MyHouse.wad

[Groplaw]

Lol i wonder if the author at this point is a little bit annoyed there's no way they can profit off all this attention, but honestly its humble nature where literally the only 'push' it received from the author was the original post, and thats it, makes it charming. 

[saruboy]

Been, here since the PCGamer article (great article btw, I know the author is in this thread too!). Got the classic experience of burned down + disappearing house, then reading some hints online, then slowly getting it all. Masterpiece. I have played Doom as a kid and then on and off through the years, occasionally also trying some custom maps and mods, but yeah, this takes the cake for me. Finally decided to also create an account and post - mostly because now that jacksepticeye has done a video this is probably about to blow up even more than it already has. Up to this point I have read the whole thread but if this gets really unreasonably out of hand I think now will be the time to stop :D Thank Veddge, thanks Essel and Jimmy and thanks everybody else here. Regularly lurking in this thread (while simultaneously definitely also working hard at my job) was a lot of fun :) Also I ordered House of Leaves like right after it was mentioned for the first time in this thread and after I read up on it, but apparently I chose some dumb bookstore which actually has to order it for me and... I still dont have it. So yeah after it now also blew up thanks to the wad I expect to get it well.. maybe next year? :D I hope it's sooner tho. All the best to all, this seems like a great community :) 

[princetontiger]

Doom turns 30 this year.

 

I could see a fantastic A-Hed article about the game... and My House get the national

shout out it deserves. You only get to see genius a few times in your life folks. This piece of art ranks with the Great Wave or Starry Night.

[Cacobus]

11 hours ago, Fikri said:

holy crap thats the same exact font used in the mod

[aloysiusfreeman]

Hey everyone, 

 

I'm sorry if all the brand new accounts due to myhouse is getting annoying and what not (fwiw, I've been a big Doom fan for 25~ years)

 

I just noticed something from the Google Drive that I do not believe has been mentioned yet? (Sorry if it has) 

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To further lend evidence that Thomas is a trans-man and is the A in the S+A (Anna?); in the photos of the Google Drive, there are a bunch of high school photos listed. One of them is a photo of a Girls Cross Country team. In Thomas's obituary, he is described as running high school cross country. I mean, that is pretty blatant. 

 

I just can't believe how much a god damn mod is flooring me. It's so overwhelming but it's also so amazing for a work of art like this to capture me. I'll be thinking of this for a long time. 

 

Another thing that's probably minor but I've just find an attachment too is that 

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Veddge is probably from Minnesota? In the airport shop there were Minnesota tshirts, JJ Hardy played for the Twins for a season, and in the Steve Nelson obituary his mother's maiden name is Trutwin - I thought that was an odd name that was supposed to be either symbolize True Twin or True Win, and when I googled it I saw something how most Trutwin's are from Minnesota. Heh

 

[Devalaous]

I cant stop thinking about this wad after beating it.

 

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The entire optional hidden hospital part for example, a looping spiral where the room you wake up in, is basically the room in the House with the labyrinth door. The window to the outdoors is sealed by a brick wall, and the only other room enter-able is one the player *absolutely* does not want to, the room number is scrambled, both on the wall, and on the pickup text. Kinda gives off a massive trauma vibe overall; I know my family members have hospital traumas, my mother in particular feels like they are places you go to die. And in this case...we have a hospital with brickwalls behind windows and eternal corridors from which there is no escape. I can definitely see some thoughts of 'no getting out of here'

The room that does not want to be remembered is the most offputting thing in the entire thing for me. The airport bathroom is just plain horror and a jumpscare that launches right when your tension hits the ceiling. The labyrinth is 100% tension and unease where the only bad things that will happen is if you fall off the infinite staircase or drown in the pool. In this case...you have an audible flatline even as you pass that door, and the absolute dread and horror when you realise the key is for THAT door, and you can just make out a person through the door. Your all alone in a repeating hell, and the only way forward is to enter a room with a dead person sitting upright in a room that loudly flatlines, even louder as you enter. The brave that investigate the room have to do so as that noise blares and they catch glimpses of this figure in bed...who seems to be watching you due to how sprites work.

 

The empty pills being so hard to grab actually makes me think they were meant to be a decoration, and Vedgge just plain reused the bathrooms pill bottle instead of cloning the appearance to save some time; most people wont ever see the Hospital blind afterall (And given the oddball soulsphere nonsense that seems to be relics of an earlier implementation..). Especially since the empty pills are a flavour item. I'm guessing the figure, the pills, and the refusal to recall the room number implies a very traumatic event. You can infact open the door and run straight at the AED without even *looking* at the figure, so thats a welcome mercy.

 

[ebrl]

1 hour ago, Groplaw said:

Lol i wonder if the author at this point is a little bit annoyed there's no way they can profit off all this attention, but honestly its humble nature where literally the only 'push' it received from the author was the original post, and thats it, makes it charming. 

