A tribute to 'Crystal Castles' in the form of a Doom II wad

[Astro X]

A tribute to the epic duo music artist 'Crystal Castles' in the form of Doom levels - currently three of them ('Sad eyes', 'Vanished' and 'Magic spells').

 

• doom2.wad;
• complevel 2;
• stock textures;
• may seem pretty hardcore at first but should be beatable after you know what to expect;
• all difficulties implemented;
• tested in GZDoom and DSDA-Doom.

 

SCREENSHOTS

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DOWNLOAD

 

Other releases

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Astroverse (2021) - 22 maps

Doom 1 remakes (2021) - 03 maps 

Tempest (2021) - 10 maps 

Holistic (2022) - 08 maps 

Triangulum (2022) - 32+ maps 

Tempest X (2023) - 05 maps

Pastel Ghost (2024) - 03 maps

 

VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO @DankMetal for the midi remixes he made herself!

Edited June 2 by Astro X

[lunchlunch]

Crystal Castles is my favorite music artist of all time. For the last couple years, about once a month I've obsessively Googled to see if anyone has suddenly created a CC MIDI that I can use in a DOOM map. So I'm jealous of the project haha. I've only played a short bit of it and I've liked the gameplay, I have no problems on that front.
However, I think that for making a proper tribute to Crystal Castles, you've gotta get in touch with a MIDI composer to commission them to making full versions of the songs with more instruments than just the stripped down piano versions that are currently in the wad. These are noisy dance songs, simplistic piano renditions can't do them justice. I'm assuming you took 'Vanished' from the Online Sequencer version, I've been aware of that version for a long time but have never used it because it's only the first ten seconds of the song on loop! Sure, Vanished is fairly repetitive, but there's more to it than that!
The other thing about the MIDIs is they're so quiet that even with the music volume cranked all the way up, you can't even hear it over the sound of slaughter combat. To do this project right, I really really really have to urge you to do whatever you gotta do to get a MIDI composer to sequence these songs the right way. I can't let myself play it until then.

Edited July 8, 2023 by lunchlunch
Compulsive inconsequential editing

[OniriA]

How coincidental, I happen to be busy remixing Crystal Castles tracks at the moment (Char and Transgender).

Edited July 8, 2023 by OniriA

[sean-dude]

Too bad Ethan Kath is a creep. Good tunes but you gotta seperate the artist from the art.

[Astro X]

2 hours ago, OniriA said:

How coincidental, I happen to be busy remixing Crystal Castles tracks at the moment (Char and Transgender).

How awesome, I love those two!

 

45 minutes ago, sean-dude said:

Too bad Ethan Kath is a creep. Good tunes but you gotta seperate the artist from the art.

Yea, you're damn right.

 

6 hours ago, lunchlunch said:

Crystal Castles is my favorite music artist of all time. For the last couple years, about once a month I've obsessively Googled to see if anyone has suddenly created a CC MIDI that I can use in a DOOM map. So I'm jealous of the project haha. I've only played a short bit of it and I've liked the gameplay, I have no problems on that front.
However, I think that for making a proper tribute to Crystal Castles, you've gotta get in touch with a MIDI composer to commission them to making full versions of the songs with more instruments than just the stripped down piano versions that are currently in the wad. These are noisy dance songs, simplistic piano renditions can't do them justice. I'm assuming you took 'Vanished' from the Online Sequencer version, I've been aware of that version for a long time but have never used it because it's only the first ten seconds of the song on loop! Sure, Vanished is fairly repetitive, but there's more to it than that!
The other thing about the MIDIs is they're so quiet that even with the music volume cranked all the way up, you can't even hear it over the sound of slaughter combat. To do this project right, I really really really have to urge you to do whatever you gotta do to get a MIDI composer to sequence these songs the right way. I can't let myself play it until then.

Absolutely. Idk how to compose them but if anyone wants to help me out with that, I'd totally appreciate! I really want to build more levels for this project, so if anybody feels like joining, we could definitely team up :)

[LadyMistDragon]

I didn't quite have the energy for this right nowwwwww. Or maybe it's a little longer than I was thinking. anyway.....

 

 

 

[sean-dude]

19 hours ago, sean-dude said:

Too bad Ethan Kath is a creep. Good tunes but you gotta seperate the artist from the art.

Speaking of this creep... You ever hear his band killcheerleader? More a metal band but supper sick. Only one album. I saw them live back in the day.

[Astro X]

UPDATE:

 

- Added a new level, replacing Slot01, meaning the previous maps are now occupying slots 02 and 03.

 

- New map is named after 'Sad eyes' from Crystal Castles, although I couldn't find the corresponding midi in the internet, so temporarily it uses Ribbiks's 'psych' midi.

 

- I wanted to build a smaller and easier map this time. What I ended up getting was a small, albeit long map, pretty easy until the final fight, which can be handled better if you manage to find one specific secret. Anyway, I'm happy with the result, and I hope you can enjoy it as well :)

 

- Suggestions welcome.

 

SCREENSHOTS:

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Edited October 31, 2023 by Astro X

[Astro X]

Important update:

 

So excited to announce that @DankMetal has joined in and provided midi remixes by herself for the current levels!

Edited June 2 by Astro X