Breezeep

Finally reached the halfway point on Merciless—roughly 16 maps to go, 3 of which need to be made from scratch. Here's to hoping the other half doesn't take like 12 more years!!!! !! ! !! !! ! !!!!

In attempting to diagnose my inability to create consistently and figure out how to improve things, I've hit upon a realization that I've felt for ages but never consciously noticed: I am positively terrified of putting things out there nowadays. All I've managed recently is either a few maps for outside projects, or a couple solo pieces pulled from incomplete or abandoned works. For the past few years, it feels like reviewers who do thorough map-by-map analysis (the Doomworld Megawad Club, Dean of Doom) have been contributing to my ever-growing self-consciousness regarding every decision I make within the editor. It stresses me out thinking that whatever I do may be picked apart and heavily scrutinized, map by map, piece by piece. All I want is for people to play my work and hopefully have a good time, without the perceived weight of expectations on my shoulders and without the fear of my ideas being torn to shreds by players.
 
Is this an irrational fear of something that every creator out there has no choice but to face and accept? Yes. Does it still eat away at me like you would not believe? Also yes, and sometimes I feel as if I'm approaching wit's end when it comes to the creative process. Is this a necessary post? I don't know.

New map layout has been finished.

Happy new year Doomers!
 
I've put Dorian's Doom back up in my dropbox if anyone missed it and would like to play.
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ia4qhjt2u2bsvf8/dd_b1.zip?dl=0
 
I've decided to add two more maps to this as it was very fun to make. A mash-up of The Pit and The Chasm and Bloodfalls with Nirvana. They bear little resemblance but will still feel oddly familiar. 
 
Otherwise I have two more projects I'm hoping to release this year, including Nilla Complete, which still needs some serious testing for vanilla compatibility among other things. Look for a beta of that this summer if all goes well and I can maintain this mapping spree.
 
Also I have a discord now! I don't know how it really works but if anyone needs to find me there you can. 
 
Use3d#5035
 
Take care everyone. 
 
Use

For the first time in my mapping career, I've finally hit the hard linedef limit

I now know Gazebo's pain ;_;

Back to Saturn X E1 is ten years old today... It's strange because creating it still feels so recent to me, even though I also think I've learned and grown a lot since then. Time is weird.

Just one shy of a full megawad of years, now.
 
🎂

Bit of a light Screenshot Saturday here. I've been playing around with COLORMAPs and the Boom colormap transfer. Attached are some quick mockups of what a duststorm or an underwater area might look like. An underwater area might be worth setting up animated flats and textures with caustics painted on, or a midtexture caustic effect to fake it.

One of the duststorm pics features a fade; I'm playing around with the idea of having a COLORMAP where only the darker half has an effect applied. This would allow me to have an interior with no dust storm effect, while also having an exterior with a dust storm. It's not perfect but it looks pretty decent. Lit sprites like monsters shooting guns or throwing fireballs won't get the dusty effect and the entire thing has a weird planar effect that can be mitigated somewhat by making the transition between standard fade-to-black and dusty fade-to-brown smoother. Like the underwater COLORMAP I think it'll look best with some good map design in mind to counteract the weirdness.

The biggest problem is that due to how COLORMAP transfers work I'd have to be pretty careful about finding every sector with a unique floor/ceiling so I don't run into bugs. This gets exponentially more obnoxious the more sectors are involved in a particular segment where I want this effect but frankly I find the overly baroque sector-decorating stuff to be offputting and not really Doomy imo.

hoping this mapper's block goes away sometime soon

Putting a map together and crossing stuff off my Doom Ideas document, and I come across this and uhh...
 
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Season 8 of ONEMANDOOM: Mapping at the Speed of FIGHT!  (July 15th, 2014 - January 3rd, 2015)
 
Season 8 kicked off with The Definitive T_DUNNxx.WAD Series - For Doom and starts out with a mix of older material - Top 100 features from the year 2000, obscure, and underrated - before going whole hog on 2014 in the latter half. And what a year was 2014!
 
