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Magyar Demoscene Egyesület

Location

Yes, we stay at Sülysáp!

ABOUT THE PARTY PLACE

The party is set in a beautiful culture home, where you will find a spacious and bright hall with comfy sofas and tables. The main hall is used as a movie theater, so it can be darkened very nicely. Inside, there is a big screen, which is kind of old, but it works amazingly, and gives a certain mood to the show. There will be enough tables and chairs. We are stacking up extension cords, but it's welcome if you bring your own.

The garden, framed with pine trees, is perfectly suitable for camping, if the weather allows. You will find tables and chairs in the garden, along with some nice blankets to boost your comfort. For the joy of smokers and for all the outdoor souls, the events on the stage are visible and within hearing distance from outside. The only thing that could ruin everything, if we had a really crappy and rainy weather :-)

WHAT TO BRING?

Whatever you may need. Nobody will laugh at you, if you show up with a traveling bag. Release. Of course it's not a must, but we would love to have more releases to boost the party. If you prefer, bring a sleeping bag, pillow, accessories that you need for taking a shower and everything else you can't live without during the 1,5 days. If the weather is nice, there will be outdoor events too. If you wish to take part, bring some clothes that you don't mind to get dirty. Bring all the money you wish to turn into wine, or if you prefer ATM's, there is one at the entrance and there are two other ones nearby within 300m.

THE AREA

There is a Tesco supermarket next to the party place, a tobacco shop, a gym, and a bakery. In the other direction, there is a gas station and another tobacco shop.

TRAVELLING

If you need accommodation or fear about getting lost in the city, contact us via e-mail.

Public transport by train

  • From Budapest Eastern Train Station (Keleti Pályaudvar) you can take the Nagykáta-Újszász-Szolnok train line (s60/z60), on the MÁV 120a line.
  • Or travel with the Sülysáp suburban railway.
  • More info about the trains: Trains Timetable
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Travel route and time from the airport

  1. Airport to Budapest city center with bus 200E to "Kőbánya-Kispest". Travel time: ~30min.
  2. City center to Eastern (Keleti) railway station with subway M3 (change to M2 at Deák Ferenc tér) Travel time: ~5-10min.
  3. Budapest Eastern (Keleti) railway station to Sülysáp. Travel time: ~30-45min.
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BY VOLÁN BUSES:

From the Budapest Stadion bus station, by the buses which stop at Sülysáp. Travel time: ~40min.

  • More info about the buses: Volán Timetable

    • BY CAR:

    Example from the Budapest Ferihegy International Airport with Car. Travel time: ~30min.

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    Budapest has a very negative reputation of dishonest taxi drivers regularly participating in a robbery of the foreign tourists. Avoid them and prefer the public transport from the airport bus 200E and don't forget! Buy a ticket from a ticket machine. (350Ft = 1.04€)

    Timeline v1.2 GMT+1

    Photo, Combined music, Tracked Music, Combined graphics, Game development competition
    Deadline: Saturday, 17:00

    Wild demo and animation, 256 byte intro, 8k intro, Oldschool Demo, 45 sec Fast Demo, Demo
    Deadline: Saturday, 19:00

    SATURDAY, May 13.

    08:00 DOOR OPENING

    Take a seat and hang around with others, holding a beer...

    ~13:00 Demoshow

    16:30 Opening Ceremony

    Of course, we try to speak English again like "Hello world"... :D

    16:30 Demoshow

    Get some Beer Demoshow

    18:00 Concert

    Matthew Newcastle Hardcore \ thunderdome set

    19:00 Componight Part #1

      Photo, Combined music, Tracked music, Combined graphics, Game development competition

    20:00 Concert

    Los Pat Moritas & Arlequin^PVM/HPM/Impure [Argentina]

    21:00 Componight Part #2

      Wild demo and animation, 256 byte intro, 8k intro, Oldschool Demo, 45 sec Fast Demo, Demo competition

    22:30 Concert

    DJ D3T0X recreation set and VJ show with AMIGAAAAAAAA!!

    23:30 Voting ends

    23:59 Awards Ceremony

    SUNDAY, May 14.

    12:00 DOOR CLOSING

    Try find your way home...

