[RELEASED!] The Bikini Bottom Massacre

[ContrastSaturation]

I should probably include a TW that this mod depicts suicide, just in case.

 

Trailer:

https://youtu.be/6rod37XUu_I

 

The Bikini Bottom Massacre is:

• A Spongebob-themed Doom II total conversion parody mod for use with GzDoom
• A dark and comedic story about Squidward's fall into insanity
• That's pretty much it

 

Here's the basic premise:

"When Squidward is let go of his job at the Krusty Krab, his dissatisfaction with life is at its zenith. After years of torment from his buffoon neighbours, Spongebob and Patrick, Squidward decides to take his life into his own hands". The story goes from there, with multiple slideshows punctuating the levels detailing Squidward's rampage throughout the city. Oh, and you play as Squidward, of course.

 

Maps: There's thirteen in total, one of which being a secret, and one being an epilogue level. Two others are purely boss levels, leaving 9 'regular' levels. Some levels revolve totally around one specific Spongebob locations, whereas others include no specific locations from the show, though all levels take some inspiration.

 

map1: Conch Street

map2: Outskirts

map3: The Krusty Krab

map4: Barg'n-Mart, Midtown Bikini Bottom

map5: Jellyfish Fields

map6: Industrial Zone

map7: Glove World

map8: Rock Bottom

map9: Squidward's Suicide

Map10: Downtown Bikini Bottom

map11: Spongebob's Wrath

map12: Sweet Victory

map13: Secret

 

ModDB link:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/thebikinibottommassacre

 

Screenshots:

 

 

 

More Screenshots:

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 24, 2022 by ContrastSaturation

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

Unironically looks pretty excellent. I was expecting something dire!

[ContrastSaturation]

Just now, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

Unironically looks pretty excellent. I was expecting something dire!

Thanks, I appreciate it! Visual quality is really important to me in this project, I want it to resemble the show as much as possible

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

1 minute ago, Noris Kneecap said:

Thanks, I appreciate it! Visual quality is really important to me in this project, I want it to resemble the show as much as possible

I think you did a wonderful job. The overall aesthetic, atmosphere, and sprite work is incredible. Did you make the sprites yourself?

[ContrastSaturation]

Just now, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

I think you did a wonderful job. The overall aesthetic, atmosphere, and sprite work is incredible. Did you make the sprites yourself?

Yes, usually by taking a screenshot of the show and tracing over it, then creating rotated versions, damaged versions, etc. . Making all those sprites can be really draining when you realise there's ten more enemy types to do, but given that enemies should be introduced over time I could work on just one or two at a time per level.

For other enemies I just used reference images, like the cacodemons- er, I mean, Planktobots

[Egg Boy]

haha sick

[Murdoch]

As someone who has basically zero knowledge of Spongebob the title gave me a far more confused and disturbing mental image than what you probably intended. Sounds almost like a weird 80s horror Z-movie.

 

Art style looks like a good fit for what little I have seen of the cartoon. Good job.

[ContrastSaturation]

1 minute ago, Murdoch said:

As someone who has basically zero knowledge of Spongebob the title gave me a far more confused and disturbing mental image than what you probably intended. Sounds almost like a weird 80s horror Z-movie.

 

Art style looks like a good fit for what little I have seen of the cartoon. Good job.

There are elements of mild horror and gore, but overall, yeah, the tone's pretty light. I think the name adds character but I understand why it might be a little inappropriate for the content

[Murdoch]

1 minute ago, Noris Kneecap said:

There are elements of mild horror and gore, but overall, yeah, the tone's pretty light. I think the name adds character but I understand why it might be a little inappropriate for the content

 

Oh no, I did not mean to suggest it was inappropriate. It clearly suits what you are going for. It was meant to be a mildly humorous observation that, divorced of knowledge of the show, the title can conjure some very silly images in one's head. Well, if you're me at least.

[GraphicBleeder]

Damn, it actually looks good! Look forward to it Mistah Kneecap.

[Lizardcommando]

This looks really neat. I will have to try this out when it gets released.

[ABearInThaWoods]

This actually looks incredible. My kid is actually going to want to play Doom now lmao

[DannyMan]

I can't believe Squidward became insane (nice tc by the way)

[grrfield]

4 hours ago, Noris Kneecap said:

Yes, usually by taking a screenshot of the show and tracing over it, then creating rotated versions, damaged versions, etc. . Making all those sprites can be really draining when you realise there's ten more enemy types to do, but given that enemies should be introduced over time I could work on just one or two at a time per level.

For other enemies I just used reference images, like the cacodemons- er, I mean, Planktobots

 

You might be close to copy right infringement. Not a criticism, just an observation.

[msx2plus]

i mean, this entire thing, despite parody fair use clauses, is copyright infringement with the right lawyer on the case lol, tracing from the show is not going to be the straw that breaks this camel's back. there is far more blatant copyright infringement in doomdom (sprite fixing projects that distribute the actual graphics from doom, etc), it's really a non-issue.

[ContrastSaturation]

Yeah, I'm well aware that Viacom could squash this whole thing if they wanted, seems unlikely though. I'd argue that this is clear fair dealing given that it's a parody, but corps don't care about that sort of thing too much

[Sena]

Ripping sprites and sound bites from a copyrighted work probably does constitute copyright infringement. But between Simpsons Doom, Reelism, Robocop Doom, Aliens TC, Batman Doom, and probably a hundred others, I think it's apparent that companies don't really care.

[big smoke]

im liking the screenshots so far
id check it out when its done
cant wait to kill stuff with squidward too

Edited February 1, 2022 by big smoke

[maxmanium]

Squidward's Genocide

[THEBaratusII]

21 minutes ago, maxmanium said:

Squidward's Genocide

"You fucked up my clarinet, and now you have my permission to die"

[thiccyosh]

It's so stupid I love it!

[Hitboi]

I really dig that 2nd city screenshot, looks too good for a parody wad.

[ContrastSaturation]

10 minutes ago, Hitboi said:

I really dig that 2nd city screenshot, looks too good for a parody wad.

Thanks, I've always really liked designing cities for some reason, so I thought I'd use this wad as an excuse to make one. The layout's inspired by GTA IV and Arkham Knight

[ContrastSaturation]

Update: After a lot of continuous work, this WAD is now due for release just under a week from now, February 24th!

Could anyone tell me if I should make a new 'release' thread when that time comes, or if instead it would be better to simply edit and bump this one? Like what is the accepted etiquette?

[Sena]

I think the standard thing to do would be to just post the finished WAD in this thread, and also the obvious change of changing the thread title to signify that you've released it.

[Shepardus]

Looking forward to the release! I think updating this thread would be fine; I've seen some cases of separate release threads, but those are generally for community projects with pages and pages of development discussion in the original thread.

[Old-Doomguy]

Is it Safe for kids? My 8 yr old LOVES Spongebob!

[ContrastSaturation]

5 hours ago, Old-Doomguy said:

Is it Safe for kids? My 8 yr old LOVES Spongebob!

I would recommend against an 8 year old playing this, I think if PEGI were to rate it, they'd give it a 16.

[lokbustam257]

On 2/1/2022 at 9:58 PM, THEBaratusII said:

"You fucked up my clarinet, and now you have my permission to die"

I don't know why, but Hunt Down the Freeman last cutscene playing in my head while reading this.

[lokbustam257]

So this is the WAD I've seen in "What are you working on" thread last year. Glad to see you didn't abandon this!

Edited February 19, 2022 by lokbustam257