The actual PC hardware may change and will be announced closer to the event, the stated hardware is the expected absolute minimum provided.

Your entries must be uploaded to the Edison 2025 Party System before the competition deadline. You need an invite key to access it which generally is your ticket reference. Please allow a few hours for your ticket to be registered as an invite key.

General rules

• No AI-generated content is allowed unless the compo specifically allows it, aside from being used as inspiration.
• All entries must be previously unreleased.
• Remote entries are allowed with an online party ticket
• We reserve the right to perform preselection if we get an extraordinary amount of entries for a compo. We also reserve the right to disqualify any entries that we think are not serious. Only competing entries will be distributed after the party.
• Pure animations are only allowed in the Animation & Video and Video Greeting compos.
• Entries running on listed compo machines will be shown live. Entries on your own hardware will require you to upload a recording for us to be able to show it.

• Maximum running time: 8 minutes.
• Maximum disk size: No limit.
• Compo machines:
  • Intel Core i5-13600K
  • 16GB 36200MHz DDR4
  • Nvidia Geforce RTX 3070
  • Windows 11, 64 bit, latest release

• Anything up to and including accelerated Amiga/Atari.
• Maximum running time: 8 minutes.
• Maximum disk size: No limit.
• Compo machines:
  • C64 w. 8580 & 6581 SID switchable, 1541 Ultimate-2.
  • Amiga 500 Kickstart 1.2, Gotek
  • ReAmiga 1200, TF1260 128MB Ram, Kickstart 3.1, Latest MMU Lib, Rev6 50MHz

• Maximum running time: 8 minutes.
• Maximum disk size: 64 KiB.
• Compo machines:
  • Intel Core i5-13600K
  • 16GB 36200MHz DDR4
  • Nvidia Geforce RTX 3070
  • Windows 10, 64 bit, latest release

• Maximum running time: 4 minutes.
• Provide a short list of software/hardware used to make the tune.
• Allowed formats: MP3, Ogg, FLAC, WAV
• If your contribution is based on an existing piece of work, please provide a reference when handing it in.

• Maximum running time: 4 minutes.
• Allowed platforms have a 16 bit or narrower CPU data bus like C64, VIC20, Atari XL, Atari ST, NES, SNES, Master System, Mega Drive, ZX Spectrum, Game Boy Color
• Allowed formats: executable
• If your contribution is based on an existing piece of work, please provide a reference when handing it in.

• Maximum running time: 4 minutes.
• Maximum file size: 4MB.
• PC 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.
• Amiga modules will be played using ProTracker, OctaMED, MusicLine
• Allowed formats (PC): XM, IT, S3M
• Allowed formats (Amiga): MOD, OctaMED, ML
• If your contribution is based on an existing piece of work, please provide a reference when handing it in.

• Maximum running time: 5 minutes.
• You should play the game yourself or provide us with a recording if that’s not possible

• Time-limit: 25 minutes coding with a DJ
• Contact liveduel@edisonparty.com to participate or ask the compo crew at the venue
• Please keep informed of the live duel schedule for Friday and stay on standby

• Combined hires/raytracing/executable compo.
• State if your picture is painted or raytraced when handing it in.
• Please provide three workstages for painted pictures.
• Allowed formats: PNG, JPEG.
• If your contribution is based on an existing piece of work, please provide a reference when handing it in.
• Graphics compos may be merged if we get too few entries in either compo.

• Anything up to 320×256 with 8 BPP.
• Please provide three workstages.
• Allowed formats (PC/Amiga): PNG, IFF/ILBM.
• Allowed formats (others): Executable.
• If your contribution is based on an existing piece of work, please provide a reference when handing it in.
• Graphics compos may be merged if we get too few entries in either compo.

• Anything on 8bit platforms.
• Please provide three workstages.
• Allowed formats: Executable.
• If your contribution is based on an existing piece of work, please provide a reference when handing it in.
• Graphics compos may be merged if we get too few entries in either compo.

• Oldschool, newschool, block and ANSI in one compo
• Entries will be shown on their respective platforms when possible
• Keep it to 80 columns. Height? You decide.
• Please include a newschool-friendly preview image so we can verify the rendering on the compo machines, this is especially important for binary entries, but it also helps remind people of your entry in the voting system
• If your contribution is based on an existing piece of work, please provide a reference when handing it in.
• We reserve the right to remove any converted entries from the compo.

• Maximum running time: 8 minutes.
• A movie clip you made that’s either pretty, interesting or funny.
• Allowed formats: All movie formats (use common sense or contact us).
• If your contribution is based on an existing piece of work, please provide a reference when handing it in.

• Photo compo, separate photo-only compo, new for 2018.
• Retouching and collages are allowed.
• Please provide unmodified photo as a workstage.
• Allowed formats: JPEG.
• You have to be the creator of the photo.
• May be merged with graphics compos if we get too few entries in either compo.

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