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**** Where? ****
The party will be held at the Universidad Politcnica de Valencia, Spain. Concretely, this year it will be held at the "Casa del Alumno" (House of the Student).

We'll divide the space into two zones: the partyplace, where everybody will have their computers, and the resting area. You will have also access to tables for having some meal without dirtying the partyplace, comfortable chairs for the stressed coders, panoramic TV for the ones that can't live without their daily junk-tv dosis, microwaves, coffee machine, drinks machine and fabada machine too (it's not a joke). Besides, there's a great amount of grass around the party, so if you want to take some fresh air and a sunbath, you can do it. Finally, you also can visit fallas and make tourism in Valencia, but we prefer that you stay with us!

**** When? ****

The days 12, 13 and 14 of March. Possibly it will be finished at sunday 14 evening, soon, to permit the people from outside to get back home without problems.

**** Equipments ****
We'll have place and network for approximately 100 computers.
We'll also have place for sleeping and access to showers.
Of course, we'll have a projector and sound system for viewing a lot of demos. The chats will be at other rooms, we'll advertise it with enough time.

**** What to take with you? ****

You have to bring your computer, including every needed cable and an electrical base to plug it all with just one socket. It's extremely recommended to bring headphones for listening to the things without disturbing the other attendants. The use of speakers will be forbidden at the party. If you do not follow this rule, we'll have to expel you from the party.

For security reasons, it is FORBIDDEN to smoke and/or consume alcoholic drinks in the partyplace.

Besides, you have to take the clothes that you think appropiate, having in mind that the weather will be possibly quite warm in March. To sleep, bring a sleeping bag and a mattress if you do not want to sleep on the pavement.

About the food, we haven't considered any kind of catering, because there are lots of coffee shops with affordable prices near the partyplace, and also do supermarkets. We'll put a map soon!

Any damage will be paid by the person that caused it. Be careful and respectful if you want that we continue the party next years.

**** How to arrive? ****

You can arrive in the Universidad Politcnica de Valencia (UPV) in some ways:

    * by train: get off the train at "Estaci del Nord" (North Station, the main train station of Valencia). You can take the bus. Line 40: Estaci del Nord - Universitats. The bus stop is to the right of the train station, in the Alicante Street. You can also take the 71 line, from the Plaza del Ayuntamiento (city hall place), but you'll have to walk more. One bus ticket is 0.95 euros.
    * From the Estaci del Nord you can also take the metro (tube, subway). The metro station is called "Xtiva" and the entrance is in front of the train stations's entrance. You have to take the line 3, destination Palmaret, Rafelbunyol or Machado. Don't take the line 5 destination Ayora!!! One metro ticket is 1 euro.
      You have to get off in the Benimaclet station, exit and change to the trainway, line 4, destination Dr. Lluch. Then get off at La Carrasca Station and look for the party!!
    * by bus: get off at the central bus station ("estacin central de autobuses"). You can take a bus (line 29, destination Universidad Politecnica), or the metro. The metro station is called Tria, is right to the bus station, in front of a big magazine called Corte Ingls. You have to take the line 1, destination Torrent or Vilanueva de Castell, and get off in the ngel Guimer station. Then change to the line 3, destination Palmaret, Rafelbunyol or Machado. You have to get off in the Benimaclet station, exit and change to the trainway, line 4, destination Dr. Lluch. Then get off at La Carrasca Station and look for the party!!
    * by plane the airport is not at Valencia, even in a near city, Manises. There is a taxi station at the airport. There's also a bus line. Its number is 150, they are yellow coloured, and the line is called Valencia - Manises - Aeropuerto. You've got more information here: http://www.etmvalencia.com/metrobus/hor/code06/150/lab/150.htm




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A party wouldn't be the same without its competitions. So here we detail the rules for each one of our competitions. The organization has the right of disqualify the productions that considers unappropiatte, of course.

**** Jury's compositions ****

The jury of each competition will be the same competitors, that will not be allowed to vote for theirselves. In case of works with more than one author, they only would be allowed to vote as a whole, but we'll thank you if all the authors pay attention to and participate in the vote, for voting quality reasons. (This will be specially interesting in the demo compo case).

If a participant does not vote, her/his work will not be voted, although it will be played publicly.


