Jayextee Posted June 20, 2017 (edited) Eye up the screenshots here, and download at the bottom of this post. This is a curio alright, and I can't find it on /idgames which is a crying shame. The circumstances surrounding its existence were and are unique, and I think it should be preserved. Pre-amble DoomCenter used to be a thing. This is before Doom 3 was even announced or even known about, not even the first tech demos. Back in 2001 there were two main DOOM sites, this basrad here (DoomWorld) and NewDoom (an ugly brown thing that honestly I don't know what happened to). ZDoom forums? Nah. Some guy called Ben 'BigDog' Swarts started a new and auspicious site called DoomCenter that offered features (in the 'magazine' sense of the word) DoomWorld didn't, such as 'WADster of the Week' (of which I was one, for some dumb reason since I didn't really do anything of note at that point). One of these things was the 'E1 week', where episode 1; Thy Glorious Shareware Episode (note: not actual title) was celebrated, culminating with a contest judged by John Fucking Romero himself. E1 Contest So Romero was a bit of a joke at this point (note to John: if you read this, I love you man, but after failing to make bitches of all of us, it's true -- and you have since been totally redeemed, so that's a thing) but nonetheless he was somehow here and back on the scene: we knew he loved Doom Legacy and recorded some demos of him playing E1 and he was here to both judge a contest to create episode 1-styled maps, and offer the first place (and only) prize -- a boxed copy of Doom II he'd autographed! I wanted that, so of course I entered. The .WAD itself It's a mixed bag of good, bad and ugly if I'm honest - a real product of its time where map editors weren't amazing but enthusiasm was. Standout map is E1M4 for me, which is the work of @Fredrik (from whose site I managed to get the .WAD a while back) -- but point here is, I think this .WAD should be uploaded properly to /idgames with a textfile attributing the authors. There's been a thread searching for authors before to no avail, but I've seen a fair few old hands returning since then and wondered if anybody knows anything. If so, SPEAK UP! [edit] ALOHA!What I/we know - who did what (will edit this accordingly if we manage to source people) E1M1 - @Rellik / Jim McDougald E1M2 - Robert Lasmanowicz E1M3 - Doug Merrill E1M4 - @Fredrik / Fredrik Johansson [THIRD PLACE] E1M5 - Harvey Riddle E1M6 - Rex Claussen E1M7 - Simon Broadhead E1M8 - earlier version of Laitos by Espi / Esa Repo E1M9 - Oxygen by Jordan Buck E2M1 - Simon Judd E2M2 - Tobias Muench [FOURTH PLACE] E2M3 - Bob Larkin E2M4 - Traffic Control by Deathbringer / Michael Martin E2M5 - Jeffrey Crenshaw [FIRST PLACE CONTEST WINNER] E2M6 - Jay X Townsend (myself, @Jayextee) [SECOND PLACE] Tagging @Captain Skippy, just in case. He made a map (according to a comment on DW's announcement of the contest results) but I'm unsure which. DOWNLOAD LINK: e1contest.zip EDIT Mystery solved, rather quickly! In which case, I'd love to hear commentary from anyone else who participated. In the meantime, I'll think about said release in the meantime. Edited June 20, 2017 by Jayextee 3 Share this post Link to post
Jayextee Posted June 20, 2017 (edited) About my map, E2M6 This is pretty much a medley of what I considered to be E1-esque at the time. I'd started a map of this theme actually before the E1 contest was announced (like, a couple of days) and didn't think anything of changing tack to make the map instead my contest entry (I'd pretty much only made the corridors around the red key bridge by then). It's not amazing, has too much symmetry, is predictable, etc. I was aware of some other more superficial issues at the time. Much of it was copy-pasted using WadAuthor (my main editor back then was the terrible WadEd, which I loved regardless for its drawing method -- actually a precursor to Doom Builder's method IMO) and it was tested (bizarrely) with Doom95, in which it works perfectly BUT might actually VPO/HOM in vanilla/chocolate. I also slightly edited and re-used it as MAP03 of Sinister Intention. 0 Share this post Link to post
EffinghamHuffnagel Posted June 20, 2017 Mad Butcher's post on page 3 of the Official "Trying to find a specific wad thread" has the names you're looking for. 1 Share this post Link to post
Jayextee Posted June 20, 2017 Heyyyy, thanks for that. I swear I'd looked in that thread (apparently I was wrong) but I appear to be not so good at searching these forums. OP updated. 0 Share this post Link to post
Diabolución Posted December 17, 2020 I had not realised this topic was a thing before. Well, why were you credited as Justin Townsend instead of Jay Townsend, if I may ask? To document it, basically. https://web.archive.org/web/20020618155318/http://www.doomcenter.com/features/features.phtml?id=97526 0 Share this post Link to post
Jayextee Posted December 18, 2020 On 12/17/2020 at 3:06 PM, Diabolución said: Well, why were you credited as Justin Townsend instead of Jay Townsend, if I may ask? Ah, yeah. I've pretty much always gone by 'Jay' online but since the DoomCenter contest had a prize I used my birthname in-case doing otherwise provided difficulties in delivering said prize should I have won. I didn't. If you're documenting anything though, I'd prefer my current name 'Jay Trent' be used. Long story short for all the changes; family disownment. I want very little to do with my abusive parents. 0 Share this post Link to post
Diabolución Posted December 19, 2020 Thanks for the answer. Pinging @Xymph... 0 Share this post Link to post