MyHouse.wad

[Krieghor]

26 minutes ago, Wub Nub said:

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Howdy, I have collected all of the items but when I try and open the fence I just see a grave with a qr code on it. How do I make it to the gas-station? Thanks in advance!

 

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Collect all the items without burning the house

 

[aloysiusfreeman]

I'm in the middle of ruining my brain in analyzing this - it's the most fun I've had in a long time (I also feel like Johnny Truant) 

 

My response TangoBunny is that

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I am on the firm belief that Thomas is a trans man, and was a lover of Steve pre-transition. Think this by the bathroom sign changes, the heart on the tree and beach is S(teve) + A, and I think A is for Anna (on the airport screen, theres the HELP ME message, as well as ANNA). Also in Toms obituary, there is a reference to him being in cross country in high school. The only cross country reference is a photo in the Google Drive, it looks like a high school Girls Cross Country team.

 

Now, I've been thinking a lot of the baby bottle and the stillborn from the dream. For now, my guess is that in Steve and Toms (Anna) high school relationship they rolled for intercourse and Tom (Anna) became pregnant. Whether through a miscarriage/abortion, the pregnancy was never meant to be. Also, I feel like the anxiety of the airplane is that back to the airport screen the flight seems to be for Dallas as thats the only one on time. I wonder after whatever happened in their relationship in high school with a failed pregnancy that Steve and his family moved away and he hated it, hence the HELP ME ANNA message. 

 

Someone also mentioned in House of Leaves there was a stillborn in a crib reference - I just started reading it again so maybe I will pick up on it some more.

 

Edited May 25, 2023 by aloysiusfreeman
SOmeone posted while I did, wanted to be clear it was to TangoBunny

[TangoBunny]

2 minutes ago, aloysiusfreeman said:

I'm in the middle of ruining my brain in analyzing this - it's the most fun I've had in a long time (I also feel like Johnny Truant) 

 

My response TangoBunny is that

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I am on the firm belief that Thomas is a trans man, and was a lover of Steve pre-transition. Think this by the bathroom sign changes, the heart on the tree and beach is S(teve) + A, and I think A is for Anna (on the airport screen, theres the HELP ME message, as well as ANNA). Also in Toms obituary, there is a reference to him being in cross country in high school. The only cross country reference is a photo in the Google Drive, it looks like a high school Girls Cross Country team.

 

Now, I've been thinking a lot of the baby bottle and the stillborn from the dream. For now, my guess is that in Steve and Toms (Anna) high school relationship they rolled for intercourse and Tom (Anna) became pregnant. Whether through a miscarriage/abortion, the pregnancy was never meant to be. Also, I feel like the anxiety of the airplane is that back to the airport screen the flight seems to be for Dallas as thats the only one on time. I wonder after whatever happened in their relationship in high school with a failed pregnancy that Steve and his family moved away and he hated it, hence the HELP ME ANNA message. 

 

Someone also mentioned in House of Leaves there was a stillborn in a crib reference - I just started reading it again so maybe I will pick up on it some more.

 

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I'm personally of the opinion that the 'ANNA' reading/name is coincidental and unintentional - Just a bunch of corrupt text to distract you from the "Ma, aka, Help Me" message, and these scrambled letters just happen to rearrange the A and N twice.

But you could be right about everything else - things like having a period, HRT pills, and rolling for intercourse. I just think the 'A' is referencing the surname, like maybe instead of going by Thomas Allord, they go by Allie or Al (depending on which way around you want to believe) as a nickname.

 

[Rick Vitamin]

1 hour ago, Gez said:

Well, for one, it is actually pixelated because it's in low 320x200 resolution (well, the actual image in the pk3 is in widescreen-friendly 560x200). It's also crunched into an 8-bit palette, with dithering applied to try to fake back in some of the lost color depth.

 

Thanks so much! I love how it looks.

[Groplaw]

16 minutes ago, TangoBunny said:

I've been churning this map (and its story) over in my head for the past few days, and I figured I'd post here asking if anyone could disprove some thoughts rattling around in my skull. They're the kind of storyline thoughts that are likely false, but I can't think of a good reason why they're false, and that always bothers me!

 

 

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At this point, we all know about Steve and Tom A's adult identities, but I'm more concerned about the baby references:
The baby bottle 'it wasn't meant to be' collectable and the stillborn baby in the daycare dream.

First, just to note, I'm talking about the baby part. There are lots of child references like "I want Pop" from the Pepsi, and "Ma, aka, Help Me" from the airport, and the smaller/larger sized areas where the dog is, and tons more that aren't springing to mind, and those are explained by either Tom or Steve being a child at some point at an age where they can talk.

