yakfak

wonder who came up with "star trek but none of the characters are likeable"

doom neural upscale 1.00000002x

also please listen to this
 

I like the call for teamwork among postmen, but I didn't like that hope for a greater wek was hinted at, but never reached. I assume the cats worked with the giraffe to hold the wek back from delivering only the half of his mail that he deemed to have a purpose. All that red tape, postwek can't even do his job how he interprets it.

giggling a lot right now

i was rambling on teh topic of "trauma via twitter" but i like how you better involved the npcs than i did

I feel for you yakfak. It's your choice. I personally like these levels in their current super artsy direction, though their complicated "combat puzzles" are understandably a bit hard to digest for people who are acquainted to the faster and simpler run n gun style. Also too much awesomeness to soak in! Though a "Yakfak the way someone else did it" does sound pretty cool.

P.S Spidersilk was the most spidery map to ever spider. Luved it. 

catpho :3 you support my stuff a lot, thank you

maybe I should just keep making new stuff instead of moping!

Haha this is a cool and novel idea.

I guess a third approach would be to find a YouTube upload or some other video format that you can actually create a unique soundtrack for, like scoring a movie soundtrack? Though that would definitely be a big undertaking if the speedrun is of a whole megawad and like 45 minutes long.

If you do end up doing the latter for the j4rio Tyson speedrun, I hope you use the MIDI punch sound liberally.

hee I'd be wary of trying to actually score an action sequence that was 34 minutes long
my goals are slightly more humble - just make music that is less grating and repetitious to suit longform speedruns. thinkin non-abrasive guitar solos, ambienty techno or jungle, dark funk and that sort of thing :3

midi punch is of course a must giggle

Back in the Plutonia MIDI Pack days, I think Bucket mentioned he wrote Plunge Saw while watching UV max runs (presumably of Go 2 It). I can totally hear Tyson as some funk piece that has the punch on each beat and it's sync'd with the actual punching.

Honk! Sounds good :D

Sounds about right that actions are more important than the death of someone...

I thought that smiling mushroom was a cow face at first, 10/10

Also I think my subliminal mental conditioning is finally complete and I'm ready to go out and make the world wacky.

A literal mushroom trip

guess i'm gonna revamp that thread with some soundcloud links people could click to listen instead of just despairing

Well,to be fair,most people here are modders and gamers .Still,your music is pretty cool!

It's not really a matter of whether people care or not. I know people do. People talk about how important music is in Doom all the time. If most people here are anything like me, they don't really know how to comment on music very well. I either like it or I don't and I don't really know how to continue a conversation about it from there. Even when I find music I don't like, it's not impossible for me to think of a map where it could be used very effectively in. People are definitely listening to what you make, and they're probably coming up with all sorts map ideas that they likely wouldn't have thought of without it. People tend to respond mostly to the stuff they find controversial anyway (if my threads are any indication) so I wouldn't measure the community's apathy towards your work based on how much direct feedback you get for it.

Gl, I'm a hyped for this.

http://aanaaanaaanaaana.net/drop/05 - earthbye.it

seven more to go

im confident that this is one of the coolest things i've ever made

wow kinda like floating in space, very atmospheric, really love the flute pitch bends

hmm hey you're right

instead of clicking the link try copying the link's text into the url bar!

Amazing tune, sorta haunting mysterious yet cheerful in a strange way. Love it

thanks for listening as always :))

i had a dim idea about a story-based doom thing and the crux would be doomguy and a demoness having a shotgun wedding and this tune resulted :P~

I saw Doom clicker and pictured a cacodemon version of Cookie Clicker.

Someone make it happen, pls.

Caco Clicker

Welllllll...

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/g-i/idledoom

I usually refuse to use the BFG in Doom FFA for similar reasons. I know I can definitely get more frags with it and so can anyone else, but rushing to get it whenever possible is the most overdone tactic I can imagine. So I'm more interested in trying other play styles, even if they lead to lower scores for me. I learned to think of it as a cool game changing self-imposed limitation and yep, I do take some pride in following it.

But in FFA this works because it's not a win-or-lose mode, at least in my eyes. Maybe I have a low chance of winning, but I can try to aim for top 3, or ignore the frag count completely and instead go for the highest kill\death ratio or something. In 1-on-1 duels I would be more frustrated about the whole situation for sure.

If all a map requires is BFG rushing you probably need to play new maps.

QBasic was state of the art at the time and has a beautiful debugger for more complex programs, but it cannot generate .exe files (at least the version I had couldn't, your mileage may vary). QuickBasic is a bit older, but it can.

If you want to go all-out, the Basic PDS (Professional Development System) 7.1 is the last version, but I have no idea what extras it offers.

This site seems to have some good tutorials: http://www.qbasic.net/

oh, thanks! hey i forgot to reply to this

QBasic must have been what I was thinking of - the tutorials are great!

the PDS folder is full of helpfiles I can't actually open & am unable to locate qh.exe to use em

There is a qh.exe file in the binb folder, heh.

If that doesn't work, your best bet would be to find a copy of MS-Dos and use the HELP.EXE from there. Alternatively, install Windows 98 on a virtual machine, it surely comes with that executable somewhere. Pretty sure these files are the old DOS help file format, considering the age and environment of QBasic, so modern Windows tools wouldn't be able to open them.

As the project lead of a fear-based megawad, the best advice I can give that if you're aiming for a phobia, remember that phobias aren't themes necessarily. For instance in my fear of blood map in Panophobia, I try to use blood whenever a fight breaks out or when something "bad" is going to happen to the player, rather than just immersing the level in blood or making it a pain sector. Generally fears are something you want the player to feel trepidation towards, so its best to think both about visuals & gameplay when you set out to do this. The easiest fears to render are probably those that play to Doom's strength, like fear of darkness or fear of hell, as any stage that's transformative usually is enough to "wow" the player.

Delusions is probably a more fun thing to capture... a lot of fun can be had with WR silent teleport lines.

That is actually some damn good insight.

yeah I don't wanna do hellish stuff at all, wanna concentrate on my own personal phobias and obsessions and little madnesses... fear of cars, fear of leaving a trail of dirt and mold, fear of being mind-read or psychiatrically obvious, fear of not leaving behind anything defining. not thinking horror movie themes... the hole im stuck down is wanting to be subtle yet wanting to communicate something despite that

ps dobu your recent mapping work has been ace

albertoni i'll check out your stuff