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A train level inspired by Build Engine vehicle levels (see Blood E1M3) and The Polar Express (movie). Some Context: You may recognize this map if you've watched @sandwedge's YouTube streams, or have been watching @LVENdead's YouTube Channel about sometime last year. Yes, this is that same map. No, it was never released until now. Here's how that happened: About more than a year ago, many of us in Civvie 11's public discord server decided to do another wad together after The Civvie 11 Massacre. Suffice to say many of us wanted to get our hands dirty with Doom Builder again, but this time with a holiday theme and a bit more of a challenging map format than UDMF. We set a deadline for release of Christmas 2022 with the target Complevel of 9 (Boom), and got to work. We dubbed the project "Civvie's XMAS Electroshock", although it had gone through some other titles before then that I can't seem to recall. I finished my map up pretty quickly and got some others to playtest it as well (That was where LVENdead and Sandwedge came into the picture). Things were looking up for the project. Come December of 2022, and the wad was getting pretty close to done with still some hurdles to jump over: We needed a finale map, a custom boss (Mecha-Santa), and a whole lot of playtesting. But this is where many of us lost a lot of steam for the project. Christmas passes by, and not much was accomplished. We set another deadline for the following Christmas, but by this point the project was steadily losing motivation. Even I wasn't immune to it. Months pass by, and the wad is pretty much abandoned. No one was to blame for it falling through. That's just how it goes sometimes. I may have silently left the project, but it didn't leave me. The thought of my map steadily gathering dust crossed my mind every time I opened up UDB. The growing eyes of judgement passed its gaze upon me every time I opened up my Doom wad projects folder. November of this year hits, and I'm carefully guiding the development and release of my latest horror map, The Parasite of Good Will, and I look through my many Doom wad project folders and I couldn't help but stare at the folder containing the XMAS map. Figuring I'd have the best opportunity to release it now, and with the permission of the original Project Lead, I chose to clean up the map for a release. Sadly, I am not able to release all of the other maps that were made for the project. Even if I remembered where I had them, I really don't have the motivation to clean up all of the maps made for it. In addition, I wouldn't know who to credit who for the maps and I'd be sorely face-palming myself for just putting them out there without mentioning the map authors. Thankfully, the map itself isn't all of what you'll be seeing here. With permission from the person who made the Mecha-Santa sprites, @SkeletronMK666, I'll be leaving those Mecha-Santa sprites in a folder within the dropbox link. I'll also include some other unused/unfinished content that didn't make the final cut. These you are free to use so long as you properly give credit to those who made them. I'm a little sorry that I didn't do much more to help finish the project itself, but at least now I can be happy knowing something survived until the very end and that you all can get to play even a small portion of it. Screenshots: Wad Info: - Singleplayer - Complevel 9 (Boom) - IWAD: Doom 2 Tested Source Ports: - DSDA-Doom 0.26.2 (Recommended) - PrBoom+ 2.6.2 - Eternity 4.02.00 - ZDoom 2.8.1 - GZDoom 4.10.00 Download here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2c7tbcjsw85wu83lc95o4/h?rlkey=iabz8s0f51gvi4z4dgekhwc8v&dl=0 Let me know if there are any issues with the Dropbox link. Look out for an Idgames release soon. Thank you all, and Happy Holidays!

Aight, @Lorcav here it is fixed: GraveSquatter_v4.zip

The way I usually do it is to add dummy sectors in the level (preferably far away from the other dummy sectors and the actual level itself) and apply the other animated textures and flats' frames to those dummy sectors/linedefs. That way, SLADE doesn't flag them as unused, and once you cleared the actually unused textures and flats you can then safely remove said dummy sectors.

Pretty sick trailer, ngl. Might want to do another one once this wad gets its Idgames release. Maybe do something a bit more in-your-face like an actual TV commercial you'd see back in the day...? Something befitting of Super Smash TV, a brutally cathartic arcade game centered around a lethal sci-fi game show of ludicrous proportions. We'd need a good narrator to do the job, but I'm sure there's plenty who'd offer their voice for it. If you want inspiration, Just look up any wacky TV commercial from the 80's and 90's. Battletanx and Battletanx: Global Assault had some really great TV commercials. Some local places had to do some REALLY crazy stuff to get a spot on air, so looking to those for ideas wouldn't be too bad. Some ads might not have aged well, for better or for worse, but the core concept is still to go big or go home which is definitely in the spirit of Super Smash TV and subsequently this wad.

Could've sworn I fixed this. In fact, checking it now, I did. Maybe I just didn't upload the fixed version...? Whatever the case, here's the fixed version. Should be fine now. GraveSquatter_v3.zip

Made a trailer. Check it out!

The Parasite of Good Will is now on Idgames Archive!: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/s-u/tpogw It's also available on Doomshack.org!: https://doomshack.org/uploads/tPoGW.zip

A lot of the monster and item sprites, and (I think) a few textures/patches.

Say, I have a few questions about wads hosted on Doomshack.org. If I wanted a link to the download for my wad do I simply find the wad on Doomshack and copy the download link to it? Because when I do that the link just automatically downloads the file rather than doing it like Idgames and directing me to the idgames website before I click a button to download. I think it's intentional, but I would like to know if there was a different way of doing it. Is the file hosted indefinitely, or is there a limit to how long you can host the file on the website? I don't know if I missed it entirely or not, but I would appreciate a file search bar to help find specific files on the site.

Just letting people know, there are some unmodified Id software resources in this mod. I understand this is a work in progress, but I feel this needs to be addressed especially since it's been giving me a headache when trying to upload my wad to the idgames archive. You can easily fix this by opening the wad in SLADE, then going to Archive -> Maintenance -> Remove Duplicated Entries from IWAD. You may want to do this process multiple times, even closing and re-opening SLADE to do it because there can be some that slip through.

The final release should be available now through the Dropbox link. Hopefully, soon, it will be up on idgames. I'll post the dropbox link here once more for the sake of convenience: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/sqxv7kht4me9z2z4djzv2/h?rlkey=mhpzni11skq88mcbdi0px3hii&dl=0 I didn't change too much with this one. Just added a CREDIT image and fixed a minor spelling mistake.

If no one else has any feedback to provide on RC4, then I'll go ahead and clean it up for the final release.

Hoo, boy, where do I begin? I'll spoiler this so that the thread isn't getting a massive unavoidable wall of text.

RC4 is OUT NOW! Link, as always, is the same. Will still provide it here regardless: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/sqxv7kht4me9z2z4djzv2/h?rlkey=mhpzni11skq88mcbdi0px3hii&dl=0 Changelog:

I hope that there is still a release candidate in the works soon...? Just want to keep tabs with this project.