Speed Squared - RC2 | 23 Level Adventures of Square Expansion - now on idgames!

[BluePineapple72]

^{Trailer by @MemeMind}

 

 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  I USED TO BE A RENEGADE  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

 

 

WAD File: PUSS VIII - Speed Squared - idgames

Port: GZDoom

       - Tested in GZDoom

Resources:

Adventures of Square

Square Fulltex (included in zip)

Comments: Speed Squared is a 23 map expansion for BigBrik's standalone game The Adventures of Square. It was created for the eight edition of the Pineapple Under the Sea Speedmapping series in April 2021. Some behind the scenes shenanigans (secret maps, coding ambitions, sunburns, etc.) caused this project to be backed into the corner of development hell. After finding the password to my google drive, the project is finally here. HUZZAH!

 

Everything needed is here. I've tested each map personally and more than likely won't be accepting any more map updates lest there are some major issues with any of the included levels. Other than cleaning up the text file this release is practically final.

 

Change Log:

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-RC2:
             Added square-fulltex textures
             Updates to following:
                MAP09
                MAP12
                MAP21
                MAP32
             Fixed a typo in credits map

 

MAPLIST:

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To prevent any potential clashing with possible future bigbrik releases, I've created a custom episode notation for the level pack. EVIII, episode 8, for PUSS VIII.

 

EVIIIA1 - "Parallels and Paintballs" - @Death Bear
EVIIIA2 - "A Commentary on Conformity" - @Cheesewheel
EVIIIA3 - "Dam 'n' Blast!" - @Jimmy                                
EVIIIA4 - "Galactic Cheeseburger Factory" - @Danlex              
EVIIIA5 - "Bridge on the River 'Quare" - @DynamiteKaitorn / Heich       
EVIIIA6 - "Custard Cream Canyon" - @Baratus
EVIIIA7 - "Deadengon" - Death Bear                        
EVIIIA8 - "Tricks and Trapezoids" - Death Bear                                
EVIIIA9 - "Relentless Void" - @Scypek2                                  
EVIIIA10 - "Hip To Be Square" - @myolden                             
EVIIIA11 - "Manifold Square Garden" - @Peccatum Mihzamiz                   
EVIIIA12 - "In Queso Emergency" - Jimmy                                            
EVIIIA13 - "The Evil Circle Compound" - @Cacodemon187              
EVIIIA14 - "Spillwedges" - @Pinchy                           
EVIIIA15 - "Golden Square Bridge" - Danlex
EVIIIA16 - "Cheesecake Factory" - @BlooberryPi3                 
EVIIIA17 - "Fire and Ice" - @Vortale                     
EVIIIA18 - "Wrecking Rainbow" - Unicorn Skull, Daughter of Death Bear            
EVIIIA19 - "Circling the Drain" - Doomcat, Son of Death Bear            
EVIIIA20 - "Risky Fizzness" - Death Bear                        
EVIIIA21 - "Squareidise Falls" - @BluePineapple72   
EVIIIA22 - "Squarbicon" - Credits map - BluePineapple72

                
EVIIIA31 - "Fearless Symmetries" - Peccatum Mihzamiz
EVIIIA32 - "Ribbik's Cube" Myolden

 

Screenshots:

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Acknowledgments:

I'd like to give the biggest of thanks to everyone who participated in this event. I'm very happy to finally kick this one out of the house and see it fly free from momma bird's nest!

 

Special thanks are in order to the PUSS event staff, Death Bear, Myolden, Peccatum Mihzamiz, @notTyrone, @Jark, @MAN_WITH_GUN, @muumi, Danlex, @MemeMind, @Weird Sandwich, @Zero the Red, @Steve88, @Horus, and @Pegleg.

 

More thanks too to Peccatum Mihzamiz and Myolden for taking time out of their days to work on the secret levels and working with me in trying to hit the custom resources really hard with a wrench until they started working.
 

One last huge box of chocolate and notice of love and adornment to @Jimmy and the team at BigBrik for the Adventures of Square. Another secretive thanks to @Doomkid for the custom resources used on two maps. 

 

Be sure to check out our current event Revenge of the Speeddemons as well as our other PUSS wads!