10 Sectors (by @Quido666 @Kristian Nebula @Arno @kdoom @KinkaJoy @Cyb  @Jon @Risen @kristus @Swedish Fish @boris @blod @gemini09@qingshuo @chroz @Lutz @fen boi @NokturnuS @mesko @Aardappel Øystein Langhelle, Cephaler, Gonzalo Pérez de la Ossa, Paul Schmitz, Jonathan Rimmer, Paul Berlin, Sami Mäki-Mantila, Robert Beladi, Kevin Nadolski)
Nebula 95: Mudman Wonderland (by @lupinx-Kassman)
Doom 2 In Name Only (by @Processingcontrol @_bruce_ @Antroid @an_mutt @scifista42 @CorSair @mouldy @BlueFireZ88 @Egregor @cannonball @glenzinho @Xaser @Capellan @schwerpunk @Babel @Kongming @Tristan @Olympus)
Mayan Mishap (by @Tango)
B/\|_||-|/\|_|S (by @didy)
Reconstruction/Decomposition (by @Da Werecat)
3 Heures d'Agonie 2 (by @subject_119 (RIP) @Datacore85 @franckFRAG @Memfis @Oxyde @JCD @WH-Wilou84 @Plut ChowW, Sid Zetmeck, Jambon, NilstheRed, and darkwave0000)
Mayhem 2048 (by @Jimmy @Chainie @Obsidian @Walter confetti @Memfis @Inkie @an_mutt @Scypek2 @NuMetalManiak @Jaws In Space @Z0k @pcorf @Breezeep @ClonedPickle @Eternal @SFoZ911 @Archi @Marcaek @Chris Hansen @Plut @tourniquet @General Rainbow Bacon @Phobus @joe-ilya @Steve D @cannonball @CorSair @dobu gabu maru @Demonologist and Rublev)
Thy Flesh Turned Into a Draft Excluder (by @cannonball)
Nebula 95: Nebula Shrine (by @lupinx-Kassman)
200 Minutes of /vr/ (by @Cheesewheel @Onslaught Six @RjY and a bunch of anonymous folks from /vr/)
The Wailing Horde (by @Chris Hansen)
Countdown to Extinction (by @Obsidian)
Deneb Colony (by @Lainos)
Rush (by @Archi @Demonologist)
You Dig (by @Tuxlar)
Visions of Eternity (by @TobyM)
Resurgence (by @Joshy and darkwave0000)
Going Down (by @mouldy)
Shadows of Chronos (by @Kaiser)
Gene-Tech: Before the Storm (by @Enjay)
Bloody Steel (by @BigMemka)
The Adventures of Square Episode One: Cornered by Circles! (by @MTrop @Jimmy @Tarnsman @Pavera @Xaser @Alfonzo @ClonedPickle)
Back To Saturn X Episode Two: Tower in the Fountain of Sparks (by @Joshy @esselfortium @dew @Tango @Vorpal @Xaser @Use @Tarnsman @Vader @The Green Herring @MTrop @DeathevokatioN @skillsaw @Jimmy @Mechadon @Khorus @RottKing)
The Classic Episode (by @Swedish Fish @Jan @traversd @NiGHTMARE)
The Hell Factory Hub One (by @Lu-Wang)
20 Years of Doom (by @WH-Wilou84 @Oxyde @JCD Sid Zetmeck, NilstheRed, and Jambon)
Berserk (by Jon Landis)
Chaos, Uprising (by @rsl)
Micro Plutonia (by @waverider)
Esselmap I: Testing Facility (by @esselfortium)
Quadruple Threat (by @Jodwin @The Green Herring @40oz @Super Jamie)
LaboUAC (by jameson2_fr)
Back to Hell (by Dave Seager)
Zen Dynamics (by @Xaser)
The Indespensible T_DUNNxx.WAD Series - For Hertic (by @traversd)
The Authoritative T_DUNNxx.WAD Series - For Doom 2 (by @traversd)
RCK2 (by Richard Kyanka)
Robot Junkyard Workshop's Doom Pack (by Nick Baker - NOT NiGHTMARE)
RCK (by Richard Kyanka)
The Definitive T_DUNNxx.WAD Series - For Doom (by @traversd)
 
