The wow.wad guy has a website.

[engineer]

http://www.paulthrussell.ca/samples.html

Haha, holy shit. I wonder if he knows about the playable/less goofy remake of it from a couple of years or so ago

[TomoAlien]

engineer said:

I wonder if he knows about the playable/less goofy remake of it from a couple of years or so ago

Probably yes.

[pcorf]

Its no doubt one of the most recognizable and infamous wads in the history of Doom. I'm not surprised that he was 10 years old when he made it. Paul you've earn't yourself a place in the history of WAD making.

[esselfortium]

Haha, awesome find. Good to see he has a sense of humor about it, too.

[hardcore_gamer]

esselfortium said:

Haha, awesome find. Good to see he has a sense of humor about it, too.

They guy was ten years old. Wow.wad might be one of the worst WADS ever but at least it was created by a ten year old and not some grown up adult who creates junk and uploads it to the idgames just for the sake of it.

[Chrispaks]

AWARDS Louise McKinney Scholarship (2008)
Top ~2% of Academic Standing in CST Program

Calvin Clark Memorial Award (2008)
Academic Standing in CST Program

Rutherford Scholarship (2007)
Average of 80%+ in 5 Subjects (Grade 10-12)

So this guy is clearly smart if thats not fake.
Or its not the real author.

[esselfortium]

Chrispaks said:

So this guy is clearly smart if thats not fake.
Or its not the real author.

I'm not sure why someone would want to take credit for this on a website about their accomplishments.

Also, it's probably about on par with the quality of my mapping when I was 10 years old, so I don't find it hard to believe that the creator of it could go on to live a healthy normal life. :P

[printz]

hardcore_gamer said:

Wow.wad might be one of the worst WADS ever but at least it was created by a ten year old

If I had a Doom editor while ten, I would have tried much harder than now to do something interesting and unique!

[Vermil]

Indeed, an "illuso pit" is a very unique way of describing a hom.

[esselfortium]

printz said:

If I had a Doom editor while ten, I would have tried much harder than now to do something interesting and unique!

It'd be pretty interesting and unique if you stopped posting...

[40oz]

I'm assuming Ling wrote that description of wow.wad expecting the original author to never return to the doom community. Reading from the perspective of Paul, pretending I made wow.wad when I was ten, I'd probably be kinda pissed.

[GreyGhost]

Nice find - evidence of life after Doom.

Vermil said:

Indeed, an "illuso pit" is a very unique way of describing a hom.

It's also a creative way of saying "I don't know how to fix this so I'm making it a feature".

[IRod54]

It is pretty funny if you stop to think about it. But yeah, a typical 10-year old wad nonetheless.

[caco_killer]

GreyGhost said:

Nice find - evidence of life after Doom.
It's also a creative way of saying "I don't know how to fix this so I'm making it a feature".

Isn't there a saying like that? "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

[40oz]

yeah for a lot of things, like invisible stairs and deep water.