Cacowards 2023 Mentionation Thread: You Don't Need To Post Myhouse Again

[natashanightmare]

 

[msx2plus]

+1 for DEFY THE OMPHALOS

 

 

[Lagoonatic]

+1 for BOOMER BEYOND VANILLA

A MUST PLAY for anybody who loves exploration, lovingly crafted architecture, well balanced gameplay, and SUPERB midi

All while using the standard DOOM II resources!

 

[cannonball]

+1 to the 1x1 project. Taking something that was great and turning it up to… well… one (That analogy doesn’t work well).

Anyway this is the kind of restriction led project I like and it creates quite a remarkable set of maps with so little. Great job. 

[StillWind85]

+1 to Break// Point//. Fantastic set of levels by some very talented mappers.

 

 

Edited August 25, 2023 by StillWind85

[Gothic]

Old wad that never got recognition in the past, maybe now it can:

 

[JonExMachina]

I had an amazing time with this megawad and can safely say it is one of the best I played this year. Pure vanilla satisfaction.

 

[Jaska]

If you liked myhouse, this might interest you:

 

@Tomppa84

 

It's technically very impressive. This kind of mod I've never seen. Not going to spoil more. 

 

[Master O]

I second @Lagoonatic's nomination of BOOMER: Beyond Vanilla:

 

 

[Goldar]

Back to add a +1 for Lost Civilization 2. Wow.

[DoomDork]

+1 for Break//Point//

Amazing level design. One of my favorite wads so far this year.

Edited August 29, 2023 by DoomDork

[RileyXY1]

I might make an Espi Award nomination, and that's for Chi Hoang. I'm nominating him for creating the very first source port ever released for the game, that being DOSDoom. Every single source port ever to exist derives from DOSDoom in some way, most notably EDGE which is its most direct successor. It even lives on as complevel5 in PrBoom+.

[natashanightmare]

This should win a cacoward 

 

[SilverHurling]

I want to give my thumbs up to Sekhemti.wad!

Go give it a try if you like adventure wads, it has it all (included some devilish traps) enjoyable combat and very well hidden secrets

 

@Shawn your work is fantastic

Edited August 31, 2023 by SilverHurling

[FieryGuardian]

Insanity Edged deserves a Cacoward IMO.

Edited September 2, 2023 by FieryGuardian

[netcurse2000]

 

[RoastDoom]

+1 for Ismo's Quest. Technically and graphically impressive with some really cool story-beats, plot twists and progression. It manages to be really wholesome and quite dark at the same time aswell!

[raddicted]

+1

Edited September 7, 2023 by raddicted

[taufan99]

+1 for Doom: Extinction. While many other projects have taken inspiration from the Alpha Doom maps (including but not limited to the WIP Tom's Halls, which I'm also part of), this mapset takes a different approach of instead using earlier forms of D64 levels made for DOOM II, while also featuring two original levels still inspired by D64.

 

[Scuba Steve]

On 9/4/2023 at 6:26 AM, RoastDoom said:

+1 for Ismo's Quest. Technically and graphically impressive with some really cool story-beats, plot twists and progression. It manages to be really wholesome and quite dark at the same time aswell!

Yeah... there's a moment where this causes a real problem, and I think it's because the map was not made by an American. You play as a toddler and eventually come across a... gun... in the house. That you can then use. One of the enemies is your... brother. Accidental gun deaths are the leading cause of death among children in the United States, and the map plays it so silly that I almost simply quit. Because gun violence is basically unique to the United States among developed nations, I think this project hits differently for me.

[Jaska]

2 hours ago, Scuba Steve said:

Yeah... there's a moment where this causes a real problem, and I think it's because the map was not made by an American. You play as a toddler and eventually come across a... gun... in the house. That you can then use. One of the enemies is your... brother. Accidental gun deaths are the leading cause of death among children in the United States, and the map plays it so silly that I almost simply quit. Because gun violence is basically unique to the United States among developed nations, I think this project hits differently for me.

 

There was a time when my schoolmates brought shotguns to the school. They went hunting after the school, it was normal to have guns there. Nowadays it would be different, propably.

Edited September 7, 2023 by Jaska
typos

[dasho]

2 hours ago, Scuba Steve said:

Accidental gun deaths are the leading cause of death among children in the United States

 

Surely there must be some qualifier here, I refuse to believe accidental gun death outranks all diseases and other types of accidents.

[Not Jabba]

16 minutes ago, dasho said:

 

Surely there must be some qualifier here, I refuse to believe accidental gun death outranks all diseases and other types of accidents.

To clarify, guns are the leading cause of death among children in the US, both accidental and intentional.

[dasho]

Just now, Not Jabba said:

To clarify, guns are the leading cause of death among children in the US, both accidental and intentional.

 

Fair enough, if you take out accidental it becomes much more plausible. Sad, but plausible.

[Scuba Steve]

Worth derailing the thread for a few posts because the statement I made is so ludicrous, you almost don't believe it. Yes, in the United States, firearm-related injuries have now overtaken motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents—almost 6 in every 100,000. Over the last 100 years, we statistically eliminated illnesses as a leading cause of death due to the effectiveness of vaccines in children. 

[Snaxalotl]

WOOOOO AMERICA #1!!!!!!

[Doomkid]

We should give America an honorary Cacoward for bringing real life closer to Deathmatch with each passing day. All those hours in DWANGO servers are gonna pay off soon!!

don't want to derail the thread further, but uh, it would be a kind of nice change of pace of America could be #1 among developed nations in literally any stat that isn't awful, heh. Healthcare? Workers rights? Mandated vacation days? Bottom of the 1st world barrel.. Gun deaths though? NUMBER ONE BABY 🦅 🇺🇸

[dasho]

32 minutes ago, Scuba Steve said:

Worth derailing the thread for a few posts because the statement I made is so ludicrous, you almost don't believe it. Yes, in the United States, firearm-related injuries have now overtaken motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents—almost 6 in every 100,000. Over the last 100 years, we statistically eliminated illnesses as a leading cause of death due to the effectiveness of vaccines in children. 

 

Would be a bit more honest to make "children and adolescents" be comprised of 0-17 year olds, instead of 1-19 (18-19 are both legally adults and of the age to purchase firearms in the US which would skew the "children and firearms" angle a bit. 

[Not Jabba]

22 minutes ago, dasho said:

 

Would be a bit more honest to make "children and adolescents" be comprised of 0-17 year olds, instead of 1-19 (18-19 are both legally adults and of the age to purchase firearms in the US which would skew the "children and firearms" angle a bit. 

 

Ok, well, here is a breakdown of why they made the comparison that way, how well the statistic holds up without 18-19 year olds, and other useful information from the first result when I googled "leading cause of death in children in US."

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

1 hour ago, Scuba Steve said:

Worth derailing the thread for a few posts

Not really, to be honest. I think the people looking at this thread are here to look at Doom maps. There's plenty of other places to talk about gun violence. We all know nothing good comes out of these conversations here. I don't think we need a long argument revolving around technical details regarding children being killed with guns in a Cacowards Nomination thread.

 

No disrespect towards anybody intended.

Edited September 8, 2023 by TheMagicMushroomMan