[IDGAMES!] Afternoon - a boom-compatible project

[Ludi]

 

    Afternoon is a boom-compatible speedmap project by myself and my friends, featuring a full-custom soundtrack by @Korp. The wad uses UMAPINFO and MAPINFO, so please use a port that supports those features. There are 15 maps in total, and one should expect a strong variety of gameplay styles and visuals going in. The difficulty generally scales from IWAD difficulty to Scythe 2, but great care has been given to pacing and making sure each map flows in a cohesive manner.

 

    Each map was made in 3 hours, with entirely vanilla textures. This wad was originally just supposed to be a week-long diversion for me and Korp, since I had never tried speedmapping and was in a creative rut. Needless to say, ambition got the best of me, and I invited some friends to join me on my adventure! 

 

Spoiler

MAP06: Fork in the Microwave - Ludi

 

 

MAP02: Homosexual Juice Facility - Korp

 

 

MAP13: Slime Girls - rd

 

 

MAP09: No More Boomer Men - Yumheart

 

 

    Project Lead:

        @Ludi

   

    Soundtrack:

        @Korp

        https://korpkat.bandcamp.com/album/afternoon-ost

    Mappers:

        @Christophine Place - MAP07

        @finnks13 - MAP10

        @HiRon - MAP08, MAP11

        @Korp - MAP02, MAP04, MAP12, MAP15

        @Ludi - MAP01, MAP03, MAP05, MAP06, MAP14

        @baja blast rd. - MAP13

        @Yumheart - MAP09

 

    Playtesters:

        @Alaux

        @Andromeda

        @Bobby "J

        @Biodegradable

        @LadyMistDragon

        @Luleta

        @Mr. Freeze

 

        

        

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Edited March 15 by Ludi

[Biodegradable]

A delightful afternoon of blood and bullets to be found in this WAD, I can assure you all. ;^)

[Christophine Place]

DBRAIN FOREVER

[angelomerz]

Playing through this right now. Really lovely wad with cool graphics, even tho i'm not really the biggest fan of the palette when you take damage, prefer the base one. Also I really really love the midis. I stopped playing through map03 just to listen to the soundtrack whole and map09's midi is just wonderful.

[Ludi]

Thank you! I'm honestly thinking about using the regular palette for rc2, but I could go either way.

[Maribo]

FYI for potential players, since it's not anywhere in the OP/txt: this WAD uses MAPINFO and UMAPINFO for all of its music and interpics, so play in a supporting port if you want the intended experience.

 

Great WAD, wonderful aesthetics on the whole (I recall shades of Plutonia, AV, Speed of Doom + Darkwave standalone maps, and Scythe) and paced quite well. Yumheart's map is mean (as per their usual), rd's map is an essential play for anyone who likes any of the big clusterfuck style Darkwave maps (and Korp killed it with the midi that this map uses), finnks' redux of Piss Valley is a great exercise in reusing a single space over and over in increasingly threatening ways, and I love any and all maps that are built out of making sector art. Everyone delivered very well in this WAD, and the Thanks For Playing map is super comfy. The COL1* sprite replacements are adorable.

 

FDAs for all maps, -dsdademo format, play back in v0.26.2 - afternoon_maribo.zip

[Ludi]

Thanks Maribo! I'll put the UMAPINFO and MAPINFO lumps in the OP.

[Ludi]

 

I realized I totally forgot the new colored menu text. Whoops!

 

It'll be present in RC2.

[Higo Doragon]

such a wonderful mapset, the maps are very fun and smooth to blast though. and the difficulty is a good challenge! i had alot of fun playing it.
the map names are on point too heh~ x3c

the music is great! i will definity get them to hear on my midi playlists. you all did a really good job!

[dashlet]

Lovely mapset. Had a blast playing through it on HMP. Haven't finish the wad yet (I left my playthrough at map06), but i wanted to comment on it because this its really fun stuff. A friendly reminder of how stock doom textures plus speedmapping can have huge potential for creative focus on small maps with fun themes. I'll like to also point out that @Korp did an excellent job for the ost. I can tell that this mapset wouldn't be the same without all these tracks. 

