Sundown

Sundown 2010 – 3-5th September 2010, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, UK.

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Welcome to the Sundown 2010 web site! Back one last time for our sixth and final party, we’re planning to make this years event the best ever!

Entrance this year is £30. You can optionally buy a supporter ticket for £45 if you wish to help us with party expenses even moreso!

Advanced payments are preferred, and can be done via PayPal (rc55@rc55.com), or a bank transfer can be arranged for UK visitors. Contact rc55 for more details.

New to the Demoscene?

Sundown 2010 is an established U.K. based demoscene party, now in it’s sixth year. The demoscene is a computer subculture dedicated to showcasing the talents of musicians, artists, designers and programmers in a competition based atmosphere with clearly defined limitations.

Competitions held are generally as follows:

• Old School – Productions that are targetted at older computers with a static configuration (an increased technical challenge, pushing limitations on older hardware via efficient programming).
• New School - Productions that are targetted at high end modern systems – challenges being exploiting of new hardware facilities and production skills.
• Intro - A production that cannot exceed 64kb in size (a quite severe limitation, combining resourcefulness with innovation).
• Music - As a general composed using specific methods or software or a general musicianship competition.

Productions in the Old and New School sense generally require a good sense of direction and always have a synchronised soundtrack to add to the atmosphere.

Participants to Demoscene parties generally stay in the party hall from Friday until Sunday (showers of course!) to exchange ideas, participate in judging the entries to competitions and often taking part in “Fast” competitions – creative competitions held within the time constraints of a single party.

To learn more about the demoscene, visit this Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene).

The party is held in Budleigh Salterton, which is a small peaceful village near the city of Exeter. It’s a long way from London, but certainly accessible from there and there is also a local airport, or if you’re driving by car we have comprehensive directions from the M5.

This year, once again we are also offering a shuttle service from London based airports thanks to Vampy and Vespa of TZT.

More information is available on the Travel Information section.

If you require bed accomodation, there are a handful of local bed and breakfasts who can accommodate at a reasonable fee.

The party will start on Friday 3rd September at around 6:00pm, however we’ll be happy to accept early arrivals if you let us know in advance. The entrance fee is £30 for UK visitors and £20 for International visitors – this will cover our costs for setting up the party and any eventualities that may occur – and also if we have any supplemental cash left over we will use this for the competition fund – after all, it’s a good cause!

The Venue

The venue is the same as the last four parties – we’re using the Budleigh Salterton Village Hall, with it’s newly installed Kitchen facilities which provide access to high power microwaves, industrial ovens and readily available hot water for any caffeine based heated beverages!

The hall itself is theatre style, and we can accomodate up to 100 sceners easily. There are some rooms in the back of the hall with a limited amount of space for sceners who would prefer to sleep in peace away from the party noise, and I’m glad to say this year we can allow sceners to stay in there.

Party Features – Demoscene all the way!

• Competitions for Old and New School productions, both Demo and Intro. (If there are a lack of entries, we will combine pending approval of attendees).
• Big kicking audio system – Provided by Stage Electrics – our new soundsystem
• Projection presentation – not the biggest screen on earth but certainly a great quality projector and fine for the party.
• Space for up to 100 people maximum.
• Drinking allowed – but be in control, please!
• The Party Network will be back this year offering internet access throughout the party.