Deadly Standards 3 - a Episode 3 Community Project with a twist (idgames ready!)

[Walter confetti]

Are you ready to enter the void nightmares of...

 

 

IDGAMES LINK IS READY TO GO! DOWNLOAD HERE!

 

The Maplist:

E3M1 - Burning Night by NeedHealth
E3M2 - Mobius Flip by Lord_Z
E3M3 - Aphotic Crypt by RonnieJamesDiner

E3M4 - Ventòse by Roofi
E3M5 - Brazen Hell by Steve D
E3M6 - Severed Realm by riderr3
E3M7 - What Stares Back by pegleg
E3M8 - Without Remorse by The_Slovinator
E3M9 - Deja by ShadesMaster

 

Spoiler

 

Before we start, some rules to follow, if you don't like or you want to change some of the rules, you are free to say it:

 

- Only up to 2 maps from one person.

 
- Everyone is eligible, preferably newer mappers but literally anyone will do. You can even do a collab thing with another mapper, if you want!

 
- It has to be limit-removing format, no fancy ZDoom stuff or Boom actions please.

 
- You can provide a MIDI with your map if you do not want to use the default E3 track.

 
- I would prefer a more classic and easier style to your maps, it doesn't necessarily have to be extremely polished/detailed to make the cut and I'd prefer not to have a slaughter map.
 

- This time things gets a little bit different, you can use this little graphic compiled by yours truly, that includes a creepy void sky by Da Werecraft, a pitch black wall and floor for classic void usage, a new title and intermission screen. But over this pack, you can't add any new textures, sprites or sounds:

 

 

- E3M6 must have a secret exit.

 

- E3M8 ends when you kill the spider mastermind

- E3M9 must be based upon your favorite IWAD map from memory, with a hellish twist in it. You can add new parts if really needed (like some places to connect rooms, etc.), just don't exaggerate...

- Theme is void, so made a map that fits with the sky or any kind of map theme you want to do, techbase, hell, city, really anything you want to do! You can even mix them wildly like in pandemonium, you can start a map in hellish and then change drastically to another theme, there's no limit of what you want to do this time!

- Just for don't turn this mapset into a hitscanners fest, you can always try out (if you wish) new gameplay ways over the original gameplay style like tyson map, maps with telefragging monsters, maps with puzzles and platforming... anything you want!
 
- Not troll maps or obviously low effort garbage, whilst I'm not looking for a magnum opus I'd rather not make WOOO 4.

 

When you release your map, give a little list that will go the final maplist at the release, like this:

Title:
Description:
Build time:
New music (if any):
Tested with:

 

unfinished E3M3 by Philnemba: https://www.doomworld.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=62490

 

 

 

Interested mappers / contributors:

 

Da Werecat (sky author)

leyrenley from DeviantArt (used a free stock image from this person for intermission screen usage)

Author of D-1000 showelvare cd box art

Roofi
Steve D
NeedHealth
riderr3

The_Slovinator (tester and mapper)

pegleg

ShadesMaster

Lord_Z

RonnieJamesDiner

Philnemba

Alter

Liberation

 

Enjoy your stay and have fun, hoping this will not turn a turnover of your mapping carrier like in last year lol

 

Edited August 5, 2021 by Walter confetti
Idgames link and prefaction slightly modified

[Philnemba]

Sign me up for E3M3 as I always wanted to participate a Doom 1 community project :) 

[Walter confetti]

Cool, you're in! Signed!

[Alter]

I'll sign up for E3M8, see what I can do with Doom 1's monsters.

[Walter confetti]

You've got it! And with you, all the list is complete! 

[Spectre01]

12 hours ago, Walter confetti said:

hoping that this will not turn into a death of your mapping carrer like the last time lol

Hah! :P

This filled up surprisingly fast. Good luck to everyone involved!

[Pegleg]

7 hours ago, Spectre01 said:

Hah! :P

This filled up surprisingly fast. Good luck to everyone involved!

 

It helps that seven of the slots were filled in the Deadly Standards 2 thread before this thread was even posted.

 

Although it still took 10 hours to find the final 2.

