Is it really a scam though? I thought it was at first but the more I've looked into things it seems like normal memecoin culture. It reminds me of NFTs when those were more popular. I personally think it's all retarded but feel the same way about gambling which isn't really that much different honestly.

anyone that is not "enraged" by sandy running a crypto scam is a moron.

Started MAP05 with a small brown tech area. Hopefully tech maps attract more mappers.

The music is from the resource pack, "D_DDTBL2".

So I am on my second playthrough of this. I really like the visual language of the set. Right away in map 1 youve got this cool gothic vibe. A little eternal doom a little heretic. With the bad ass opening screen pic youve included a satanic morbid angel vibe, but for a deep cut, that skull had me imediately think of the cover of Morgoth's -Eternal Fall / Ressurection Absurd. For an opening map the first one looks good and plays good. It doesnt do too much but it doesnt do too little either.

Map 2 is more of the same just trying to be alot tougher. Level 3 just gets even bigger with bigger fights and more distinct areas. The world being built is a cool one. Only caveat so far is that on two seperate occasions I scoured the map trying and failing to figure out any way to open up that god damn plasmagun secret.

I can say right now that between the assets of the resource pack and the actual mappers contributing, these first four levels have me excited to play more and disappointed that I'll have to wait.

Sat back down and just played the fourth level again. You all are doing phenominal things together. All the designs and fights are melding together and have a connected feeling where nothing seems to jar with anything else and progression continually makes sense. I really struggled with both secrets on the last one despite pretty much knowing where they both were the whole time. I finaly got the elevator one right where I tried/looked/failed/moved on from more than once, but I never could find a way to open up the wall and get to the backpack.

So I know it sounds like Im just singing a bunch of praise without any usefull feedback, and to an extant that is true, but this is only the earliest levels of a megawad. I couldnt really expect them to be more than they are and when on 2 playthroughs, I didnt run across a single bug all while being entertained in the most modern of traditional gameplay. I mean it when I say that I respect what youve got going here. There was nothing here to critique or complain about or critisize.

I absolutely look forward to more of this, maybe even with more of the resident mappers participating. Thanks for hooking it up.


SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would be pretty funny if there's an element of deliberate trolling in here. The Freedoom use is most likely just a licensing dodge, but it adds an extra layer of inflammation for the very DW tards that would probably reflexively become enraged by the basis of what's going on here. Same fuckers are probably fans of Rust in whatever capacity and don't care/welcome the laundering of GPL projects into future enshittified closed-up MIT backdoored Rust garbage forced onto everyone by corps and legislators.

I was looking through some Sandy tweets he seems to be ignoring any criticism or negative reception of this despite being active and often responding to people otherwise also he thinks the freedoom assets were made for this x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2084435919705354447

also lol x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2084328087421129033

also while the game is using freedoom its pretty clear that the rest of the site and advertising use actual doom assets

I think they will care more about the fact that he retweeted a post making fun of trans people today so they will have to hate both John Carmack and Sandy Peterson now

its so obvious it was chat gpt that wrote everything on that website

I'd like to think some stuff, like trophy hunting in Pokemon games, would be a thousand times better if it were blockchain based. Maybe maybe, dunno. Where, you couldn't just write shiny pokemon into your save file to "show off" to yourself of other people. The vanity of grinding 100 hours for a single piece of rare bling is part of the fun.

But the more gimmicks you try to weave into blockchainy things, the more weird things get: Harder to understand holistically for any party involved; harder to justify stability of (or legitamacy as a decentralized "blockchain" in the first place), even if it were to have any potential of popularity and persistency.
The creators/peddlers could even be well-intended, but it could still be an implosion of overoptimism and blindspots (the site name, "pump.fun" is an interesting flex tho).

Haha, I've been working on my own map since I posted. I'm dealing with a bit of a block as well regarding the final fight. You can get a rocket launcher & ssg early in secrets or later on. Unsure if I should hand out bigger firepower like the butt fart gun for the final battle or not. The level is not slaughtery so I'd definitely limit the cells you get. Perhaps I just need to think of a cleverer layout for some rocket launcher fun... 

Sandy Petersen announced DoomSOL a browser based version of Doom (FreeDoom) with a scoring layer added. You can earn SOL by playing the game with a Solana wallet. Almost certainly a promotion for the Doom memecoin that was created by a user on pump.fun named mustylobster005 (also started a Call Of Cthulhu memecoin) who likely created the token and site then onboarded Sandy and his son, with Sandy getting the trading fees to go toward his retirement according to his son. Sandy is also said to be mapping for this port. 

Lots to speculate on with the memcoin aspect, the port itself and how the 'community' will respond. If nothing else, at least Sandy is providing us with some entertainment and I am very curious to see any potential maps... although someone will have to figure out how to access them since I do not want to play FreeDoom in a browser... 

Had a bit of mapper's block, but I think I've got a path forward, now. Started doing some detailing here and there, too.

Well I'm guessing its not perfect because it is in a prerelease testing phase thats less than a week old but I just wanted to try it out

you think multiplayer works well there?

What times are you guys normally active and maybe we can use this thread to plan multiplayer matches in the new UZDoom 5.0 update

beamy_donut, as always. No intent in hiding my "quality work". Extends my catalogue lol

Oh, I had no idea it was you. How do you want to be credited as?

That "Clogging To The Brim" map is my work, just have a different name for Discord. Go figure lel.

I have some things that will have to be done in-house but there has been quite the sprite pool from mods like Castle Totenkopf so those will be easy picks, same goes for the weaponry. I'll be using many sprites across the Vanilla line-up, including the SOD Mission Packs which I honestly adore and aren't that terrible to play. Same goes for all the sounds, the SOD Mission Packs have great German voice clips for some reason. As for weapons I hope I'll find more classical ones and not the usual modern spriting.

Damn gimmicks and damn mbf21