Nullarbor is a combined demoparty and game development competition. It is an event designed to bring together a community of Australian programmers, designers, artists and musicians to promote interactive technologies and a form of electronic art called demos.

The event will be held at ECU Mount Lawley, School of Computer and Information Science in Perth, Western Australia on Thursday the 23rd of February 2006.

There are hundreds of dollars worth of prizes to be won, with a $500 AUD first place prize in the game development competition! (If you wish, you can make a non-interactive demo version of your game and enter it into the demoscene competition)

Entry is open to all Australian and New Zealand residents. Can't get to Perth? You can enter remotely and compete for cash prizes!

For more information visit http://www.notrees.org

nullarbor is sponsored by SCIS @ ECU, Adrian Boeing and Pilgrimage

sounds interesting, I might give it a go, but I prob wouldn't be able to enter with my machinima

I remember seeing this on Sumea (www.sumea.com.au). Sumea will probaberly put up a special forum for this, so anyone interested should also register there and take a look at their forum

The max file size is a bit small, and it looks like you have to attend in person. Otherwise it looks great, and I'd like to participate.

My game is 80mb. On the kind of connections over here 80M doesn't take more than a few seconds to download. I am a New Zealander, but I reside in Japan.

Unfortunately we do need to keep the size limit reasonable, perhaps you would like to consider releasing a 'demo' version of your game?

The residancy status is verified via australian bank account details, so if you still have a bank account back in NZ you will have no problems collecting the prize money.

New, updated, information:

A demo party and game development competition is about to hit Perth, Western Australia.

The full-day event (9AM to 9PM) takes place at Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, on Thursday the 23rd of February 2006.

Entry and participation is free. Throughout the day the entries can be played, viewed and voted on, there will also be a surprise contest running every hour. Select episodes of Control Freaks, and locally produced SceneTV will be screened around the campus, and nullarbor will wind up with a BBQ.

Prizes to be given out on the day include cash, CDs and DVDs, along with some cool gear from Microsoft.

Sponsors and supporters include Edith Cowan University, Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions, ACM SIGGRAPH Perth, Computer Village Rentals, PixelJuice, RedFlag LanFest, Pilgrimage demo party, Adrian Boeing, Perth Independent Game Makers Initiative (PIGMI), and Team Affinity demo group.

For more information visit the nullarbor demoparty website : http://www.notrees.org.