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NAID'95 REPORT
by Coluche of Rash Reflections
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ÛÛ²±° NAID - North American Internationnal Demo Festival
Û²±° From Saturday 15th and 16th of April 1995
ÛÛ INTRODUCTION
I hope this won't look like a whole complain even if I write down some
problems, but I must first say that NAID was terrific. Better then I thought
it would be, and well organised for a first try. If this text sounds too
much negative about NAID, well, it wasn't my intention. NAID was really cool,
people who didn't came MISSED SOMETHING REALLY BIG. But still, some things
have to change for NAID'96, and everybody who was on site know that. Anyways,
for anything in the world I wouldn't miss NAID. And for anything in the world
I wouldn't miss NAID'96.
This little intro was added after naid, let's get back in time...
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ÛÛ DAY 1
ÜÜ 04.16.95 8.56am
Hi there... Slow hi please, I'm really tired but there's not much sleep to
get when people around don't want us to sleep or something like that. So
here I am, sunday morning, second day of the event, writing this to let the
time fly because many people are still "sleeping" anyway.
The night was a bit strange. We received strange messages under our door with
things like "Brebie bleu" or something like that, didn't understood... Also
a guy entered our room and checked the speakers of the computer there and
get out when he figured I wasn't sleeping and looking at him. Duh, what he
intended to do? Anyways, I didn't see anyone getting his stuff stolen or
something like that.
Except one thing, a gang of ravers (I don't have anything against ravers at
all, on the contraire) did some fuck'd up in the college during that night,
especially in the space room (see the room "R" on the map I did next).
I didn't get too much informations about that. Hopefully, it was the only
incident of the event... (I think!) And one incident comparing to the
"Sonic PC sucks" banners and stuff like that on the other side of the ocean
is quite "nothing"...
ÛÛ NAID PLACE PLAN
NAID took place at College Edouard-Montpetit. It's pretty a cool place due
to the architecture of the cafeteria. Let see a little ascii plan of the
place...
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Green Section ======= :Big Screen
Description of areas...
A: Entrance
B: Tickets table
C: Cloakroom (hum... vestiaire anyway)
D: Stage and huge screen!
E: Console and place for everyone to see the compos and old demos!
F: Tables for anyone who bring their computers, everyone got space...
G: About 10 college's computer (IBM 486-66) for those without any
computer wanting one asap! (the Orange section)
H: 3 computers dedicated to Internet's IRC.
I: The Amiga corner... There was 2-3 guys who bring their Amiga there!
J: Small dinosaur museum
K: Doom II and other network games (the Blue section)
L: Small computer store for disks and stuff like that
M: AudioTrix table
N: The midi corner
O: Little cafeteria for snack, Magic games, etc. (the Green section)
P: Subway stand
Q: NAID T-Shirts and coffee stand
R: Get crazy in that room with full stroboscopes flashing around!
S: This corridor gets you to the sleeping rooms
T: Closed corridor
U: Passage to the pool and showers
V: Toilets...
X: Some of the exits...
The middle of the place was high enough to place a stage plus a cool big
screen with a powerfull sound system (even if the dolby surround failed
during the music compo... but who cares?).
At one side of that screen, another cafeteria section (orange section) was
devoted to our computers with college's computers (about 10) for those who
didn't bright their computers. Everyone had place has they wished, even the
really small Amiga corner (who cares about Amiga? In fact, they were 2 or
3... Nothing really impressive). Also in that section, 3 computers were
dedicated to Internet; you have certainly seen those guys on IRC. The
problem with those Internet computers was that the guys never get out to let
others people on it, but I didn't really care cuz I don't have any
account (yet!).
In the other side of that screen, another cafeteria section (blue section)
was devoted to Doom on network and another game similar to Doom... There were
also some guys who tried to sell you disks, Audiotrix Pro (one of the
sponsers) and others gadgets for computers...
