NaNoWADMo 2021 - The month-long mapping challenge (see you next year!)

[dac]

Latest WIP screen

[Scorpius]

WEEK ONE PROGRESS

• 2/11 maps complete + started next map
• Resources (textures and graphics) compiled
• Music and sounds selected + names chosen

I think this is going well but I'm not too confident on completing the project before Halloween. :)

[Biff Dunderbuff]

Last year I said that I wanted to make a 5 level wad that I never ended up finishing. However, I never really gave up on it. A couple months ago I even managed to finish the toxic themed level I started on last year:

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I've made a few edits to the entryway level I made last year and have renamed it to Inertia, it will of course take map slot 01. Toxic Processing will take map 03 and I am currently working on map 02: Power Plant

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I only have the center piece and the very beginning done so far, but I don't plan for this to be a big level so I will hopefully have it done within the next couple weeks. I will post all 3 levels together when I am done with level 2.

[A Handsome Fridge]

A couple of screenies of the progress made the past few days.

* Reshaping the central area (which is blue) and built a computerwall
* Importing a toxic waste area with fancy 3D floors that I didn't use for the RAMP edition of Fish In A Barrel and applying it to this map.
* Making a certain transformation work correctly (and textures well aligned, ugh)
* A bunch of retexturing and recoloring. Currently happy with what is shown on the screenshots on that regard.


 

[A Handsome Fridge]

This part of the map is actually already fully finished and functional as a standalone mini-map (monsters not shown on the second screenshot). I transferred it to this current project and renumbered all the tags and sectors, I have an idea of when and where it will appear. If everything else fails I'll have at least this room to show by the end of the month *\o/*

 

 

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Edited October 9, 2021 by A Handsome Fridge

[BetelgeuseSupergiant]

Almost finished work on the first half of the map. Later I'll work with dynamic lighting and start editing in Slade

[Somniac]

I set myself the challenge to finally finish this map that's been in development hell for what feels like forever, to just get it done and accept whatever form it ends up taking so I can move on from it, and hopefully restore some of my momentum and confidence as a mapper which have had the wind taken out of their sails for a while now. Some recent progress:

 

 

Long story short, this started as "I'm going to make a vanilla map w/ vanilla textures", which ended up feeling too restrictive so I went back to UDMF. Then I realised I just wasn't happy limiting myself to vanilla textures, so CC4tex has been wheeled out among a few other staples and I've been retexturing mostly everything and reworking some bits that I wasn't happy with. Its gonna be a short, linear techbase level with a horror/suspense feel - hopefully what comes out of it will be near enough to that mark.

[BetelgeuseSupergiant]

On 03.10.2021 at 07:49, DavidN said:

Хорошо, я остановился на своей цели - не обязательно полноценную игру в этом году, но создать хотя бы прототип движка для гусеничного подземелья Doom!

 

Пока что у меня есть движение сетки, работающее на тестовом уровне, тонна закулисного кодирования, сделанного для извлечения данных из таблицы Google и записи файлов данных игры вместо того, чтобы делать это самому, и система для определения того, как ведут себя встречи. - как часто игрок попадает в них и какие группы монстров могут появляться.

 

 

Затем я хотел бы разработать способ управления инвентарем игрока, позволяющий им брать с собой собственный выбор оружия, боеприпасов и лечебных предметов, чтобы помочь им выжить в научно-фантастическом подземелье :)

I very like your this work! :)

[Dieting Hippo]

Got in a short little intro when starting a new match in Doom Hockey!

 

 

[A Handsome Fridge]

Alright, I did it. I made a playable partial preview of this project for anyone interested to check out (spoiler alert by the way, if you do)! Please note that this is about 1/3 of the intended end product, maybe even less. But it is fully polished, playable and populated and ready for playtesting. I'll be away for a few days so I thought it would be nice to leave a little teaser behind.

Let me know what you think of it so far and if you encounter anything weird that isn't supposed to be weird. Thank you very much in advance.

Port: GZdoom
Main WAD: Doom2.WAD
Additional texture packs: cc4tex
Crouching\Jumping: Disabled
Difficulty Settings: Not (yet) implemented

To be continued..

 

[edit: this preview is deprecated and therefore I removed the wad]

 

Edited November 19, 2021 by A Handsome Fridge

[MFG38]

My thing is progressing steadily. Here's a couple tweets with screenshots:

 

13 out of 21 maps are currently done, looking to make the rest by the 28th so I can do some playtesting runs, fix any bugs I come across and release the thing on the last weekend of the month.

[BetelgeuseSupergiant]

Some dynamic lights for good look

[Scorpius]

*sigh* I knew this would happen. Two weeks later and I've made zero progress. Still on 2 completed maps out of 11, it's gonna be a very short initial project :/

[Somniac]

 

Had an unexpected burst of clarity recently and totally redesigned an entire area (which I've been blankly staring at for weeks, not knowing where to go with it) to a level I'm a lot more satisfied with, incorporating my original idea for the end of the map. Got two larger bits to figure out plus the exit and a couple bits of interconnectivity, so it looks like this will be ready to go by the end of the month with any luck.