**** Competitions theme ****

This year, the chosen theme for the party is retrocomputers. Because of that, we're going to value specially the works with retrocomputer theme, and even more the productions for computers with low resources. This does not mean that we do not accept works with shaders and so on .... ;)


**** Multiplatform ****

Following our equality line, this year we will not make a difference between platforms (mac, windows, linux, and even amiga or cpc, if someone cheers up). The organization will provide only machine for pc productions, with windows or linux, in the rest of platforms the participant will have to provide her/his own computer.


**** Competitions machine specifications ****

    * Athlon K7 1000Mhz
    * 512 Mb RAM SDRAM
    * Geforce 4 Ti 4400 128 Mb. (linux and windows acceleration)
    * C-Media sound card (linux and windows support)
    * Windows XP professional
    * DirectX 9
    * .net framework

    * Debian Linux.
    * Libraries:
      - OpenGL. (3d Graphics).
      - OpenAL. (3d Sound).
      - OpenIL. (image Library).
      - SDL, SDL_mixer, SDL_image.


Everything that you present must be NEW, i.e., it can't have been presented in any other contest, and even less, it can't have won. Every material that belong to a production must have been created by the authors or be of public domain. This includes meshes, textures, samples, etc.

Attention: In principle there will be shown only the first 10 minutes of each demo/intro, and 3 minutes of each song. Please do not exceed this limit. Besides, the organization has the right of interrupting the execution of the entries that become annoying to our sight or hearing (this includes random noises with continuous playing, beeps and any other strange art).

Every production must be submitted packed in a zip file, in the ftp that we'll prepare for that use, with the file file_id.diz filled in with your data and BEFORE the deadline, so as to organize the voting. In the case of intros and demos, we'll thank you if you include also an image of the entry, for example at 320x200.
It is VERY important that you follow these rules, because if you do not do it you will only delay the party and you can even be disqualified.

The intros and demos must be stoppable by pressing the ESC key. They won't be able to write in the hard disk, nor will require any other privileges to work than a "guest" user's privileges.

    * Intros 4k
      Maximum executable file size: 4096 bytes
      They must consist in a unique executable file
    * Intros 64k
      Maximum executable file size: 64Kbytes
      They must consist in a unique executable file
    * Demos
      Maximum zip file size: 10 MBytes.
    * Grficos: you can submit the images in any format, but please do not exceed "usual" file sizes. We prefer the previous steps with jpg and final version in png.
          o 2D: _completely_ computer made drawings, there won't be allowed scanned images coloured with the computer. To demonstrate that you are the author, you'll have to present also 10 previous steps, numered as follows: file00.jpg, file01.jpg ... file10.jpg
            It will be allowed any drawing program.
          o 3D: images created entirely with your favourite 3D program. There won't be allowed the finishing touches with programs like Photoshop.To demonstrate that you are the author, you'll have to present also 10 previous steps, numered as follows: file00.jpg, file01.jpg ... file10.jpg, and also the mesh or scene files.
    * Music: every song must be original. There will not be allowed to present commercial artists versions.
          o chiptunes: maximum size 10kb, Fast Tracker, MOD, Scream Tracker or Impulse Tracker formats are allowed.
            Unlimited channels number.
            There won't be allowed the use of mmx filters or compressed it files.
          o multichannel:
                + maximum filesize 1440 kb
                + Unlimited channels number.
                + XM,MOD,IT,S3M,SKM format
                + there will not be allowed any kind of plug-in (do you know, modplug tracker and Skale tracker users? )
                + Impulse Tracker MMX filters are allowed
          o high quality
                + MP3 or OGG songs
                + if the jury or the organization requires it, the author must certify her/his authorship. So you must have ready a track with the drums and another with the melody.
    * Fastcompos: these competitions will be held at the party, and they will last from 45 to 2 hours, depending on the competition.
      We'll announce the fast-compos, proceeding to inform the participants with the theme and the rules.
    * Other: we are preparing other contests for the party.

# Disk and CD throwing: Do not forget your cd or disk, we haven't enough for all.

 

**** We insist ****

This is not a gamer's party, so there are not activities for gamers.


____________________________ contact _____________________

**** web ****
http://www.ifparty.tk/
http://ifparty.scenesp.org/

**** e-mail ****
info -> ifparty @ ono.com / info @ ifparty.tk
press -> prensa@ifparty.tk


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