In the section in front of the big screen, another cafeteria section (the
green section now) was devoted to...: a cafeteria! Subway had a stand there
for those who didn't want to cross the street in front of the college to get
to the real Subway (I didn't check if the prices were the same...), Cafe
Edouard, Harvey's and others good places... They also sale NAID
t-shirts there!
ÛÛ OPENING...
NAID started saturday the 15th at 9-10h... Almost everyone were installing
their computers, many started to rush their buggy intro or demo to be in
shape for the deadline at midnight. Others were seeking to place faces on
alias, know new people and all... very cool. They did the opening ceremony
sometime near 10h30 but I didn't see it (I was with other members trying to
finish our demo but we dropped the idea at diner, it wasn't really ready,
even if we rushed it all the day, partying was more interresting!) and
nothing of the opening ceremony was much exciting apparently except "Welcome
to NAID". Duh.
ÛÛ HISTORICAL DEMOS
During the historical demos show, the major event of that morning was the
presentation of Dope by Complex. Totally everyone were in front of the big
screen to see that incredible demo that just got on Internet one hour before
from the Gathering. Every groups who intended to release a demo for NAID
surely thought it twice!
ÛÛ MUSIC COMPO
Then, at 04:00pm, the musical competition started. They said it would be for
2 or 3 hours. No way! They didn't said it at first, they had 56 entries!
What a chance the time limit was of 5 minutes: the music event last for about
7 hours. Most of the tune were bad, sleepy or simply stupid (even mine hehe
not!)... For that reason, people didn't listen very much. During the night,
Khan suggested to me there won't be a public choice but a 4th jury's choice
or something similar. Simply because only the jury listen to all the tunes
(poor them...) and the public would certainly vote at random. Anyway, I will
get back on that when NAID will end and I'll finish this "quite linear"
report.
Because of the music competition that ended between 9 and 10 P.M., the intro
competition (scheduled for 8:30pm!) was reported to sunday morning at
10:00am. The organizers wasn't prepare for that amount of tunes!! I really
understand that! But that wasn't a lost: there were only 6 intros on time so
they reported also the deadline to midnight for the intro. That let time for
some groups to finish their intro, and also to other groups to do one in a
hurry just for the fun. When I got to bed (huh, my sleeping bag... anyway!),
8 or 9 intros were in (the guy at the console wasn't sure!).
ÛÛ THE NIGHT...
Anyway, there wasn't anything scheduled after the music compo before midnight
for the performance of Public Enema on scene. It wasn't bad at all but it
isn't exactly my style. BUT! A techno/rave segment was scheduled at 3:30am,
more the stuff I listen; but the part I listen wasn't really great during the
first hour... Anyway, we were doing our intro and it bugged a bit!
It was 11:10pm when Voodoo and I decided to do an intro, seeking and highly
inviting Boggart and a friend of Voodoo, Holy Avenger... It was around
11:20pm when they accepted after we found them... The deadline was at
midnight... Argh! Boggart got his gourad routines and created 2 objects;
Voodoo remixed a picture for the background; I got to do the fucking music
(the place was full of noise, I use normally MMEdit but they wanted S3M, I
had to seek for ST3 + samples (cuz I didn't have any on site) then a computer
with a GUS... I had to learn ST3 (pretty easy but when you have less then 20
minutes, it's terrible!), "learn" the samples a guy gave me, and compose the
tune on small speakers playing very weird at high volume to get over the
band's music. I don't know yet this morning how it sounded... We had some
trouble with the GUS routine and the palettes of Voodoo's pic (don't ask why)
so we didn't get it on time but they told us (and everyone who wanted to
know) before midnight they accepted intros until they have 15 intros (they
had 8-9 when we gave them the disk!).
We totally have to greet Tiger Claw for his computer: I composed the music
and we tested our GUS routine on his computer. I have to greet another guy
from the group US who copied me ST3 and his samples but I don't know his
name...
If some part weren't understandable, it's normal. I'm still sleeping! We
gonna now go wake up some guys, it's near 10am and the intro compo should
start!
