Doomworld Mega Project 2017 (Final)

[Marlamir]

1 hour ago, Tindrone said:

How does this look so far

Very very interesting and nice

[Marlamir]

Author: Marlamir

Map Name: Welcome to U. A. C.

 

Compatibility:  Zdoom

Play Testing: Zdoom, GZdoom, Zandronum

Jumping/crouching: not allowed

skill Settings:  Ultra Violence

 

build time: 3 weeks

Tool Used: GZdoom builder, slade3

Resources: Doom 2 only

Music Track: 

Powerwolf- army of the night(midi instrumental)

 

Bugs: none (didn't find any)

Comment: here is my entry. Map is not 100% finished because i don't have much time and right now im without laptop and i propably wouldnt be able to finish map in time so i give whats i have. Is from 90-95% finished is just need few small improvements. Is fully playable. Map is set in one of the many u.a.c bases. Are you able to get trough and kick monster asses one more time, show them that this base was the wrong one to invade.

dmp17-marlamir.wad.zip

Have fun,i hope you will enjoy. Srry for english

[Walter confetti]

all new maps looking pretty cool!

[Memfis]

I liked @cannonball's map. Only this keen frustrated me a little. I noticed the hole immediately but at first I didn't realize that there is a keen inside because it's really hard to see (96 brightness level, and you have to look at it diagonally). Maybe just my stupidity though. Attaching a FDA with lots of wandering around.

dmpcb17_mem_FDA.zip

[StormCatcher.77]

@Marlamir

The work leaves in memory an abundance of microdetails and sloped geometry. It pleases, but there are also some disappointing moments. For example, I find most of the locations unreasonably empty. From the very first minutes the player really needs a machine gun, but it falls into his hands rather late. Fortunately, that there is enough ammunition for the shotgun. The level is structurally complex, which pushes player to explore it along and across. It's a shame, looking into the next room, finding there only a couple of monsters and ... that's all. Usually from such places you expect some useful find. And sometimes even at all, entire locations are empty, like an area with a red key. Intuitively you wait for a massive spawn, but the danger is minimal and easy to avoid. I still got a well-detailed, but again, an empty cave hidden behind the flow of acid. Maybe I just forgot to activate something, somewhere? I was completely confused by a switch labeled yellow. I went through the level anew to find the yellow key, but I could not. It's good that I guessed to just use it ... And one more thing. Midi-track is chosen well, but for some reason it sounds quiet.

 

In general, after the passage there is a feeling that I have been using the early version of the map. In principle, it is technically complete, in terms of geometry and visuals, but the gameplay is slightly undeveloped. Maybe you need to add a few more strokes? :)

 

   First Demo Attempt GZDoom 3.2.0, 22 mins

[Sasha]

Author: Sasha
Map name: Stodulki
Compatibility: ZDoom
Playtesting: zdoom versions 2.3 and 2.8.1.
Allow jumping and\or crouching: never mind
Skill settings: yes
Build time: 28 days
Tools used: XWE 1.15, Doom Builder 2
Resources: (list sources of custom textures and sprites)
Music track: music track 31 from MUSREJ1.WAD
Bugs: unknown
Comments: 'sto' is one hundred, 'dulo' is gun barrel

stodulki.zip

[DAZZER]

Screenshots:

 

Level name : The Nephilim II
Author(s) : DAZZER
Build time : about 1 Week
Editor(s) used : GZDoombuilder,SLADE 3
Compatibility: G/ZDoom
Music track : some Mayhem song
Playtesting : Tested with GZDoom 3.2.0
Difficulty settings : No
Bugs : If i would know them I would fix them
Author's comments : Really short and mostly easy Map. Just wanted to take part in this with a nice layout and Fun Gameplay.

 

Download:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/d4idblt1r6yxnsr/thenephilimII.7z

[-Votterbin-]

Between school, my new job, and a whole bunch of other factors, it looks like my contribution will have to wait until next year, if a DW community megawad project is planned for next year. I don't have pictures of what I've sketched yet, but this is basically my idea:

 

Kinda like a sort of boss rush-type level. At the start, you get a chainsaw, a chaingun, and plenty of clips. The next room you enter pits you against two Barons and a small horde of Spectres (there's a secret here: if you examine the walls, you'll find a secret room with a rocket launcher).

