The Age of Hell (megawad)

[Alfredo]

Prepare your CPUs and hold onto your framerates. These maps are THICC.

[Horus]

I’m just in awe of these screenshots and that you’ve managed to create something like this using Doom! Looking forward to the final product

[Bridgeburner56]

I finally made a moddb page for age of hell. Tell your mum.

 

https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-age-of-hell-total-conversion-for-doom-ii

[Bridgeburner56]

New monster 

 

[Firedust]

My mum's wondering if she can play this on her Huawei upon release.

[Bridgeburner56]

Started a new map today. Stuff happened

[Steve D]

Absolutely staggering works of Doom art. I might join Discord simply for the pleasure of playtesting this monster.

[boris]

This looks absolutely amazing.

[seed]

Funny, the cracks on the floor remind me of Combine Forcefields:

 

Spoiler

 

[Bridgeburner56]

8 hours ago, Steve D said:

Absolutely staggering works of Doom art. I might join Discord simply for the pleasure of playtesting this monster.

Do it ;p
Gonna need testers next year

[guitardz]

On 12/3/2019 at 1:21 PM, Bridgeburner56 said:

I finally made a moddb page for age of hell. Tell your mum.

 

https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-age-of-hell-total-conversion-for-doom-ii

Do you want "Does this run with Brutal Doom?"?

 

Because that's how you get "Does this run with Brutal Doom?"?

[RonLivingston]

On 9/29/2019 at 4:12 AM, Bridgeburner56 said:

Nice boss! Reminds me of that Giant Ice monster we fought in Armageddon Map06 "The weather these days"

[DoomDork]

Between this and Refracted Reality, 2020 looks to be an amazing year...not to mention Doom Eternal, of course.

[Bridgeburner56]

Welcome to Hell Tours. Please keep your arms and legs inside the bus at all times and remember, don't feed the natives.

 

Edited January 8 by Bridgeburner56

[Ribo Zurai]

That looks absolutely incredible.

[Bridgeburner56]

Hexstone Citadel is actually finished. Build time was a little bit under 3 weeks (although I have been on holiday). This was me attempting to make a small map in a short space of time and ... uh ... it is smaller than my usual stuff but yeah, she's still pretty thicc.

[Firedust]

Out of curiousity... if you're doing visuals/architecture first, then monster placement, wouldn't a lot of areas have to be reworked to accommodate different encounter setups? Surely, you are not just limiting combat to incidental fighting/enemies teleporting into areas?

[Bridgeburner56]

Even if I'm doing all layout first, then monsters I plan areas with combat mechanics in mind. This map has a fair amount of warp ins but there's areas that open up revealing enemies (there's one area with a couple hundred revs). Even with teleport in mechanics you can mix it up a lot. One arena has cacos look like they are flying in from above a window which is done with teleporters but it doesn't look like it. You can also have areas that appear empty from a distance but when you get into them and press a button use spawnspots to generate a battalion that reveals itself when walls lower/doors open.
One thing I haven't done in this map is use portals to create non euclidian geometry which allows for space for monsters to be created where none would be available in a less advanced port. That was a deliberate decision for this map but that will happen in other maps (I first started doing this in The Slaughter Spectrum. A good example is the last fight in Palace of the Black Singularity).