No Cthulhu sprites. Why?

[bartwart]

The only reason I can think of is many people have tried in the past but the present owners of the HP Lovecraft copyrights squashed it.

Any other theories?

[Ichor]

Maybe no one bothered to release any until now?

[Russell_P]

The great old ones stole them and turned them into slippers

[Ghostpilot]

There is a Cthulhu wad out there somewhere.
I have played it.

I'll dive into my wad-collection and see if I can get you a name or two.

[SyntherAugustus]

A Cthulhu Half-Life mod was released recently. It's not that good, though.

[Ghostpilot]

Hah! *makes the victory dance*
I found it! I knew I had played something like that before.

Get it from here:
Cthulu.zip

ATTENTION: I did not make this wad.
The site that it originally came frome doesn't seem to have it anymore, so I put it up on my file-page.

The readme file gives me permission to distribute this wad in whatever way I want if I keep the zipfile intact with both the wad and the textfile.


I will only have this wad on my file page for a short period of time.
I am not allowd to store as much as I like on the university server.
So be quick to download it.

[bartwart]

Awesome! I'll have to play it when I get home.

[Piezo]

what does Cthulhu stand for?

[EarthQuake]

I played that wad.

I wish I hadn't.

[bartwart]

The sprite substitutions in the deh script was all messed up. I couldn't read what those notes said either.

It still needs work, but not a bad idea.

[Ultraviolet]

Piezo said:

what does Cthulhu stand for?

Cthulu is this squid-like supposed elder-god. Read a bunch of pagan mythology and more modern H.P. Lovecraft and Alister Crowley type stuff and you'll catch right up. Possibly even the "Necronomicon."

[Ghostpilot]

bartwart said:

The sprite substitutions in the deh script was all messed up. I couldn't read what those notes said either.

It still needs work, but not a bad idea.

Maybe it's for an earlier version of ZDooM or DooM Legacy or something.

[Ghostpilot]

I know I have played it without deh-errors before.
It's not THAT entertaining, but the level was somewhat well designed.

[bartwart]

Ghostpilot said:

Maybe it's for an earlier version of ZDooM or DooM Legacy or something.

Well I am using the latest zdoom....

[David_Ferstat]

bartwart said:

The only reason I can think of is many people have tried in the past but the present owners of the HP Lovecraft copyrights squashed it.

Any other theories?

Same reason there've been very few attempts to film Lovecraft's stories.

How do you accurately picture something that the narrator describes as "undescribably hideous"? :)