But the baby part!  The bottle and dream indicate a stillborn baby is involved somehow.  But how is babby formed????

The guts and blood-creatures (on easier difficulties) in the airport bathroom that occurred following a delayed flight could also reference an early baby delivery - especially if the pills are birth control pills - but that's speculation. The hospital bed could also be representing someone being at the hospital to give birth, not because of injury.

So now, I'm thinking...
Steve and Tom are the two main characters, but they're not being haunted by each other.  They're being haunted not only by the stillborn child, but the stillborn child's now-deceased mother. And that's where I'm starting to doubt myself at the addition of two extra unmentioned unknown characters, but I can't think of a reason to disprove it.

If it's the mother of the unborn child that's adding things to the map, that'd explain the empty crib and baby bottle, the early delivery at the airport, the birth control/pain relief pills, and the haunting dreams about wanting a child to grow older. Plus, if Steve and Tom both died at the same time as the QR code shows, then they could be all connected in death - something like the mother delivering early in the bathroom before boarding the plane, and then the plane crashes with the distraught mom and Steve and Tom all aboard it, resulting in all three deaths somehow combining in the afterlife and mixing up with each other.

Ghost of Steve dying in the plane crash while thinking, "Aw dang I love Doom and I love Tom!!! I want to make a Doom map about Tom!!!"
Ghost of Tom dying in the plane crash while thinking, "Yeah I was making a Doom map of my house but holy crap I'm scared of planes it reminds me of all the times I was scared as a child and now the plane is crashing"
Ghost of Stillborn's Mom dying in the plane crash while thinking "Oh my god everything is going very badly, and I want to document the horror"
...and those three thoughts all converge in death.

(Plus, if you want to get even crazier, add Ghost of Stillborn Baby into the mix too, thinking, "My entire life involves being stuck in a very dark place filled with liquid while hearing people screaming around me.")

So yeah... that's where I'm kind of at right now. It seems implausible. But I can't disprove it.
So I invite people to find my flaws, else I will become a MatPat, and that would be terrible.

 

 

I think its a mistake to try and come at it from the angle of "This is T H E story".  One of the main themes of it feels like choice.

 

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From the basics of it being a game, something interactive by nature, you have choice, you have a choice in paths, you have a choice in endings, and even the characters in the story have choices.  The narrator is constantly on about the person in the mirror, making other choices, he talks about his regrets and the choices he made.

 

I don't think there is "the story" because I think what the story is, depends on the choices made.

 

Like the whole thing with the grave and "the author is dead", no, Steve Nelson isn't dead unless you make the conscious choice to burn the house down.  To see that he died with Tom, you have to first complete everything, and see the real ending right in front of you, to know what you need to do next, to fight for happiness, and instead just decide to give up, and end it.  Steve is dead when you burn the house down because you chose to give up and die, that ending is his suicide.

 

If you fight through the grief, and tough it out, Steve comes through the other end finding peace.  Steve isn't dead if you don't give up.

 

 

 

Besides that, i think the difference in the mirror world and regular world show this as well, in one a car hits a tree, in another it makes it to the gas station and bad choices seem to happen.  In one theres no child, in another an empty crib and a life with a child.  Or maybe in one the child died and in the other they grew up and thats why theres no crib.

 

The game is riddled with those elements, which is why I think its a mistake to try and fit EVERYTHING in to one big overall narrative.

 

 

[TangoBunny]

2 minutes ago, Groplaw said:

 

I think its a mistake to try and come at it from the angle of "This is T H E story".  One of the main themes of it feels like choice.

 

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From the basics of it being a game, something interactive by nature, you have choice, you have a choice in paths, you have a choice in endings, and even the characters in the story have choices.  The narrator is constantly on about the person in the mirror, making other choices, he talks about his regrets and the choices he made.

 

I don't think there is "the story" because I think what the story is, depends on the choices made.

 

Like the whole thing with the grave and "the author is dead", no, Steve Nelson isn't dead unless you make the conscious choice to burn the house down.  To see that he died with Tom, you have to first complete everything, and see the real ending right in front of you, to know what you need to do next, to fight for happiness, and instead just decide to give up, and end it.  Steve is dead when you burn the house down because you chose to give up and die, that ending is his suicide.

 

If you fight through the grief, and tough it out, Steve comes through the other end finding peace.  Steve isn't dead if you don't give up.