 

 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Until next time ,o7  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

Edited December 31, 2022 by BluePineapple72
Jimmy. Tagged people. Now on idgames

[Death Bear]

YES, I'M SO EXCITED! EVERYONE! CHECK THIS OUT!

Edited July 13, 2022 by Death Bear

[sandwedge]

Wow this looks cool!  I've never actually played the adventures of square but this could be a nice way to check it out and see if I want to play all of the original.  Great trailer too, those map fly-throughs are showing off some beautiful levels.  Glad you finally got this out!

[Doomkid]

17 minutes ago, BluePineapple72 said:

Speaking of, special thanks to @Doomkid for the custom resources.

Uhh, unless I'm even more detached from reality than I thought, I have a hunch you're mixing me up with that other long haired bearded MIDI maker

[BluePineapple72]

Just now, Doomkid said:

Uhh, unless I'm even more detached from reality than I thought, I have a hunch you're mixing me up with that other long haired bearded MIDI maker

Ah. I’ll update the OP to be more specific. Some particularly rowdy resources you had compiled were used for the secret levels.  

[Jimmy]

Be There And Be Square!

[Doomkid]

Ah. I’ll update the OP to be more specific. Some particularly rowdy resources you had compiled were used for the secret levels.

Whew. For a minute there I thought I'd finally lost touch!

[MemeMind]

 

[Emperor S P O O N]

Is the trailer music "It's Hip To F*** Bees"? That's actually hilarious.

Anyways, congrats. Can't wait to play it.

[Peccatum Mihzamiz]

6 minutes ago, Doomkid said:

Whew. For a minute there I thought I'd finally lost touch!

 

Also: this map set has two gigantic secret maps that do [secret] and use [redacted] from some of your projects. Highly recommended;)

[CBM]

I'm all square now after trying this :-)

[Wyrmwood]

Never played Adventures of Square, but my kids loved it. Don't know if it was intended, but you allow parents to let their younger children play Doom totally guilt free. Their both actually good at Doom, show 0 fear and know it's only game but sometimes I watch them shooting the heart on a table or pressing a hanging corspe looking for secrets and feel a little bad. Thanks to great TC's like this, Hocus Doom and Golden Souls we have a great way to teach the next generation. Definitely try it myself one day, the maps look great.

[Muleke_Trairao]

Found this issue on EVIIIA9. I can see through the map at this spot.

Running on GZDoom 4.8.2.

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And found the same texture issue on map EVIIIA11 at this spot.

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Edited July 15, 2022 by Muleke_Trairao

[Muleke_Trairao]

Found more issues, this time on EVIIIA31:

 

1) Another texture issue on this spot behind the trashcans:

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2) *SPOILER ALERT*

I found two exits on this map and both lead to map EVIIIA13. Is this correct? I thought one of them was a secret exit to EVIIIA32.

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[Peccatum Mihzamiz]

3 hours ago, Muleke_Trairao said:

Found more issues, this time on EVIIIA31:

1) Another texture issue on this spot behind the trashcans
2) *SPOILER ALERT*

I found two exits on this map and both lead to map EVIIIA13. Is this correct? I thought one of them was a secret exit to EVIIIA32.

Hi there, thank you for the feedback! These are my maps. I will go and fix the issues as soon as possible. 
About the secret map:

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Indeed, one of them is supposed to lead to map32. We'll fix that. Thank you! I recommend you warp there with console commands and check it out like that, for now.

 

[Muleke_Trairao]

6 hours ago, Peccatum Mihzamiz said:

Hi there, thank you for the feedback! These are my maps. I will go and fix the issues as soon as possible. 
About the secret map:

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Indeed, one of them is supposed to lead to map32. We'll fix that. Thank you! I recommend you warp there with console commands and check it out like that, for now.

 

You are welcome, Peccatum! Your maps are awesome! :D

EDIT: Also found this in EVIIIA32:

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These three last monsters just stand still and don't attack me, but I can still kill them to finish the map.

