IsThis [Boom compatible speedmap] - made in 2.5 hours

[SharkyChip]

Hello everyone

 

As a part of my short ongoing interest into mapping, I've decided to challenge myself to do a speedmap. I've made a few maps, and I've only ever finished one, which I never shared. I've learned a lot from trial and error and from playing WADs, but for the longest time I didn't feel confident in my knowledge of UDB, and honestly, I still don't. In spite of all the self doubt, I decided to have a go at speedmapping, a little challenge I put aside for a long time because I was sure I wouldn't be able to do something decent in a short amount of time. However, a few days ago, I decided to just go for it and see what happens. What you'll be playing here (if you decide to) is the result.

 

I gave myself 2 hours to build everything. This includes the layout, texturing, things, playtesting and balancing. However, I wasn't quite happy with the final result so I gave myself an extra 30 minutes to fix some clearly misaligned textures, add a little more health and ammo and replacing some leftover STARTAN.

 

The map is called 'IsThis' because after a lot of thinking I wasn't able to put a label to this map (I need to improve at texturing, as it's a little all over the place). I thought "is this hell?... rocky hell?... um.. wood" so I went ahead and left it as IsThis.

 

All that aside, here are some details:

 

Format: Boom

IWAD: Doom II

Map replaced: MAP01

Build time: About 2.5 hours

Tested with: GZDoom 4.8.1, DSDA Doom 0.24.1

Jumping/crouching: No

Custom textures: No

Custom music: No (would love to change it, though)

Screenshots:

Spoiler

 

You can download it here 

IsThis.zip

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Fell free to, and please, leave your thoughts. I'm open to criticism, tips, advice, anything! And, thanks in advance for playing my map. 

Edited August 7, 2022 by SharkyChip
Added some more details

[Hitman]

Doom II _"IsThis.wad" - MAP01 : "IsThis by SharkyChip" _ UVMax 100% Speedrun Vanilla Mod Pistol Start.

 

 

[Axuris]

Might as well.

 

[RED77]

Cool little map

[Custom Longplay]

A small, fine map without frills!

 

IsThis - [4K] - [100% Secret]

 

 

[IcarusOfDaggers]

IsThis Dungeon?

It does remind me of a small dungeon under the castle.

[Bri0che]

Quite good despite being short :)

Do you have any other mapping plan at this day ?

[SharkyChip]

On 8/18/2022 at 1:30 PM, Briøche said:

Quite good despite being short :)

Do you have any other mapping plan at this day ?

I do! I had an idea for an interesting gimmick I'd like to see in a WAD so I decided to try to do it myself. I'm not saying what it is for now, but I'm looking forward to making it a reality. I've been, however, thinking about uploading the only finished level I have, and continuing to work on other incompleted levels I have laying around. 

[beast]

Nicely done!