Do you create art with computers? We want you at Inércia presenting it! There are several ways to do so, depending on what kind of art you are showing and if you are comfortable with being scrutinized by a public vote. Check these categories to see which one fits your production the best.

• Combined Demo Competition
• Fast Themed Demo Competition
• Size Coding Showcase
• Graphics Showcase
• Music Showcase
• Wild Showcase
• Live Coding

Also, take some time to get acquainted with our rules.

Original content

All productions submitted must be original releases of your own copyright and not previously made public. Sampling / remixing to create derivative work of someone else is accepted but within reason, blatant plagiarism has no creative value. When submitting the production please list your sources and tools explicitly, they will be shown on the information slide and are critical to contextualize your entry to the viewers.

Compo machine specs

OS : Windows 10 (with latest updates)
Chipset : Z790
CPU : Intel 13600K (14C/20T)
RAM : 32GB DDR5-6400MHz
GFX : RTX3080Ti 12GB GDDR6X
Storage : NVME Gen4

If your production targets another platform, please also provide a video recording of it, if you can't do so please come talk with us as soon as possible so we can try to figure out how to capture its signal with acceptable quality.

Production licenses

All productions entered will be distributed free for download on the internet after the event. By submitting your production to our party website you are agreeing to this distribution. The copyright remains yours ofcourse, and you are free to select what license your work uses, if you prefer something else besides Creative Commons BY-NC-SA that we apply by default. But please be aware your submission will be archived and made public. We might also use your work to promote future editions of Inércia. Please only submit your entry if you're ok with this.

Disclaimer

The organization reserves the right to not screen your submission for any reason they see fit, will be enforced in case of productions which are deeemed innapropriately offensive, immoral or illegal according to the Portuguese law.

Following our demoscene roots we are holding as our main event the Combined Demo Competition!
It's a competition for executable realtime entries, running on any computer platform made exclusively for Inércia 2024.

📤 Please submit a zip with your entry: the working binaries of the executable and a short text file explaining what it is, the target platform, the techniques and references used, and how to play it. If you're targetting an uncommon platform and/or wish to guarantee we play the demo as it's meant to be shown, please also include a video capture of your entry.

The winner will be determined by public voting.

A theme and some audio stems will be revealed on Thursday, December 5th and you will have 48 hours to develop your demo entry that uses those audio stems and follows the proposed theme. You are free to reuse old engines and code and adapt it to match to the theme. You are also invited to remix / edit the audio stems in any way you see fit to match your vision (and make the competition less repetitive in terms of audio).

This is a competition for executable realtime entries, running on any computer platform.

📤 Please submit a zip with your entry: the working binaries of the executable and a short text file explaining what it is, the target platform, the techniques and references used, and how to play it. If you're targetting an uncommon platform and/or wish to guarantee we play the demo as it's meant to be shown, please also include a video capture of your entry.

The winner will be determined by public voting.

We will have a screening block dedicated to any size coding / bootblock productions made exclusively for Inércia 2024!
We are looking for submissions running on any platforms under specific size constraints, it must not have been previously released. The most common target size restrictions are usually 8 bytes, 16 bytes, 32 bytes, 64 bytes, 128 bytes, 256 bytes, 512 bytes, 1kb, 4kb, 8kb, 20kb, 40kb and 64kb.

Special karma points if they are invitations for Lovebyte 2025.

📤 Please submit a zip with your entry: it should contain the entry itself, a short text file explaining the techniques and references used. This text file should also explain the best way to display the entry if it needs a special viewer and special settings, and how to play it. If you're targetting an uncommon platform and/or wish to guarantee we play the demo as it's meant to be shown, please also include a video capture of your entry.

Maximum two entries per participant allowed, choose wisely what you want to focus on!
Some leeway on this rule to also allow collaborations but please don't abuse it.