 

 

 

Besides that, i think the difference in the mirror world and regular world show this as well, in one a car hits a tree, in another it makes it to the gas station and bad choices seem to happen.  In one theres no child, in another an empty crib and a life with a child.  Or maybe in one the child died and in the other they grew up and thats why theres no crib.

 

The game is riddled with those elements, which is why I think its a mistake to try and fit EVERYTHING in to one big overall narrative.

 

This makes sense to me.
 

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At first, I was questioning why the journal would have everything in one document in date order, but then the overlapping dates nearer the end make sense if they're different outcomes all mixed together into one story. It's like peering into parallel universes where a different life played out. Not dreams but visions and experiences of many different possible lives.

A parallel world where he wasn't born at all, a parallel world where he was born a girl, a parallel world where he died in a house fire, and so on.

 

 

[Misha Tarkus]

38 minutes ago, aloysiusfreeman said:

I'm in the middle of ruining my brain in analyzing this - it's the most fun I've had in a long time (I also feel like Johnny Truant) 

 

My response TangoBunny is that

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I am on the firm belief that Thomas is a trans man, and was a lover of Steve pre-transition. Think this by the bathroom sign changes, the heart on the tree and beach is S(teve) + A, and I think A is for Anna (on the airport screen, theres the HELP ME message, as well as ANNA). Also in Toms obituary, there is a reference to him being in cross country in high school. The only cross country reference is a photo in the Google Drive, it looks like a high school Girls Cross Country team.

 

Now, I've been thinking a lot of the baby bottle and the stillborn from the dream. For now, my guess is that in Steve and Toms (Anna) high school relationship they rolled for intercourse and Tom (Anna) became pregnant. Whether through a miscarriage/abortion, the pregnancy was never meant to be. Also, I feel like the anxiety of the airplane is that back to the airport screen the flight seems to be for Dallas as thats the only one on time. I wonder after whatever happened in their relationship in high school with a failed pregnancy that Steve and his family moved away and he hated it, hence the HELP ME ANNA message. 

 

Someone also mentioned in House of Leaves there was a stillborn in a crib reference - I just started reading it again so maybe I will pick up on it some more.

 

Reply 1

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There is an issue to any theories that assume Steve and Tom were currently lovers in reality - Veddge tells us in his posts he hadn't seen his friend in over a decade. You'd see your partner everyday, wouldn't you? It leads to my personal theory the game is about Steve somehow creating a world where he and Steve rekindled their old passions - I do think Tom being genderquestioning is very possible (swapped bathroom plaques) but I feel that's more a cosnequence of their memories and anxieties somehow mixing.

 

As for TangoBunny, I do think the stillborn baby is key, but I think instead it was a child that Tom had with a woman (and that is stillborn in the mirror world, being a reality Steve created where hea nd Tom got together and thus the child never existed) - it's 'stillborn' in the sense it didn't get to be in the mirror.

 

 

28 minutes ago, Groplaw said:

28 minutes ago, Groplaw said:

 

I think its a mistake to try and come at it from the angle of "This is T H E story".  One of the main themes of it feels like choice.

 

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From the basics of it being a game, something interactive by nature, you have choice, you have a choice in paths, you have a choice in endings, and even the characters in the story have choices.  The narrator is constantly on about the person in the mirror, making other choices, he talks about his regrets and the choices he made.

 

I don't think there is "the story" because I think what the story is, depends on the choices made.

 

Like the whole thing with the grave and "the author is dead", no, Steve Nelson isn't dead unless you make the conscious choice to burn the house down.  To see that he died with Tom, you have to first complete everything, and see the real ending right in front of you, to know what you need to do next, to fight for happiness, and instead just decide to give up, and end it.  Steve is dead when you burn the house down because you chose to give up and die, that ending is his suicide.

 

If you fight through the grief, and tough it out, Steve comes through the other end finding peace.  Steve isn't dead if you don't give up.

 

 

 

Besides that, i think the difference in the mirror world and regular world show this as well, in one a car hits a tree, in another it makes it to the gas station and bad choices seem to happen.  In one theres no child, in another an empty crib and a life with a child.  Or maybe in one the child died and in the other they grew up and thats why theres no crib.

 

The game is riddled with those elements, which is why I think its a mistake to try and fit EVERYTHING in to one big overall narrative.

