DoomWiki Month in Review (Issue #44)

[Xymph]

November was not a very busy month (at least for new articles) at the one true wiki, but not particularly quiet either. Good progress was made by Quasar on covering Doom Eternal events; Gregor completed a comprehensive walkthrough of Jumpwad and the secrets in Overboard, and also, together with Sena, covered a lot of ground on KDiKDiZD (although map pages will be postponed until it gets a stable official release); Dynamo finished his series of Strife screenshots; Gauss completed the second half of Double Impact's walkthroughs and continued right into BTSX E1; and Getsu Fune/NMM of course provided more secrets, reaching 10K edits in the process (congrats).

 

<takes a deep breath> Want more? I completed the main phase of the Thing data tables project based on tools compiled against the INFO.c tables of the Doom, Heretic, Hexen, and Strife engines. So now all monsters, weapons, and items have technical information tables documenting their looks, stats, and behavior. Quite of number of articles for the latter games received this data for the first time. They range from simple to very complex, and from basic to very elaborate. A brief afterburner for Doom 64 is still in progress.

 

And finally, here is the list of new articles:

 

Core Content

 

CHEX.EXE
COMPLVL
GB eye Doom classic logo mug

 

Doom Eternal

 

The Arch Files
Assault on Armaros Station
Critical Role Doom Eternal One-Shot
Flannel Cannon
Gift Wrap and Tear
Halloween 2020
Peachy Keen
Slime Time Mini-Event
Thanksgibbing
There Can Be Oni One
Viva Las Vegas

 

Ports

 

EDGE-Classic
LsdlDoom-PS2

 

Mods & Tools

 

DCCW
DoomRL Arsenal
Knee-Deep in Knee-Deep in ZDoom
The Long Trek Back Home
Oops! All Greyboxes!
Overboard
Plutonia Revisited Community Project 2
Union Aerospace Corporation (WAD)

 

People

 

Matthew Krehbiel (Ghastly)
Joe Wilcox (Sillysoft)
Wydoomer

 

Index of previous issues

 

[Dynamo]

Lots of low key but essential work done this month! After all, polishing up existing articles is every bit as important as adding new information.

[RonnieJamesDiner]

12 hours ago, Xymph said:

<takes a deep breath> Want more? I completed the main phase of the Thing data tables project based on tools compiled against the INFO.c tables of the Doom, Heretic, Hexen, and Strife engines. So now all monsters, weapons, and items have technical information tables documenting their looks, stats, and behavior. Quite of number of articles for the latter games received this data for the first time. They range from simple to very complex, and from basic to very elaborate. A brief afterburner for Doom 64 is still in progress.

 

Woah, this is really, really cool! I always found myself bouncing between the zdoom wiki (sifting through pages) or having to just crack WhackEd open and clumsily root through it to find a lot of this info. Maybe there were better/faster alternatives, but, these new data tables seem to have everything. That's brilliant, and such a huge help and time saver! Thank you!!