    COMPETITION RULES

    If you want to reintroduce a compo category, get in touch with us! If at least four team writes that they want to participate with a release on a compo, we will add this compo to the list.

    Photo

  • Preferred resolution: 1920x1080 (1080p). You may attach larger versions of the entry in the archive.
  • Allowed formats: PNG, BMP, GIF, TGA, JPG, TIF (Preferred is lossless)
  • Slight retouching is allowed, meaning stuff like color correction and cropping.
  • The archive must in include the original, unretouched picture too, with EXIF information intact (or the original RAW file).
  • Only one picture per artist is allowed.
  • Viewing application: irfanview
  • We will perform a quality preselection and only the best ~20 photos will be shown at the compo!

    • Game development

  • Maximum filesize: 256 megabytes on ZIP/RAR
  • The game can write only into its launch folder.
  • The game should not have an installer!
  • You have around 5-10 minutes to show the game. Of course, we won't be very strict with that, but if you can't present your game objectives in this time frame, it isn't our fault.
  • Projector screen size: 1920x1080 (1080p)

    • Combined graphics

  • Entries made with any tool are allowed with any creation method available, such as photo retouching or 3D rendering.
  • Maximum resolution: 1920x1080 (1080p). You may attach larger versions of the entry in the archive.
  • Allowed formats: PNG, BMP, GIF, TGA, JPG, TIF (Preferred is lossless)
  • The archive should include at least 3 phases or creation steps of the process.
  • No animations are allowed.
  • Only three picture per artist is allowed.
  • Viewing application: irfanview

    • Combined music

  • Musical entries created with any technique.
  • Playing time: 5 minutes. We'll fade out afterwards.
  • Maximum size: 15 megabytes zipped
  • Allowed streaming formats: MP3 and OGG. Also, please fill the ID3/OGGInfo fields if possible.
  • Allowed tracked formats: XM, IT, S3M, MOD
  • Only one song per artist is allowed.
  • Replaying application: Winamp for streaming, XMPlay for tracked

    • Tracked Music

  • Allowed formats: MOD, S3M, XM, IT, SID.
  • Maximum file size: 2MB (2097152 bytes).
  • No remixes, no covers.
  • While you can still use D (pattern break) and B (position jump) commands in your module, this can no longer be used to create any visual effects. While we agree that this looks nice during playback it takes away the focus from the music that this compo is about.
  • Modules will be played using the latest version of XMPlay. Please specify if you want any specific playback settings in XMPlay, or else these will apply:
  • MOD: No Interpolation, No Ramping, 50% Stereo Separation, normal MOD playback mode.
  • S3M/XM/IT: Sinc Interpolation, Sensitive Ramping, 50% Stereo Separation.

    • WILD/animation

  • Entries which don't fit into any other compo. Short films, rendered animations, Flash movies, Dance, alternative platform demos.
  • Playing time: 5 minutes. We'll stop it afterwards.
  • If your entry is a video file, please use common formats like MP4 / MKV / AVI containers with H.264 / DivX / XviD video and MP3 / AAC / uncompressed audio.
  • If your entry is NOT a video file, consult the organizers before the deadline.
  • Only one entry per artist is allowed.

    • Oldschool Demo

  • C64C, Mega65, Amiga 1200/68060 or bring your own hardware platform!
  • No maximum filesize, but please use common sense here.
  • RCA, VGA, DVI and HDMI inputs supported, if unsure provide a video for your entry!
  • Maximum showing time: 10:00 minutes
  • Don't forget to include any custom libraries your production may require!

    • 256 byte intro

  • 256 bytes of coder mayhem, get the most out of a quarter kilobyte.
  • Playing time: 5 minutes. We'll stop it afterwards or when we notice it loops.
  • If possible, quit on a keypress, preferably ESC.
  • the entry must be one single file, not larger than 256 bytes.
  • The entry must not write on the hard drive.
  • Entries are ran in a genuine DOS environment
  • you asked for it Extra: Any exotic platform allowed! Like TIC-80/retro platform if the complete file 256 byte.