[NeedHealth]

I wanted to slap this out before I forgot. My idea of a start to e3m1 of Standard III. The whole map is made up of brigdes suspended in a void.

Edited May 28, 2019 by NeedHealth

[Walter confetti]

Looks pretty cool!

[Roofi]

A very quick work on doombuilder. I'm currently working on the theme : a desertic non-egyptian temple. It's an underground part but I will use the sky. :)

 

Edited May 28, 2019 by Roofi

[Roofi]

 

Experiencing dark rocky landscapes.

[Walter confetti]

Interesting design here...

[NeedHealth]

[Walter confetti]

THis one looks pretty cool too! maybe change the midtexture with a midvine or a midgrate?

[ShadesMaster]

A bit late to enter the roster, but if anything opens - I'm game!

[Walter confetti]

All right...

[NeedHealth]

Map progression so far goes shotgun, berserk(secret), chaingun(secret) and chaingun. This is the former.

 

 

[Roofi]

Two Random screenshots.

 

 

[Walter confetti]

STEP4 texture for emulate brick wall is a interesting choice, but it couldn't appear like a tutti-frutti feast with ports that tend to emulate vanilla doom, like chocolate doom for example? Still looks pretty cool the levels you and NeedHealth are cooking out...

 

I wonder what the other people are doing for this...

 

 

Edited May 30, 2019 by Walter confetti

[riderr3]

I completely missed this new thread. I'll see what I can do for this theme.

Also, correct name of sky author is Da Werecat

[The_SloVinator]

Alright, few questions:

 

1. What are these, exactly?

 

 

2. Since my map has to be based on my favorite IWAD map, do I have to copy paste the map's layout & then change things or do it from scratch?

Does it have to be my favorite level strictly from episode 3 of IWAD?

[Reisal]

Those look like the intermission animated lumps, assuming they're using a static image for things so they're blanking it out with null images.

[Walter confetti]

1 hour ago, The_SloVinator said:

Since my map has to be based on my favorite IWAD map, do I have to copy paste the map's layout & then change things or do it from scratch?

No, you have to do it from scratch, remaking it from memory. Here's a idea of how this concept works: 

 

1 hour ago, The_SloVinator said:

Does it have to be my favorite level strictly from episode 3 of IWAD?

 

No, it could be from any game, actually it could be even from Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, etc.

But if you want to stay strict with only Doom, it could be from any episode.

[Walter confetti]

1 hour ago, Glaice said:

Those look like the intermission animated lumps, assuming they're using a static image for things so they're blanking it out with null images.

Exactly.

[Alter]

Just a heads up that i've started work on my map, i'll be showing off screenshots later this month but let's say I have a solid concept for it in my head. And I want to make a good first impression.

[The_SloVinator]

2 hours ago, Walter confetti said:

No, you have to do it from scratch, remaking it from memory. Here's a idea of how this concept works: 

 

 

No, it could be from any game, actually it could be even from Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, etc.

But if you want to stay strict with only Doom, it could be from any episode.

Thanks. Though, do I have to use the exact textures & flats as my favorite map or I can freely play around with those?

[Spectre01]

26 minutes ago, The_SloVinator said:

Thanks. Though, do I have to use the exact textures & flats as my favorite map or I can freely play around with those?

From the OP, it sounds like you need to give it a hellish twist to make it fit with the visual style of the episode. So if you pick Underhalls, it would be blood and skintek instead of the regular water and pipes. That kind of thing.

[Walter confetti]

2 hours ago, Alter said:

Just a heads up that i've started work on my map, i'll be showing off screenshots later this month but let's say I have a solid concept for it in my head. And I want to make a good first impression.

Awesome! Can't wait to see it!

1 hour ago, The_SloVinator said:

Though, do I have to use the exact textures & flats as my favorite map or I can freely play around with those?

What Spectre01 said.

[The_SloVinator]

After careful consideration & life getting in the way recently, I'll have to unfortunately step out of this project. :/

My apologies for the inconvenience. Wish you all the best.

 

 

[Walter confetti]

T_T well, if that's your decision, go on.

 

@ShadesMaster i'll give you this slot, if you are still interested in this project....

Edited June 6, 2019 by Walter confetti