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DEMONIC PARK

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As in my previous levels DESIGN is the major topic. I tried to make the level look good with some interesting architecture and new ideas. All textures have been chosen with care and are well aligned. Demonic Park is a Theme Park, not a green park - # of trees and bushes is 0, # of monsters is a little bit higher.

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This reads as an early example of arcade-style mapping.

 

Areas are defined largely by color combinations, with no real overarching theme to the map: there are silver techbase rooms, brick-like Earth rooms, red hellish rooms, without much in the way of detailing or setting-building -- all centralized around a square hub room with key doors, which repopulates with monsters each time you find a key. It's on the simpler side visually, but still a very clear step above "monotextured square rooms"-type design, with some solid architecture, shapes, and texture combos here and there, and even a clever crushing UFO-like "ring" at one point. 

 

The gameplay concepts are very straightforward, with one exception being a room that has you platforming over damaging floor while closets of lost souls and cacodemons open up. Instead, the bulk of the fighting is more often dished out as blocks of monsters often revealed in closets -- blocks at a density far below what you'd consider slaughter. Some of the potential fun involves herding monsters towards barrels; once I waited several seconds for chaingunners to walk halfway across the room, right next to a clump of barrels I could blow them all up with. The ending fight is designed for you to pour rockets into two static cybs while circling, and I skipped that one. 

 

Completed in a bit under 10 minutes. 

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Argenteo

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Abstract map that unfolds in 4 different areas, 3 keys, linear progression, later he made contributions to Memento Mori 1 and 2 also.

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Memfis

  
Too many monsters I think: I got bored of fighting and started skipping them. The ending is not great fun: it's just circlestrafing around two cybers. Cool blue key "UFO" thing: I thought I was clever when I came up with a similar effect and now I see it in a 1995 map.

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Wonderful map. Author Badorek would later contribute to both MM and MM2. Clever progression with some nice small fights and stylish architecture to keep you occupied along the way. There are 4 separate areas, all with a different look (two of these look like Doom, and not Doom 2). Ammo is nicely balanced, so don't waste it too much. The ending fight is great fun, complete with a new death sound. It's obvious Andy re-used the idea for this fight in his MM2 map, "Sanctuary". Highly recommended. --5/5

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