SuperArjunaButt

@JPL does a weekly stream called WAD Wednesday where he plays random files from the idgames archive. The two-year anniversary of the stream happened recently and we decided to do a community map jam to celebrate. The maps are as follows: "The Promised Land" by thomasmolby Having been lost at sea, in a rowboat for weeks, you make it to a small island. Crying tears of joy you thank Poseidon for his mercy, perhaps now...food? company?!. But then imps start throwing fireballs down the cliffs and there's like tech stuff and it's a whole thing. "Library" by TinKelp It's a library! "Simpler Times" by @Trotim All evils end up in hell, forced to relive twisted echoes of their defeat for eternity. Gravelly air of another hastily constructed, prejudicial prison burns your throat. Make history repeat itself. "MEREDITH" by @quasiotter (O: "Man On The Silver Mountain" by Arjuna "SuperArjunaButt" Gonzales A snow level with a recreation of Castle Sooneck in Niederheimbach, Germany. According to an old family tradition, my ancestors built this castle some time in the 9th-11th centuries. It was destroyed in 1271, rebuilt, destroyed again in 1689, and rebuilt again in the 1830s by unrelated Prussian aristocrats, and oh no its been taken over by Nazis and Doom monsters! ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?! \m/ >.< \m/ DOWNLOAD FROM /IDGAMES HERE Name: WADWED2.PK3 Map Format: UDMF Ports Tested: GZDoom 4.1.3, but it should run on most recent versions of GZDoom. Several effects in these maps depend on the hardware renderer. IWAD: DOOM2.WAD Map(s): 5 maps with custom map names. From first to last: TPL, LIBRARY, STIMES, MEREDITH, MOTSM Music: "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck, MIDI from http://gmmtx.tripod.com/takefive.mid "Man on the Silver Mountain" by Rainbow, MIDI from freemidi.org Gameplay: Single player only Difficulty Settings: No Multiplayer Placement: No Build Time: 7 weeks-ish Textures: See the txt file for the full credits Requirements: We tested with freelook. Jumping is not required, and crouching will come in handy in the last map. Screenshots:

Very glad I did this, thank you organizers and everybody I chatted with in the Discord. It's a hugely valuable exercise to step out of the one location I've been adding custom textures to for the past few weekends and make something entirely new from scratch, and on top of that try to stick to an established style rather than do my own thing.

Map 1 of The Rending of Syataqwa is probably my best as far as conventional Doom gameplay goes. On the other hand, while the monster encounters were meh in my map for the WAD Wendnesday 1 Year Anniversary Mapset, it's the most detailed map I've made to date, and unlike Map 1 of Syataqwa it wasn't the first time I built a lot of fancy geometry and incorporated a lot of custom textures.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!! *pounds Download button* Saw this on Twitter and I am so jealous I didn't have this idea and make it myself. Thank you for releasing a texture pack! I might use this for a techbase type map I'm planning, and you will certainly get credit.

Yaaas, thank you!

This map is awesome. I'm making a portal-heavy mapset myself, and WADs like this always push me to make my thing just that much more different.

I'd like to nominate Mr. Friendly too Full disclosure: I did provide a little feedback on earlier builds of the mod

It's just one map for now. MAP02 (which takes place in Dunwich btw) is about halfway there.

Lol, I liked the minor edit you did there :) Is this going on /idgames?

Title: I literally stepped in poo during this map session Replaces E1M3 UDMF map made in GZDoom 3.3 Build time: 3 hours* + 21 minutes to fix the worst geometry and texturing fails New music: MIDI of What Is Love from Anton Baranov's music pack on /idgames Other files required: TXBIG.WAD *3 hours is a guesstimate, 'cause the session got disrupted by the aforementioned poo steppage. I assume we're not being very strict about this? blerp.zip

Oh it's a great album. I just thought it was hilarious that someone ran it through a MIDI converter, and it's wild how you can almost make out Mangum's vocals in it.

IIIIIILOOOOOOOVEYOOOOUUUUUJESUUUUUUUSCHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST.WAD

Flipping the textures upside down is a GREAT idea. I might do that in my WAD.