 

 

 

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A purely metaphorical "it's all about grief" read doesn't register to me personally - there's clearly some real reality bending fuckery here. The joint obituary specifically implies Tom and Steve were a couple, but the Veddge posts say they hadn't seen each other in a decade - I think people going purely symbolic are missing the point this is a HAUNTED wad, it's part of the plot. Grief is a theme, a big one, but it goes past just being mental - I think the death ending isn't suicide (it wouldn't make sense anyway after you 'resolve' the issues) but rather Steve deciding to stay in the world Tom and him are together, leading to both perishing in the house fire rather than only Tom.

 

Edited May 25, 2023 by Misha Tarkus

[AlSmith]

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I think we're right to remember that Veddge, as Steve Nelson, posted that he hadn't seen Tom in a decade.

 

The game is full of "What Ifs." I don't think the game is trying to tell us a "truth". I think the game is about wishing that things were different, and about being trapped (like one is trapped in the house) in obsessing about how things are not different, and often experiencing those obsessions through nightmares.

 

Those 'different' things could be one's sex assigned at birth (which is a clear theme), or they could be a tough childhood (from e.g. Steve's stepfather, and/or the childhood traumas referenced like the large attacking dog in the Brutalist house, a missing teddy 'Snugs' in the playground, the car crash near the gas station, and whatever the baseball and crayons refer to), or they could be wishing they were with the love of their life (the wedding ring, the photo in the frame, the crib existing only in the mirror world, even the wish that they too died in the same house fires that killed Tom).

 

I mean, think about it like this: when you're fighting the demons at the end at the gas station before the "good ending," you aren't replaying any reality of sorts. This is Doom. You're literally playing as Tom "fighting his demons". When you make it to the "good beach", you're breaking free of the obsessions and living in a new world that doesn't simply feel like a mirrored reality, and in which you aren't simply "putting on a show" (hence the clapperboard in the fake-beach ending), but are instead at peace. When you end up on the "good beach", even though "S + A" is in the sand, A still isn't there. You, as Steve, are simply content that you do love A, and that's good enough. (And, I think, you as Steve have gotten over your fear of dogs after whatever incident caused you to view them as large Cerebus-like monsters.)

 

The fact that the game's monsters are all from established WADs or are other horror icons is supposed to convey that we all have the same similar demons, based in similar fears, and we are all running away from the same things. Perhaps it's nice, then, that the WAD is released to the Doom community; perhaps the whole point is that we're all supposed to see that we're all just the same underneath — no matter our sex assigned at birth, our childhood traumas, our unrequited loves, and all our other What-Ifs; we're still fighting our demons.

Edit: the only thing I still don't really get is:

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Why are 2, 3, and 1 highlighted in red in the journal?

 

Edited May 25, 2023 by AlSmith

[PowerPak]

On 5/23/2023 at 12:15 AM, DuckReconMajor said:

It's probably been discussed, but if i heard correctly it seems perkristian's smooth weapons were used but Power Pak said they were from Smooth Doom?

Poor perkristian gets no credit ever since Smooth Doom came out 😞

Got a message alerting me to this. Apologies for the error. I'll post a correction in the pinned comment. Here I was hoping that the biggest mistake I made was leaving Ambient Occlusion turned on...

[Wub Nub]

1 hour ago, Krieghor said:

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Collect all the items without burning the house

 

How do I do that? Some items seem to be only collectable from inside the burnt house.

[TangoBunny]

1 minute ago, Wub Nub said:

How do I do that? Some items seem to be only collectable from inside the burnt house.

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You only need the collectables that appear on the picture frames - so the ones inside the burnt house don't count.

 

Technically speaking you found the extra-secret-ending before the normal one - most people avoid burning the house down to get all the collectable items that appear on the picture frame, as burning the house down normally locks you into the bad ending.

 

[Groplaw]

8 minutes ago, PowerPak said:

Here I was hoping that the biggest mistake I made was leaving Ambient Occlusion turned on...

 

 

Yeah that was pretty fucked, lol.

[OliveTree]

12 hours ago, thomasthetankengine said:

you know how there's Doom WAD subgenres (run and gun, deathmatch etc)? can we just agree to make a whole new subgenre of Doom WADS, this subgenre being called "Fun-House"? Essentially, the whole level is confusing and is packed with interesting things that are designed to creep you out or to confuse you, pretty much what MyHouse.WAD does. Or maybe there's already a subgenre for this kind of stuff and i'm just el stupido again.

i think liminal doom and lilith.pk3 are good examples as well

[ComedyGold]

We got another one, fellas

 

[Devalaous]

I'm still hoping one of these guys stumbles into the labyrinth on the first blind run instead of burning the house.