We will have a screening block dedicated to graphics productions made exclusively for Inércia 2024. We are looking for submissions of the following kind:

• Text art, be it ASCII, ANSI, PETSCII, ATASCII, TELETEXT, etc
• Pixel art, limited palette and canvas resolution, using standards from retro machines or fantasy consoles
• Photo art, typically a photo with minor retouches and color correction but photoshop collages also welcome
• 3D model graphics, static 3d model scene that can be viewed from different viewpoints using latest version of Blender or Foxotron
• Rendered graphics, images rendered out of 3d modelling tools such as Blender, 3DS Max, povray, etc
• Voxel art, images made with voxel editing programs such as MagicaVoxel
• Freestyle graphics, painted by hand, scanned, drawn digitally, vector or brush, whatever combination you use
• Fractal art, generated with fractal generator tools
• AI art, be it either text prompt, neural style transfer or any combined method you use
• Executable graphics, 4kb code executable that renders a single static image
• JPEG XL art, made solely with JPEG XL encoding predictor operators
• Animated GIF, short looping GIF animation
• Others

📤Please submit a zip with your entry: it should contain the entry itself, a PNG version if it's a strange format we might otherwise display incorrectly, 3-4 steps of your work in progress and a short text file explaining the techniques and references used. This text file should also explain the best way to display the entry if it needs a special viewer and special settings.

One entry per participant allowed, choose wisely what you want to focus on!
Some leeway on this rule to also allow collaborations but please don't abuse it.

We will have a screening block dedicated to music produced explicitely to be premiered at Inércia 2024!
We will play a maximum of 5 minutes for each track submitted. We are looking for submissions of the following kind:

• Tracked music, composed using tracker software, for whatever target platform you use
• Executable music, 32kb executable that generates the audio
• Oldschool / chiptune music, playing from any retro machine with 1bit / 8bit / 16bit sound chips
• Fantasy console music, music playing from fantasy consoles
• Streaming music, an mp3 rendered usually from a modern DAW
• Recording of a live performance (live instruments, livecode, eurorack, etc)
• Live music, beatboxing, singing, improv rap, easy instrument to setup
• Others

Special karma points if they are drone ambient or jazz musician submissions.

📤Please submit a zip with your entry: it should contain the entry itself, an mp3 version of it if it's in a format we might potentially play incorrectly and a short text file explaining the techniques and references used. This text file should also explain the best way to play the entry if it needs a special player and special settings.

One entry per participant allowed, choose wisely what you want to focus on!
Some leeway on this rule to also allow collaborations but please don't abuse it.
We accept music of all genres.

We will have a screening block dedicated to everything else that doesn't quite fit the other categories.
All entries are accepted as long as they have not been previously released to the public. Maximum of 5 minutes play time for each entry.
We are looking for submissions of the following kind:

• Video Editing
• Animation
• Trailers / Reels
• Live performance
• New demotool showcase
• New tech showcase
• New electronics project presentation
• New diskmag or musicdisk releases
• Lightning talks
• Standup comedy
• Interactive art installation presentation
• Games, previews and final versions also accepted
• GLSL / Shadertoy scenes
• Demos and Intros not up for voting
• Demos of esoteric / conceptual platforms
• Electronic badge demos
• Others

📤Please submit a zip with your entry: the binaries if it's an executable release, a video capture if it's not. Should also contain a short text file explaining what it is, the techniques and references used and how to play it.

One entry per participant allowed, choose wisely what you want to show us!

For the 4th time at Inércia since it's inception we will be hosting the Shader Royale, with participants locally and a bit from all over the world joining remotely to participate (last year we had 25 participants). You can participate in person at the venue and remotely, you just need latest version of Bonzomatic and to ping psenough or totetmatt on discord for the details on joining. Or check this infopage

Another feature we will have at the party this year will be a TIC-80 wall corner, where any of our visitors can sit for a few minutes and code a visual effect in the TIC-80 environment and then watch it run on a slideshow at the partyplace and later archived on the internet.