Specials
The Meteoriks Nominees 2025 (Friday)
The Meteoriks are an award show that honours the best demoscene productions of the previous year in different categories, such as Outstanding Technical Achievement, Best Soundtrack, Best Direction, New Talent, and more.
And we are excited to host the Nomination Gala live at MountainBytes again, before the Laureates will then be presented at Revision Demoparty on Easter!
After presenting the nominees, we will indulge in an extra-long demoshow, showing you all nominated productions!
Want to get an idea what awaits you? Have a look here at the previous year's nominees!
OHP - Overhead-Projektor Compo (Saturday)
Another old tradition from Buenzli/Demodays is celebrating its return - the Overhead-Projector Compo is back! That’s right; you remember them from your classrooms from back-in-the-day, where you worked on project presentations together with your classmates, or dreaded the foils being uncovered by your teacher during exams. Now it’s time to show in a live-performance, what those machines are capable of!
- Max duration: 6 minutes
- You're allowed to do whatever you want, except using OHP-LCD screens (or similar techniques)
- Take care with liquid - after your entry was shown, the OHP must be dry and ready for the next performer.
- There will be material available at the party place for you to prepare and create an entry on site (mostly scissors, glue, some leftover overhead transparencies, pens and of course the projectors).
- We’ll play your music choice along with your performance. Bring your soundtrack with you as an MP3 or OGG file. As we will publish a video capture of your performance, your sound track must be free of third party rights.
Still no idea what this is about? Have a look and get inspired by some of our favourite OHP releases at previous parties - and then participate! It's fun, we promise!
Live Event: Lucid feat. Kathrin Hunze - with Special 3D Graphics Compo!
Lucid, best-known in the demoscene for being the musical heart and soul of the demogroup Still and the audio-visual project WAKE will team up with the amazing Live Performer Kathrin Hunze and YOU:
With her live-coded soundscapes, lucid makes us people dance - and so does Kathrin with 3D models and her digital performance environment!
What a chance for a special competition that centers our 3D artists, or anyone who wants to try their hands on 3D modelling!
Your entry asset will be used to create abstract scenes and 3D worlds in Unity by combining them together with other elements and effects. The show will be recorded and streamed. You need to be fine with your assets being used in any way or form, to grant Kathrin artistic freedom with your work. She will prepare your asset to be usable with her environment.
Special Compo Rules:
File Format: Either 3D Point Cloud Data in .ply format, or 3D Models with or without textures in .fbx, .gltf or .obj format
Assets must be created by yourself (textures licensed as CC0/Public Domain are okay)
Entries must be provided with a CC-BY or CC0 license (credits will be given either way)
What we can’t use:
Assets must not be animated, Kathrin will prepare them prior to the performance
Very big assets with millions of polys that aren’t suitable for realtime use
Any assets generated by or with the help of GenAI systems
How to participate:
Pack all of your assets into a single .zip and include a README file with your handle, credits and license of the assets
Contact us via Discord or E-Mail to submit your file, either with a download link, or we will provide you a link to upload
Deadline: January 31st, 2025
Prizegiving
After our Live Act on Saturday night, we watch and celebrate the productions from the demolab workshop, and share the voting results from the compos with you!
Demo-Zmorge: Müesli, Gipfeli and Demos (Sunday)
No event can pride itself of its Swissness without some decent display of hospitality!
Join us for an extended breakfast on Sunday, where we not just serve you with some original Swiss Gipfeli, Müesli, Schoggi and more, but also watch a few relaxing and uplifting demos.
Please let us know before the event if you have any food allergies or limitations in what you can eat, we are happy to accommodate you.
Before we let you go back home, the sweetest treat of them all awaits you: A showcase of the results from our DemoLab Workshop!
Let's celebrate everyone who took part and produced (in many cases their first) demo. We watch and cheer for their releases together and of course, as honour demands, award them with the same prizes our compo winners received the night before.
Entry on Sunday is free for all!
We open our doors free of charge to our neighbours, to get an idea about our work and what the demoscene is about. Everyone interested is welcome to grab a gipfeli, watch some demos with us and ask questions!
