I believe I have created the largest and densest maze possible in Doom

[jpsplat]

Hi everybody, this is my first post on Doomworld ever so please forgive me if I'm breaking rules or formatting things poorly. Anyway, I believe I have created the largest and densest maze possible in a modern doom source port such as Gzdoom. I don't know if that's absolutely correct, regardless I am pretty sure its the largest one thus far. The whole maze is full of monsters, and you need to find 3 keys to exit which are randomly placed in the maze. This was made with a combination of the utility 
https://keesiemeijer.github.io/maze-generator/
 and great tool PNG2WAD which can be found here https://github.com/akaAgar/png2wad

Anyway the whole maze pretty much looks the same, I wanted different parts to be different colors but making big selections caused my computer to chug and I'm not really a modder anyway so feel free to make any modifications yourself.

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Here it is! Have fun.
 

Also while I'm here, thanks doom modding community for providing me with nearly 20 years of entertainment, some of yall are dang creative!

Edit: Benjogami fixed it up a bit, download the newest version here. Thanks again Benjogami!
Edit2: For some reason when I went to edit this post, it added a bunch of random screenshots of other stuff? Not sure why but I got rid of it. Sorry about that.
Edit3: If you have performance issues using GzDoom with this map, try LZDoom or Helion C#.

EDIT4: Version 2 is here with elevated sections, a big staircase, and key towers that also function as lifts. But don't stay up there too long or you will get cooked!
crazyMaze v2.0.zip <OLD
Known issue with version 2: The whole automap is revealed at the very start which makes navigation harder. This is unintentional and I'm not sure how to fix it. Sorry :(

 

EDIT5: Version 2.1 is here with a couple new elevated areas, invulnerability spheres to make required elevated areas possible on source ports other than GZdoom, 2 teleporters that will take the player out of what I considered to be the nastiest and most confusing dead ends and put them back on the main path, and item/monster placement that serve as a hint as to where the player should leave the main path to look for keys.
Check it out here! \/
crazyMaze v2.1.zip

This will probably be the last update for a while.

VERSION 2 screenshots:

 

A big staircase section full of arachnotrons!

 

view of key towers from on top of the stairs

 

view from on top of the blue tower.

 

Try turning on noclip and flying around! Its a good time.

Just keep making left turns, and Valhalla takes care of the rest.

 

Version 2.1 additions:

Invulnerability sphere near first raised section

 

New raised section

 

A naturally occuring pi shape. This pi is at the end of the worst and biggest detour tho, so I put a teleporter in it that brings you back to the right path.

 

follow these health bonus trails to know when to veer off the main path to look for keys!

Edited November 30, 2022 by jpsplat
including a new edit that fixes performance, getting rid of pics added on accident, adding source port recomendations, adding version 2, formatting

[esselfortium]

But why?

[RataUnderground]

a mazing : p

[jpsplat]

3 minutes ago, esselfortium said:

But why?

I wanted to see what the largest and densest maze possible in Doom would be like.

[Smoothandz]

This is truly a crowning achievement in madness

[Liberation]

I'll be more impressed if it was a crate maze.

[magicsofa]

Does it work in vanilla tho?

[Herr Dethnout]

47 minutes ago, jpsplat said:

I have created the largest and densest maze possible in a modern doom source port such as Gzdoom.

Well, technically you didn't create it, just used a maze generator an converted the generated image into a wad with another program. So that title remains to The Given.

Anyway, this map doesn't look more like than a simple curiosity :P

[Benjogami]

Very cool :)

 

1 hour ago, jpsplat said:

[...] I'm not really a modder anyway so feel free to make any modifications yourself.

 

Oh okay! This ran very poorly for me in GZDoom, so I made some edits to make it work in dsda-doom:

• Centered the map around 0,0 (approximately)
• Randomized thing angles to multiples of 45 degrees
• Rebuilt nodes with ZDBSP

And now it seems to work from my ~10 seconds of testing.

 

crazyMaze_edit.zip

[Tarnsman]

BigMaze.wad better move aside.

[Gothic]

You missed the chance to make it a giant hedge maze instead.

[Murdoch]

 

1 hour ago, esselfortium said:

But why?

 

Yeah this definitely falls into the "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should" category.

Good job though. It's definitely a dense maze. You absolutely madman.

[kwc]

Make one for plutonia.wad :P
 

Spoiler

 

[spineapple tea]

If this is vanilla (frankly, I'm not in the mood to figure out if it is), then it'd be especially funny if around some corners was exactly 129 visplanes just to crash your game if you made any wrong moves.

[scwiba]

Forgive me but these look like 128-wide corridors and relatively thick walls. You could easily make all the corridors 33-wide for a much denser maze.

[jpsplat]

5 minutes ago, scwiba said:

Forgive me but these look like 128-wide corridors and relatively thick walls. You could easily make all the corridors 33-wide for a much denser maze.

you are forgiven! and you are also correct.

[jpsplat]

18 minutes ago, Benjogami said:

Very cool :)

 

 

Oh okay! This ran very poorly for me in GZDoom, so I made some edits to make it work in dsda-doom:

• Centered the map around 0,0 (approximately)
• Randomized thing angles to multiples of 45 degrees
• Rebuilt nodes with ZDBSP

And now it seems to work from my ~10 seconds of testing.

 

crazyMaze_edit.zip

this is the one you want to download^ thanks for your input.

[sandwedge]

Have you beaten your own map?

[Maribo]

36 minutes ago, scwiba said:

Forgive me but these look like 128-wide corridors and relatively thick walls. You could easily make all the corridors 33-wide for a much denser maze.

Make it 32 so I have to glide every single turn :)

[Kan3]

Holy Linguini! And I was thinking that I was the one who made one of the biggest 

 

Outclassed.

1 hour ago, jpsplat said:

Also while I'm here, thanks doom modding community for providing me with nearly 20 years of entertainment, some of yall are dang creative!

 

I believe you just gave us 20 years of play with this map x)

[sandwedge]

17 minutes ago, Kan3 said:

Holy Linguini! And I was thinking that I was the one who made one of the biggest 

 

Outclassed.

I believe you just gave us 20 years of play with this map x)

 

dear lord kan3 why lol.  I will say for a maze it at least looks like there's some stuff going on in there that was actually designed by a human being so you're winner in my book

[Shepardus]

This is what I imagine playing Wolfenstein 3D is like.

[sandwedge]

4 minutes ago, Shepardus said:

This is what I imagine playing Wolfenstein 3D is like.

 

Call the OP, say AARDWOLF

[IcarusOfDaggers]

Errrm...how the fuck your UDB didn't crash @Kan3?

 

As for op...this is going to the short list of "Stress testers" lol. Not home at the moment, so can't download

[spineapple tea]

37 minutes ago, Shepardus said:

This is what I imagine playing Wolfenstein 3D is like.

You're not too far off.

[xScavengerWolfx]

Just looking at that auto map alone is making my brain saying "nope"

 

[Thelokk]

3 hours ago, esselfortium said:

But why?

 

... why not?

 

 

Excellent work @jpsplat, I love this kind of boundary stretching for its own sake, might give it a shot later today.

Edited November 23, 2022 by Thelokk

[fai1025]

CIA should use this to torture people

[Andromeda]

200 IQ way to submit a SLIGE level, impressive!

Edited November 23, 2022 by Andromeda

[Dubbag]

I've had nightmares about this very moment.