Fruit Salad (6 small maps including a christmas theme and some neat colour trickery)

[Grain of Salt]

 

FruitSalad.zip

Complevel 9. Maps 01-06. The palette will change every map.

 

Music credits:

 

01: "Amethyst Princess" by rdwpa

02: "Ruins" from Kid Chameleon

03: "Stage 17" from Demonstar

04: remix of "Ice Cap Zone" from Sonic 3

05: "Stage 5" from Demonstar

06: "Stage 8" from Demonstar SM1

 

Thanks to Loveless, rdwpa and Ribbiks for testing and feedback! I made these maps last year but decided recently I might as well tidy them up and release them. Feel free to use these textures and colormap tricks to make better maps, if you can :3

[Marcaek]

oh wow it happened

 

also one of these maps better be green

[Nine Inch Heels]

Is this real? It's finally here? ;-)

[bemused]

GoS maps? yes please!

[Fonze]

Awesome; will have to play these soon!

[GarrettChan]

I love this palette. BTW, rd does music? Interesting.

[Misty]

You really want fix this small sky glitch.

Edited November 14, 2018 by Misty

[Grain of Salt]

Hmm, I can't replicate that in prb or gl for some reason. What port are you using?

[Misty]

I was using eternity for quick look, but if it works in prboom+ both branches without glitches, it's okay. 

[Grain of Salt]

3 minutes ago, Misty said:

I was using eternity for quick look, but if it works in prboom+ both branches without glitches, it's okay. 

 

:D

[galileo31dos01]

Ok so first for all, yummy.

 

Second, SOS in map 04 I guess, the one called Ice something 2, how do I get to the exit? SR50? Hidden switch? Hit something? UV vile jump? SR50? I played on hmp btw.

 

Third, I loaded the extra palette thinking it was necessary. Barons throwing bubblegum was cute.

 

Fourth, can you make more? :3

[Tango]

looks sweet :D looking forward to giving it a whirl. feels like even just these past few months of 2018 have had a lot of really awesome releases, not to mention the rest of the year

[Grain of Salt]

13 minutes ago, galileo31dos01 said:

Second, SOS in map 04 I guess, the one called Ice something 2, how do I get to the exit? SR50? Hidden switch? Hit something? UV vile jump? SR50? I played on hmp btw.

 

You have to make a pretty finnicky sr40 jump to the other side of the second blue pit, where the imps were.

 

However, if you're facing straight forwards (like you are at the start of the map) you can just run over the gap without even sr40 for some reason. It's a weird jump :3

[loveless]

I had a great time doing a quick cheeky test yesterday! Nice to see how map 1 changed to fit a new aesthetic and the rest of the maps to follow suit.  

[Nine Inch Heels]

Here's a quick little romp through map 6, not a particularly special demo. fruit_salad-06_245.zip

A cute little slaughter map that plays really well since it provides monsters with lots of opportunities to move around to get the jump on players in spite of how small the map looks on a surface level.

Edited November 14, 2018 by Nine Inch Heels

[Kaido]

I waited a year for this

[GarrettChan]

Spoiler

 

Sorry for my sucky English, and sucky gameplay. I quite enjoyed the WAD and the color choices are just good.

[Grain of Salt]

3 hours ago, GarrettChan said:

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Sorry for my sucky English, and sucky gameplay. I quite enjoyed the WAD and the color choices are just good.

 

Great playthrough!

 

Sorry about "saturnalia, sol invictus, etc" :3

[bioshockfan90]

beat the first half of this set tonight, really liking what i'm seeing so far. i can see this as a great recommendation for newbie slaughter players as none of it's too hard, they're short, compact maps and it teaches you the basics of slaughter pretty well. good stuff GoS

[loveless]

22 minutes ago, bioshockfan90 said:

i can see this as a great recommendation for newbie slaughter players as none of it's too hard, they're short, compact maps and it teaches you the basics of slaughter pretty well.

  

That's very true.  There is an instance of very fast, in your face, unapologetic, fuck you BFG spam but it's not to the degree someone like Time of Death or ArmouredBlood might do.

[GarrettChan]

2 hours ago, Grain of Salt said:

Sorry about "saturnalia, sol invictus, etc" :3

Hey, it's fun to learn crazy new words ;P

[Archi]

Cute maps.

[wintertowns]

On 11/15/2018 at 4:18 AM, bioshockfan90 said:

i can see this as a great recommendation for newbie slaughter players as none of it's too hard, they're short, compact maps and it teaches you the basics of slaughter pretty well.

 

Can confirm this, as I am a slaughternewb interested in learning about the noble art of monsterpewning en masse, who found this wad very informative.

[rehelekretep]

On 11/14/2018 at 11:36 PM, GarrettChan said:

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Sorry for my sucky English, and sucky gameplay. I quite enjoyed the WAD and the color choices are just good.

i just heard that you are idclev'ing (can that be a word) to do a pistol start - in prboom+ you can press 'Home' :) (unless youre recording a demo)

[Nancsi]

Those pickups look like the gems from Giana Sisters.

[loveless]

11 hours ago, Nancsi said:

Those pickups look like the gems from Giana Sisters.

  

They're from Kid Chameleon, a Sega Genesis/Megadrive game.  I highly recommend you play it or watch a speedrun, it's captivating.

[GarrettChan]

12 hours ago, rehelekretep said:

i just heard that you are idclev'ing (can that be a word) to do a pistol start - in prboom+ you can press 'Home' :) (unless youre recording a demo)

Oh god. I've never known that... I hope new time you'll discover me using Home instead of inclev, haha.

[VanaheimRanger]

14 hours ago, rehelekretep said:

i just heard that you are idclev'ing (can that be a word) to do a pistol start - in prboom+ you can press 'Home' :) (unless youre recording a demo)

Also, if using GZDoom, you can bind a key to "map map *" no quotes (or is it map*) to restart the current map with a pistol start.

[amackert]

I ran through this and thoroughly enjoyed it. The small map designs were a lot of fun.

 

I agree with others that this is a good introduction to slaughter, for newcomers.