicles to upload your submission. Membership is free and open to everyone, regardless of skill level. Contact Godvalve if you have any questions.

Submissions For This Challenge:

Be the first to submit a production for this Demo Challenge!

Upcoming Challenge Themes

July 2013 : Electricity	August 2013 : Space	September 2013 : Nature
October 2013 : Collision	November 2013 : High Art	December 2013 : Liquids

Regulations

Legal Disclaimer

All entries must include a disclaimer asserting that Proximal Studios and its affiliates are not accountable for any damages caused by running contest entries!
Use of commercial libraries, sounds, images and code is discouraged. Any third-party materials used should be Open Source.
Use of trademark images, sounds, etc is forbidden.
Absolutely no content that is hateful in nature. Entries containing inappropriate material are in breach of the Terms of Use for Demo Chronicles and such entries will be disqualified from the contest.
All entries require a text file with the following information: name, title, email, keys used to interact with the demo and how to terminate it, and a description of the demo. Use this text file as a template.
The aforementioned file must also include the following statement: I HAVE READ, AND FULLY UNDERSTAND THE LEGAL ISSUES AS STATED ON THE DEMO CHRONICLES WEB SITE.

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