Best Doom Mappers?

[Obsidian]

TheMionicDonut said:

Obsidian

:D

[Paul977]

Long list: John Romero, Jens Nielsen, Dario Casali, Milo Casali, Sverre André Kvernmo, Sam Woodman & Andy Oliveira (for their levels of HR2), Denis Möller, Jonas Feragen, Kim André Malde, Anders Johnsen.
I didn't put more recent authors because I didn't played their wads but seeing some videos on youtube there are awesome authors nowadays indeed :)

[SFoZ911]

RottKing, Mechadon.

[Spectre01]

Sandy Petersen, Skillsaw and Erik Alm.

[T-Rex]

I have quite a list of favourite mappers, in alphabetical order, most being from the oldschool Doom years.

- Karthik and Varun Abhiram
- Erik Alm
- John Anderson (Dr. Sleep)
- Kristian Aro
- Dario and Milo Casali

- Paul Corfiatis
- Chris Couleur
- Anthony Czerwonka (Adelusion)
- Yonatan Donner
- Bob Evans

- Paul Fleschute (Moe)
- Jim Flynn
- Ty Halderman
- Tom Hall
- Chris Hansen
- Martin Aalen Hunsager
- Tatsuya Ito (Tatsurd-cacocaco)
- Fredrik Johansson
- Anders Johnsen
- Iikka Keranen
- Kurt Kesler
- Sverre Andre Kvernmo (Soundblock)
- Adam Landefeld
- Kim Andre Malde
- Alex Mayberry
- American McGee
- Denis and Thomas Moeller (The Innocent Crew)
- Tom Mustaine
- Haggay Niv
- Jakub Razak (Method)
- Esa Repo (Espi)
- John Romero
- Paul Schmitz
- Brad Spencer (Vorpal)
- Jan van der Veken
- Thomas van der Velden
- Adolf Vojta (Gusta)
- Mike Watson (Cyb)
- Tim Willits
- Adam Windsor
- Matthias Worch

Edited August 4, 2017 by T-Rex

[Crunchynut44]

In no particular order:

Erik Alm, Skillsaw, Jimmy, AD_79, Paul Corfiatis, Kristian Aro, Ribbiks, Gusta.

[GoneAway]

The immediate ones that come to mind for me are:

Mechadon
Ribbiks
Paul Corfiatis
Michael Jan Krizik (valkiriforce)

Also the BTSX crew of course, but I picked out Mechadon specifically for Unstable Journey from E2.

[XLightningStormL]

I prefer realistic, techbase, bunker maps so Tom Hall is a go to, and by extension McGee.

Romero is another one, and Sandy Petersen to some extent.

The Casali Brothers and TNT Team did great jobs in Final Doom as well.

[Firedust]

AnonimVio said:

ETERNAL

Seriously that guy is fucking amazing.

Wonder what happened to him. Loved all his maps/mapsets.

[valkiriforce]

Firedust said:

Wonder what happened to him. Loved all his maps/mapsets.

He submitted a map recently to TNT: Revilution as MAP18: Hell's Signs; so he's still active at least in some form.

[Fonze]

This list is missing Richard Heath for his work on NRftL.

[Azuruish]

And no one mentioned here 'ArmouredBlood' and his masterpiece - Newgothic Movement 1

[Lud]

I'd say Vader, Xaser, Icytux and maybe even Torm since he has some pretty nice maps.

[franckFRAG]

If I had to choose two best mappers, I should like 2 in the past, 2 in the present, 2 in the future :

In the past : Erik Alm / Eternal

In the present : Skillsaw / Ribbiks

In the future : Tourniquet / AD79 (promising mappers)

[Yugiboy85]

I'm gonna take franck's idea on this (sorry buddy hehe) and give out a few mappers from the past, present and future.

Past:

Erik Alm and Vader

These guys trully inspired me to make doom maps. So yeah, I kinda "copied" their style (at least, attempted to) and well, it worked pretty nicely for me.

Present:

Paul "Skillsaw" Debruyne

I know that I'm giving the rather easy choice but come on, I love his style hehe. I remember discovering the dude back when I played zpack I think and his contributions were really neat (believe he did e3m1 and e3m8) and even today, you can still see some of those elements in his mapset (valiant has the suicide bommers + cyber knights that were also present in zpack ^^).