 
Season 19 (January 2nd, 2020 -
Season 18: The Vorpal Blade Went Karthik-er Snack: Good Bye to the Alex Parsons Project, Loved You Lutz (July 17th, 2019 - December 28, 2019)
Season 17: Shilpashastra (January 15th, 2019 - July 12th, 2019)
Season 16: Odysseus (July 6th, 2018 - January 10th, 2019)
Season 15: The DOOM Poets Society (December 5th, 2017 - July 3rd, 2018)
Season 14: A Quick One (July 17th, 2017 - November 30th, 2017)
Season 13: END1 or Adventures in Copypasting (December 22nd, 2016 - April 23rd, 2017)
Season 12: The Book of Relevation (July 2nd, 2016 - December 15th, 2016)
Season 11: DOOM Gone Bad  (December 29th 2015 - June 23rd 2016)
Season 10: How ERKATANE Stole X-Mas  (June 29th, 2015 - December 22nd, 2015)
Season 9: Per Your Request  (January 10th, 2015 - June 26th, 2015)
Season 8: Mapping At the Speed of FIGHT! (July 15th, 2014 - January 3rd, 2015)

Season 18 of ONEMANDOOM: The Vorpal Bird Went Karthik-er Snack: Good Bye to the Alex Parsons Project, Loved You Lutz (July 17th, 2019 - December 28th, 2019)
 
Season 18 kicked off with my review of the Smooth Doom mod. This period of reviews is deeply-immersed in an exhaustive monograph on the works leading up to the first Community Chest. It also rounds up thread that I started tugging at during the previous season. 
 
Maximum Breakdown (by @Vorpal)
Warehouse (by @pabloD)
Industrial (by @magikal)
10 Sectors Part 2 (by Various)
Blind Alley M., "The Citadel" (by @Searcher)
Dark Tide (by @Lutz)
Suteni (by @Memfis and @Plut)
Hellscape (by @Lutz)
The Tyrell Corporation (by @Vorpal)
Inn-Escapable (by @Impie)
The Chemical Base (by @pabloD)
Dissolution (by @Gunrock and The Solution)
Blind Alley P., "The Boardwalk" (by @Searcher)
Overheat (by @Memfis)
Project Slipgate (by @Gunrock
Congestion Control 2 (by @Karthik)
The River of Fire (by @pabloD)
No Quarter (by @Kid Airbag)
Enjay Doom (by @Enjay)
Blind Alley, "Nukage" (by @Searcher)
Tayutayu (by @Memfis)
DSV (by @Kaiser)
Dark Fate (by @Karthik)
They Will Repent (House of Pain Part Two) (by @pabloD)
The Baron's Domain (by @Kid Airbag)
Return to Hadron Episode 2 - The Collider's New Clothes (by @cannonball)
Installation B (by @nobbjob)
Menkui (by @Memfis)
Counterattack (by @Mechadon)
Out of Phase III: One Cloudy Afternoon (by @Karthik)
Gestalt666's Town of Heresy (by John Bye)
Complex 867 (by @Volte)
Installation A (by @nobbjob)
icarumem by @Memfis)
Doom the Way id Did: The Lost Episodes (by @hobomaster22 @40oz @Lorenzo @Armaetus @Marcaek @Alfonzo @Mithran Denizen @Xaser @Marn @ellmo @M3g4Sph3r3 @Walter confetti @phobosdeimos1 (RIP) @Foodles @XenoNemisis @Icytux @General Rainbow Bacon @Mr. Freeze @Captain Toenail @traversd @C30N9 @Moustachio @Taedium @Hellbent @ShadesMaster )
Congestion Control (by @Karthik)
Sacrifice (by John Bye)
The Subway (by John Bye)
The Park (by John Bye)
Hell's Arena (by @Volte)
One-Week Megawad (by @Erik @SpinSpyder_KaK_ @Liberation @Opulent @Virgil and Dan Crowley)
The Catacombs (by @nobbjob)
Relive X2 (by @Memfis)
Abyssal Speedmapping Session 6 (by various) ( @Jimmy @Obsidian @jmickle66666666 @MTrop @Alfonzo @Tarnsman @ClonedPickle @General Rainbow Bacon and Osiris Kalev)
The Other Side of Phobos (by @Karthik)
Magnum Opus (by John Bye)
Max Saga: The Doom Dragon (by @Impie)
Mayhem 1500 (by  @Walter confetti @Impboy4 @jmickle66666666 @dobu gabu maru @cannonball @Impie @AD_79 @Marcaek @pcorf @gaspe @Chris Hansen @CorSair @Inkie @Obsidian @joe-ilya @NuMetalManiak @Phobus @Pinchy @Urthar @an_mutt @Argent Agent @Egregor @Archi @Breezeep @ArmouredBlood @Demonologist @NoisyVelvet )
Mossvale Dungeons (by @nobbjob)
MM2MEM01 (by @Memfis)
Smooth Doom (by @Gifty)
 
