Fastest Shovels #2 - How shovelware saved the 1994 christmas

[Walter confetti]

 Ehy punks, it's me, Santa Imp! I've hacked this nerd acco8nt and i have the right stuff for you in this comically large blue floppy disk!

 

4 levels for Doom 2 (complevel 2 as you modern fellas says), 12 hours to build them using old ass and modern editors, theme is "Shovelware Xmas"!

 

Fight the naughty spirits of hell and recover back the gifts for all the childs! Battle inside space stations, Santa's Workshop and North Pole caverns!

There's no caverns in North Pole? I don't give a shit, play it brother! 3D Action! Yeah!

Enough talking, more fragging! DOWNLAD IT! Or... santa imp will come to make you a visit...

Map List:

MAP01: Cooling Computers - @Walter confetti

Music: Come all ye faithful

MAP02: Merry Hootmas! - @United VirusX

Music: Feliz Navidad

MAP03: Santa's Revenge - United VirusX

Music: Winter Wonderland

MAP04: Jingle Bells Batman Smells - United VirusX

Music: Jingle Bells

 

Have fun and merry holidays!

Edited December 18, 2022 by Walter confetti

[adamastor]

Let's shovel some snow and some warez!

Happy dooming!

[Proxy-MIDI]

Finally, I had some time to do the levels and they were pretty good ! I laughed when I heard the breaking glass sound of the cacoballmons. Nice stuff ! <3

[Walter confetti]

Thanks!

[nickxcom]

Good stuff! I downloaded this the second I saw it and played through this one in one sitting but when I came back to post Doomworld was down lol. Happy holidays!

[taufan99]

This makes me miss my childhood back in the 2000's playing random Windows/DOS games. Well done, Fastest Shovels team!

[RED77]

Super fun levels, plus. That Cacco: LOL!

[Cacodemon187]

Just like the first Fastest Shovels, this one is just pure fun! I loved the use of the 90's xmas textures and sprites. The MIDIs were the cherry on top.

I recorded a demo of me playing through all 4 maps continously, complevel 2. 00SHOVELS2

The only issue I found was a HOM in map02 at the lift before the cyberdemon fight. Speaking of that cyber, how are you supposed to fight 'em without the secret BFG? To be fair, it is pretty easy to find, but still kinda odd imo.

That's all though, I had a lot of fun playing this. Merry ^(early)Christmas!

 

[Walter confetti]

Thanks for the feedback!

[United VirusX]

22 hours ago, Cacodemon187 said:

Just like the first Fastest Shovels, this one is just pure fun! I loved the use of the 90's xmas textures and sprites. The MIDIs were the cherry on top.

I recorded a demo of me playing through all 4 maps continously, complevel 2. 00SHOVELS2

The only issue I found was a HOM in map02 at the lift before the cyberdemon fight. Speaking of that cyber, how are you supposed to fight 'em without the secret BFG? To be fair, it is pretty easy to find, but still kinda odd imo.

That's all though, I had a lot of fun playing this. Merry ^(early)Christmas!

 

I think I didn't tic the plasma rifle to spawn in the middle of the arena on hard mode so that's a mistake on my part 

[eharper256]

Played this in Walpurgis:

Unfortunately, Walp's own monster replacers do change the enemies away from their Xmas sprites. Fun set of levels overall though.

And of course Youtube gave me several copyright warnings due to Xmas melodies (fortunately they're all ones that can be used).

[Walter confetti]

Thanks for the video, I've uploaded a fixed version of this wad on Idgames last night 

[Walter confetti]

Ok, the wad was rejected from idgames due to unmodified ID resources in the wad.

Removed the duplicates from the wad with SLADE3 and creating a small bat lump for installing the missing graphics.

 

Put the fixed wad in the link as well with a copy of deusf and two batch files for install and unistall the wad sprites patching, going to upload this again on idgames as well.

Edited December 18, 2022 by Walter confetti

[Custom Longplay]

Doom 2 - [Fastest Shovels #2] - Map: #01 - [4K60ᶠᵖˢ]

 

 

Doom 2 - [Fastest Shovels #2] - Map: #02 - [4K60ᶠᵖˢ]

 

 

Doom 2 - [Fastest Shovels #2] - Map: #03 - [4K60ᶠᵖˢ]

 

 

Doom 2 - [Fastest Shovels #2] - Map: #04 - [4K60ᶠᵖˢ]