and I fall out 4 the screen. 

Thanks Zwiffle.... It has been a sad day for freedom. 

Good to hear. 

Sandy Petersen is doing an AMA on http://www.reddit.com/r/iama today, I think around 1pm EST.

AMA Reddit thingy

As I keep repeating (forced to do so by the cruel lashings of Pit and Ben, my taskmasters), I am doing an AMA today - it's just about an hour from now. It will be on the IAMA sub-reddit (of course).  

About the map jam!! 

How big is Cthulhu's penis?

Cthulhu reproduces by fission, not sex. As a shape-shifter, however, he can turn his whole body into a giant dick joke.

This guy gets it. 

Sometimes he makes some kinda bold allegations:

"In fact, I designed 20 out of Doom's 27 levels."

Designed or co-designed? It's hard to believe that Romero and the others together made only a such small fraction. 

If it was Doom 2 or one of the other episodes I would not be surprised. I did hear that one of the versions was almost entirely sandy. 

"Hey Sandy! I work in mobile game development, and one thing I've been thinking about a lot is how to get more women (and please don't take this as an insult) in your age group interested in game design?"

"Sandy is actually a man." 

 

I'm a squirrel! 

A brainfart.
Replaying this Doom wad by Aard, Biff and Lun, I thought it might be a nice side project / mini event to do something like that again. The basics of Doom mapping are very easy to pick up and there are several advanced tools available, like DoomBuilder (think TrenchBroom for Doom). Would be cool to have a little jam-type of event where we made a bunch of simple levels just for the fun of it - especially coming from a non-Doom mapping background for the most part, thus perhaps less pressure for perfection. 

 

If a ZIP was provided with all the necessary tools or something, I could be down with that. A simple DOOM jam sounds fun... 

I'd only do it if there was a 7z with all the necessary tools 

 

A few years ago I got the idea to finish an old Doom map I started well over 10 years ago, but never really finished.

I installed DoomBuilder and started playing around. Though I quickly got sidetracked and the map is still unfinished, I don't recall it being all that hard to get used to working with the editor. I think the only other program I had to get was some kind of texture manipulator. 

 

All you need is Doombuilder, preferably one of the latest dev builds of GZDoombuilder, and of course the Doom2 iwad. Should work out of the box; if not, you might need to install SlimDX, too. While you're at it, grab some source port for for easier playing/testing, e.g Zdoom or prBoom.

You can load one of the original maps to see how things work. Basically, what you do is draw the layout of the level and compartmentalize everything into sectors (DB does this automatically) which then can be assigned different floor/ceilings heights. There's a 3D mode for texture alignment, and so on. 

Downloaded it to have a look, seems very cool to use but it crashes every few minutes with no error msg :P 

Got it all running and I'm running around in a Doom 2 box level ... let's do this! :) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thEbQkcjUWk 

I'm in! 

Are there any modern games that aren't plagued by dialogue? Are modern gamers like Rufus from Street Fighter IV?

Case in point, military shooters. Why doesn't the soldiers STFU?