deceased.cable - A tribute to dead.wire (On IdGames!)

[Obsidian]

                               

oddness ahead - v1.0

A few months ago, I proposed the idea of using a special resourse based on Xaser's excellent map dead.wire for the April installment of the Abyssal Speedmapping Sessions: all of the textures were ones from the wad (used with permission) and almost all the enemies were partially invisible and a bit more sneaky. It was a fun session and it produced some good maps, but after it I felt compelled to make something a bit more serious with the resources. To this end I held two six-hour streams on Twitch a few weeks back, where I (and also Fuzzball) made the bulk of this project: after that I spent a while tinkering with what I'd made, smoothing out the gameplay and adding some more quality-of-life changes.

 

The result is a single map for Boom-compatible source ports, tested in PrBoom+ and ZDoom. Keep an eye out for the things you can't see...

 

Edited July 21, 2022 by Obsidian : Finally uploaded to the archives! Yay. :3

[Bobby :D]

Bruh I'm barely lucid and you want to SPOOK ME!?!?! For shame!

[TheNoob_Gamer]

Interesting! Is this map a dead.air remake or just a level inspired by it?

[Gez]

Neither, it's a level inspired by dead.wire. For dead.air you'll have to wait for deceased.atmosphere I suppose.

[Obsidian]

1 minute ago, Gez said:

Neither, it's a level inspired by dead.wire. For dead.air you'll have to wait for deceased.atmosphere I suppose.

 

Heh, I actually gave a bit of consideration towards doing a dead.air tribute some time in the future, but to be perfectly honest I'm not as much of a fan of it as I am of dead.wire. Probably just a case of the final impression it left on me: I was sadly left distinctly unenthused by the final boss. :P

[Horus]

Nice, grats on the release! I love your wacky tribute names, like when you called your Mayhem 2020 map ‘Spire in the Cascade of Glimmers’ 

[Obsidian]

Just now, Horus said:

Nice, grats on the release! I love your wacky tribute names, like when you called your Mayhem 2020 map ‘Spire in the Cascade of Glimmers’ 

 

Heh, cheers. I do my best. :D

[Biodegradable]

Oooh, was this the one I caught you mapping on stream last week?

[Obsidian]

3 minutes ago, Biodegradable said:

Oooh, was this the one I caught you mapping on stream last week?

 

You would be correct! It's a bit fancier than when you last saw it though, haha.

[TheNoob_Gamer]

20 minutes ago, Gez said:

Neither, it's a level inspired by dead.wire. For dead.air you'll have to wait for deceased.atmosphere I suppose.

I didn't notice I misspoke lmao.

[Obsidian]

ELEVEN MONTHS LATER

 

heh

 

I was originally gonna try and get a bit more feedback before I uploaded this to the archives, but as time went on it got shuffled down the priority list and was eventually left to rot for months. No more though!

[Dimon12321]

Don't know how I missed it back then.