Pipe Dream - 5 Techbase-gone-bad maps for GZDoom

[gigawookie]

 

Introducing Pipe Dream, a 5 map miniWAD for GZDoom! After three decades of playing Doom and countless custom WADs since, this year I finally decided to try to create my own levels. The result is this five level techbase-gone-bad romp, inspired by the likes of KDiZD, Phobos: Anomaly Reborn and many others. Each map was created one after the other in sequence as I learned the UDMF format, so later levels are a bit more advanced in terms of engine features. However, this was kept to a minimum to ensure a level of coherency.

 

Screenshots:

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

Notes:

 

• iWAD: Doom II
• Map format: UDMF
• Port required: GZDoom with hardware rendering
• Optimized for sector lighting
• Singleplayer only
• Difficulty settings fully implemented
• Designed with no freelook or jumping/crouching in mind

 

Download links:

 

Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MQrz-E5gxDaQg3shs2g0XJKMU2tSN9az/view?usp=sharing

 

Thanks for checking it out! Any and all feedback is much appreciated.

 

pipedr.zip

Edited December 11, 2023 by gigawookie
Updated with correctly tagged secrets. Thanks Biodegradable!

[watto3699]

Pizza, Check

Socks, Check

Doom .wad with weeks of pain staking work poured into it, Check.

 

Oh yeah, it's gaming time.

[Jasper Carmack]

I am so down for this! Stocking up on everything I need to crunch through it this weekend :D

Edited December 9, 2023 by Jasper Carmack
fixed grammatical error

[fleshworld]

looks like a lot of effort and dedication went into this wad, great work!

[LadyMistDragon]

A couple of things.

 

Some of the rooms early on had a symmetrical feel that goes ok with slaughter but maybe not so much with what's happening here. Thankfully, this issue improved.

 

Ammo could've been a tad more generous, as you'll be able to say in my playthrough of the opening map.

 

The last map really stands out with the creativity of some of the situations that we're put into!

 

 

 

[gigawookie]

8 hours ago, LadyMistDragon said:

A couple of things.

 

Some of the rooms early on had a symmetrical feel that goes ok with slaughter but maybe not so much with what's happening here. Thankfully, this issue improved.

 

Ammo could've been a tad more generous, as you'll be able to say in my playthrough of the opening map.

 

The last map really stands out with the creativity of some of the situations that we're put into!

 

 

 

 

Thank you for the excellent feedback and for taking the time to record this!

[Catpho]

Really cool looking screenshots there!

[Biodegradable]

Awesome stuff so far, Wookie! You have an impeccable eye for detail, beautiful lighting and spicy, engaging combat that doesn't feel predictable. Here's a playthrough of the first two maps. Rest assured, more on the way. Love it so far, mate.

 

 

[gigawookie]

23 hours ago, Biodegradable said:

Awesome stuff so far, Wookie! You have an impeccable eye for detail, beautiful lighting and spicy, engaging combat that doesn't feel predictable. Here's a playthrough of the first two maps. Rest assured, more on the way. Love it so far, mate.

 

 

Thank you so much for your kind words and playthrough, that is really encouraging! Can't wait to see more!

[Biodegradable]

37 minutes ago, gigawookie said:

Can't wait to see more!

 

Glad to hear it because I just finished! Sorry in advance, I neglected to record MAP03 and MAP04, but I assure you they were awesome. The penultimate map was quite a doozy, nailed my arse to the wall and gave me the shits a couple of times, but managed in the end. I'm going to blame it on rust as I hadn't played much Doom in the past week lmao. This is a terrific WAD, mate. I really like it a lot.

 

 

[Terminus]

Great stuff! I enjoyed this mapset a lot and I really liked how each map was better than its prior, showing how much you improved as a mapper as you progress.

A couple of issues I've found:

1. On Map04, the part where you pick up the plasma rifle, if you accidentally step on the panel where the plasma was after you've already opened the door that closed you in, you get softlocked inside.

2. On Map05, starting area, one of the floors is accidentally set to F_SKY2.

 

Other than that, keep up the great work and I'm looking forward to your future projects. :)

Edited December 30, 2023 by Terminus