Anyone still playing Doom out there? I came across a custom level I made way back in 1995 (give or take a year) and realized that the world shouldn’t be deprived of this great treasure.
I think it’s a decent, playable level, with good “texturization.” There are two difficulty levels: 1-2 is fairly easy, and 3-5 should be challenging.
Although the Doom source code is free software under the GNU GPL now, I don’t think that includes the main Doom “wad” with all the textures.
I haven’t tried running one of the GPL versions. To get the map and screenshots included here, I ran Doom95 under Wine. That worked ok except that I didn’t get any sound.
Check it out!
scar1.tgz (37 KB)
(includes scar1.wad and scar1.txt)
Spoiler alert! You can see a map of the level, but I wouldn’t look if you might play it. That would ruin the surprises.
Thanks to id software for a great game and for making it available under the GPL, and to the makers of DoomCad 6.1, Windeu 5.24, and Bsp 11w, all three of which I used to make this wad.
Feel free to modify and share this thing under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
5 Comments
I’ve made levels for DooM ][ — a wad of 13 levels even. Single and multiplayer support, but not especially designed for multiplayer. Not to mention custom multiplayer-only levels for Quake 2 and Quake 3. Shame I currently have no place to host them…though some screen shots can be found on the net, and one of the Q2 and a couple of the Q3 maps seem to turn up occasionally on servers.
31 December 2007 at 2:28 pm
Hi, Nobody. Google Code might work for you for hosting:
http://code.google.com/
It’s pretty easy to set up projects there.
1 January 2008 at 9:17 am
Google Code will host things like custom game content? I’m surprised.
3 January 2008 at 7:36 pm
Yes, I remember Doom. Somehow, it made it into my house and was installed on our computers when my kids were young – very young – too young for the kind of violence depicted in those games.
It was then that I realized I had no control of my son’s thinking and it scared me completely to realize that his brain worked independently of mine! Now, 17, custodian of my unconditional love, his independence makes me quake in my boots. And, I don’t wear boots, Scott.
I’ll share this with my son, Sam. He’ll enjoy it. Hope you are well!
1 February 2008 at 6:40 am
Hi, Amy! It’s good to hear from you, and I’m honored that you took a moment from your Joomla! 1.5 bender to drop in. ;-)
I’m not a big fan of violence — it’s one of the reasons I’m not a fan of pro football and hockey — but then here I am enjoying these bloodthirsty games. (Although I rarely play video games now.)
I don’t know how I’m going to cope personally with letting my daughter grapple with the big, messy, unfair and cruel world out there. I just hope she’ll learn to appreciate the good parts as I *try* to do.
1 February 2008 at 3:00 pm