Aidiera

Mac'n'dogs.

"Nobody can tell your story as well as you can. Bagels."

Before Life

Aidiera (or informally Mat) started playing N on an old Windows '95 back in the early '00s. From there he discovered NUMA, and registered the nick Life247 around 2006. He thinks the name comes from a poster he saw at school which read "Live Life 24/7" or some shit like that. He started small, making maps from tilesets posted on NUMA, and for regrettable reasons decided to delete the majority of his first maps. He quickly became mesmerized with DDAs, and became very skilled in making them.

He found the old forums in late 2007, generating a measly 117 posts, nothing worth mentioning. After some bobbling around the community he discovered IRC and became quite the frequenter of both #n and #n-highscores. He spent a long time speedrunning most if not all of the Metanet levels, along with numerous NUMA highscores and speedruns. (From time to time he would also 'play' DDAs.) But after awhile, he grew bored with demos and devoted his time to mapping. He has participated in both MapDrafts contests, spearheaded a (failed) knockoff one, and in a few others.

He has been very active on the new forums, accumulating over 1200 (legitimate) posts, and is currently in a post battle with Pheidippides. (They both proudly sit at the bottom of the list of members with the most posts.) Around his time in late 2008 he became extremely close with Inspired, who remain best friends to this day. (Runner-up friends include romaniac and ChrisE.) After spending a year trying to refine/find a style, he gave up and devoted himself to what he expected to be his last DDA, submitted at the start of 2010. While it didn't win any Dronies, it did receive over 50 ratings and was highly enjoyed by the NUMA community.

In January he released his first mappack, entitled solitude. It featured collaborations with several authors and even a DDA. After positive reviews, he chose to release the pack on NUMA. At the request of GTM, he returned in mid-May later to post a map which recorded himself making. Having nothing better to do, he made a few more DDAs and some maps. He also started getting into retiles, often posting a retile mere hours after the orginal was posted.

After Life

While on IRC, many people had asked him to playtest maps for them, and so began to post his edits in the form of remixes, which tend to receive better reviews than the orignals. In August of 2010 he made the formal switch from Life247 to Aidiera because "nobody else was using it." However, he still maps under the moniker Life247 out of convenience. He also doesn't mind if you call him Life, Aids or any varients thereof.

Later in August he posted a collaborative KRADDA which he made with Wizard2. It was incredibly well-received, with a perfect five-ninja rating and 44 rates. It was also nominated for the 2010 Dronies, though it lost to a Clifty DDA. In September he posted an N-Art for Inspired's birthday which was somehow also nominated for the Dronies. Near the end of the year he complied a collection of dozens of unreleased maps. Unfortunately it was overlooked by almost everyone except Sunset.

At the end of 2010 he formed the #auralsex channel on IRC to host group collabs. While it is not a collab group in the traditional sense, it has produced some very excellent maps. He also posted this map, which would later become his first feature. After trying for months, he was finally promoted to be a Reviewer, and has been keeping track of his posted features on his NUMA profile. There you can find all of his extraneous collaborations, links to important threads, and even a link to his blog.

Throughout his expansive mapping career he has felt that it is pointless to develop a mapping style, because in the long run it will limit your creative output. Lacking his own style has allowed him to collaborate with an ever-growing list of authors, from Aju to Jiggerjaw to AlliedEnvy, just to name a few. He also is not one to shy away from a collaboration, as #n will surely tell you. He is currently putting together an exiting retile mappack which will have over a dozen guest authors, though a release date has not been set.

And reccommends that you try talking in third-person more often. It's very refreshing and healthy. Bagels.