[pikitunch]

this is one of the most house wads ever 

[lubba127]

So yeah after all of the attention this is getting I think it's safe to say it's gonna get a big ol' cacoward no matter what. Honestly wish I contributed to the thread when this came out but going in blind I just had too much to say and didn't really care to write it out. What a mistake that was!

[lubba127]

46 minutes ago, OliveTree said:

i think liminal doom and lilith.pk3 are good examples as well

Dude, liminal doom was so good. If nothing else, people should give it a short playthrough for maps 4 and 5, the school and the mall. Seriously had to take a moment after the mall 

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[Devalaous]

 

3 minutes ago, lubba127 said:

So yeah after all of the attention this is getting I think it's safe to say it's gonna get a big ol' cacoward no matter what. Honestly wish I contributed to the thread when this came out but going in blind I just had too much to say and didn't really care to write it out. What a mistake that was!

 

I was pretty much bullied into playing it by my brother. I totally missed all the hype when it was brand new, and on top of that, im really NOT a spooky game type of person (I had to complete the wad over several days, because some parts were so unsettling on the initial experience that it completely wore down my nerves. I was only able to do the hospital on a fresh daily start for instance). Glad I did try it out though.

[TJG1289]

59 minutes ago, Devalaous said:

I'm still hoping one of these guys stumbles into the labyrinth on the first blind run instead of burning the house.

Jacksepticeye did just that. He got the labyrinth at the first possible time he could have, iirc.

[Wub Nub]

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Hello, I've gotten all of the items in the real world and can now get to the gas-station, but when I try to get to the gas-station in the mirror world the fence won't open. I have the duck, the crayons, the controller, the die, and the teddy bear(snuggles).

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[kinseliplier]

anyone else notice the weird creepy lore in the Journal included in the Game Files that the Dev wrote? Some of that clearly has to be Fake. There is No way in Hell that could be 100% real.

 

@Veddge if you haven't already you should also release your other private doom maps and both versions of my house.wad

 

I noticed that when I went to the download link to download this game it showed the file as MyHouse.pk3 but when I Downloaded the Zip it said MyHouse.wad in the Zip. What's with that? it dose say at the end of the Journal that the Dev accidentally uploaded the Modified version of this Game that he Changed from it's original Vanilla version and he got scarred and Deleted it and uploaded the Vanilla Version to Replace it but then why dose it still say .pk3 in the File Log on the Download Site?

[SakuraFalls]

1 minute ago, kinseliplier said:

anyone else notice the weird creepy lore in the Journal included in the Game Files that the Dev wrote? Some of that clearly has to be Fake. There is No way in Hell that could be 100% real.

 

@Veddge if you haven't already you should also release your other private doom maps and both versions of my house.wad

 

I noticed that when I went to the download link to download this game it showed the file as MyHouse.pk3 but when I Downloaded the Zip it said MyHouse.wad in the Zip. What's with that? it dose say at the end of the Journal that the Dev accidentally uploaded the Modified version of this Game that he Changed from it's original Vanilla version and he got scarred and Deleted it and uploaded the Vanilla Version to Replace it but then why dose it still say .pk3 in the File Log on the Download Site?

That's because it isn't supposed to be real. I'm too tired to explain ;-;

[kinseliplier]

13 minutes ago, SakuraFalls said:

That's because it isn't supposed to be real. I'm too tired to explain ;-;

So he's created a Fictional Version of the Story of how he made this Game?

[kinseliplier]

I just Noticed the Zip has the MyHouse.wad File in it but the other File that's separate that says MyHouse.pk3 actually also allows me to Download the Pk3 version separately so I Downloaded both Versions.

 

After doing that I also Downloaded the other MyHouse Text File that was also separate and next to the pk3 File and checked to see if it has Any difference from the Text File that's included in the Zip File and it dose have some Differences.

 

instead of saying to get this game is this link and actually listing a link it just says to get this game: Don't.

 

Also it has a Paragraph of Extra Story of the Dev going insane from Creating this Game and Warns you of the Dangers of this Game.

 

Also because I gave no wifi I have to download these files to my phone with my mobile hotspot and then transfer them to my laptop via USB transfer and when I was doing this with the separate Text File I changed it's name to MyHouse(2).Text so it wouldn't Overwrite the other MyHouse.Text File since they both have the Exact same Name and when I tryed Transferring it to my PC it changed into a completely Different File with a Random String of Code as it's Name Automatically that I did not create.

 

I have No idea how tf this is Possible.

 

The File it Turned into is Not even Any Known Type of File. it just says File on the File Type.

