MyHouse.wad

[BG213]

Hello. I am having a frustrating glitch, or what seems like a glitch, when playing this wad. I get to the point of reaching the brutalist house and then jumping into the lit open window to collect the supercharge only to find the room empty...no supercharge! I am jumping from the same window as Decino does in this video at 56:05: 

 

I am playing on UV with GZDoom 4.10.0 . I have played to this point in the wad multiple times to the same effect. 

[LoatharMDPhD]

17 minutes ago, Not Jabba said:

It's fair to ask that question, but what you need to realize is that there are already more Doom maps/mods being released in a year than any one person can possibly play.

thelamp seems to be playing 'em all!... Guy's going hard on the playthroughs.

[Lucius Wooding]

I can't wait for a community project called "My House.wad the way you remember it".

[ＤΞＬＴΛ]

3 hours ago, kwc said:

I suppose we might see more attempts at making "out of the box" maps that are more about tonal, aesthetic, or novelty qualities and less centered around Doom's core gameplay.

 

Just you wait until I release my dead space-inspired demo map onto the unsuspecting public >:)

[TJG1289]

27 minutes ago, BG213 said:

Hello. I am having a frustrating glitch, or what seems like a glitch, when playing this wad. I get to the point of reaching the brutalist house and then jumping into the lit open window to collect the supercharge only to find the room empty...no supercharge! I am jumping from the same window as Decino does in this video at 56:05: 

 

I am playing on UV with GZDoom 4.10.0 . I have played to this point in the wad multiple times to the same effect. 

Are you jumping from the big house to the window? There's a version of this in the normal-sized version of the house with nothing in the room. 

[Test Tickle]

MyHouse of BanBan when?

[Lippeth]

I haven't played it, should I check it out or what? I've seen Mutahar and Moist Charlie make videos on it, and I have it sitting in my downloads folder but I don't know, I haven't been playing much classic Doom lately other than to test DOSBox settings.

 

As far as it causing a mapping boom, the WADS and Mods subforum already seems to be split into more specific subcategories on a monthly basis in order to manage the high volume of wads that are constantly released, I think it's already a'boomin.

[lokbustam257]

I suppose it's more like a 6 months boost than anything else. I've seen lot of stuff after 2016 and Eternal release, but after 1 to 2 years, it's kinda getting empty.

 

1 hour ago, Lucius Wooding said:

I can't wait for a community project called "My House.wad the way you remember it".

can't wait for MyHouse.wad the way it did

[ultra_kek]

3 hours ago, LukeJR said:

I'd now like to share my thoughts on the myhouse.wad:

The atmosphere of this wad is absolutely unsettling... It feels like you shouldn't be there. From the very moment the music goes weird... That's when I felt that feeling intensify. The heaviness within this wad is unreal. When people say that it makes them feel depressed or broken. Listen, I understand that too. It really does feel broken. There's just something about it that makes you think that you are experiencing something from your own life. I don't think the story is what makes this wad unsettling... The design of the map may be the main contributor. The music doesn't really unsettle me and my friends played it without the music because they said it hurts their ears. Which I think is completely valid.

My main criticism would be that the music doesn't do enough. The story itself can be more interesting the longer you read into it. I honestly think it's the story that the Player makes in their own mind that makes this wad the best it can be. Because there is a story through some environment story-telling. That's something that I really enjoyed in this wad. My friends have asked me to share their thoughts in my comment so here it goes:

Alex:
"It's not that I don't like the wad. As someone who's played DOOM for 20 years, I honestly am very impressed with what it has achieved. I know people will say it is overrated and that's okay, I agree to an extent. I just think it's unfair to blame the author since the audience will be the problem for why this is overrated"

Sarin:
"Considering you asked me to play this as a prank... I don't forgive you... I won't forgive you... you have given me many nightmares!"

Jennifer:
"If I could describe this in one simple word. I'd say that it is "MONUMENTAL" because it really is... I got lost in this maze of a house... I got lost for so long... I had to watch videos on how to understand this silent hill nightmare"

Edison:
"I can't blame the author for why this wad exists... but I can blame myself for playing it"

There's also a few comments shared on my Discord from close friends of mine:

Jasper:
"I think what this is trying to be is a shadow on Doom... it's trying to be what we wanted it to be... I can't explain in words alone why this map is so beautiful. Maybe it's the fact it is a house? I mean I like house and I'm not even a music fan"

Sophia:
"Well... I HATE YOU GUYS! You made me play this instead of Valorant? I missed ranked because of your prank! I'm now stuck thinking about that maze... Oh god... that maze... Can you please never recommend me this again? Promise? PLEASE! Can we play a game together now? ^-^"

That's all for now... I'll be sure to share more of my friends thoughts later and also my other friends may even sign up on the forum to comment for themselves. There's a few friends of mine that didn't want me to share it so I've respected their wishes. Overall, I really love this wad! Great work anonymous!

