Cacowards 2020 Mentionation Thread

[taufan99]

1 minute ago, LiT_gam3r said:

Then all hope is not lost! And I can mention this beauty by @Zylinderkatze!

Isn't it still heavily WIP though?

[Master O]

 

[Walter confetti]

+1 for Doom master wadazine and Endless for Espi award (or at least a honorable mention)

+1 for Big Ol Billy for Author of the year

+1 for Negative One (or Doom -1)

+1 for Happy by @Zolgia108, is a pretty interesting megawad!

[terminator44]

+NOVA 3

+Return to Hadron E3

+Nobody Told Me About id

+Treasure Tech

 

For new nominations:

Sangelothi's NeoCore: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=23438&start=375#p1152155

DN3Doom by kipo: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=67864\

Spawn Path to Damnation by Dr. Cosmobyte: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=69893

Mildoom by grotski: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=70000

 

Finally, I nominate Christoph "Graf Zhal" Oelckers for the Epsi Lifetime Achievement Award. Love him or hate him, his work on ZDoom, GZDoom, and their respective scripting languages has been hugely influential in the Doom modding community, and GZDoom still remains one of the most used modern source ports.

 

[Redneckerz]

16 hours ago, terminator44 said:

Finally, I nominate Christoph "Graf Zhal" Oelckers for the Epsi Lifetime Achievement Award. Love him or hate him, his work on ZDoom, GZDoom, and their respective scripting languages has been hugely influential in the Doom modding community, and GZDoom still remains one of the most used modern source ports.

Agreed. But maybe Randi Heit should deserve it equally aswell for creating ZDoom in the first place. Without ZDoom, GZDoom would likely have taken the route Graf originally thought of for it - Using a PrBoom core instead.

My nomination:

• Randy87 and KGSWS for Doom ACE, a very recent discovery utitlizing Arbitrary Code Execution enabling fully custom code in Vanilla Doom. Want to run Snake? You can. Randy87 for providing the original Savegame hack and IDA databases, KGSWS for actively expanding upon it. It highlights how even almost 3 decades later, Doom still has new tricks up its sleeve, with Doom ACE effectively laying the groundworks for a whole new genre of Doom modding.
• Its obviously not finished so not a Cacoward yet, but a runner up or an award for Technical Brilliance would definitely be fitting.

 

[Gez]

13 minutes ago, Redneckerz said:

But maybe Randi Heit should deserve it equally aswell for creating ZDoom in the first place.

Cacowards 2017.

[Redneckerz]

4 minutes ago, Gez said:

Cacowards 2017.

I stand corrected. Then Graf is first elligible for the Espi Award.

 

Spoiler

^{But lets get Doom_ACE an award first. :P}

 

[DOEL]

Nova III

 

and Akeldama

[DiegoHunt]

Doom Dissension

[Master O]

 

[Linuxmaster1992]

I would recommend Project Osiris, which is a total conversion of the Alien Breed 3D fps for the Commodore Amiga. It doesn't need a Doom wad to be played, so I'm not sure if this will count or not, but it is still really cool.

https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=67666

 

[KILLA DIO]

doom -1 is an above average megawad but the fact that it was made by so many people working with little communication is amazing (i did contribute a few times tho)
also treasure tech is a very fun gameplay mod with a WIP level pack being made for it

 

edit: shrine 2

Edited October 16, 2020 by KILLA DIO

[Repugnus]

+Treasure Tech. It's just too good not to mention.

[TheNoob_Gamer]

+1 for Doom -1 as well. Despite how much the project strayed away from its original scope and its rather questionable management at times the end result is surprisingly solid. Should have a honorable mention.

It just got its final release.

 

 

[Master O]

Treasure Tech

[FieryGuardian]

MAYhem 2020

[CBM]

On 10/8/2020 at 6:22 PM, KILLA DIO said:

doom -1 is an above average megawad but the fact that it was made by so many people working with little communication is amazing (i did contribute a few times tho)
also treasure tech is a very fun gameplay mod with a WIP level pack being made for it

the power of a shared vision :-)

[Biff Dunderbuff]

Gateway to Shangri-La

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/s-u/shangril

 

Treasure Tech

https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=66995

Edited October 11, 2020 by DragoKnot4200

[Master O]

 

[WhiteKnightENDME]

Shrine 2

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

Akeldama

Shrine 2

25 Years on Earth

Treasure Tech

 

Mordeth award for Rescue of Earth because the man has been working on it for years. His wad may be far from finished, but he is a perfect example of how dedicated people in this community are. He posts new updates regularly, he listens to criticism, and he has a lot of passion and dedication in general.

We need to start honoring the mappers out there in the learning stage who are taking the time to listen, learn, and stick with it without being discouraged. The mappers who can get through that are the ones that will bring us great things in the future, we need to support them more.

 

A "Most Likely to Succeed Cacoward".

Edited October 15, 2020 by TheMagicMushroomMan

[Marcaek]

ACE for Machaward ofc

[thebestkiller]

In mods: jumpmaze x

 

Edited October 15, 2020 by thebestkiller

[antares031]

+Mutabor

A giant, complex level with lots of areas to explore, interesting "Urban Miasma" atmosphere, setpieces with reasonable difficulty, balanced gameplay adjustments, a small puzzle map as a bonus, all of these under the vanilla limitations. Very impressive.

[SilverMiner]

+++ CPD by @Cheesewheel

CPD thread

[TheNoob_Gamer]

On 10/14/2020 at 2:27 PM, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

Rescue of Earth

I dislike the rather poor quality of the project overall, but I agree, the OP has some serious dedication to their project. They deserve a mention.

[BerserkerNoir]

 

Pretty Solid Work.

[Walter confetti]

+1 for Doom ACE

[Randuin Storngärd]

1. Embers of Armageddon (DoomKrakken)

+I've tried lots of DooM 2016 mods for Classic Doom and this one really stands out for me.

+Especially with the Eternal Addons (TheTmGuy), even tho some of the stuff is still raw
but at least we got the dash and working three equipments that comes from the OG game.

 

2. Space Hunter (Combine_Kegan)

+Well, it's Kegan.

+I just really like when someone made a really well made mods like from the sprites works, sound effect, etc. It really makes the gameplay even more fun.
I personally hope he get the chance to win the award someday.

Edited October 23, 2020 by Randuin Storngärd

[Master O]

@sluggard's post with the recreation of Contra in Doom, it looks like.

Edited October 23, 2020 by Master O