COMPET-News

[AndrewB]

That's right, it's that time of month again! The DOOM-god hall of fame, COMPET-N has updated with ninety-one new movies of DOOM-gods playing DOOM. Among this update's best selections; the first ever Tyson demo(s) for E4M7, a new Tyson demo for E4M1, and hmm... It looks like someone stole one of my few records. I don't feel like talking anymore.
Update: Oops. I suppose I should mention that the site has an awesome new green design. It looks very snazzy, high-profile.

[bigd]

Site looks great. So Fredrik, what's wrong with it? ;)

[Opulent]

Whoa. Who are you and what did you do with Adam? heh
Forum: mmmmm
contest?

[Opulent]

uh, before I look like more of an idiot than I already am -- my comments were made without seeing the site since I can't see it normally.
site looks fantastic. looks easy to update too, which is always a plus.

[kristus]

Yeah new design is 1337

[stphrz]

Spiffy :)

[999cop]

God, I love you Adam

[Erik]

Finally =) the new design looks really good.

[999cop]

no,open the forum's gate, i need to reply

[fyrestorm]

its that time of the month again! be sure to have plenty of tampons around!

[Ryback]

Looks awesome. Good stuff.

[Hyena]

Are these demos all recorded with doom.exe and doom2.exe?

[Opulent]

Hyena: Yes. no other exe is allowed.
See the site for details. -- remember that the Compet-N is very old by Doom standards.

[Fredrik]

Yeah, really awesome design :D

[Lüt]

GREEN!

* Lüt feels at home :)

[Arioch]

Quick man, send Hegyi to Post Hell. :P

[magikal]

Tasty tasty tasty!

[Adam Hegyi]

If you're a NS4 user:

- Make sure you have css AND javascript turned on, otherwise you will get default black font. I don't know why javascript is needed to have css, anyone know? (its not needed in NS6/Mozilla/IE)
- NS4 doesn't like that the main textbox is transparently over the rune design, it makes the text garbled when you scroll up/down.
I made a solution to this by positioning the main textbox lower for NS4 users (it looks worse than originally intended, but it works).

Thanks for all the comments!

[Linguica]

I'll be the grump and say that I liked the old design better.

[kristus]

The word Sexy.. comes to mind

[AndrewB]

Yeah, the redesign is snazzy. Some people will disagree. But hey, looks don't really matter. The site is easy to navigate, fast, and chock-full of content. That's 96% of what matters to me.

[Opulent]

As long as design doesn't get in the way of content -- then better is more.
Excessively designed (read: busy) pages are annoying and not an improvement... but this doesn't apply with the new Compet-N layout.
We are fortunate that DW has such great design -- nothing to interfere with the content.
lastly, although I will stick with NS4.7 as my primary browser until I HAVE to switch, I don't think any site should feel they have to bend back to that. If I have to use IE, you better make it worth my visit. :)

[kristus]

SO you're one of those people making life hard for web designers. :p

[Guest Pirx]

andrew b.: exactly. nothing else matters.
i'm using ie6 with webwasher (kills those damn popups) and don't have any problems with it.
nice work adam, that's the #1 doom demo site ever.
yeah imagine i had the patience to watch the e2m8 and e4m1 tyson demos...

[Guest Pirx]

btw, does anyone know another game with a comparable active community, after almost 8 years?
i don't think so...

[kristus]

Duke Nukem3d

[AndrewB]

Duke3D? Community? Where?

[Guest Pirx]

doom is 2 years older. plus, i haven't seen demo collections for duke like there are for doom. actually, does anyone know a site with duke demos? just for the curious...

[AdamW]

Demo recording in Duke is extremely buggy, which is the main reason no-one ever really made any. That and the level design really doesn't much lend itself to speedrunning. Deathmatch demos work OK, but I dunno where you could download any.

As for old games with an active following - well, there's Nethack, which is rather older than Doom...the Civilisation / Civ2 community probably counts, since Civ2 isn't much of a change from Civ at all...the original Championship Manager came out around 1992 and that's still a huge game in the UK, though it's been heavily updated since then so I guess it can't really count...can't think of any others off the top of my head.

[kristus]

AndrewB: www.Dukeworld.com

Dark Forces also have a community alive and kicking..