Doom Podcast - An Evening with Nirvana

[Nirvana]

A new podcast where I'll be interviewing Doom community members and potentially other game devs. 

 

In the first episode, I sat down with Benjogami, who you'll know as the creator of Toilet of the Gods, The Egg of Human Endeavors, co-creator of Abandon, and a contributor to a number of community projects.

 

 

Expect more interviews over the coming weeks :)

 

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/show/5YJ73qQc3Ix6pzoV5AjOpN?si=37cb9a90f332459b

Edited April 7, 2023 by Nirvana

[OniriA]

Doom podcasts are always a welcome thing :) 

[Biodegradable]

Doom Radio's retirement has left a big void waiting to be filled for a number of years now, so good on you, Nirvana. I look forward to future episodes.

[Nirvana]

Episode two of An Evening with Nirvana is up and it's an interview with Scotty, creator of Cydonia, Criticality, and Behmoth, co-creator of Abandon and someone I have collaborated with on Haste, Flotsam, and Fractured Worlds.

 

Also available on Spotify

Edited July 1, 2022 by Nirvana

[Mr. Alexander]

This was a really good interview! Really interested me in a side of the game I don't venture into enough. Looking forward to the next one.

[Nirvana]

Hoping to talk to people who provide varying types of content to the community, including mapping, streaming, speedrunning etc. I have a good list of guests coming up :)

[Nirvana]

In episode 3 of the podcast, I talk to Megablast, mostly known as a Doom streamer, but also as the co-creator of Tesseract for Mayhem Purple with Mr Zzul (Killer5), and author of a few community project maps here and there.

 

We discuss streaming, difficulty in Doom, some game design principles for mapping, and a few projects we've been working on together.

 

Check it out on Youtube here:

And Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/43i93hKvVRNJDjuQ2Wb577?si=5d3f1af938414e4a
 

There's also a Twitter for updates and guest info and stuff: https://twitter.com/nirvanapodcast

Edited July 6, 2022 by Nirvana

[Nirvana]

In this episode I talk to Tourniquet. Best known for his green behemoth and Cacoward winner Miasma, he started with a series of community projects in 2014 and 2015, one of which saw him paired up with Ribbiks to create Anaemia.

We chat about his early community project output, the inspiration he drew from collaborating with Ribbiks, his take on map design and detail work, and his thoughts on constructing non-linear environments.  

 

Youtube:

 

I tweet when the pod is up and will be posting things about upcoming guests and stuff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nirvanapodcast

Edited July 14, 2022 by Nirvana

[Egg Boy]

can't believe I missed the first few episodes, been looking for something like this.

[Nirvana]

It's been so great getting to talk to all of these people about Doom and hearing their insights. Glad people are enjoying it :D

[Nirvana]

In this episode I talk to Skillsaw. With maps in BTSX 1 and 2 and a defining style of arcadey, fast-paced gameplay, Skillsaw has become one of the most beloved mappers in the Doom community, with wads like Ancient Aliens, Valiant, and Heartland to name a few.

 

We discuss the influence of Alien Vendetta and Scythe 2 on his early works, why slaughter mappers love Vanguard, the palette work of Alien Vendetta, and get into the details of his stylistic and gameplay choices.

 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7gmFgY2Yw2JVbLwpNK9qiG?si=4700f250e46444f1

Youtube:

 

I'll post about the podcast over here on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nirvanapodcast

[skillsaw]

Thanks for letting me participate! I've enjoyed listening to all the previous episodes and it was great to get together and chat.

[Mr. Alexander]

"This [unified vision] elevates [Going Down]" ... Skillsaw and his puns again, lol

 

But seriously, great interview, great episode! Currently about halfway through Ancient Aliens and enjoying it a lot. Nice to hear all this behind-the-arenas commentary.

[Gregor]

This is really neat. I have to say i somehow expected skillsaw's voice to sound way less cool... ;)

[esselfortium]

Great interview! I would totally play that skillsaw E1 replacement :)

[Nirvana]

16 hours ago, skillsaw said:

Thanks for letting me participate! I've enjoyed listening to all the previous episodes and it was great to get together and chat.

 

Thanks for coming on, was a lot of fun and I finally got some answers to some burning questions I had (sorry for those buzz words haha).

[skillsaw]

16 hours ago, Mr. Alexander said:

"This [unified vision] elevates [Going Down]" ... Skillsaw and his puns again, lol

 

Haha, nice catch. Totally unintentional, though.

 

13 hours ago, esselfortium said:

Great interview! I would totally play that skillsaw E1 replacement :)

 

Maybe one day!

[LadyMistDragon]

someone might have eight maps somewhere, you never know....

[RHhe82]

These are some great podcasts, I listened to them all yesterday and today. Lots of good wad suggestions, but more importantly I found myself booting up UDB for the first time in what must be like six months or so. Inspiring stuff, hopefully there’ll be more episodes!

[Egg Boy]

Been waiting for this one. Knew it had to happen at some point.

[Nirvana]

In this episode I talk to Dannebubinga, best known as the creator of Combat Shock 1 & 2, co-creator of Sunlust, Italo Doom, and a number of Slaughterfest and other community project contributions over the years. We talk about the beginnings of Sunlust, the slaughter community's reaction to standard Doom gameplay and Danne's love for walls of perched Hellknights.