After defeating them, you take a lift to a hall (another secret in this hall: there's a walk-through wall, and if you go through it you'll find a plasma rifle with a few cell packs) with a few medikits. You're then faced with 2 doors, both of which lead over a small ledge (so jumping won't work). In one door lies a treasure trove of weapons and ammunition to keep you stocked and ready for the next battle. The other door gives you powerups like Berserk and Invulnerability. Which will you choose?

The next room is something akin to D64's Even Simpler (I think that was the name?), facing Mancubi, Cacodemons, and Arachnotrons. No secrets here.

After this battle, you get a few stimpaks and health bonuses before faced with a small task: to get past a field of acid by traversing narrow pathways (don't worry, if you fall you should be able to reach a teleporter before you die. I plan for the teleporters to be marked by a flashing sector that can be seen when you're on the platforms). Some parts of this section will be wide platforms to allow the player to take a breather. There are no enemies here.

After surviving this, you're awarded with a Soulsphere and some green armor before facing off against a Cyberdemon. A rocket launcher and plenty of ammunition lie around. Careful, though, there will be pillars all around, so aim carefully.

Next, another small hallway with some weapons and ammunition (if you tread lightly here and keep an eye on the walls, you'll find a secret room with a holy grail: specifically, the BFG 9000), before a fight against a Spider Mastermind, with a few Hell Knights to worry about as well.

And that's that. You can find a keycard laying around behind a wall (I plan to make this sort of obvious so the player isn't stuck), opening a door and taking you down a red carpet -- literally! Spectators cheer as you make your way to the podium. To exit the level, simply step onto the podium.

 

I think it's a really dumb idea, but it's one I've had in the back of my head for a while. I'm new to mapping, so I don't know if I can possibly make it more open-ended and less linear without losing my vision of how I want it to be. I'm trying to add some variety to the geometry I'm drawing out so it's not really boxy like most people's first maps (it might still be a little boxy, but not really entirely square rooms).

[StormCatcher.77]

A series of arenas, on which the player is locked, a fairly trivial solution, but not devoid of potential. Makes me think of Serious Sam. But what will the player do if he does not find weapons in the secrets? This can greatly difficult his life. I think that finding secrets is a temporary opportunity to make life easier for a player (with a small amount of ammunition), and when you get to the arena, the player must somehow get more powerful weapons. For example, dodging the cyberdemon's rockets and hiding behind the columns to go to the other side of the arena (where was the cyberdemon) and there to pick up a rocket launcher ... or somehow.

 

Your concept has significant potential. Make it for the project in any form.

[Skeletonpatch]

I found a different community project that I think the map I've started would work better for, so I'm dropping out of this one. I wouldn't be able to make the deadline anyway...

[StormCatcher.77]

Good luck to you. I hope next year you will join this project again.

[-Votterbin-]

15 hours ago, StormCatcher.77 said:

But what will the player do if he does not find weapons in the secrets?

My idea is that if you don't find a secret with a weapon, it'll likely show up in the main path. For instance, the rocket launcher can either be picked up in the secret room attached to the Baron/Spectre room or it can be picked up during the Cyberdemon fight. The BFG will only be found in a secret, however, because since the map keeps the player stocked on ammo it could make the Cyberdemon or Spider Mastermind bosses way too easy.

 

I've been experimenting with themes, and so far it's a tossup between being entirely a techbase, entirely Hell-like, or some sort of weird progressive theme where it starts out as a techbase and slowly becomes Hell, with stone bricks and all those weird flesh textures (I'm leaning towards the progressive theme, myself).

 

EDIT: Also, thanks for your feedback on the idea!

Edited December 8, 2017 by Pyrolex

[Tindrone]

On 12/7/2017 at 7:41 AM, Pyrolex said:

Between school, my new job, and a whole bunch of other factors, it looks like my contribution will have to wait until next year, if a DW community megawad project is planned for next year. I don't have pictures of what I've sketched yet, but this is basically my idea:

 

Kinda like a sort of boss rush-type level. At the start, you get a chainsaw, a chaingun, and plenty of clips. The next room you enter pits you against two Barons and a small horde of Spectres (there's a secret here: if you examine the walls, you'll find a secret room with a rocket launcher).