[Syn]

Should be done soon...haven't shown screenshots as I want it to be a surprise for my first real map.

[TheOrganGrinder]

On 10/21/2021 at 7:58 PM, Scorpius said:

*sigh* I knew this would happen. Two weeks later and I've made zero progress. Still on 2 completed maps out of 11, it's gonna be a very short initial project :/

Same boat here; October 1st I had the best of intentions, October 2nd marked the start of a week to ten days of just being slammed mentally and emotionally and my momentum just never got going, with a single map that I've been dropping five minutes into here, ten minutes there, but nothing really substantial.  Guess I'll see if I can finish that one map and use that as the basis for a project that develops at a steadier pace, but who even knows?

[Origamyde]

Hey there, fellow people who actually take time to check out everyone's contributions to NaNoWADMo 2021 !

 

I can't wait to release the Demo version of Black N' Blanco II to Doomworld. More action, more pixels, more memes and sick tunes. Stuff condensed in a neat single-map WAD, for the best gaming experience !

 

Some sneak peek images of the (hopefully) finished product :

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Edited October 28, 2021 by Origamyde

[Pechudin]

Yeah I won't be able to submit anything. Too much work, not enough free time. I did manage to finish 2 maps from before though.

[MFG38]

My NaNoWADMo speedmap megawad came out yesterday. Say hello to Charcoal!

 

 

[Dieting Hippo]

I did some playtesting of Doom Hockey today, and it's working pretty well! I was pretty scared that multiplayer scripting in GZDoom would break apart, but so far it's been pretty stable. Eventually I want to get some 4v4 matches going, but for now I consider this a resounding success! If anyone is interested, I have a playtesting Discord set up for some scheduled playtests before the end of the month is here: https://discord.gg/rQh92bFd

 

Here's uncut footage of a few matches, feel free to skip around and check out how it's working with a few weapons in use.

 

 

[SilentD00mer]

Well, I finished 2 out of 7 maps of One Way to Hell this month, I don't know if I still can add any map, but I want to make it a 32-level wad in the future.

Screenshots for Map 01:

 

Map 02:

 

[BetelgeuseSupergiant]

I finished work on map. Waiting the release date!

[BetelgeuseSupergiant]

Map is released :D

[Yumheart]

What did I get done during NaNoWadMo? 1½ maps. Impressive, ik, but there's only so much you can do when you're simultaniously being smothered with class tests, homework and presentations. But hey, here are some screenshots from the WIP-map, I might just get it done over the christmas holidays '. w.
 

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[Somniac]

I'm still not done :p but I've been making progress....slowly...

 

[A Handsome Fridge]

Well, I will not be able to post everything I wanted to share before the end of the deadline. But I *can* give you this preview version of the fully playable parts of what I've accomplished this month. I expect the middle part (which is something new and different from what I had orignally planned) to be done later this week, so a real update will be placed by then. But for now I present:

 

Down In It (2021 NaNoWADMo PREVIEW version)
 

In this wad:
- Transforming areas
- Homemade music (MP3 format, sorry for file size)
- A bunch of scripting
- Dynamic lights
- Easy difficulty (there's only one difficulty setting, first part is just not that hard.)
- Hard difficulty (sorry about the difficulty spike ;) )
 

Not in this WAD:
About 1/3 of the map?
A bunch of other rooms that I decided not to include in this map (for now)

Plenty of unrevealed stuff left for later, so to speak.

Technical information:

Name: HFR - Down In It - Preview.WAD
Map Format: UDMF.
Ports Tested: GZDoom g4.6.0. (OpenGL, lights, brightmaps and widescreen enabled)
IWAD: DOOM2
Resources used: CC4-tex.WAD (required!), a few custom textures.
Map: E1M1.
Music: Hard Assets (loop 1), Stumbler. Both by me, in .MP3 format
Gameplay: Single play.
Difficulty Settings: Only UV.
Multiplayer Placement: No.
Build Time: A few weeks, including the music
Requirements: Jumping and crouching are disabled, freelook is optional.

Screenshots: Well, I already put those earlier in this thread, I guess.
 

HFR - Down In It - Preview.rar

Edited November 1, 2021 by A Handsome Fridge

[Scorpius]

NOSTRADAMUS

 

One last map to end the adrenaline rush to meet the deadline! 3 maps are now compiled but 8 more still remain... Project thread and demo linked below, thank you all for this wonderful opportunity. Hope to see everyone next NaNoWADMo! ツ

 

 

[SilentD00mer]

Well, here is my first released wad. I tried to make some short introductory maps and learn about mapping in the process. I enjoyed to participate so much, thank you all for the opportunity! :)

 

One Way To Hell - Preview:

OneWayToHell_Preview.zip

[Dieting Hippo]

Almost forgot to post this, Doom Hockey is done and a thread is now up!

 

 

[E.M.]

Unfortunately, I was busy with IRL stuff this month, so I was unable to make a project for this event. However, I did make some maps for a separate project I started a month ago, so at least I got some stuff done.