 

Youtube:

 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0HeE6zJcgky2CRLJCXCBg1?si=66e697bd4b124f43

 

Twitter: I will post updates on the podcast and info about future guests over here - https://twitter.com/nirvanapodcast

 

[Steveb1000]

I really enjoyed this, thanks for making it and sharing it! I'd listened back to the old World Externination Radio podcasts and was itching to hear a newer  more polished podcast.

 

I'm a relative latecomer to Doom so it was eye opening to hear that 'slaughter' gameplay was an outsider passion for a long time.

 

I appreciated your level of research, calmness, and focus on the guest. My one request would be to ask more follow ups to interesting answers (e.g. he mentioned how some of ribbiks ideas had inspired him in his own maps, would have been great to hear more about that).

 

Sure you have lots of guests in mind, my request would be Pavera. I recently played one his map sets for the first time and it felt like it was made for me, so I would live to hear more about his style, as I don't have the brainz  to understand why I liked it more than other stuff.

 

Thanks again for making and sharing it.

 

 

[Nirvana]

7 hours ago, Steveb1000 said:

I appreciated your level of research, calmness, and focus on the guest. My one request would be to ask more follow ups to interesting answers (e.g. he mentioned how some of ribbiks ideas had inspired him in his own maps, would have been great to hear more about that).

Glad you've been enjoying the podcast! Usually what I do is I write out a bunch of questions for the guest and then as we chat I do naturally ask follow up questions (often going on long tangents in fact). I do have to be a little conscious of running time though as well, which in this case ended up ok, but sometimes it's hard to gauge how long it will take to get through the series of questions I have down (Insane Gazebo is coming up and we went very long with that one).

I'll endeavour to look out for more moments to ask follow up questions though in the future when possible though.
 

[MtPain27]

Listened to your interviews of skillsaw, Benjogami, and Dannebubinga all the way through, and I never listen to podcasts. Granted, the subjects are of particular interest to me, but still, good job! You have an understated rapport with your guests which comes no doubt from the passions you share. I do appreciate that even though you and your guests have a ton of technical knowledge, it rarely feels like you're talking over your audience's head. I also love how you walk each interviewee through their Doom Wiki page and dig into specific maps. It was fun to hear Benjo's commentary on World Orifice (what was the word he used to describe playing it? 'meditative'?) and Danne taking us behind the curtain for maps like Dying on Cue, Proxyon, and God Machine. Looking forward to future installments :)

[Mr. Alexander]

1 hour ago, Nirvana said:

Insane Gazebo is coming up and we went very long with that one

As is only fitting. Looking forward to it!

[Nirvana]

13 hours ago, MtPain27 said:

Listened to your interviews of skillsaw, Benjogami, and Dannebubinga all the way through, and I never listen to podcasts. Granted, the subjects are of particular interest to me, but still, good job! You have an understated rapport with your guests which comes no doubt from the passions you share. I do appreciate that even though you and your guests have a ton of technical knowledge, it rarely feels like you're talking over your audience's head. I also love how you walk each interviewee through their Doom Wiki page and dig into specific maps. It was fun to hear Benjo's commentary on World Orifice (what was the word he used to describe playing it? 'meditative'?) and Danne taking us behind the curtain for maps like Dying on Cue, Proxyon, and God Machine. Looking forward to future installments :)

Hey, cool to hear that you're enjoying the podcast and I'm glad that the overall tone is enjoyable. I've actually been watching a bunch of your videos recently and really enjoying them, very soothing structure to the videos that feels like binge watching a TV series; funnily enough, Danne is the person who got me onto you in the first place :D

[OniriA]

On 8/2/2022 at 3:19 AM, Nirvana said:

 (Insane Gazebo is coming up and we went very long with that one).

 

Looking forward to the Gazebo podcast. 

[Nirvana]

In this episode I talk to Stx-Vile. A veteran speedrunner in the Doom community, he's known for his runs of Swim with the Whales, Nightmare Iwad runs, as well as UV/Maxes of Fractured worlds. He is currently working on a d2all of Valiant, which he has been slowly earning the individual world records for on each map.

 

We talk about his early speedruns, his old compet-n profile questionnaire, what drives him to run, as well as his procedure for routing wads and his latest Valiant Maxes.

 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/52mLUUEQm8n8z40kFmsvpR?si=69510ce204d24404

 

Youtube:

 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nirvanapodcast

 

[Nirvana]

Today on the podcast I have an appropriately long conversation with Insane Gazebo, the creator of the gargantuan slaughter spectacle Sunder, as well as a contributor to Haste, Fractured Worlds, and the upcoming Age of Hell.

 

We discuss the early years of Macabre, the inception and process of the maps of Sunder, and his newfound love of UDMF and its lack of a line limit.
 

Youtube:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ZJdyAoYIhLAQLGvBlahBJ?si=02bbf8b8c8024ab5

Also available on Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music, as well as a few other places.

Twitter page for updates and such: https://twitter.com/nirvanapodcast

[Biodegradable]

A talking gazebo? Now that's insane! Look forward to listening to this one. ;^)