I'm pretty sure everything has played out almost exactly as intended so far, even if some things needed a little nudge here and there. After all, the author's hand has reached far into this thread, and that isn't even a secret.

[Dan_kowalski]

21 minutes ago, ebrl said:

I'm pretty sure everything has played out almost exactly as intended so far, even if some things needed a little nudge here and there. After all, the author's hand has reached far into this thread, and that isn't even a secret.

what do you mean?

I actually think there is something special in how there is no monetization of this whole thing. reminds me of the early days of the internet when people just made things for the sake of it. Not to become famous or get money or thank our sponsor or build some brand and branch out. The innocence of this project was part of its charm.

Fuck.. now that I think of that there is nothing on the internet to really hold me back. I mean yeah there are few niche forums and communties but as a whole this place just became too commercialized. every thing is googled/facebook/microsoft/apple. opening a browser makes me feel like Im getting into a skinner box.
 

 

 

Edited May 23, 2023 by Dan_kowalski

[TurtlesAWD]

Hi all, joining the legion of first time posters wanting to talk about this game.

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Reading through most of this thread, I've seen some talk about Tom being trans and it kind of occurs to me building off that, which I haven't really seen brought up, is they could both be. The obituary has been mentioned as maybe a metaphor for transition, we do have two of those, both dated before the thread was started. I also kind of wonder about the mirror dream - "I was shaving and I saw my reflection wink at me so I went in the mirror and winked back at myself" is pretty readable as someone experimenting with gender. I don't know how well that matches up with the gameplay of the mirror world in the context of the wad itself, or if it would need to really.

This seems like a possibility to me but also because this is maybe about real people who may or may not still be with us, I feel somewhat uncomfortable speculating too deeply - even though the blurring of the lines between fiction and reality, the mystery and metaphors used, and posting of the wad itself feels like at least a degree of an invitation to do so.

 

Edited May 23, 2023 by TurtlesAWD

[NoName667]

On 3/2/2023 at 11:01 PM, Veddge said:

On 3/2/2023 at 11:01 PM, Veddge said:

MyHouse

 

Excited to finally release this tribute map. Last August I lost a good childhood friend of mine and took it pretty hard. When I was visiting my hometown for his funeral, I connected with his parents who shared with me some of his old belongings. Among them was a copy of an old map of his backed up on a 3.5” floppy from high school. Thomas and I were into amateur Doom mapping in the early 00s but I had never seen this map of his prior to uncovering it on one of the old floppy discs. As a way of paying tribute to him and all the great memories we had together, I took the plunge and installed Doom Builder in order to polish up his map and add a few modern amenities just for convenience sake.

 

I haven’t touched an editor in over 15 years so it was quite a surprise to find out how easy mapping has become. I may have gotten a little carried away with these new UDMF features and, as such, the map is designed for GZDoom. From the text file:

 

• Doom 2 - GZDoom, hardware renderer
• 1 map: Not much of a challenge and roughly 10 minutes of play time. All difficulty settings implemented.
• Jumping & crouching disabled, freelook is fine
• Lots of Doomcute!

 

Making maps of your house was all the rage back-in-the-day, but I feel like this is a pretty adorable and detailed tribute to my friend and a great way to share something of him with a community we loved. Miss you, Tom.

 

Download myhouse.wad

 

Screenshots:

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A damn triumph.  

[TasAcri]

I'm trying this map now but i'm not sure if the things i'm witnessing are bugs or intended behavior.

 

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The doors open with a different animation after a while

 

Also, can i use this map with a music mod? Or any other mod (like the smooth weapon animations?).

 

It starts with the regular MAP01 music and if i try to use a music mod it works for a while but then it drops for some reason and the MAP01 music comes back again.

Edited May 23, 2023 by TasAcri

[ShallowB]

What you're seeing is intended.

 

It's best to run this with no mods at all.

Edited May 23, 2023 by ShallowB

[TasAcri]

31 minutes ago, ShallowB said:

What you're seeing is intended.

 

It's best to run this with no mods at all.

 

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Is the weird behavior with the weapons changing and not being able to change back (so you get stuck with the pistol) also intended?

 

[Gentlepoke]

20 hours ago, ebrl said:

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Seems to be entirely fabricated. The funeral house mentioned doesn't seem to exist, some the dates don't really match, and I have reasons to believe - from both a gut feeling and a bit of research on the paper and other assorted files in the folder - that every single person in there is an AI-generated face.

 

As for "Tom" and "Steve", they have already been long and thoroughly proven to be fabrications, at least in the exact terms the story presents them - in fact, the story kind of falls apart if anything regarding them is "real", since both the nature of their relationship and their fate change depending on your route.

 

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It does appear to be fabricated, for example the obituary for Norman Edward Penske was taken from this real obituary: https://burlingtonbeacon.com/posts/46a5d3f9-62c4-4600-be80-507420dd01a5. The picture for the person is different as well, so it is quite likely AI generated images / slight change of details.