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ÛÛ DAY 2
ÜÜ 04.17.95 04.30pm (writing the day after naid...)
NAID is now done. Old (not!)
But still: nothing is released yet!
ÛÛ INTRO COMPO
Sunday was great... At 10am, the intro shown were really great, well almost
all. There were a funny intro which was only a SLOW scroller, people got fun
to cry the words! And also, the music in our intro wasn't too bad after all
but it's really a simple fast done tune. Anyways, quality varied alot in that
competition too (as the music competition) and it had 11 entries finally
instead of 8-9 last night. There was many trouble running some intros but
hey, intros are never easy to run. When PC will drop realmode or EMS/XMS
stupidities or get GUS a standard or something like that... Huh?
Maybe a day... NOT.
ÛÛ GRAPHIC COMPO
A bit later, the graphic competition started. More then before, the quality
varied. Some were awesome, some were... were "how the guy thought he could
win something with that?". There were 11 pictures (if I remember correctly)
shown on big screen for one minute each. The trouble with the big screen is
that every dark color are lost and using to much brightness destroy the other
colors... dunno. Plus, the big screen fuck'd up small details. Also, they
started the competition with a very old version of CSHOW, and they got
incompatibility troubles at the second picture haha!
ÛÛ DEMO COMPO
After diner, at 3.00pm, the competition we were waiting for started: THE
DEMO COMPETITTION. Only one demo had been shown on the computers before the
competition (I just see one... anyways). So I wasn't sure about what to
expect from that competition. Strangly, every demo was of VERY GOOD QUALITY.
Much better then I excepted! The only trouble was that the big screen is
totally black for 2-3 seconds after any screen mode changes. There were a
demo who switched videomode between a Doom corridor routine with every other
routines for 3-4 seconds so we missed all the routines but there were nothing
to do. (btw, the corridor routine wasn't bad the first time, after 346324
returns to that routine... sheeeh.) Anyway, every demo were good, almost all
groups were new. I can't describe every demo cuz I was there for my own fun,
not to write a fully detailled report on every demos. Btw, I've heard Legend
and Axidental should be there... They didn't came or what?
ÛÛ AWARDS, RANKING and JURY
After the demo competition, I think everyone was finding NAID was approching
to it's end. In fact, some guys were already packing their stock. Anyways,
the awards started at 08pm. After a cool speech of SnowMan, the guy of
DemoNews, and Veritech Knight, one of the NAID organizers, the awards really
started. But it was a bit desapointing. Only the title and author/group were
named with their position. It doesn't seem much prepared. They were three
on stage but they were mixing roles anytime. It could be better if they say
thing like "For the 3rd position in the music competition". Then fully or
partially PLAY the tune (or run the demo/intro or show the picture, via
computer, tape or video) and then ask the guy(s) to come on the stage after
naming their names and the title. The mics would be on the side of the stage
with a light when nothing was on the screen. I simply propose this because
they named every positions for every competitions but I don't remember every
simple product, especially from the music competition. Also, precising prices
before starting the countdown of a competition would be better since some
wasn't told at all or said under all the applause.
I must also say the ranking done by the jury are in contraction of some
prediction I've said. Anyways... Just check the 1st position in the GFX
competition. It's a scanned picture which the "hand drawn proof picture"
had been apparantly lost and, well... explain why the picture is so great
with a so ugly font and fast done spray reactors when others reactors were
so smooth? Really strange picture. It got almost kick'd out of the
competition. I seriously don't know why they let that in (sorry TS). Another
picture by another guy of TRS'93, again, was kick'd out because the guy
ripped on a GIF and a guy had it on site! It seems TRS'93 isn't really clean
at all.
For the music competition, as mentionned, the public choice was replaced by
a forth jury place.