 

 

Edited July 15, 2022 by Muleke_Trairao

[BluePineapple72]

In addition to a few map updates, RC2 will compile the square-fulltex pack into the speedsquared pack for ease of launching. I've been told of some issues people have been having with launching the wad with 3 separate pk3s. So I'll just compile two of them together since one of them is smaller.

[Peccatum Mihzamiz]

I just played through the first 11 maps. Great stuff folks! I played on medium difficulty and thought that one or two more maps could use some more balancing perhaps. I got stuck on @Scypek2's map, plus there's one missing texture there. Please have a look and see if you spot anything you might want to tackle. Video over here.

[Scypek2]

Wow, I knew about the missing texture, but the 3d platforms to the red key are completely invisible! I can see a limited palette in your video... were you playing in software renderer? It supports 3d floors, but not sloped 3d floors... Square is such a GZDoom-y game, playing it in software renderer didn't even cross my mind.

 

Edit: the "clipping ladder" (I don't think it's possible at all in hardware renderer for stuff to be drawn under the floor like that) and the "misaligned texture" right after (I set the texture scale to -1 to flip it horizontally, I guess that may be inconsistent between software and hardware too?) seem to be the same issue. I'm surprised there wasn't more broken stuff along the way. That one missing texture was legit though.

Edited July 16, 2022 by Scypek2

[Peccatum Mihzamiz]

@Scypek2 indeed apparently I was playing in software rendering mode. I noticed in map 11 when the sky broke and then switched to hardware rendering mode. I guess we should perhaps advise people to play on hardware mode exclusively @BluePineapple72

[Peccatum Mihzamiz]

Played through the 2nd secret map and maps 12 through 18. Had fun! Video is up here. 

[Muleke_Trairao]

Found this missing texture on EVIIIA16:

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Also, after I have finished this level, I got sent to the first map of the original campaign, E1A1. I don't know why this happened. Maybe because I had to use the "map" command to start EVIIIA32 so it kinda messed up the map rotation? Idk, just guessing here. I can safely start EVIIIA17 and move on, just figured I'd report this.

Edited July 16, 2022 by Muleke_Trairao

[Muleke_Trairao]

Found more issues:

1) On EVIIIA19, the first secret only gets registered if the player stands at this spot (where I'm aiming at).

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2) On EVIIIA20, you can actually jump over and inside one of the enemy closets and get stuck there. It's the one with the three laser robots that opens up after collecting one of the keys (circular key, I think). I had to noclip to get out of there.

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3) On EVIIIA21, this elevator doesn't work, so you can't return without noclipping.

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[sandwedge]

Never played adventures of square but this was a great way to get introduced to it.  Of course all the assets from the game are cool, actually better than I thought once I see all the animation in motion.  But the levels also looked great and had some fun use of vertical spaces with the jump button.  Great themes as well, E1M1, a cheeseburger factory, a dam, it all looks great!

 

 

[Master O]

On 7/13/2022 at 2:27 PM, sandwedge said:

Wow this looks cool!  I've never actually played the adventures of square but this could be a nice way to check it out and see if I want to play all of the original.  Great trailer too, those map fly-throughs are showing off some beautiful levels.  Glad you finally got this out!

 

http://adventuresofsquare.com/downloads.php

 

Adventures of Square - Discord Channel

[BluePineapple72]

Here is RC2

 

It contains:

Added square-fulltex textures

+ Updates to following:
MAP09
MAP12
MAP21

MAP32

Fixed a typo on the credits map.

[Jeans477]

On 7/16/2022 at 8:50 PM, Muleke_Trairao said:

Found this missing texture on EVIIIA16:

  Reveal hidden contents

Also, after I have finished this level, I got sent to the first map of the original campaign, E1A1. I don't know why this happened. Maybe because I had to use the "map" command to start EVIIIA32 so it kinda messed up the map rotation? Idk, just guessing here. I can safely start EVIIIA17 and move on, just figured I'd report this.

I have this same problem, had to warp to EVIIIA17 as well.

Great maps tho; having a blast with these, great work especially for speed mapping.

[BluePineapple72]

Speed Squared has just been archived on the idgames archive!

 

Celebrate the release by jamming to the tunes of the expansion pack's epic soundtrack, now archived on the YouTubes!