 
Season 19 (January 2nd, 2020 -
Season 18: The Vorpal Blade Went Karthik-er Snack: Good Bye to the Alex Parsons Project, Loved You Lutz (July 17th, 2019 - December 28, 2019)
Season 17: Shilpashastra (January 15th, 2019 - July 12th, 2019)
Season 16: Odysseus (July 6th, 2018 - January 10th, 2019)
Season 15: The DOOM Poets Society (December 5th, 2017 - July 3rd, 2018)
Season 14: A Quick One (July 17th, 2017 - November 30th, 2017)

The Joy of Mapping project is currently sleeping, but the Discord associated with it is still alive and kicking. It's recently had a renovation and rebranding so if you're looking for a place in this community to get started with mapping, modding, or music-making, look no further!
 
https://discord.gg/Ascc59b
 

Taking a break from Doom and community happenings for a while. I'll likely return once I've gotten myself back in order mentally, and once I've reassessed what exactly drives me to continue creating things.

I have graduated to Old Man. Happy 30th to me. 🎂
 
 
In case you missed it, my mapset JENESIS (in its final release form) turned 10 years old as of two days ago - my first foray into Doom single-player mapping and a turning point in my Doom mapping career.
 
...I really missed an opportunity to put out a 10th anniversary edition and call it "Tenesis", didn't I.
 
Maybe for the 15th anniversary then. I could call it "JENES15"... no. Bad Jimmy.
 
 
Here's to another 30 years of... me being alive, most likely!
 

So over the weekend, I made this quake map that uses some solid colors found in Khreathor's prototype texture wad, part of a speedmapping session that was held over the course of a week.
 
Play it here!

So over the weekend, I made this quake map that uses some solid colors found in Khreathor's prototype texture wad, part of a speedmapping session that was held over the course of a week.
 
Play it here!

So over the weekend, I made this quake map that uses some solid colors found in Khreathor's prototype texture wad, part of a speedmapping session that was held over the course of a week.
 
Play it here!

So over the weekend, I made this quake map that uses some solid colors found in Khreathor's prototype texture wad, part of a speedmapping session that was held over the course of a week.
 
Play it here!

So over the weekend, I made this quake map that uses some solid colors found in Khreathor's prototype texture wad, part of a speedmapping session that was held over the course of a week.
 
Play it here!

So over the weekend, I made this quake map that uses some solid colors found in Khreathor's prototype texture wad, part of a speedmapping session that was held over the course of a week.
 
Play it here!

So over the weekend, I made this quake map that uses some solid colors found in Khreathor's prototype texture wad, part of a speedmapping session that was held over the course of a week.
 
Play it here!

So over the weekend, I made this quake map that uses some solid colors found in Khreathor's prototype texture wad, part of a speedmapping session that was held over the course of a week.
 
Play it here!

IT'S COMING ROME!!!