    • 8k Intro

  • Minuscule demos providing endless possibilities to show off music, code and graphics.
  • Playing time: 10 minutes. We'll stop it afterwards.
  • Entries must quit on ESC.
  • The entry must be one single file, not larger than 8192 bytes.
  • The entry must not write on the hard drive permanently; CAB-dropping is allowed, but we'd recommend to use   Crinkler.
  • If you DO use CAB dropping, we'd recommend you to avoid compatibility issues, like ordinal importing.
  • You can include a safe mode EXE in the archive, but if the compressed version of the intro doesn't run, we won't show the larger version.

    • 45 sec Fast Demo

  • if you don't have time to write a demo, the rotating cube fits here ;)
  • Playing time: 45 seconds! We'll stop it afterwards.
  • If you overshoot by a few seconds it’s still okay but be reasonable.
  • Entries can only contain one scene!
  • Any platform allowed!
  • Have all the space you want for creating a masterpiece.
  • Maximum filesize: 256 megabytes on ZIP/RAR
  • The entry must not write to on the hard drive permanently.

    • Demo

  • Have all the space you want for creating a masterpiece.
  • Maximum filesize: 500 megabytes on ZIP/RAR
  • Playing time: 10 minutes. We'll stop it afterwards.
  • Entries must quit on ESC.
  • The entry must not write to on the hard drive permanently.

    • Generic compo rules for every platform

    • Entries will be accepted on the following media: USB drive, SD card. Naturally, you will get these back after we copied the entries to the compo machine.
    • Remote contributions are allowed, but we won't safe-keep your prizes, if no one picks it up during the prize giving ceremony.
    • The organizers reserve the right to remove entries from competitions. These entries won't be shown, won't be spread and won't be votable. In individual competitions this usually means preselection to avoid a huge amount of entries to be presented, in other competitions it solely means quality control and eventual compatibility problems. If your entry doesn't run on the compo machine, we'll do our best to help you to get it running though.
    • Previously released material is not allowed. Covers, remixes and derivative works can only be entered with the consent of the original author.
    • For every entry we'd like to ask for a FILE_ID.DIZ (if the platform allows so), containing the prod's name and author, optionally the compo and party. (Note: Traditionally FILE_ID.DIZ's are 40 characters wide at most.)
    • Prizes will not be retained or mailed.
    • The compo entry must be packed together with either ZIP or RAR (or the best packer on that given platform). We will not accept unpacked entries, and we will not pack your entry for you.
    • For PC compos, the latest DirectX end-user runtime will be installed on the compo machine.
    • By entering, you also agree on having your works uploaded to our website after the party and to various larger demoscene FTP servers (scene.org)
    • The maximum resolution of the projector is 1920x1080 (1080p), so please respect that and don't go over it, because it might result in your entry breaking.
    • We add special award for the best qbasic Prod.. Just for fun.. :P
    • If the platform allows, please make a preview of your product and upload it to the partynet as help for identification.
    • Remote Deadline: Same as normal deadline!
      e-mail: info<@>qbparty<.>hu

    Compo machines

    • PC compo machine: i9-10900KF, 32Gb RAM, SSD, Win10, RTX 3090
    • Commodore 64C + 1541/II + Ultimate II + SD2IEC
    • Commodore 65 Mega 65
    • Amiga 1200+TF1260

    Submit remote Entry for qbparty 7

    • Remote Deadline: Same as normal deadline!

    Send it to info[@]qbparty<.>hu and we'll get back to you as soon as possible!

    You should receive a reply if it's working properly or something is broken. This will happen somewhere between when you submit and the actual compo. So the sooner you submit the better.
    Prizes will not be retained or mailed!

    .... AND THE OFFICIAL PART, THE PARTY RULES.

    • Smoking indoors and in the garden is absolutely forbidden.
    • The garden is not a smoking area. We will place trash bins, and we kindly ask everyone to use them. The garden is very beautiful we wouldn't want to ruin it, nor set it on fire.
    • Alcohol consumption is permitted of course, with moderation. Take care of each other and the building as well.
    • The use of any kind of illegal drugs is forbidden.
    • Connecting anything non-IT gadget (over 500 watts) to the electric network is forbidden. It might cause a blackout. However, if you absolutely need to do so, please ask the staff members for permission first.
    • Entering a marked "Organizer only" area without permission from an organizer, will result in getting banned from the event. Please respect the wishes of the organizers.

