DRD_DEMO soon in /newstuff

[ellmo]

So be sure you'll play this two level demo (that's right - two level), when it's reviewed and out. Let's all hope it made safely to the /newstuff...

[Graf Zahl]

Speaking of DRD, are you planning to officially release the 4 old levels you discarded for this project? I think it would be a shame if those got lost...

[Cyb]

I thought /idgames didn't allow 'demo' releases any more

[Dron]

Cyb said:

I thought /idgames didn't allow 'demo' releases any more

Since when?

[Manc]

Dron said:

Since when?

Since a while. It's actually in the rules readme on the archives.

And what's DRD? This isn't RONE?

[Nmn]

Mancubus II said:

And what's DRD? This isn't RONE?

DRD is the project before RONE. It means Doom: Refresh Daemon. Visit website --> here.
It's the project we first tought about and worked as a team.. to this day :D, so we have our name DRD-Team. DRD was put on hold for a certain reason-ask ellmo if You're really curious. RONE has begun soon, however, because it's so ambitious we need to practice and improve our skills, by making Hellsing. This is a smaller project, nonetheless, still a quality one and RONE is put on a small hold.
Anyway, get DRD, it's really worth it.

[MikeyScoots]

Do you guys have to put everything on hold? Just find a couple of extra mappers to work on diffrent projects. Assign a few to drd, a few to rone, and a few to Hellsing and viola!

[ellmo]

Bloodskull said:

Do you guys have to put everything on hold? Just find a couple of extra mappers to work on diffrent projects. Assign a few to drd, a few to rone, and a few to Hellsing and viola!

Yeah, sure... it's that easy isn't it? Btw how's your Icons of sin project going? As far as I recall there were three people working at it, and you see? It didn't go anywhere.

Graf Zahl said:

Speaking of DRD, are you planning to officially release the 4 old levels you discarded for this project? I think it would be a shame if those got lost...

Frankly, those got lost already. I put them into /newstuff someday, but they were rejected (probably because of not-using-template TXT). Since then they aren't anywhere... Pity. Four oldschool maps lost.

Cyb said:

I thought /idgames didn't allow 'demo' releases any more

Oh shit. Dont' do this to me... I really need official reviews on those levels...

[Caco-Puff]

Just call it version 1 or a beta test.

[Epyo]

They're allowed as long as they aren't crap, according to Ty.

[Grazza]

If it's two complete maps, I imagine it will be accepted (assuming there's nothing else that would cause it to be rejected, of course).

Uploading it late on a Friday may mean there isn't time for a very considered review though (assuming it is moved to /newstuff in time to be reviewed at all this week).

Caco-Puff: calling it a "beta test" would probably get it rejected since that's exactly the type of unfinished project that the rules are designed to prevent (if I understand Ty's intentions correctly).

ellmo said:

they were rejected (probably because of not-using-template TXT)

You can always see why uploads were rejected by looking at the REJECTS file (as long as you don't leave it more than a month or so after you tried to upload).

[Graf Zahl]

ellmo said:

Frankly, those got lost already. I put them into /newstuff someday, but they were rejected (probably because of not-using-template TXT). Since then they aren't anywhere... Pity. Four oldschool maps lost.

I still have the old DRD 5-level-demo so they aren't lost. (I don't throw away good levels! ;) ) I could send them to you so you can upload them. I don't think the text file was a problem. It look pretty standard to me. What I can imagine is that you accidentally uploaded the RAR file. The archive only accepts ZIPs.

[ellmo]

Graf Zahl said:

I still have the old DRD 5-level-demo so they aren't lost. (I don't throw away good levels! ;)

Oh my! You're my savior! Send them along to me...

[Nmn]

ellmo said:

Oh my! You're my savior! Send them along to me...

There were 5 different DRD maps? Oh my.. Me wants.
EDIT:

Grazza said:

REJECTS

Oh no.. :(

ellmo said
Btw how's your Icons of sin project going?

owned

[ellmo]

Nmn said:

There were 5 different DRD maps? Oh my.. Me wants.

4 that were rejected from DRD, because of architecture and details, that were not as good as in Sewage System (e1m5 then...), so I tried to release them levels separately, and start DRD with completely ne quality...

[Nmn]

Could You send them to me? I want to see what is with them and would like to take a general look at them.

[Graf Zahl]

You shouldn't have called it Demo. Something less obvious like 'version 1' would have been better. Demo automatically implies incomplete maps which these aren't.

[ellmo]

Graf Zahl said:

You shouldn't have called it Demo. Something less obvious like 'version 1' would have been better. Demo automatically implies incomplete maps which these aren't.

O_o well I alway thought that demo is a completed part of an uncomplete set. Does RTC ring any bell? It was a fully completed and tested level.

[Nmn]

Besides, for example, Your Mercenaries Demo was accepted to newstuff, ellmo. Weird..

[ellmo]

Sat Jul 31 09:10:59 EDT 2004 Rejected: drd_demo.zip because No demos. Use http://www.wadsinprogress.info/ for work in progress.

Oh well, I gues you're just not going to play e1m2...