GooberMan

me living in QLD at a place called Nambour (bout an hour out of brisbane). been thinkin of goin down to melbourne to visit some friends tho, will be going back to sydney some time in january to finalise gettin the rest of my stuff up here (my computer with all my doom stuff is already up here). gotta find me a nice job, then enrol in the tafe course I wanna do.

Just after you finish complaining about homework, you snap out of it and realise Kia had taken the gun off you and used her cybernetic arms to hold and contain the vulcan cannon centered on one spot on the monster. The monster seemed to explode and let out a couple of more skulls, which were quickly cleaned up by a few bursts of the vulcan cannon. "Hmmm, I gotta get me some of those," you think to yourself in regards to the cybernetic arms...

Cake are kinda kewl (first listened to em 5 years ago). My fave band of the moment though is Queens Of The Stone Age, in my opinion the best rock band to emerge in the past 2-3 years.

Due to some legal concern or other, the Strife source code is unable to be released, and as a result any support for the game is being worked backwards from the final product to new source code step by step.

There have been mixed reactions for the title. Some people like it, other people think it's lame. Either way, credit DiSTuRBeD for the current title. I personally think it's a good title, but don't hesitate to suggest new title names.

Some may argue that this should be included in the Episode 5 thread just down there, but there's not much chance of many people looking at that thread nowadays because it's been going on for a while, it's rather big, and there are other ep5 threads out there too... anyways, the site has been completed, and at the moment can be found at http://www.geocities.com/gooberman_and_friends/episode5/. Now that it's done, it's time to bug ling for some hosting...

Small update of the news page. Link as above.

See it now?

Deinately freaky to watch it all happen live on TV

..."and just outside that door is your worst nightmare." CLANG! She nearly knocks you over again as she jumps away from the door. Pulling out your shotgun, you stand in front of her and open the door, ready to blow the fuck out of whatever is out there...

I have a better idea for the map voting system. Since this will be another community project, the best way to pick the best maps is to have a community voting system. Once all the maps are completed, put them available for download on the condition that everyone rates their first, second, and third favourite maps from the lot. With this system, we could also get the old id crew to vote on the maps and let them have a say in what the fifth episode is like.

Well the hellish base can fit in to the Doom Guy's nightmares theme. To give authors total creative freedom, the idea should be the nightmare idea, which means they can do hellified bases or other things (example: the skin map submerge is working on). The only limits you have with this theme are your imagination and the Doom engine itself. I'll be aiming to have the page finished within 12 hours from now. From there, everything should seem alot clearer (I hope)

BTW, the site design has been updated a bit. The menu is now pretty much complete (although rather primitive compared to the menus I normally do) but only two of the links work at the moment. I will be working on the design of the rest of the site now and filling it with information and stuff. It's pretty safe to say myself and NiGHTMARE are members of the project, and it was Jayextee's idea in the first place so he logically should be the head of the project (confirmation please?) DiSTuRBeD, will you be making some maps for this project? I am just checking all this so I can fix up the official members section on the web page. Also, will we be using the competition idea for the maps or will we be assigning maps to various authors?

The eye switches are a good idea, especially the shooting them bit. Put in as many new textures that will fit the theme of the level as you need, and check out NiGHTMARE's WAD up there for a few more textures.

I've also got an idea for a map I'll be working on... will merge childhood memories with the invasion from hell...

Works fine on my 1152x864 resolution on my 21" monitor... the link colours could use a changing from default though

I've also been playing around with the source code of various ports. It's gonna be hella easy to implement episode 5 support in them.

Geocities was just temporary until I got the site completed. I was gonna approach the usuals around this community for hosting once it was done. Heavilly modified textures are good. Especially if someone makes a STARHELL replacement for the STARTAN textures :)

Current: Celeron 500MHz 64mb RAM 32mb S3 Savage 4 6 gig fujitsu UDMA66 By the end of this week, will have the following upgrades: AMD Athlon 1ghz 192mb RAM 20gig Seagate

Anything's cheaper than buying a pre-made computer from Dell. And as for building your computer, unless you're absolutely hopeless it shouldn't take more than an hour.

basic shell of the page is up. Still needs some work done on it, but before I go any further I want to know what people think of the colours/basic design. http://www.geocities.com/gooberman_and_friends/episode5/index.html will get you to it.

Not wanting to loose your head, you cautiously look for a light switch. After a few seconds, you see one near the door. Quickly looking around, you make a dash for it. You get there unscathed, and flick the light on... ...only to crack up laughing when you realise you've landed in the veterinary clinic. The growl sounded again, and looking for the source, you see it is your dog Rover (Note: Hey, you think of a better name on short notice :P). He was slated for some surgery tomorrow, and you put him in earlier on in the day to get him used to the clinic. "Hey, Rover!" you say as you walk towards him. His growling became louder. "Hey, it's just me! It's alright, boy!" Only when a shadow started creeping over your own shadow did you realise it wasn't you he was growling at...

The idea for a fifth episode was inspired by the idea of Freedoom - the community coming together to make something that will benefit the community. Check out the first post in this thread to see. From the response to this thread, IMHO I reckon there's enough support out in the community for both projects. I seriously doubt people will abandon Freedoom because there's a second community project aswell.

kewlness - first game material done for e5 :) I'll compile together a small resource wad which includes anything else that may be done by the time the web page is put up, and map authors can download that for use with their E5 maps, as well as any other textures they feel are appropriate.

The page shouldn't take more than a couple of days to get ready. By that time, we should have some concrete idea of what's going on. Until then, I'll design the page with what information is in this thread. We also need to get some sort of organisational heirarchy going. By the way. skills I can offer are map making, web page maintainer (obviously), I could also play around with the Boom source code (if we choose to use Boom) to include the fifth episode option. I also have very basic graphics skills - my graphics would provide a good template for any decent texture artist.