With the "memories" of Voodoo and I, we list this ranking. This ranking
should NOT be take as OFFICIAL cuz we might mix'd up some of them. I repeat,
this ranking is NOT the official ranking. Also, some position are missing...
and SORRY FOR ERRORS IN NAMES/TITLE even maybe in positions, I don't have any
written name here so I wrote them as they sounded.
²±° MUSIC
1. ? by Necros/LD/FM
2. Hitch Hiking by Mealcum (Kosmic) and HiQ (?)
3. Can't fake the funk by Basshead (Kosmic/FM) ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
4. Tears by Mosaic (Renaissance) ³ ³
³ Those ranking ³
²±° INTRO ³ ³
1. Less is more by The Humanoid ³ úAúRúEúNú'úTú ³
2. High pressure by USED ³ ³
3. Threesome (???) ³ official. Ok? ³
Public choice: (??) Less is more by The Humanoid ³ ³
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²±° GFX
1. RipBot (Bot like Butt TRS'93) by Thunder Storm (TRS'93 sucks)
2. Purple Dragon by Schizo (Pure Resistance/ACID)
3. Opticron (or MonoMessUp!) by Lakeee (duh.. a 320x200 with a grayscale)
Public choice: Opticron (ah yeah?)
(I seriously doubt the jury was correctly selected here)
²±° DEMOS
1. Opticron by Craw Productions
2. Electric Gruyere by Da Cheez Brigade (formally TEI)
3. Flight by Kosmic
Public choice: Electric Gruyere by Da Cheez Brigade
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ÛÛ AFTER PARTY SUGGESTIONS... (or: MORE SUGGESTIONS)
ÜÜ
For about every competition, only one thing was missing. A 27" tv screen (or
something like that) showing the title of the tune/intro/gfx/demo playing/
running/showed beside the big screen with the author/group's name and the
number in back would be great. Should be very EASY to code something like
that, and very usefull for the public. (Call me if you can't or you want me
(and voodoo maybe?) to do it!)
About the event itself, some things were also missing. Distribution after or
during the demo competition of a sheet with all numbers, title and group of
all four competitions. We could remember sometimes only one part (number,
author or title) and even the organizers were mixing numbers! So...
Another thing would be to distribute or invite people to write and clip their
alias (and group) on themself. It would be more fun cuz I surely sat beside
some guys I chatted for some hours like friends but I never said to them "hi"
because I didn't know who they were and they wasn't doing anything to let me
in their conversation. Anyways, just a thought. I wasn't to say "Hello, who
are you?" to everyone in case I know them!
Also, a word about the rules... If a music is over 5 min when the rule limit
a tune for 5 minutes, it should be out of the competition and the author
should have nothing to say about it. If a composer can't remix his tune to
fit inside 5 minutes, I think there's a trouble somewhere: that's the author,
not the competition. Also, for NAID'96, a rule should be added: any author or
group who presented an illegal (rip, scan, or anything else) entry in any
previous event can't present himself (under any name) for any future NAID
event. I really think it's logic. You can do a mistake when you rip or scan,
you did it volontary: your fault, life with it looser but not at NAID
anymore. (Note: I didn't name anyone, the guys know themself...)
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ÛÛ REPORT CONCLUSION, GREETS (n0t) and PUBS!
ÜÜ
I really hope there will be a NAID'96. I want one! If the organisers need
help -> you know my voice and data numbers so! (Btw, you will propably need
a better light man, he didn't made a great job at all... (I have been light
man chief for 4 years so :) )) But I'm sure the actual organisation team
won't need anyone more: they have shown that they can plan a 36 hours demo
event. Not so sure it would be more easy for NAID'96 since it might get more
people interrested but you just got some big experience. Good job guys!
See you all at NAID'96!
ÄÄ-- Coluche^RR
I won't greet anyone except those I already greeted, simply because I've
seen too many people that, at the end, some guys were saying me "bye" but
I couldn't remember their names... DUH. I think I should stop taking
dope (easy word joke here...anyway). Greetz to everyone at NAID'95! (easy
huh?) :) Btw, call RR -> see next!
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