 

[Devalaous]

30 minutes ago, ShallowB said:

What you're seeing is intended.

 

It's best to run this with no mods at all.

 

Oh how awkward, I literally just finished watching your blind run on Youtube, and here you are.

Im noticing that every blind run I watch has largely the same progression and reactions

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Every player circles House 0, enters House 1 and enjoys it, and almost all of them miss the soulsphere, largely because mouse movement is so fast that the camera never focuses on the window long enough for the alluring trap to catch attention. Most go to Underhalls, failing to notice the darker sector lighting and the height change, and the second run is bolder with that SSG in hand. The boldness instantly falls when the changes start becoming apparant, whether its noticing the smooth weapons, the discord sound, or especially the music being..off. The attic terrifies people, and after the blue key is picked up, people run right past the impossible door multiple times as they panic after seeing the doors are gone, and the music is ramping up in errors. I have yet to see anyone open the Navidson Corridor or find a different path, its always the burned house. While there, NOONE notices the basement changing to brutalist, largely because most people cant see a damn thing. You at least noticed the sky change though!

The Brutalist house is when people all seem to acclimate to 'we arent in the house anymore' and adopt an uneasy tense wonder at these dimensions. Nonoe questions the impossible hallways linking two versions of the same house by this point. Its just accepted.

 

4 minutes ago, TasAcri said:

 

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Is the weird behavior with the weapons changing and not being able to change back (so you get stuck with the pistol) also intended?

 

No mods, period. The only mods I used that worked were Nightfright's brightmaps and fullscreen hud. The level has a lot of control effects to enforce you play as the author intended. No cheats, no mods.

[Fazbear300]

On 5/19/2023 at 11:14 AM, invictius said:

On youtube, this one was called Dooms' most terrifying mod.

I saw that video. Just from it ALONE gave me the chills.

[Fazbear300]

I also got the WAD to work, but I do hope that BD becomes compatible with it in the future.

[Velvetic]

1 minute ago, Fazbear300 said:

I also got the WAD to work, but I do hope that BD becomes compatible with it in the future.

no

[Groplaw]

26 minutes ago, Gentlepoke said:

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It does appear to be fabricated, for example the obituary for Norman Edward Penske was taken from this real obituary: https://burlingtonbeacon.com/posts/46a5d3f9-62c4-4600-be80-507420dd01a5. The picture for the person is different as well, so it is quite likely AI generated images / slight change of details.

 

 

 

Honestly that a pretty good use case of AI art generation, which i usually loath.  You need pictures for your project, but it would be hella tacky and creepy to use real peoples obit photos and names.

[Fazbear300]

12 minutes ago, Velvetic said:

no

It's because I'm in a small area with a lot of windows and the glare is going to cause major problems in dark sections... BD has a flashlight that works wonders for me.

[Fazbear300]

I did NOT expect the Backrooms section to trigger my sedatephobia (the fear of silence). The motivational kitty is VERY appreciated.

Edited May 23, 2023 by Fazbear300
Forgot something.

[Devalaous]

9 minutes ago, Fazbear300 said:

I did NOT expect the Backrooms section to trigger my sedatephobia (the fear of silence). The motivational kitty is VERY appreciated.

 

Oh thats not silence. Somewhere ELSE is silent.

[Fazbear300]

22 minutes ago, Devalaous said:

 

Oh thats not silence. Somewhere ELSE is silent.

Besides the entities, the Backrooms section is in complete silence. When my sedatephobia is triggered, a pen dropping can potentially scare me. An entity scared me so bad that I, a horror FANATIC, wanted to cry.

[Devalaous]

No, it has the buzzing sounds. There is a different location you can find that is utterly, absolutely, dead silent.

[ultra_kek]

1 hour ago, Fazbear300 said:

It's because I'm in a small area with a lot of windows and the glare is going to cause major problems in dark sections... BD has a flashlight that works wonders for me.

If you really are having trouble with visibility, you could use the summon command to spawn the Infrared (bypassing the "give" command being disabled by the wad), or use a mod that just adds a flashlight. I just checked Flashlight++ and it seems to be fully compatible.

[cowgod]

I have been trying to get through this wad for 3 days.  I almost got a heart attack.  I don't think I can finish it, even though I really, really want to.

[alastortenebris]

6 hours ago, Cacobus said:

holy crap thats the same exact font used in the mod

Not sure what you're replying to since that image is gone, but I'm pretty sure that font is Cooper Black, a fairly popular font you'll see often once you recognize it.

 

Come to think of it, that's probably why it was chosen.

Edited May 24, 2023 by alastortenebris

[Coopersville]

Got too spooked once the lights turned off.

[thomasthetankengine]

why are yall so dedicated to this random guy's house 💀💀💀

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(joke)

 

[AlSmith]

EDIT: Forget I said anything.

Edited May 24, 2023 by AlSmith
I got a little ahead of myself.