 

it looks like a Blank White File but when I click to open it it still opens the Text File somehow.

 

The Name of the File changed Automatically to this {E32785E1-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} I don't know what this code means.

 

I've transferred a screenshot from my PC.

 

You can see my PC File on the Left Wich includes the strange Glitched File and the Download File on my Phone on the Right Wich includes the MyHouse(2).txt File that I tryed to Transfer to my PC File Wich turned into the Glitched File you see on the left Automatically on its own.

 

I have Never seen Anything like this Before.

 

Anyone know how tf this is Possible or what caused this?

 

is this Game Actually Cursed somehow?

[SakuraFalls]

13 minutes ago, kinseliplier said:

So he's created a Fictional Version of the Story of how he made this Game?

Unfortunately, I'm not able to tell you what is true to this story. In terms of the characters, edits, story, etc.
I definitely believe that much of this is just fiction. I wouldn't be surprised if the situation is also fiction. Either way,
It's made people interested in something that didn't explain itself too much. I think we should just accept it for what it is.

[LukeJR]

3 minutes ago, kinseliplier said:

I just Noticed the Zip has the MyHouse.wad File in it but the other File that's separate that says MyHouse.pk3 actually also allows me to Download the Pk3 version separately so I Downloaded both Versions.

 

After doing that I also Downloaded the other MyHouse Text File that was also separate and next to the pk3 File and checked to see if it has Any difference from the Text File that's included in the Zip File and it dose have some Differences.

 

instead of saying to get this game is this link and actually listing a link it just says to get this game: Don't.

 

Also it has a Paragraph of Extra Story of the Dev going insane from Creating this Game and Warns you of the Dangers of this Game.

 

Also because I gave no wifi I have to download these files to my phone with my mobile hotspot and then transfer them to my laptop via USB transfer and when I was doing this with the separate Text File I changed it's name to MyHouse(2).Text so it wouldn't Overwrite the other MyHouse.Text File since they both have the Exact same Name and when I tryed Transferring it to my PC it changed into a completely Different File with a Random String of Code as it's Name Automatically that I did not create.

 

I have No idea how tf this is Possible.

 

The File it Turned into is Not even Any Known Type of File. it just says File on the File Type.

 

it looks like a Blank White File but when I click to open it it still opens the Text File somehow.

 

The Name of the File changed Automatically to this {E32785E1-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} I don't know what this code means.

 

I've transferred a screenshot from my PC.

 

You can see my PC File on the Left Wich includes the strange Glitched File and the Download File on my Phone on the Right Wich includes the MyHouse(2).txt File that I tryed to Transfer to my PC File Wich turned into the Glitched File you see on the left Automatically on its own.

 

I have Never seen Anything like this Before.

 

Anyone know how tf this is Possible or what caused this?

 

is this Game Actually Cursed somehow?

Interesting, I think it would be better to hide this in the spoiler tag in the text editor.
Hmm... I'm no expert when it comes to technical information. That just looks like the file changed name to an error code.
I strongly doubt that the developer of this wad was able to make a file name change automatically to a code that means something...

While I can appreciate that there are so many people overthinking and trying to find more secrets... Listen, there isn't much more to this project.
We need to stop trying to fill in the spaces because that just shows that we are not satisfied with the wad itself. I think the story is not the main highlight here.
The wad experience is awesome! The story along with the journal is not on the same level of "I'm impressed"

Let's just stop trying to overthink this project. Let's just accept it for what it is and the experience it delivered on.

I've seen this happen countless times, especially in Nolan Movies. Some people just can't accept something for what it is.

[evouga]

29 minutes ago, LukeJR said:

While I can appreciate that there are so many people overthinking and trying to find more secrets... Listen, there isn't much more to this project.
We need to stop trying to fill in the spaces because that just shows that we are not satisfied with the wad itself. I think the story is not the main highlight here.
The wad experience is awesome! The story along with the journal is not on the same level of "I'm impressed"

Let's just stop trying to overthink this project. Let's just accept it for what it is and the experience it delivered on.

I've seen this happen countless times, especially in Nolan Movies. Some people just can't accept something for what it is.

Absolutely. I’m also reminded of The Witness: Blow embedded the entirety of “The Secret of Psalm 46” verbatim as an unskippable cutscene as the final reward of the game, and people *still* massively overthought the game and kept looking for its “true secret.”

[OliveTree]

idk if you can make a project explicitly referencing house of leaves and not intend people to obsess over it forever

[Realms]

Happiness has to be fought for. *The Most Mysterious Song intensifies*