[SleepyVelvet]

Really solid speedmap set.  I gave it a romp on UV and actually beat a couple maps.   Good level names - I'm glad speedmapping is keeping up on this tradition.

 

FDAs: noisy_afternoon_rc1.zip

[Ludi]

I encouraged goofy map names, I think doing something weird is more fun than trying to force a pun. "MAP05: God Loves Fentanyl" is my favorite and I'll never top it.

[Yumheart]

nice to see this out! hope you guys enjoy map09's final fight :D

[Nefelibeta]

7 hours ago, Yumheart said:

nice to see this out! hope you guys enjoy map09's final fight :D

just get good vile rng 4Head

[SleepyVelvet]

Apparently there's a Map15 in this ( sector art <3 ).  Gave it a go, for what it's worth.  This might be fun to properly beat later.

noisy_afternoon_rc1_m15.zip

[Ludi]

2 hours ago, NoisyVelvet said:

Apparently there's a Map15 in this ( sector art <3 ).  Gave it a go, for what it's worth.  This might be fun to properly beat later.

noisy_afternoon_rc1_m15.zip

 

Looks like ya found the secret :D

[Ludi]

Afternoon is officially on /idgames!

 

Thanks to everyone who played and the crew for making this possible <3

 

[TheShep]

Boy howdy gun hafta play this one!

[Tiramisu]

I've gotta say, the difficulty curve on this wad is really something - MAP01 is pretty much your standard IWAD fare, while by MAP08 I felt like a mini-Decino playing a mini-Italo Doom XD

 

Anyway, the maps are great on their own (especially from MAP06 onwards - like I said don't be fooled by the easy start lol), but the real MVP here is the soundtrack - my compliments to the chef because there's really some absurd bangers in there. My favorites are Cavehouse, Shoot the Boykisser and Egypcia, also I'm a huge fan of how the menu music is synced with the moment the credits card shows up (honestly more wads should do something like that)!

Edited September 30, 2023 by sq. Tiramisu

[Ludi]

 

Made this music video for my favorite track in the wad. Shoutouts to those credited :)

 

Recorded on a real SC-55!

Edited December 26, 2023 by Ludi

[Ludi]

 

Another one <3

[DreadWanderer]

Hey folks, I'm currently going for a UV max playthrough of this wad. Great stuff, really enjoying the diversity and the soundtrack. Though you might want to know that in map 6, it's possible to enter the yellow door without having the yellow keycard. I assume this was a bug?

[Ludi]

10 hours ago, DreadWanderer said:

Hey folks, I'm currently going for a UV max playthrough of this wad. Great stuff, really enjoying the diversity and the soundtrack. Though you might want to know that in map 6, it's possible to enter the yellow door without having the yellow keycard. I assume this was a bug?

 

Yeah I realized that a couple days ago. I see no reason to change the map, though, I'll leave that as a secret for players who try those things :^)

[DreadWanderer]

1 hour ago, Ludi said:

 

Yeah I realized that a couple days ago. I see no reason to change the map, though, I'll leave that as a secret for players who try those things :^)

 

Fair enough, I didn't use this shortcut since I'm UV maxing anyway. Will post here when I complete my playthrough :)

[NecrumWarrior]

I'd better put this one on my to-be-played list so @Ludi doesn't send SpongeBob cups to my house. 

[LadyMistDragon]

Because we all know how bad those can be....shudder.

[coffeeinthemoon]

YES! I love these byte-sized maps one can blast through in a... afternoon! Great stuff here, map layouts and gameplay are very well designed, congrats!

[Fernito]

I played the first 5 levels the other day and had a blast with this :) And the music really rocks, amazing work @Korp! :D

 

I have a FDA of the first 5 maps (I died at the beginning of the 6th) in case anyone is interested xD 

[Ludi]

I'm really happy that this project is getting a new lease on life, thank you all for the kind words!

 

 

[Hebonky]

I think you know my opinions on map 31...