    • We kindly ask everyone, please take care of the party place, including the vegetation!
    • Any damage has to be reimbursed.
    • If the damage has to be paid from the party budget, it might just as well mean that this will be the last party at this place.
    • The responsibility for your own valuables is on you. The staff can't take responsibility for any belongings you lose.
    • Fortunately, there haven't been any kind of damages caused or valuables stolen at Hungarian parties for ages, and we'd like it to stay that way.
    • It's not mandatory, but highly recommended that you use the selective trash cans!

    Any kind of violation of the party rules means a permanent ban from the party!

    Partners

    Supporters and vendors can contact us the following ways:
    Partnership, Information: info[@]qbparty<.>hu
    Other: feryx[@]feryx<.>hu

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    Frequently Asked Questions




    Is there a place to sleep?

    • Yes, there will be a couple of smaller sleeping rooms.
    • Yes, there will be a couple of smaller sleeping rooms.

    Can I attend even though I am not a scener myself and I know nothing about the demoscene?

    • Of course, you are very welcome!

    Is there a buffet at the party place?

    • No.

    Can I bring my food and drinks?

    • Yes.

    Is there an ATM nearby?

    • Yes, three of them. One at the entrance (OTP), one at the entrance of Tesco (K&H), and another one in about three minutes of walk.

    Do I have to bring a computer or a laptop?

    • No, the choice is yours.

    How can I vote?

    • You will get a code with your ticket, which will grant you access to our network where the voting happens. If you need any help, the staff is there to help you. If you didn't bring any gadget that could handle this, there is a device available at the Info Desk.

    Is this a LAN party?

    • No, it's not.

    Where can I park?

    • There is plenty of space in front of the party place, and even behind it.

    Is it awkward if I come with my travel bag?

    • Nope.

    Are tents allowed in the yard?

    • Sure. Have sweet Dreams ;)

    What should I wear?

    • Whatever feels suitable, there will be party t-shirts. We advise you to bring a second set of clothes, especially if you wish to take part in the outdoor events.

    How do I get to the place?

    • It is really easy. We are 35 minutes away from Budapest Eastern Train station (Keleti Pályaudvar), about the same time by bus too. For more information, please read the Location section.

    Can I book a room somewhere nearby?

    • Yes, if you wish to sleep somewhere else than the party place, we can help you with accommodation, but it's important to book early.

    Taxi?

    • Yes. But be aware, never take a random taxi if you are a foreigner and not speaking Hungarian. If you need a taxi, call by phone from official companies and always ask for the price before entering.

    Can I dance?
    • Yes, until you are boo-ed off the dance floor.

    Will there be internet connection?

    • We hope so, it would be strange without it.

    Is it possible to do some karaoke?

    • If there is a demand, we can sort it out.

    Can I buy food or drinks nearby?

    • Yes, during the day. Tesco is open until 10PM and there is a pastry nearby. There are other small shops in the area.

    Is there a tobacco store around?

    • Yes, next to the Tesco store.

    Will you have something for my headache?

    • Yes, ask the info desk.

    Is it a problem if can't bring a release?

    • We wont bite your head off, but it would be nice if you'd bring one :-)

    Is it okay If I attend only to play games?

    • No one will forbid. However, we recommend that you take an active part in party events.

    How can I send my release?

    • You can send it in e-mail or simply give to us at the party or upload via the local network. If you need help, please contact the organizers.

    Can I bring my retro/brand new/monster rig/special/etc. gadget to show off?

    • Yes and we appreciate it! If you plan to show a lot of stuff, please contact the organizers beforehand.

    Is the place far from the train-station? Where should I go?

    • It is about 5 minutes away, and we will stamp arrows to help you find the place.

    Is there a gas station nearby?

    • Yes, really close.

    What does "QB" stand for?

    • The name is just a word joke,  QB->sounds similar to CUBE (it is the English translation of the word "kocka", the way nerds are called in Hungary)

    Why did you cut the competition list?

    • Based on the experience of the last three years, we experience what the community needs. We want to have a great party. It doesn't make sense to have compos with only 1 or 2 entries.
    Are bans permanent?
    • Yes if you were banned, don't even try.
    Do you post my prize?
    • Sadly no, Ask your friend to take it from us and bring it to you! We will not give you the prize later.

    Any other questions? Write to us!

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