Future:

Crunchynutt44 and AD_79

The first one mentioned is someone I knew way back and he had some pretty good contributions to a project we worked on (along with others) but was later abandonned due to lack of time/motivation? Today, with his release of bachulus (still in beta) and his more recent "cereal killer", I can safely say that he is a mapper to keep an eye on ;)

The latter (AD) is well, also someone to look forward to in the future. His small mapset "violence" is a good example of that. Granted, the mapset was made to "copy" skillsaw's valiant on purpose but even then, you could see some personnal (the purplish 80's action movies ambiance going on) touches to it and this is what made "violence" one of my favorite mapset that was released fairly recently. He also seems to be getting some attention from other "big names" too. His contribution to skillsaw's latest wad is an example of that.

Plus, dude made me discover a french music artist (dan terminus) and considering I'm french, that's a plus in his favor xD (Ok, that's a little biased but whatever).

So yeah, that's about it ^^

[Halfblind]

scifista42 said:

This would be my subjective list of 40 best Doom mappers: AD_79, Afterglow, AgentSpork, Alfonzo, Archi, cannonball, Darch, didy, Dutch Devil, Ed, Erik Alm, Espi, esselfortium, Eternal, franckFRAG, Gusta, Iori, Jimmy, Joshy, Kaiser, Khorus, Kristus, lupinx-Kassman, Lutz, Mechadon, Memfis, mouldy, MTrop, nicolas monti, Pcorf, rdwpa, rf, Ribbiks, Rottking, skillsaw, SuperCupcakeTactics, Tarnsman, Vader, valkiriforce, Xaser.

Yah, that pretty much sums it up for me. Oh, and how about Gaston "Mordeth" Lahaut and Tormentor667.

[mrthejoshmon]

Paul Corfiatis makes some fuckin great maps.

[pcorf]

John Romero
American McGee
Sandy Petersen
Tom Hall
Tom Mustaine
Anthony Soto
The Casali Brothers
Valkiriforce
James "Jimmy" Paddock
Erik Alm
Chris Hansen
John W. Anderson "Dr. Sleep"
Samuel Villarreal "Kaiser"
The Möller brothers (TiC)
Mechadon
Jan van der Veken
Dutch Devil
Paul "Skillsaw" Debruyne
Ty Halderman
Espi
Kristian "Nebula" Aro
Iikka Keranen
Damian Pawlukanis (dinner.wad)
Nanka Kurashiki
AD_79
Christ Lutz
Thomas van der Velden

And many many many more ........

[Graf Zahl]

Two I'd like to single out are the already frequently mentioned Erik Alm and Gusta. Both have something I miss in most mappers: Even with the most simple of layouts they can create interesting gameplay without resorting to obtuse puzzles.

[yakfak]

add my vote to the Gusta and Xaser vote-heaps!

[Archi]

No one listed Pyroscourge or Insane Gazebo, huh?

[Du Mhan Yhu]

Pcorf and Kristian Aro.

[darkreaver]

Top 3:

Darkwave0000/death-destiny
Gusta
Erik Alm

[Linguica]

mrthejoshmon said:

Paul Corfiatis makes some fuckin great maps.

pcorf said:

Someone doin' the old namesearch eh...

[pcorf]

mrthejoshmon said:

Paul Corfiatis makes some fuckin great maps.

I liked creating The Twilight Zone series, Death Tormention series, 2002ado, WOS, Incineration, Doomed Space Wars and also my two maps this year for the Ty Halderman project.

But how about my most talked about map, WOS MAP06? :D

[Ledillman]

Suitepee

[Aquanet]

Kolybenko Michailo (Azamael)

[mrthejoshmon]

Linguica said:

Someone doin' the old namesearch eh...

I only know this because of his YT.

[Doomkid]

The people who have made my favorite Doom maps are as follows

For SP:

Erik Alm
Denis Moeller (Made great DM maps too, actually)
Shamus Young
Gregory Dick
Adrian Smart


For DM:

UniDoom (for udm3 & udmX)
Hellbent (for greenwar)
Mechanix Union (for dbab)


I picked the authors of of my favorite WADs to attempt to whittle down the list to a reasonable size, but truth be told, there were/are far too many good authors out there for any list to do the mapping community proper justice.

[Steve D]

Lots of great mappers named already, so I'll add just one who I think should be better known:

Michael Krause