I have to be honest, I don't understand removing such a major component of the experience entirely. What part of the music is hurting their ears exactly? Did they try to lower the volume? Even 10% volume I think would be better than turning it off completely. I love the music and I think their usage in the wad is excellent and I just can't conceive of what it could not be "doing enough" of.

[TasAcri]

Is it possible to visit the brutalist house three times in one playthrought?

 

Spoiler

I want to pick the Megasphere, do the TV switch thing and then go to the airport. But no matter how i plan my path i can only go through it twice. Once after the Bathouse which you can go through only once and once through the "Escape" button path that also gets locked after you return to the house. After that it seems you are locked out of the brutalist house and you can't pick the Airport artifact.

 

[DeafPixel]

4 hours ago, Arctangent said:

 

when you put it like that, sounds like source would make for a perfectly fine candidate, too

 

naturally, the tropes at play and the specific surrealities would differ, but there's nonetheless something about the source engine that makes its levels quickly turn liminal if you so much as stop to smell the drywall

theres certainly a lot of gmod maps that try to do this

[julmust]

It reignited my old interest for sure. Working on my own mod now.

[TJG1289]

1 minute ago, TasAcri said:

Is it possible to visit the brutalist house three times in one playthrought?

 

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I want to pick the Megasphere, do the TV switch thing and then go to the airport. But no matter how i plan my path i can only go through it twice. Once after the Bathouse which you can go through only once and once through the "Escape" button path that also gets locked after you return to the house. After that it seems you are locked out of the brutalist house and you can't pick the Airport artifact.

 

Spoiler

Not in a good ending playthrough, no. But you can if you burn the house down.

 

[RataUnderground]

Only to a certain extent. For most, Doom will remain an old game parked in a corner of the internet (we even use a forum! Most people under twenty have never interacted on one!). 
Maybe new players will join us, but nothing drastic.

[Osmosis Bones]

Praying that MyHouse doesn't undergo FNAF Syndrome and we get "Calling Concrete Shrek At 3AM In Ohio!!!"

Edited May 28, 2023 by Osmosis Bones

[Chao-G]

Personally speaking, MyHouse basically pushed me into saying "screw it, I've waited long enough", even though Eviternity was the WAD that made me consider Doom mapping. I tend to presume I'd be bad at something before I even try it, so it took me long enough, and experiencing about two dozen megawads and a few gameplay mods to dive into trying my hand at it. I don't think I'll be making anything inspired by MyHouse, as my main inspiration currently is Plutonia, only with fewer Revenants and Chaingunners.

[thiccyosh]

"Explosion" might be too extreme, I'd rather say "spark above average interest". By that I mean fresh blood will at least try mapping (even if it's just UDMF stuff with bells and whistles from Realm667), while older members here might return to perhaps make one or two maps. Just like in every community, once the hype to certain works die, you'll see who is really interested in Doom mapping.

[Celestin]

I think it will briefly bring a number of low-effort immitations, before most newbies move on to the next popular thing and the community returns to normal.

[Bri]

Doom 2. Pfft! When's Hexen gonna boom? :P

[RataUnderground]

One could say UDMF maps are more Hexen than Doom... 

[Kwisior]

I think there's gonna be an explosion of people making their own houses in Doom.

[thomasthetankengine]

myhouse.wad feels so boring and overrated now. literally everyone and their grandma and their mother and their sister and their father and their uncle and their brother and some random kid during WW2 named Felix who made friends with a kid named Zelda all know this map. I wish i was one of the first people who got to play this map before its popularity explosion.

edit: actually nah, myhouse.wad is definitely boring for me but there's probably a whole lot more that we haven't discovered yet lol

Edited May 28, 2023 by thomasthetankengine
change my mind

[Mr Masker]

1 hour ago, Bri said:

Doom 2. Pfft! When's Hexen gonna boom? :P

MyGothicCastle.wad

[Darkcrafter07]

I haven't even tried that wad because any other house styled wad simply would go out of my interest. It's a great tribute to his passed friend, well made and marketed well. Is this seriously kind of stuff people like playing Doom for nowadays?

[ＤΞＬＴΛ]

3 hours ago, Osmosis Bones said:

"Calling Concrete Shrek At 3AM In Ohio!!!"

 

It appears that I REALLY need to play myhouse... Just to see concrete shrek... I heard myhouse has many layers too...

[OceanMadman]

If it does I hope people doesn't try to mimic all its singularities, having many more maps of the same style will just take away how magic and unique it is.

[calsaintski]

Not an explosion, more of a little spark frankly. It's wishful thinking that this wad can single handily carry a new doom-mapping movement.

[Ordon]

no.

[Nikku4211]

Maybe it'll cause a new generation of people to start making maps based on their own house, however weird they may make it into.

[treulosetomate]

It's going to make a lot of people install GZDoom. That's a first step. A small percentage of them is going to stick around.