After defeating them, you take a lift to a hall (another secret in this hall: there's a walk-through wall, and if you go through it you'll find a plasma rifle with a few cell packs) with a few medikits. You're then faced with 2 doors, both of which lead over a small ledge (so jumping won't work). In one door lies a treasure trove of weapons and ammunition to keep you stocked and ready for the next battle. The other door gives you powerups like Berserk and Invulnerability. Which will you choose?

The next room is something akin to D64's Even Simpler (I think that was the name?), facing Mancubi, Cacodemons, and Arachnotrons. No secrets here.

After this battle, you get a few stimpaks and health bonuses before faced with a small task: to get past a field of acid by traversing narrow pathways (don't worry, if you fall you should be able to reach a teleporter before you die. I plan for the teleporters to be marked by a flashing sector that can be seen when you're on the platforms). Some parts of this section will be wide platforms to allow the player to take a breather. There are no enemies here.

After surviving this, you're awarded with a Soulsphere and some green armor before facing off against a Cyberdemon. A rocket launcher and plenty of ammunition lie around. Careful, though, there will be pillars all around, so aim carefully.

Next, another small hallway with some weapons and ammunition (if you tread lightly here and keep an eye on the walls, you'll find a secret room with a holy grail: specifically, the BFG 9000), before a fight against a Spider Mastermind, with a few Hell Knights to worry about as well.

And that's that. You can find a keycard laying around behind a wall (I plan to make this sort of obvious so the player isn't stuck), opening a door and taking you down a red carpet -- literally! Spectators cheer as you make your way to the podium. To exit the level, simply step onto the podium.

 

I think it's a really dumb idea, but it's one I've had in the back of my head for a while. I'm new to mapping, so I don't know if I can possibly make it more open-ended and less linear without losing my vision of how I want it to be. I'm trying to add some variety to the geometry I'm drawing out so it's not really boxy like most people's first maps (it might still be a little boxy, but not really entirely square rooms).

No idea is dumb until you try it, sound like a good idea to me

[mArt1And00m3r11339]

I beat Welcome to UAC with Colorful Hell.

 

[AleksB]

I would love to be apart of this!  How do I send in my map??

[AleksB]

And sorry for that last question, I just realized to add a zip file...

 

But I do have another question that might sound noobish haha, but I wanna use a song out of the chillax megawad, but dont know how to convert it to a not mp3 file.  I would love to have my map submitted to this project, but the mp3 is standing in the way of that.  Any suggestions on how to go about this?

[mArt1And00m3r11339]

1 hour ago, AleksB said:

And sorry for that last question, I just realized to add a zip file...

 

But I do have another question that might sound noobish haha, but I wanna use a song out of the chillax megawad, but dont know how to convert it to a not mp3 file.  I would love to have my map submitted to this project, but the mp3 is standing in the way of that.  Any suggestions on how to go about this?

My recommendation would be open up Slade and look for a midi file that you like and copy and paste that into your wad file. Then, you save changes.

[riderr3]

Well... by quantity of maps this year seems is less authors are interested than DWMP2016. Anyway there is three weeks to go.

Edited December 10, 2017 by riderr3

[_-_]

.

Edited June 1, 2019 by danielhday

[StormCatcher.77]

@danielhday

You can make for the project, something quite simple. In the style of Wolfenstein 3D, for example. The project does not imply claims to detail, design, mechanics or the duration of the map.

In any case, good luck.

[Ninehills42]

On 2017. 01. 31. at 1:20 PM, Dragonfly said:

My map is finished! It's a small-medium sized map for GZDoom.

