Cheshire Sphinx

Youtube recommended IllegallySighted's video to me today at random which lead me down this rabbit hole. I'm- for now- fortunate enough not to benefit much from this project, but I am also very awed to see it and have learned about it. Great job, I can't wait to check this out in more detail after I get done with my RAMP map. You've done so much, I hope I can contribute in some way in the future.

I would like to try my hand at this, I've wanted to make a (complete) single player/Co-Op map for years.

This is the first project I've played in half a decade, I think. I'm so glad I did, it totally threw me back to something from the late 90's called 'Phobos: Relive the Nightmare'. Really hit the Ultimate Doom vibe, with style and grace. Thanks so much for sharing this project, I realize it took a lot of time but the love and care shows.

Hey there! I just played the map pack and I had a lot of fun with it, thank you for posting this and for the work of everyone involved. Some really creative, some really beautiful, and really unorthodox takes on the concept. :) I did find one bug in one of the maps, pictured below. I'm not sure what happened there, but I thought I'd mention it. Again thank you all for your hard work!

Almost finished. . . Almost. Map is for the Verse Hopper project:

So, I made a thing. . . I've been incredibly sick the last few days, but I've always wanted to try and make one of those little scenes I see people make for portfolios and stuff. I hacked together some textures, played around with lightining. .. Total time was something like 5 hours >_> Still, first shot at it. Pretty pleased. I'll probably revisit the brutalist style for a future map, and I like the pallete I wound up working with- they work well together! You can click on the image and get a much bigger one.

/Awesome/ Subbed to the email list. Can't wait! I'd buy a copy of the album but I'm waiting for Smashwords to send my royalties for the month. I will be right on that!

If I can help, let me know! Glad I could make you smile as much as you did me!

You had me at Cyberpunk. But looking at the site, I'm super enthralled now- very BBS/early 90's internet vibe going on. Do you happen to know if it will have linux binaries? (fingers crossed!) Also, "The Rest of Your Life" I can't be the only one who hears floppy drive seek noises in that track, surely. . . :) Thank you for posting this stuff, I'm definitely going to keep an eye out!

That is really slick. I don't really have anything to say, but good job!

Holy. Crap. It’s been a long time since “Phobos: Nightmare Reborn” when that blend of original E1 style, challenge and quasi-plausibility of a realistic (enough) place just comes together to form a sweet and potent experience. With a sane level of detail and attention to the maps’ layouts to fit their theme and purpose, you did a fantastic job stringing me on try and piece together some of the little stories and explore these places that really felt like they belonged not only in their own place but as part of a larger cohesive base. I go in for hard sci-fi and that claustrophobic tension you gave to the entire map set really fed that part of me that longs for prowling derelict ships and moon bases with a slug thrower. >_> Because I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s with those kind of silly fantasies. :) You say this took you a year, and it really shows; the detail and care you put into crafting the environments and encounters just oozes passion and thoughtfulness with awesome ups and downs in tension and combat edging on the hard side. I played on UV, had a few deaths but nothing that felt unfair or something I didn’t kind of get myself into. A particularly memorable one was going into one of the interconnected paths in M2 I think and the hall lead into another where a shotgunner was behind the door that the branching tunnel lead into and a bunch of zombies in front- I focused on the zombies and got blasted in the back and totally could’ve forseen it had I been paying attention to where I was. I’m one of those weirdos that wishes DooM had an involved story with its own lore and something to sink my teeth into more than ‘blast demons, hit button’ and while I’ll probably never get that I can still find parts of it in map sets like this. The atmosphere, the logical layout and theming that says ‘this is a place that could exist and did have functions’ is there in just about every map. Add to this the general feeling of tension and second-by-second decision making you have to process in some of these places and it’s just just magnificent. Part of me hopes you’ll do an E2 and E3 set, I’d love to play a DooM campaign through your eyes. (Creepy, I know.) The only bug (I’m not sure if it was since I only had it happen the once) I came across was the BFG 9k testing chamber after I went through trying to find all the switches to get to it, the ‘vent’ texture bit that hides the switch that opens it didn’t open. I’ll have another go at it later, I may have done something wrong. So, thanks for sharing this. I had a ton of fun playing through it and thoroughly enjoyed the. . . .four hours I spent with it. This just scratched all the right itches. :) Oh, and that ending. >_> <_< So very fitting.

Tangentially related to https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/100733-post-your-mapping-tips/ I was curious how people developed their mapping 'voice'. I'm trying to figure out how I want my maps to come across in general and I know a lot of it is practice, but I figured I'd see if anyone had any wisdom to impart. By 'voice' I mean things like architecture, colors, enemy placement and things like that. The most obvious (if often lambasted) style I can think of would be Terry. You /know/ a Terry style map by looking/hearing about it. What makes a (your user name here) style map, though and how did that come about?

This stuff brings me back, man... Never did get into the music scene, but I used to enjoy these kinds of tracks. I see you have a patreon, but any chance you'd upload your creations to youtube? Twitch doesn't seem to have the older stuff. Thanks for sharing!

FDA included. Neat little map, I liked the tiny cyberdemons. Don't really have much to say, honestly. Thanks for posting it! malltfda.lmp.zip