The map is called Integrity. [DOWNLOAD]

Credit information (also included in pk3):

  Reveal hidden contents

MAPPING
Joshua 'Dragonfly' O'Sullivan
- Build Time: Around 7 - 10 days?
- Software used: GZDoomBuilder, Slade3
- IWAD: Doom2.wad
- Source Port: GZDoom, latest build recommended as usual

TEXTURES
Black & Green Texture pack by 'Agaures'
CWB Texture Pak 1 by 'Afterglow' & 'Covaro'

MUSIC
Ophidian by 'Jimmy'
Dark Angel by 'Jimmy'

 

Can you please change the BFG secret so its accessable without rocket jumping? Because its really annoying for those who dont use freelook.

[Dragonfly]

If I didn't want GZDoom features such as mouselook to be allowed I'd have mapped for a different source port. ;)

 

I at least limited the need for mouselook to a secret rather than core gameplay. If there's enough interest / requests to change it from RJ to something else from others I guess I'll consider it. :)

[A2Rob]

Forgot there were a few things I wanted to tweak and balance to the map. 

 

JanitorPatrolV2

[StormCatcher.77]

When "Iced Sanctuary" was finished few days ago, I had only 15 days left to complete my DMP map ... And I have not even finished geometry! If I do not do this before the 20th december, then I'll, as in the last year, do something small in 5-6 days...

I'm really tired of this endlless rush ...

 

Oh... Hub map... I'm, not even start develop it yet. :(

[Ninehills42]

6 hours ago, StormCatcher.77 said:

Oh... Hub map... I'm, not even start develop it yet. :(

Im guessing you can wait with that, since its not really a map.

[TimeOfDeath666]

Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/asjei5n9klit02b/TODsubtleshun.zip?dl=0

Author: TimeOfDeath
Map name: Subtle Shun

Compatibility: vanilla
Playtesting: prboom-plus -complevel 2, choco renderlimts, doom.exe v1.9
Allow jumping and\or crouching: no jumping, no crouching
Skill settings: UV only

Build time: 2 days
Tools used: doom builder 1.68

Resources: none
Music track: Reflective Fades by Nostril Caverns

Bugs: monsters can get stuck in the doorways
Comments: I made most of the map yesterday, then finished it up this morning and recorded a demo.

EDIT - turns out the map is vanilla compatible, but not recommended because of disappearing things

Edited December 16, 2017 by TimeOfDeath666

[cannonball]

Here is an update to my map with a few tweaks based on feedback.

 

dmpcb17v2.zip

[StormCatcher.77]

@Voltcom9 Thanks for the suggestion, I'm ready to accept any help or idea.

 

I agree, the hub from DMP 2016 was simple, convenient and cool, but I would not like to just copy this idea, literally or technically. I hope to come up with something special. The project, in any case, should have a hub.

At the moment I was thinking of making a hub in the Quake style . The player starts the way in the room, where there are 3 portals designated as "Vanilla", "Boom and LR" and "G\ZDoom". Passage through each, respectively, sends the player in the location with teleports leading to specific maps. When the player approaches the teleport, a text appears on the screen containing the map name and its author ( via HUDMessage() )... How exactly it may look, has not yet come up.

Perhaps another portal will be needed, if (I really hope) @bzzrak will finish his map for Risen3D.
This can be too long to implement (if not maliciously copypaste everything). Perhaps we should get by with a proven option from the last year?

[BigDickBzzrak]

4 hours ago, StormCatcher.77 said:

Perhaps another portal will be needed, if (I really hope) @bzzrak will finish his map for Risen3D.

Unfortunately no, Risen is a port that simply prevents you from doing anything at all with it. You need to go thru mindblowing brain torture just to make the simplest of effects, not a single feature makes any sense at all, and I really doubt the author has a clue what the heck he's doing. Risen is a port that exists just to be ridiculed and ridiculous. Intentionally.

So yeah, screw that crap, really. Not a port that a sane person should use, or even have installed, heh.

 

I really wish I made a map for it, but sometimes things are obscure and unknown for a very good reason. Wouldn't touch this thing anymore even with a 5-meter stick.

 

Next year I'll try making a 3dge map, though. That port seems like it takes itself seriously.

 

P.S. You made me break my badass postcount. :] <3

Edited December 17, 2017 by bzzrak

[Percival232]

Ooh i have a map thats fairly short that i never released but I'll submit it once i remove the MP3 files and replace them with wav. files. Ill just name it something generic Ill take which ever map slot is available.